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Laura and the 14-year-old KWPN gelding were the highest-placed American combination, good for fifth place individually. “My horse was really super,” said Laura of  Geneva. Florida. “I’m very happy with the feeling he gave me today and the way the training is reflecting in the arena. I’m really happy with the pirouettes and the passage-piaffe, which is a talent for this horse, but not so much in the arena when he’s not sure where to be with his big legs. I feel that’s really improved in the last two months.”

 “Legolas delivered everything that I dreamed of,” Steffen said later. “I’m just so excited that he did one of the best tests of his life–probably one of the best tests of my life–and it’s always been my dream to deliver for my team. It’s the Olympic Games and we are 90 per cent about the team medal and the other 10%–or maybe even less–about the individual medal. It’s been a difficult road with him. Sometimes I don’t know exactly which horse is going into the show arena, but he did not change one single bit from the warm-up arena to the show arena today and there was not one single point that we gave away.”

“Legolas’s half-passes in the trot felt amazing and the trot extensions got better, which has always been a weak point,” he said. “His piaffe-passage were very high today, I was able to keep the 15 steps of piaffe in place. This was the test that I dreamed of for my team. It was just one of those awesome days!”