LONDON, Dec. 13, 2016–Celebrations to farewell Valegro from competition began in the storied century-old Olympia exhibition hall Tuesday night, a packed house of 7,500 spectators gearing up for what will surely be a tear-filled, goose-bump inducing retirement a day later….

LONDON, Dec. 13, 2016—Although Carl Hester’s life will be “different for a while” with the retirement from competition of Valegro that dominated the past five years of dressage boosting it into the mainstream in Britain and embraced by legions of…