The Grasshopper (horse)
The Grasshopper, foaled in Ireland under the name "Copper Coin," was by the little Thoroughbred Tutor, who was known as a producer of show jumpers and eventers.Ian Dudgeon competing The Grasshopper in the 1956 Olympic Games in Stockholm, where they had a clear cross-country round but were eliminated for missing a flag.Grasshopper was then sold to Mrs. John Galvin, who shipped him to her ranch in Santa Barbara, California.Mrs. Calvin invited the United States Eventing Team to her ranch to train two years later, and Michael Page was assigned to ride Grasshopper.Page said of him: "Grasshopper was neither very big nor very handsome, but such was his toughness, mentally and physically, that he never started an international event in which he was not expected to produce the fastest time cross-country...