Anyone who said they didn't cry is lying.

In fact, photographer Ken Braddick told me that he didn't and I told him he had no heart.

From the moment she set foot in the arena, the floodgates were open.

Brentina has always moved people with her performances, but today, as she walked around the Thomas & Mack with Debbie McDonald aboard, everyone was astounded with her presence.

Debbie had lost her composure by the time she got on the gallant mare. Everyone else was just a few seconds late.

Two Olympic Games, two World Games, countless Grand Prix, legendary World Cup performances… it is a long list of incredible achievement.

The 18-year-old Hanoverian legend had a scare with colic less than two months ago, but seeing her in the arena today, those tense, sleepless nights were a thing very much of the past for.

Surrounded by Rubin, her longtime, beloved groom, Peggy and Parry Thomas and a host of friends and support staff as well of legions of fans, celebrated the dressage legend one more time.
It was awesome. Really awesome.

When ‘her' music: Respect, by Aretha Franklin started as she was leaving the ring, Brentina, walking next to Debbie, began to passage.

That is how cool she is.

How lucky are we to have been part of that ride?