Howdy folks!

Sarah and Tippy here:

Soz to have to be the first to tell you this but the latest news is that Michael Whitaker's absolutely amazing mare Portofino is lame and is coming home from the Olympics.

Jen's just had a call from Cynthia - Michael's groom - to say that sadly Portofino is unsound. How gutting is that for Michael and his team! All that work to get to Hong Kong, to represent your country (again) and it just doesn't happen. H+P has sent best wishes to the whole team on your behalf.

On another note - we did have the eventing on in the office yesterday. The H+P den was very rowdy cheering on team GB. Big congrats to Tina Cooke! She's a hard working eventer and mum and really deserves her individual medal.