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Thankfully they stuck by one another through thick and thin – amassing over $3 million in prize money and winning major Grand Prix events in Geneva, Aachen, La Baule and Rome.
“He brought me some of the biggest wins any rider could dream of,” says Lamaze, a rider for the Hamburg Diamonds on the Longines Global Champions League.
“He was just one of those horses. You looked in his eye and knew.”
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Sadly the fairytale of Lamaze and Hickstead is marred by tragedy.
In 2011, having completed an almost flawless round during a FEI World Cup event in Verona, Hickstead collapsed suddenly, dying from a ruptured aorta aged 15.
Those in attendance that day could only gasp in horror, and Lamaze is still visibly shaken six years on.
“It’s something that stays with me forever,” says the Canadian rider. “The last memory that I have is that he stumbled, collapsed and made sure I was safe and put aside. That was it, as sad as it was.”
“I never realized how many fans Hickstead had – never mind me,” says Lamaze. “Spruce Meadows had an unbelievable amount of fans coming the day after he passed.
“He was just that much of a star and it really touched the horse community.”