Brazils team

   Brazil’s dressage team will rewrite the history books at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Hong Kong. At the CDI-W Mierzecin in Poland, Leandro Aparecido Da Silva (32), riding the pure-bred Lusitano stallion Oceano do Top scored their second 64+% score to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong.All three competitors will be riding pure-bred Lusitanos, two of whom, Oceano do Top and Nilo VO were bred in Brazil. Oceano was born at the stud farm of Tonico Pereira where he was raised and trained. In 2007, Pereira and the horse’s co-owner, Jose Robert Guimarães, trainer of the Brazilian women’s volleyball team, were persuaded to present the horse at the 10th International Lusitano Auction organized by Victor Oliva (owner of Nilo VO) at Ilha Verde stud farm – where he was purchased by advertising executive Paulo Salles.

Luiza Tavares de Almeida (16) will be the youngest ever Olympic competitor in an equestrian discipline. Until now, this distinction has been held by Canada’s Christilot Hanson-Boylen, who competed in Tokyo 1964 at the age of 17, and a Columbian dressage rider (unconfirmed) who competed in Seoul 1988. Tavares’s fellow countryman, Rodrigo Pessoa, currently holds the record as the youngest ever Olympic showjumping competitor at the age of 19.

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	Brazil’s dressage team will rewrite the history books at the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games in Hong Kong. At the CDI-W Mierzecin in Poland, Leandro Aparecido Da Silva (32), riding the pure-bred Lusitano stallion Oceano do Top scored their second 64+% score to qualify for the 2008 Olympic Games in Hong Kong.All three competitors will be riding pure-bred Lusitanos, two of whom, Oceano do Top and Nilo VO were bred in Brazil. Oceano was born at the stud farm of Tonico Pereira where he was raised and trained. In 2007, Pereira and the horse’s co-owner, Jose Robert Guimarães, trainer of the Brazilian women’s volleyball team, were persuaded to present the horse at the 10th International Lusitano Auction organized by Victor Oliva (owner of Nilo VO) at Ilha Verde stud farm – where he was purchased by advertising executive Paulo Salles. Luiza Tavares de Almeida (16) will be the youngest ever Olympic competitor in an equestrian discipline. Until now, this distinction has been held by Canada’s Christilot Hanson-Boylen, who competed in Tokyo 1964 at the age of 17, and a Columbian dressage rider (unconfirmed) who competed in Seoul 1988. Tavares’s fellow countryman, Rodrigo Pessoa, currently holds the record as the youngest ever Olympic showjumping competitor at the age of 19.