Famous one-eyed horses who have reached the top

You might be surprised to find out that there are many famous one-eyed horses who have been hugely successful at the top level of equestrian sport. One-eyed and partially sighted horses have reduced eyesight due to a wide range of eye problems or accidents.

Famous one-eyed horses

Briarlands Blackberry

Eventer Izzy Taylor contested Blenheim , Burghley , Bramham and Barbury with Briarlands Blackberry, who lost an eye two years before she took the reins.

“Sat on top, you wouldn’t know he only had one eye,” she says. “The only time I suspected it affected him was at Bramham when, unusually for him, he had a run-out at a coffin with a slanting rail on his blind side.”

Santana

The dressage stallion by Sandro Hit lost his left eye after scratching it in his stable in 2009. T