Her Majesty The Queen grants her Patronage to the British Show Jumping Association, while Great Britain's team of Harry Llewellyn (Foxhunter), Duggie Stewart (Aherlow) and Wilf White (Nizefela) win team gold at Helsinki Olympics. It was Britain's only gold of the Games in any sport. Great Britain win fifth Aga Khan Trophy in eight years at the Dublin Horse Show under the late Chef d'Equipe Ronnie Massarella's masterful direction. There has been considerable success at the highest level of all, with Olympic gold for the 1952 team of Harry Llewellyn, Duggie Stewart and Wilf White being unforgettably replicated on home soil at Greenwich Park 60 years later by Skelton, Brash, Ben Maher and Peter Charles. Marion Coakes and the sensational 14.2hh pony Stroller win individual silver medal at the Mexico Olympics. David Broome becomes Britain's first showjumping world champion, winning gold at La Baule in France with Beethoven.

Under the patronage of Her Majesty The Queen since 1952, it certainly has been a case of happy and glorious for British showjumping. The first Horse of the Year Show is staged at Harringay Arena in North London. It was the idea of Captain Tony Collings, and put into action by BSJA chairman Mike Ansell. Welshman David Broome wins Great Britain's first Olympic showjumping individual medal by taking bronze with Sunsalve in Rome. He then became BBC Sports Personality of the Year. British Show Jumping Association formally incorporated as a company. First president is Lord Lonsdale, with Lt Colonel Charles (Taffy) Walwyn appointed chairman. And so as the sport enters another Olympic year, with all roads leading to Rio in August, British showjumping is well-set as reigning Olympic champions and possessing current world number one in Brash, a ranking he has held almost unbroken for 25 months and a reign of dominance highlighted by him completing the 1million Euros Rolex Grand Slam aboard the brilliant Hello Sanctos in unprecedented fashion.British Showjumping reached a major milestone today,December 31 - a day that marks 90 years since the Association was officially incorporated. There were individual Olympian feats to savour as well, notably that of the mighty Stroller, a 14.2hh pony ridden to silver medal success by Marion Coakes at Mexico City 48 years ago; Ann Moore's 1972 silver with Psalm; Broome's two bronze (1960 and 1968) and one for Peter Robeson at the Tokyo 1964 Games.