Michael Schumacher’s family lost a valuable member of their extended household. The Schumachers put to rest their horse ‘Gunners Enterprise’ which died at the age of 19 on their ranch in the Spanish Isles of Mallorca.
The horse named “Gunners Enterprise” was born in Switzerland. At a young age, it was bought by Michael’s wife Corina Schumacher and added to their ranch.
The horse was raised for competitions and was a favourite of the household. Especially Michael, whose favourite hobby was horse riding.
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Michael Schumacher’s daughter pays tribute to the late horse
7-time F1 World champion Michael Schumacher’s daughter Gina-Maria the news on her social media. She shared a heartfelt note for her companion. Along with never-before-seen pictures of her father Michael riding the horse.
Gunners Enterprises or “Digger” as Gina lovingly called it was one of her “best friends”. The two competed in the reining discipline.
Gina wrote, “Yesterday I had to say goodbye to one of my best friends, one of the biggest-hearted and one of the greatest horses of my life! My heart breaks to let him go, but sometimes we have to take hard decisions in order to do the right thing for our animal friends.”
She rode the horse while competing in several national and international horse-riding championships where they found tremendous success. Including the European Junior Champion title in 2013 and 2015.
Gina retired “Diggers” from competitions in 2020. But she used to regularly ride her pet in their Mallorca-based ranch.
In 2019, she paid a tribute to her father with a performance at the Verona Fieracavalli horse festival in Italy. Michael is yet to recover from his injuries following his skiing accident in 2013
Schumacher loved horse riding apart from skiing
Michael Schumacher used to be an avid fan of horse riding. It was one of Schumacher’s main hobbies apart from skiing. Unfortunately, the German is yet to make a full recovery following his near-fatal skiing accident in 2013
The F1 legend used to have a couple of horses on his Swiss Ranch and used to spend his free time mounting the stallions. Following his retirement, he purchased another ranch in Texas, US for his wife Corina.
Horses are pretty close to the Schumachers as his wife Corina was a keen horsewoman herself. In 2010 she won the European Championship in Western Style Horse riding. Her daughter Gina-Maria inherited her mother’s horseriding skills and competes in horse-riding championships.
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