Yesterday was the last day of para-equestrian dressage at the Paralympic Games with grades IV, III and Ia competing for freestyle medals.
When people ask Shane how he coped with the disappointment of having to step down from the Australian team he tells them “it happened, I’m over it and I’ve moved on”.
After competing as an abled-bodied eventer at the Atlanta Olympics, an accident meant that Pepo Puch, from Austria, had to change his focus to becoming a para-equestrian.
The Australian anthem has played for the first time at Greenwich Park overnight after Victorian para-equestrian rider Joann Formosa won the gold medal in the grade Ib individual championship test at the London 2012 Paralympic Games.
With all five grades completed in the team test, Great Britain has taken an early lead.