The latest photographs from England of the Olympic gold medal-winner, Mark Todd, and his two horses. Left, Todd is flanked by Nightlife, peeping round the stable door, and Charisma, with which he won the gold medal in Los Angeles. At right, Charisma "shows off” on Honeyknob Hill, on the property of Lord Cottenham in the Wiltshire village of Kington St Michael, where the two horses are stabled. Todd is greatly concerned, Diana Dekker reports from London, now that it appears certain his partnership with Charisma is to be broken. "Charisma is important to me at this stage because he’s the only top-line horse I have got and to gain sponsorship I must do well in top-line competition. “If we cannot stay together I’ll have to bring on a young horse and that will take at least two years and a lot of money. “He’s probably worth 40,000 pounds (about $100,000), and, at 11, he has only two or three years left. I can’t spend that much; I have not got that type of money.” “Charisma,” according to Helen Gilbert, the Wiltshire girl who has helped Mark Todd to look after him for the last 15 months, "knows he’s brilliant. “He’s such a show-off. When people go to see him he stands there as if to say ‘My public’s coming to see me.’ He’s got so big-headed since the Olympics. He’s the Mohammed Ali of the horse world. “He’s very intelligent; and not nasty in any way at all. He’s a lovely horse to look after. He’d never do anything wrong. He just thinks he’s wonderful?’

Press, 24 October 1984, Page 17

The latest photographs from England of the Olympic gold medal-winner, Mark Todd, and his two horses. Left, Todd is flanked by Nightlife, peeping round the stable door, and Charisma, with which he won the gold medal in Los Angeles. At right, Charisma "shows off” on Honeyknob Hill, on the property of Lord Cottenham in the Wiltshire village of Kington St Michael, where the two horses are stabled. Todd is greatly concerned, Diana Dekker reports from London, now that it appears certain his partnership with Charisma is to be broken. "Charisma is important to me at this stage because he’s the only top-line horse I have got and to gain sponsorship I must do well in top-line competition. “If we cannot stay together I’ll have to bring on a young horse and that will take at least two years and a lot of money. “He’s probably worth 40,000 pounds (about $100,000), and, at 11, he has only two or three years left. I can’t spend that much; I have not got that type of money.” “Charisma,” according to Helen Gilbert, the Wiltshire girl who has helped Mark Todd to look after him for the last 15 months, "knows he’s brilliant. “He’s such a show-off. When people go to see him he stands there as if to say ‘My public’s coming to see me.’ He’s got so big-headed since the Olympics. He’s the Mohammed Ali of the horse world. “He’s very intelligent; and not nasty in any way at all. He’s a lovely horse to look after. He’d never do anything wrong. He just thinks he’s wonderful?’