Olympic and other memorabilia relating to the equestrian career of Marion Coakes, including from the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, a participation medal,

Olympic and other memorabilia relating to the equestrian career of Marion Coakes, including from the 1968 Mexico Olympic Games, a participation medal, designed by Lance Wyman, with sports pictograms divided by the Mexico Olympic emblem; an athlete's badge for the equestrian events, inscribed MEXICO, ATLETA, and with a plastic suspension bearing a pictogram of a horse's head; a Team Great Britain's competitor's badge in gilt-metal & enamel, with Olympic Rings and inscribed 1968, GB; and a set of six Team Great Britain blazer badges, in gilt-metal with Olympic Rings and inscribed GREAT BRITAIN; the lot also including a cased set of silver-gilt blazer buttons from The President's Cup, and six other similar buttons, looses, including an example dated 1965, the inaugural year of the international equestrian team competition; together with a qty. of period b&w press photographs portraying episodes from Marion Coakes's career. Marion Coakes won a silver medal in the individual jumping event at the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico. Marion rode Stroller, one of the most famous horses in the history of show jumping. Together, victories included the Queen Elizabeth II Cup at the Royal International Horse Show, the Ladies World Championship, the Hickstead Derby and the Hamburg Derby. In 1969 she married the steeplechase jockey David Mould (see lots 643 to 646).