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1995 Trail Guide  
Trail Guide, a Thoroughbred, was by Scamp, out of Trailoka. His dam was a member of the 1936 Olympic Three-Day Team, an unusual circumstance in itself.

In the 1956 Olympics at Rome, he placed 6th with Frank Chapot, and was one of the horses on the U.S. team that won the silver medal. Hugh Wiley rode him to 11th individually at Stockholm in 1956.

He carried Chapot to victory as individual champion in the 1960 Pennsylvania National, and at Washington he performed without knocking down a fence.

At the 1960 National Horse Show, Frank Chapot was riding Trail Guide when an accident happened. He was making his customary brilliant performance when Trail Guide crashed into a 5-foot jump, landing on the far side on his back. He rolled over once and never moved again. Trail Guide had broken the second and third vertebrae of his neck and was mercifully put to sleep at age 21. It was a poignant moment when Trail Guide was announced as fourth place winner a half hour or more after his death.

Trail Guide was owned at the time of his death by the U.S. Equestrian Team. His remains were buried at Morven, the Charlottesville, Va., home of Whitney Stone, then president of the U.S. Equestrian Team.