AND FINALLY: Stansted at the gallop

How do horses get to the Rio Olympic Games? 

By air of course!

The first group of Olympic equine athletes, 34 in total and worth many millions, left Stansted just before the Games in customised pallets for the near-12hr flight aboard an Emirates SkyCargo Boeing 777-F, organised by Peden Bloodstock.

Now we just need to know whether they earned air miles.

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