Snoop Dogg arrived ready for action at Saturday’s dressage team Grand Prix Special, fully kitted out to take to the saddle if needed.
Accompanied by Martha Stewart – a doyen of American lifestyle writing and TV – Snoop Dogg was dressed in breeches, a dressage tailcoat and hard hat as he took a trip around the Chateau de Versailles venue.
‘Snoop The Stallion,’ a fan reacted on X, while another said that ‘Snoop Stallion is really getting on his high horse.’
Snoop Dogg famously commentated on dressage at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics when he referred to German rider Isabell Werth’s mount as a ‘crip-walking horse’.
The rapper and actor got to enjoy a fine performance from British rider Becky Moody, who clocked up a leading first-round score aboard her horse Jagerbomb.
Snoop Dogg was dressed in breeches, a dressage tailcoat and hard hat, Saturday, in Versailles
The rapper was accompanied by close friend and businesswoman Marta Stewart at the event
He is working for American channel NBC throughout the Games and has enjoyed a busy time in Paris, carrying the Olympic flame for a short leg on the final relay before popping up at a number of events, including the gymnastics.
Snoop Dogg, whose full name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., said of his time as a torchbearer: ‘Something I’m gonna be able to live with and be happy with (is) to know that I was the face and the voice of peace for that one moment in time.’
The presence of Snoop Dogg certainly created a buzz about the venue, with Moody’s team-mate Carl Hester saying news of his arrival had caused a stir in the stables.
He said: ‘I didn’t get to meet him, but of course the talk of the stables was that he was here and everyone was looking for him on the camera.
‘It’s great he’s enjoying dressage and he was here.’
But despite his passion for horses, Snoop Dogg has yet to ride one in his life.
‘I’m still scared of horses,’ the 52-year-old admitted to Today.com.
Stewart and Snoop Dogg saw British rider Becky Moody clock up a leading first-round score
Earlier this week, golfer Rory McIlroy – a four-time major winner – shocked fans when he revealed that dressage is his favorite Olympic sport.
The Northern Irishman, who is representing Ireland in Paris, once said about the equestrian discipline at the 2020 Tokyo Games: ‘The one thing that’s on tonight that I would love to go the one I’ve always wanted to go to and see is dressage. Always.
‘I just, I… it’s mesmerizing and it’s on tonight at like 7.30. I’ll watch it on TV.
‘I just think, I watch it once every few years, obviously and it’s like, I don’t know, it’s mesmerizing and it’s really cool. I don’t know.’
