Famous Equestrian Cameos

There was a trend in the 2000's in the horse game genre to get games sponsored and branded by famous equestrians. Every localisation had a local equestrian, leading to even more different game titles and versions. The cameos varied from using only the name and a photo of the equestrian on the cover, to voice acting, to actually creating them as a character in the game. Here's a list of equestrians and the games they showed up in:

Alexandra Ledermann (FR), olympic show jumping – lends her name to the Alexandra Ledermann Series. In the intro of Alexandra Ledermann 4 - Aventures au Haras, the player character gets a letter signed by Alexandra.

Pippa Funnell (GB), olympic eventing – lends her name to the Pippa Funnell Series. In the game, she shows up sending text messages to the protagonist.

Ellen Whitaker (GB), European championships, show jumping – lends her name to Ellen Whitaker's Horse Life.

Lucinda Green (GB), eventing world champion – lends her name to Lucinda Green's Riding Challenge.

Mary King (GB), eventing world champion – lends her name to Mary King’s Riding Star. The same game is also known as Ulrich Kirchhoff’s Riding Star (DE), olympic show jumping champion; Anky van Grunsven’s Riding Star (NL), olympic dressage champion; and part of the Alexandra Ledermann Series.

The UK version of Riding Star 3 is called Tim Stockdale's Riding Star after a british show jumper. There is a German version of the same game in which olympic showjumping champion Ludger Beerbaum (DE) shows up to explain things in the tutorial.

The German version of Alexandra Ledermann 6 - L'Ecole des Champions features olympic dressage champion Nicole Uphoff (DE) as a guest teacher at the academy.

"Isabell Werth Reitsport", the German version of Ride! Equestrian Simulation, features the titular Olympic dressage champion as the instructor, including voice acting.

In the Netherlands a rather wide array of games was released with the name and face of controversial Olympian dressage champion Anky van Grunsven, including: Mary King’s Riding Star, Stallens Hemmelighet, Häst & Ponny: Min första ponny, Mes Galops 3D de 1 à 4.