RETIREMENT on the cards for the mighty Valegro; Charlotte Dujardin and Isabell Werth rewriting Olympic records and Judy Reynolds achieving her ambition of making it into an Olympic dressage final.

These were the highlights of a sweltering day in Rio where the temperatures hit 90 degrees and when even the normally cool, calm and collected Dujardin admitted to feeling under immense pressure to deliver a back-to-back individual gold.