Firm favourite Lee Pearson saw his long unbeaten Paralympic reign ended at Greenwich Park today.
The 38-year-old Briton was tipped for his 10th gold medal of a stellar career in the dressage Grade Ib individual championship.
But he had to settle for a silver medal behind Australian Joann Formosa, 13 years his senior, with Austrian Pepo Puch - who was considered to be Pearson's main rival - collecting bronze.
With the team title Britain's to lose tomorrow, Pearson had looked set to reach the magic figure of a British record 12 Paralympic golds - one more than Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson and David Roberts - by winning the Grade Ib freestyle on Monday.
But after securing gold medal hat-tricks at Sydney 2000, Athens four years later and then Beijing in 2008, the 100 per cent record is now over.
