Snoop Dogg arrived Saturday ready for the dressage team’s Grand Prix Special, fully equipped to saddle up if necessary.
Accompanied by Martha Stewart – a doyen of American lifestyle writing and TV – Snoop Dogg was dressed in pants, a dressage skirt and a helmet as he toured the Palace of Versailles.
“Snoop The Stallion,” one fan responded to X, while another said, “Snoop Stallion is actually on his horse.”
Snoop Dogg famously commented on the sport of dressage during the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games when he called German rider Isabell Werth’s horse a “crip-walking horse.”
The rapper and actor enjoyed a wonderful performance by British rider Becky Moody, who achieved a top score in the first round with her horse Jagerbomb.
Snoop Dogg was dressed in pants, a dressage skirt and a helmet in Versailles on Saturday
The rapper was joined at the event by close friend and businesswoman Marta Stewart
During the Games he worked for the American network NBC and was very busy in Paris, carrying the Olympic torch a short distance in the final relay and then appearing in various events, including gymnastics.
Snoop Dogg, whose full name is Calvin Cordozar Broadus Jr., said of his time as a torchbearer, “Something I can live with and be happy about is knowing that at that one moment in time, I was the face and the voice of peace.”
Snoop Dogg’s presence certainly created excitement at the venue. According to Moody’s teammate Carl Hester, news of his arrival caused a stir in the stables.
He said: ‘I didn’t meet him, but of course in the stables it was said that he was there and that everyone was looking for him through the camera.
‘It’s great that he likes dressage and that he was here.’
But despite his passion for horses, Snoop Dogg has never ridden one.
“I’m still afraid of horses,” the 52-year-old confessed to Today.com.
Stewart and Snoop Dogg saw British rider Becky Moody take a leading score in the first round
Snoop Dogg has been all over Paris commentating on gymnastics and various other events
Earlier this week, four-time major winner Rory McIlroy shocked fans when he revealed that dressage is his favourite Olympic sport.
The Northern Irishman, who will represent Ireland in Paris, once said of the equestrian discipline at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics: ‘The one thing on the programme tonight that I would love to go to, the competition I’ve always wanted to see, is dressage. Always.
‘I just think it’s, I… it’s enchanting and it’s on tonight at 7:30. I’m watching 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.”