Enjoy some of our favourite updates from equestrian social media channels during the past week. From some European Dressage Championships highlights to an emotional victory, we saw it all on social media. Equestrian social media posts of the week Carl Hester bagged a new ride at the European Dressage Championships View this post on Instagram […]
In our 68th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, our podcast host Pippa Roome talks to British showjumper Emily Moffitt about representing Britain at her first championships with her top ride Winning Good. H&H’s dressage editor Polly Bryan and dressage Euros reporter Gemma Redrup discuss the top-class sport in Hagen, before Pippa catches up with H&H’s news team to talk about trailer test changes and a powerful video released World Suicide Prevention Day. Finally, we begin a new advice mini series with mental coach Charlie Unwin, who kicks off by talking about managing your inner game. Let us know what you think…
Episode 68 of The Horse & Hound Podcast, our popular audio service available every Thursday morning for our H&H digital subscribers is now live. Each episode is available for all H&H fans to listen to via your favourite podcast app 24hrs after its early release to our H&H digital subscribers. Search for “The Horse & […]
If you can’t make it in person to Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials this week (15-19 September 2021), don’t worry, because you can watch Blenheim Horse Trials live from the comfort of your own home via Horse & Country (if you have a subscription). If not then Horse & Hound’s reporting team will be on […]
Last weekend (11 September), racehorse Hurricane Lane destroyed his rivals to land the final British Classic of the Flat season, the St Leger, at Doncaster racecourse. So, to celebrate his fantastic victory, here are some fast facts you need to know about Hurricane Lane… 1. The chestnut colt was foaled 11 March 2018. 2. He […]
Busy Bee Farm is in Rollesby, a small Norfolk village, eight miles to the north west of Great Yarmouth, on the edge of Rollesby Broad. The City of Norwich is 17 miles away, where there is a regular rail service to London Liverpool Street (about two hours), and Norwich airport provides daily flights internally and […]
The final day of competition is complete at the senior European Dressage Championships at Hagen, in Germany, and the freestyle proved to be a real thriller with moments that moved the crowd and brought goosebumps to those watching on as some of the world’s best competed for a place on the podium. European Dressage Championships: day […]
Twenty-four-year-old British rider Lucy Jane Amy has had a slightly unconventional path to becoming a grand prix dressage competitor. Yet this week, she is competing in the under-25 European Championships in Hagen, Germany, which has been running alongside the senior European Dressage Championships too. Lucy is riding Richard Amy’s Rudy, who didn’t start life as […]
Britain’s Charlotte Dujardin and her own, Renai Hart and Carl Hester’s 10-year-old Apache gelding, Gio, gave it everything they had in the European Dressage Championships freestyle in Hagen, Germany this afternoon (11 September). The pair scored 87.246% to secure a bronze medal against an incredibly competitive field. “I’m delighted with him – he tried his heart out […]
Great Britain’s Lottie Fry, who is just 25 years old, scored her third personal best in three days in the freestyle at the European Dressage Championships in Hagen this afternoon (11 September). Drawn last to go, she rode her own and the Van Olsts’ Lord Leatherdale x Negro stallion Everdale to a great score of […]
If there was a prize for the shiniest horse under the floodlights in last night’s grand prix special at the European Dressage Championships in Hagen, Germany (9 September), Buriel K.H would have probably been awarded it, and he stole our hearts in the process. Buriel K.H: what you need to know The 15-year-old, owned by […]