Report by Sue Polley
Rio Hall, 23, dominated the 14-strong British Eventing novice restricted championship, taking first and third in the Corinthian Cup results with her two mares, Gorsehill Jewel and Georgie Girl, completing on 29.1 and 30.4 respectively. This championship for the Corinthian Cup is aimed at true amateur riders and was hosted at Hambro Horses Burgham International […]
Reporting by Sue Polley
Izzy Taylor with her own and Mark Sartori’s Monkeying Around were crowned British open eventing champions at Hambro Sport Horses Burgham International. The pair headed a bumper 126-strong class, completing on their dressage score of 22.3. With the cancellation of the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe Park this year, Burgham stepped in to accommodate […]
Former championship team rider and a top level international judge, Peter Storr, reflects on the top combinations after the team competition in Tokyo, and shares his thoughts on the new Olympic competition format
WOW, what an exciting Olympics this is turning out to be, at the halfway point with the team medals now decided. The standard seems to be getting higher and higher. My favourite up-and-coming star, who stole the show, was Sabine Schut-Kery with Sanceo. Although not so well known outside of the US, I’ve been lucky […]
Horse & Hound will be THE place to follow this year’s Olympic Games, with our award-winning journalists reporting every noteworthy step in the competition and breaking the news as it happens right here on horseandhound.co.uk. With two reporters – Pippa Roome and Polly Bryan – and photographer Peter Nixon on the ground in Tokyo, plus […]
Andrew Nicholson, multiple Olympic team medallist and Burghley and Badminton winner, reflects on Barbury as well as sharing his thoughts on going to the Olympics as cross-country coach to the Swiss eventing team, plus his predictions on who will win the medals in Tokyo
I WAS very pleased to win three classes at Barbury Horse Trials – the CCI4*-S with Swallow Springs and two novice sections with a pair of six-year-olds, Erin and El Platanito. It’s a beautiful venue, and I can’t imagine there’s a better place to watch cross-country. I also had three working pupils competing there, as […]
The East Anglian pack carries off both harrier titles, while the VWH and the North Cotswold triumph on foxhound day at the Great Yorkshire Show, as Frank Houghton Brown, Matthew Higgs and Andrew van Oostrum report…
Harriers: The Waveney do the double THE Waveney Harriers clinched both championships at the prestigious Great Yorkshire hound show with litter siblings Aldeburgh and Alsort, bred from their Peterborough champion Laughter 15. Laughter is the last remaining hound from an outstanding litter of four, all of whom had considerable success in the show ring as […]
Of all Flat racing’s stars, Frankel surely shines the brightest. The unbeaten son of the late, great Galileo “sustained” his trainer Sir Henry Cecil as he reached the end of his life. Julian Muscat tells Frankel’s incredible tale…
Frankel was a racehorse for the ages, an equine comet who scorched the turf over which he galloped with a distinctive blend of power and grace. Yet he was only half of the story. Although the colt’s unblemished record speaks for itself, his tale is umbilically connected to the man who trained him. Sir Henry […]
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What does it take to win as a working hunter at the Royal International Horse Show? Ahead of the 2021 show, H&H’s showing editor Alex Robinson speaks to those who know the track best…
ALL artists go into their projects with a vision, and for course-designer Kevin Millman, the grassy, undulating turf of ring five at Hickstead, home of the Prenetics Royal International Horse Show (RIHS), provides the perfect canvas. “It’s a true hunting course over true hunting obstacles,” explains RIHS senior working hunter course-designer Kevin, who has been […]
With just days to go to the Tokyo Olympics, event rider Mike Bullen reminisces about his own Games experience, something he “wouldn’t have missed for anything”, says Kate Green
WHEN the Olympic eventing competition appears on our screens this month, one man will be viewing it from a particularly interesting perspective. Along with James Templer, Mike Bullen is the last man standing from the British team that contested the 1964 Tokyo Games. Some memories remain vivid, others more patchy – and no wonder, for […]