After a successful season with her 138cm show pony Chanlee Delightful Dan, Scottish show rider Zara Mailer is gearing up for their first appearance at the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) together, after gaining a coveted ticket at the Great Yorkshire back in July. Fourteen-year-old Zara and her mother Victoria Taylor are based just […]
Some of Britain’s most exciting young competition horses came to the fore in the multi-discipline NEXGEN championships, held at Hickstead on 23-25 September. The highest-scoring dressage horse was the NEXGEN seven-year-old winner, the stunning Dante Weltino x Jazz son Jagerbomb. Ridden by Becky Moody, Jagerbomb was awarded an overall score of nine from judges Isobels […]
Top five-star event horse Leonidas II has retired from elite competition aged 17 following a spectacular 12-season career featuring five Badmintons and seventh place at the Olympics. The 17-year-old Landos son, owned by Diane Brunsden and Peter Cattell, travelled the world under the guidance of Sir Mark Todd and Padraig McCarthy. Leonidas II was retired […]
The future’s bright for Britain after European Eventing Championships success, says Horse & Hound’s Pippa Roome
BRITAIN last held the Olympic, world and European titles at the same time in the late 1960s and early 1970s. The likes of Richard Meade, Mark Phillips, Mary Gordon-Watson (now Low) and Jane Bullen (now Holderness-Roddam) contributed to a gold run that lasted from the 1967 Punchestown Europeans until the 1972 Munich Olympics, with Britain […]
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A Frenchman takes his first international victory on a horse who was written off by vets, while a promising seven-year-old claims a two-star in his first season eventing at South of England (2), Sussex
GASPARD MAKSUD took his first-ever international win in the South Eastern Equestrian Services Ltd CCI3*-S at South of England (2), on a horse who was written off by vets three years ago. Now eight, Anita Fergusson-Cunningham’s Spirit’s Gemini finished on his dressage score of 33.3, less than half a penalty in front of Tarka Abraham […]
After a freak accident over three years ago at Lincolnshire County show, show rider Rowen Hilton never considered she would be riding her mare of a lifetime, Milford Fair Breeze (Breeze), at the 2021 Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). But after qualifying and standing section champion at Stoneleigh Horse Show last month, home-producer Rowen […]
1. Getting ready for HOYS This wonderful end-of-season show is just over a week away and the showing world is in a frenzy of last-minute preparations as they chose the ideal moment to clip their charges to ensure the best possible coat to impress the judges on the day. If you’re attending as a spectator […]
Determined equestrians are preparing to tackle the London Marathon for equine charities and other good causes. The 26.2-mile challenge returns in-person on 3 October, following last year’s event being held virtually owing to the pandemic. The virtual marathon will also return, allowing runners from all over the world to take part. Livery yard owner and […]
1. That phenomenal European Eventing Championship result What a competition the European Eventing Championships in Avenches turned out to be – for the first time since 1991, there was an all-British championship podium. And with three in the top three, of course that meant the team taking top honours as well, capping off an incredible […]