Horse & Hound

IT was fantastic to see Tim Price and Happy Boy turn around misfortunes from earlier in the month and year to win at Blenheim this week - and great too that the event has secured a new sponsor in Agria, who are doing a great deal to support the indus

Irish eventer Susie Berry’s Paris 2024 Olympic and top-level ride, whom she owned with Anne Marling and Sue Wilkinson, has died aged 11 as the result of a freak field accident. Steffen Peters’ ride has retired aged 16. He was on the US dressage squad

AN ANNUAL award honouring the invaluable contribution of volunteers has been launched by a rider with terminal cancer who has given countless hours to the sport. The Sally Wood Volunteer Award, created with BEDE Events, will be presented by Sally at

Eventing legend William Fox-Pitt has been named as a judge at HOYS (9-13 October). It will be revealed the night before each final who will judge each class. Jockey Frankie Dettori dislocated his right shoulder when he was unseated before a race at A

Hats off to she who, tired of struggling to remember her dressage tests, had a long arena, with all letters, tattooed on her arm. Now just the problem of trying to get the jacket sleeve up between movements… To Shetland, where a driver saw someone, w

A RIDER who got the call to say the kidneys she needed were available while at a show drove there in the horsebox with the horse still in the back. Marie Cox was at the British Dressage under-25 championships at Sheepgate with her daughter Lauren whe

16 July 1998 A pretty heads hot of a bay eating wildflowers,to illustrate good health - with a 20-page guide on natural solutions, supplements, healing herbs and homoeopathic medicine for horses. This issue also includes Louise Bell galloping to her

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Age: 17 Breeding: Trakehner by Easy Game out of Dark Magic (by Handryk) Breeder: Silke Druckenmüller Rider: Jessica von Bredow-Werndl Owners: Béatrice Bürchler-Keller, who judged the Olympic dressage at Athens 2004, and Jessica’s mother Micaela Wernd

“DALERA is one of the easiest horses to have around, but she can be kind of cheeky sometimes! You have to be careful after riding that she doesn’t do self-service at the carrots. She loves snacks - every kind of horse cookies and carrots, but apples

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BECCYKING moved to Carmarthenshire five years ago from Surrey with her other half and her parents. “We moved because property was cheaper. This meant that we could keep the horses at home, which for Mum and me was a lifelong dream,” said Beccy. “When

ABBY COLEMAN and her young family relocated from Uist in the Outer Hebrides to Morayshire when Abby wanted to focus on furthering her equestrian coaching career. She found a property and yard for rent after posting a wanted advert on Facebook and has

NIHI has high seasons from 1 April to 14 October and from 16 December to 14 January, with a minimum of a five-night stay. Low season is from 15 October to 15 December and from 15 January to 31 March, with a minimum of a three-night stay. Rates are in

ANALYTICS firm EquiRatings has counted 26 graduates of this CCI4*-S - including six winners (starred) - who have won a five-star: Greenacres Special Cavalier - Caroline Powell Cooley Rosalent* Oliver Townend Izilot DHI - Ros Canter Virgil - Shane Ros

PETER WHITE narrowly missed out on a hat-trick at David Broome Event Centre, Monmouthshire, when he finished first, second and first over three days of all-weather 1.20m Derbies riding the 12-year-old PK Quantum (pictured, below). The gelding, whom P

MICHAELA BOWLING returned home with three worker wins as well as a champion and a reserve. Steve Pullan’s homebred Jaguar Mail son Aredis Jupiter made his worker debut to take the novices and the unaffiliated section title. Sian Elphick-Ronson’s home

THOROUGHBRED gelding Ozzie Man, who was racing until last year, smashed his British Dressage (BD) debut at Silver Leys Equestrian, Hertfordshire, with a prelim 4 outright win. “I was gifted Ozzie, who needed rehab after a tendon injury,” said Roxanne

BREEDING stallion Corscaron Comet Aur scored outright wins at elementary and medium at Sparsholt College, Hampshire. The eightyear-old back in the dressage arena after a season of stud duties. “We’ve been working him at home and he has come out stron

FIRST WINS GEORGIA YOUNGS enjoyed novice overall wins at Bluegate Hall Farm, Essex, with her “lockdown project” Barcelo IX. Having imported the PRE gelding from Spain, unseen, Georgia has since discovered his potential in eventing and dressage. “He’s

ATHELSTAN - the first king of England - has a pilgrimage route or “way” in his name that covers 30 churches across north Wiltshire. Buying an obligatory bottle of gin from our local shop, I happened upon a book that charts this walk and each church i