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Fantastic Partnership Find Their Stride
BSPS Area 16, Trinity Park, Suffolk PATIENCE and perseverance have proved the right recipe for a keen gelding and his jockey who achieved two RIHS qualifications, the Pretty Polly championship and show hunter pony reserve. Evanthe Hughes, 12, is in h
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Pulling Power
I USUALLY hear the driven competitor before I see them approach the obstacle, bringing a rash of adrenaline mixed with a dose of nervousness and excitement. Being vet on duty at a carriage-driving event is, for me, massively more challenging than com
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“He’s A Lovely Character”
A YOUNG gelding captured attention as he strode to the BSPS intermediate championship after winning both novice mixed and open show hunter classes at BSPS Area 2A. Vic Whalley’s five-year-old show hunter type Creavens Lad (pictured), who is based wit
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“It’s Nice To Have Her Back”
SUCCESSFUL partnership Anthony Condon and Zira Van Het Kapelhof Z (pictured) made a winning return to the ring in Friday’s medium tour 1.35m. The memorably fast 15-year-old grey has had the best part of a year off while embryos were taken - with the
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Light-bulb Moment For Lucas
“IT feels as if we’ve turned a corner,” said Holly Lucas, after heading both of the advanced mediums at Cockshot, Cheshire, with Diablo Rosso II. “I did a test-riding clinic with Janet Critchley on another horse and had a light-bulb moment, realising
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“It’s The Magic Of Our Coach”
JUNIOR medal-winning rider Isla Sully and the 15-year-old gelding Vagabond De Massa - who won the Aachen Dressage Youngstars junior champion title in December - made it a clean sweep of the junior titles here, winning the team test on 70.8% and the i
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Commodus Commands the Ring
HIGHLIGHTS 15-21 April Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain Spring, Addington Equestrian, Bucks AFTER a decade-long hiatus from the show ring, Lesley Whitehall made a glorious return to scoop top honours in the Royal International (RIHS) ladies’ hun
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Army Horses Loose On London Streets
TWO military horses have undergone surgery after they got loose on the streets of London last week. Six soldiers and seven horses from the Life Guards were on exercise on 24 April when they were spooked in Wilton Crescent, a street in the Belgravia a
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A Case Of Déjà Vu
CHEPSTOW SPRING INTERNATIONAL CSI2* 24-28 April Chepstow Spring International CSI2*, David Broome Event Centre, Monmouthshire THERE was déjà vu at Britain’s second two-star show of the season when the top two places in the grand prix went to the exac
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“She Pulls Out All The Stops”
ALEXIA LILLEY may just be six years old but she’s more than holding her own in open classes against adults with her delightful Shetland pony Briar Puzzle (pictured). Despite still being eligible for lead-rein classes, Alexia has booked RIHS tickets i
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Piles Of Prizes For The Bakers
LESS than an hour after Rebecca Baker crossed the Silver Spur finish line in fifth place, her teenage sons enjoyed super rides and results on their first starts in the Tom Nichols Cup. “I’m not sure if I was more nervous riding myself, or watching th
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If At First You Don’t Succeed…
IT may have taken Patrick Wadge, 22, nearly two years and 63 races to ride his first winner under Rules at Perth in 2022, but the victor of this season’s conditional jockeys’ championship is being richly rewarded for his perseverance. The Gretna-born
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Townend Leads British Domination
DEFENDER KENTUCKY 25-28 April pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle Defender Kentucky, USA OLIVER TOWNEND achieved a first five-star win for an extraordinarily long-standing owner, made an assault on Olympic selection and set up a Rolex Grand S
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Britain’s Clean Sweep And Grand Slam Contender
Share your news story Call 0330 390 6386 Email eleanor.jones@futurenet.com @jones_eleanor_ BRITAIN had a clean sweep of the podium at the Kentucky Three-Day Event - and secured a new Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing live contender. Oliver Townend topped
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Glorious Grandeur
Kingsclere, Newbury, Hants For you: at the end of a long, gravel drive, flanked by hornbeam trees, is this immaculate six-bed country house, built in 2014. There is a cinema room, gym and wine store. Highlights outside include a large terrace for alf
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Obituaries
THE jockey, trainer, owner and point-to-point steward died on 4 April, aged 85. John will be remembered for his passion for racing, funded by his expertise in commercial poultry. The latter earned him his cherished MBE, and the former gave him the be
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A Job Well Done
NPS Scotland, Scottish National EC, W Lothian A YOUNG rider who hails from elite equestrian stock kept up the family form book as he jumped to an RIHS M&M working hunter ticket and the section championship. Guy Hamilton, 10, was in the saddle of Wels
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• Horse & Hound will have three journalists and a photographer on the ground at Badminton throughout the competition. • The Horse & Hound team will be creating extensive online coverage of Badminton in addition to what will be included in the magazin
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“She Loves A Jump-off”
ABBIE SHACKELL described herself as “the most amateur rider in the six-year-old final” but beat experienced opposition to win with her mare Nala Pride, whom she has produced from a three-year-old. Nala (pictured, left), who was bought from Castell Sp
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Letters
Email to hhletters@futurenet.com Name and address must be included. Letters may be edited. A VERY special hunting pony, Welsh section A Ellen, died unexpectedly and instantly, in the trailer on the way to her last day’s hunting as she was approaching
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Birch Is Back In The Big Time
KELSALL HILL(1) 18-21 April Kelsall Hill (1), Cheshire SAMMI BIRCH and Jutopia swept to victory in the CCI3*-S, adding just a smattering of time-penalties to their leading first-phase score of 23.4. “She’s been on the cusp of a big win,” said Sammi o
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Grand Prix Prospect Shows Off Her Potential
IRELAND Olympic hopeful Abi Lyle took a break from grand prix to ride seven-year-old mare Sun Rose to elementary and medium wins at Hunters Equestrian, Gloucestershire. “I’m now so comfortable at grand prix that I had to take a moment to relearn thes
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‘Let’s Send Three Teams To Paris…’
pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle OPINION OH to have been a British team selector in the days when everyone went to Badminton and then perhaps a mandatory final trial. These days, with riders allowed to campaign as they feel best, it is ver
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Pressure Grows On The FEI To Tackle Concerns In Dressage
PRESSURE continues to mount on the FEI to tackle the issues facing modern dressage. Five-star judge, vet and head of the International Dressage Officials Club (IDOC) Hans-Christian Matthiesen is the latest senior figure to argue that the current comp
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Horses
The 2019 and 2020 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner is thriving as a riding horse. The Willie Mullins-trained 12-year-old is being aimed at eventing by Louise Duffy. Lisa Rowlands' jumping pony has died, aged 29. “Tintin” won and was placed in the HOYS and
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Comeback Queens Reign
ADDINGTON PREMIER LEAGUE 26-28 April oscar.williams@futurenet.com @oscarw_dr Addington Premier League, Bucks ANNA ROSS made it a winning return to competition, taking the grand prix on 71.15% with her 12-year-old mare Habouche. Anna has been out of a
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Willie Mullins First Irish Champion For 70 Years
WILLIE MULLINS became the first Irish trainer to land the British championship in 70 years in a title race that went to the season finale at Sandown on Saturday (27 April). Vincent O’Brien was the last to achieve the feat in 1954, before Mr Mullins w
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Happy 75th Birthday Badminton
★ MARS BADMINTON preview BADMINTON was born in 1949, out of the failure of the Brits in the 1948 Olympic three-day event held at Aldershot. The 10th Duke of Beaufort offered his estate for a competition, to ensure the 1952 team would be better prepar
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Race Of The Week
AFTER some sometimes haphazard jumping, El Fabiolo proved no match for the popular Jonbon (pictured) in the Grade One bet365 Celebration Chase, a highly anticipated clash of the two-mile titans. Nicky Henderson looked relieved, jubilant and a touch e
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Sirius Shines Bright
BSPS Area 5 Three Shires, Vale View EC, Leics HARRISON TAYLOR lifted two RIHS championships, first with an exciting prospect, then with a seasoned star. Harrison and Karen Wood’s six-year-old hack campaigner Cranbournes Sirius secured both novice hac
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