Horse & Hound

CARL HESTER and Coral Ingham's Imhotep, or “Pete”, graces our front cover this week. Those not already familiar with Charlotte Dujardin's latest top ride will enjoy getting to know this fabulous character (spotlight, p26), who is likely to be vying f

Sophie Wells' Paralympic and world medal-winner, owned by Roland Kinch, has been withdrawn from European selection as the 14-year-old gelding has knocked himself. Jim Walker's 2021 Royal Ascot Gold Cup winner, trained by Mark Johnston who transferred

TRIBUTES have been paid to rider Jordan Smith, who has died aged 29. Jordan was found dead at his employer Kevin Philippart de Foy's base at Egerton Stud, Newmarket, on 15 July. A police spokesman said Jordan's death was not being treated as suspicio

Dressage rider Myles Graham, 16, and Nibeley Union Hit won individual bronze at the junior European Dressage Championships. The team won bronze. Report, p42 Former Olympic event rider Chris Burton and Chedington HazyToulana helped the Australian show

The potential buyer of a foal said she didn't think it would get to grand prix. “I looked up the buyer's results and her best score is 62% at prelim,” the seller confided. “The horse might do GP, but will the rider?” Spotted, an ad from someone looki

MEET Emma Taylor and Sparky, also known here as Midlife Crisis Barbie and her Dream Unicorn. Emma and Novato Salvatella, her then 17-yearold PRE stallion, won the best costume prize and the “strictly fancy dressage” class, at the 2022 Veteran Horse S

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jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald I MAKE no apology for returning to the Brexit agreement and its damaging effects on horses and riders who regularly compete at European shows because, if anything, the situation looks set to worsen. With 27 p

“PETE is bold and full of bravado when he's being ridden, and he was always the naughty boy of the class when he was younger. But I've discovered that underneath that exterior, he is actually a very sensitive chap. When we go away to shows and he's i

IN this condition, there is an increase in fluid within one or more fetlock joints. The ailment may be associated with the wear and tear of hard work. They are typically seen in stocky animals with upright conformation. Provided the fetlock joint swe

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FOR anyone wanting to reach the top in eventing, the 2018 world champion and reigning Badminton winner Ros Canter is the ultimate role model. How did she scale the heights of the sport? Much of Ros' success is down to Caroline Moore - whom Ros descri

THIS exercise is highly technical as it requires balance, obedience and total straightness around a 90-degree turn to jump a fence with no deviation from the line in the air, while being challenged with a narrow fence on landing. It is also a useful

• Every transition requires thought, preparation and a planned place to execute it. With good repetition, your horse should have the will to perform it correctly each time. • Every halt transition should be corrected so that it's square; consequently

THE team competition concluded with an unprecedented decision by organisers and officials, which left four teams on the podium, all with different scores. An appeal was made after Austria's Fanny Jobstl made an error of course by riding two left piro

A SLOW and steady approach with her six-year-old gelding Longacres Stuart Little is reaping rewards for Victoria Turner, who rode him to an overall prelim win and a silver section win at Port Royal EC, North Yorkshire. The lofty warmblood, currently

Myerscough College, Lancs JANET ZALDATS and Crookus Gill revisited the novice 23 test to win, after an unhappy experience riding it last year. “We've been avoiding that test and it was about time we tackled it again,” said Janet, who bought “Corky”,

DO YOU WANT TO BE ON THIS PAGE? HAVE YOU WON A SECTION? Email eventinghighlights@gmail.com within 24 hours of your event and please include a contact telephone number ALAN THOMSON has recently returned to the start box after a break of around 20 year

FRANCE dominated on home turf in Jardy, winning the Nations Cup ahead of Belgium, but there were promising results, too, for the Brits, who fielded a relatively inexperienced quartet and took third on the podium. Alex Bragg and Quindiva were the best

A HOME-BRED New Forest pony took the under-18 BE90open spoils at Moreton (2). Erin Dovey, 14, steered the 14.1hh Moneyhills Pageant, who was bred by her parents out of her grandparents' driving mare, Burley Rumour, to victory on their dressage score

BRITAIN'S three squads came home with a team bronze apiece at the young riders, juniors and children's European Championships in Italy. Two riders, Darcy Breen on Kunis (childrenon-horses), and Claudia Moore on Hardesther (young riders), just missed

PLANS are already under way for next year's fixture after overwhelmingly positive feedback from competitors, judges, spectators and the industry at large. “We had a very successful show with lots of pre-entries but also many entries on each day,” sai

AFTER competing Welsh section A Withymead Honey Bear for two seasons as an M&M lead-rein with relative success, Kirby Fentiman made the decision earlier this year to trim him out in an attempt to bid for a dream HOYS qualification in hunter pony rank

THOSE who know me will testify that I am not usually one to leave a dinner party early. Last Tuesday night, however, was a different story. My party almost let out a gasp as I stood up to bid them goodnight just after 10pm. Being asked to judge in th

Town & Country Gossip comments on the lack of social drinking on the dinner party circuit. The Roaring Twenties are a decade away AMONG hundreds of stallion ads is one for the 1891 Triple Crown winner, Common. He was outstanding on the track as a thr

THE newspaper style of the early days of H&H, which was founded 25 years earlier. Colour printing would not be invented until 1910, and the first magazine with a colour scan, Fortune, was printed in 1949. In 1909, the magazine was edited by Arthur FB

THE previous day's Grand National is among the racing reports, but with no great fanfare, sandwiched between meetings at Lincoln and Rugby. All the reports begin with a round-up of the members of the aristocracy that attended. The 71st renewal of the