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THE British dressage team's performance at this year's Europeans is both incredible in itself and exciting for Paris 2024. Compared to eventing, the other discipline in which Britain has obvious potential to win medals, there are fewer variables. Sur

The La Pyle Partnership's Group One winner, trained by William Muir with Chris Grassick, who won over £2m, has retired aged six following the recurrence of an injury. Billy Moran's Irish Draught won this year's HOYS in-hand supreme semifinal champion

European eventing champion Ros Canter has taken the lead in the FEI world rankings, displacing Tim Price from his 11-month reign. Irish racing trainer Aidan O'Brien has reached a career total of 4,000 winners. He said the achievement was down to “pur

WELFARE concerns continue in Scotland as farrier numbers decline, and government funding for apprenticeships remains off the cards. Since 2017, Scottish apprentice farriers have had to pay their own college fees, and in 2021 the Farriers Registration

A report on Burghley contained the phrase: “A majestic thoroughbred sails elegantly over a terrifying jump as rider and horse replicate each other's body shape.” Is this where we've been going wrong? Is having four legs the way to go? Overheard at a

COULD you take on one of Britain's wildest ponies? homes for the ponies is hard. “Many assume the ponies will arrive bucking, rearing and totally unmanageable,” he said. “But these clever ponies can adapt to their new lives in a few days [in experien

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polly.bryan@futurenet.com @pollyrose21 WHAT a competition the Europeans have been: the highest standard I've ever witnessed. After Britain bagged the team gold medal, there were only four people feeling under pressure for the grand prix special and f

“WE originally brought Ryan over from Ireland in 2015 when I was 12. Previously, he'd been based with a family who had hunted and done Pony Club with him. “My mum, Shona Weir, and I had been on a trip to view some 14hh ponies and our first stop was a

Stable name: Ryan Sex: gelding Breed: Connemara Age: 16 Height: 143cm Breeding: by Rathcoona Holiday Boy out of Cashel Misty Breeder: Ina Hanna Owner: Claire Collier Rider: Izzy Hartswood-Collier Best results: first 143cm and supreme working hunter p

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ROXANE KIRTON, who is head vet of the equine sector at the RSPCA and a veterinary behaviourist, wrote her master's degree thesis on the behavioural welfare impacts of tracks versus strip grazing in four groups of ponies at Redwings. The results are y

SELINA BARROW and Alex Fillingham run 2by2 Track livery in Okehampton, Devon. “We relocated from Berkshire to Devon to start this business, with our two horses - a thoroughbred/warmblood who suffered from equine asthma and a thoroughbred/appaloosa wh

TO start with, a track is fenced around the perimeter of a paddock. By starting with temporary fencing you can play around with widths. The track should be at least as wide as the length of the biggest horse, and there should be no dead ends. Horses

polly.bryan@futurenet.com 1 Jessica von Bredow-Werndl riding TSF Dalera BB 2 Nanna Skodborg Merrald riding Blue Hors Zepter 3 Charlotte Dujardin riding Imhotep 1 Jessica von Bredow-Werndl riding TSF Dalera BB 2 Lottie Fry riding Glamourdale 3 Charlot

A WORKING rider with just one horse to compete vied for the top placings on the first day of the grand prix, scoring 71.07%. Belgium's Charlotte Defalque works 40 hours a week as a business manager for a consultancy firm, alongside campaigning her gr

DAILY turnout is a common denominator for leading horses in the grand prix. The leader Dalera enjoys going in the field every day, while runner-up Imhotep spends the nights outside in company with his friend and fellow grand prix horse En Vogue. Fame

IT'S hard to find enough words to describe the Europeans. There is huge pressure as a selector to get the team right, but this year it was one of the easiest selection meetings ever. We've been careful to write the selection policy so riders can camp

COULD Carl Hester be on the cusp of the best championship form of his career, at the age of 56? He produced a magical test on his new ride for this season, the exciting stallion Fame, who looks like he has so much more to give as the partnership deve

DENMARK'S Daniel Bachmann Andersen finished 11th in the special on 75.21% with the 12-year-old Vitalis son Vayron. The rangy bay, who stands 18.2hh, is in his first season at grand prix, and is still “very green”. “We've grown together and have had t

GERMANY'S Frederic Wandres took the lead at the halfway stage of the 18-strong freestyle, despite forgetting his floorplan. He missed out his left trot half-pass from its planned place in his programme, tried to slot in a few steps late on in the rou

1 2 3 FEI European Para Dressage Championships, Riesenbeck, Germany WHAT a difference a year makes. At last summer's World Championships, Britain finished a tantalising fourth, 2% off the podium. Never in modern para dressage history had the British

6 The age of the youngest horse, grade III rider Francesca Salvadé's Escari 3 Vivaldi offspring: Demantur RS2 NOP, FJ Veyron and Cleverboy GABRIELLA BLAKE was Britain's breakout star at this year's Europeans. On her debut for the team she took bronze

GERMANY'S grade III bronze medallist Melanie Wienand has a special history with her horse Lemony's Loverboy. Melanie was an auction rider and back in 2011 rode a stallion called Lemony's Nicket, who was sold for the sale's top price of €900,000. A fe

FOR Dutch team champion Frank Hosmar, any colour of medal with his 18-year-old horse of a lifetime is just a cherry on a well-iced cake. In the winter of 2021/22, Alphaville developed such a terrible cough that it looked like he wouldn't survive, let

35 Frank Hosmar's championship medal count SOPHIE WELLS added another medal to Britain's tally with a fabulous bronze in the grade V freestyle. Sophie finished behind Belgium's Michèle George (Best Of 8), claiming her second gold of the week, with th

CHARLOTTE CUNDALL rounded out her first championships in style on FJ Veyron with a high-energy freestyle featuring a brave extended canter towards the judge into a pirouette. They finished fifth with 74.91%. As a teenager, Charlotte was on the cusp o

GOING into this championship, I thought Britain would have a chance of getting bronze. But it was a big ask with new riders and Sophie's young horse, and they'd need to bring their best on the day. The Dutch went in as favourites and delivered gold,

WILL SCOTT steered Midnight Maybee (Bee) to BE100 victory at Sapey, finishing on their dressage score of 27. “I was super-pleased with her dressage, which is probably her weakest phase,” said Will of the eight-year-old. “To lead the section ahead of

BRITISH showjumper Matt Sampson knows very well what it's like to succeed at Spruce Meadows. At this tournament, he took the 1.45m Cardel Homes class with 13-year-old Fabrice DN following a speedy jump-off and the 1.40m Richardson Wealth Cup with Cur

AMELIA ANLEY and Connemara Humbug, 19, topped the junior 70 showjumping, much to the 11-year-old Tendring Hundred RC member's shock. FIRST WIN “We've never won a showjumping competition before,” said Amelia. “He needs a lot of riding he likes to be s

THE report of the top-class Flat horse, Glint Of Gold, on what was his final race. Owned by Paul Mellon and trained by lan Balding, the Mill Reef-sired colt won 10 races (six Group Ones) in four countries, including this Grosser Preis von Baden. This

A SIMPLE cover (note no date or price) celebrating the career of Assert, rated the best middle-distance horse in Europe in 1982. In this his Classic year, he became the first horse to win both the French and Irish Derbies. Assert was in the first cro

Clapham Common plays host to a top show with some 11,000 treated to a “wide range of equestrian activity, from top professionals to children in fancy dress”. David Broome wins the Victor Ludorum, Princess Anne presents prizes, and team Pearly Kings a

REINER KLIMKE regains the world dressage title on the brilliant Ahlerich, while the great Granat, world and Olympic gold medallist with Swiss rider Christine Stuckelberger, is retired aged 17 after finishing second. Ahlerich is described as: “a hands

ROCKINGHAM INTERNATIONAL HORSE TRIALS will not run in 2024 because it is “no longer viable”. The May event, which ran classes from BE100 to CCI3*-S, was abandoned this year, owing to wet weather affecting the ground conditions. A statement from organ