Horse & Hound

GRFATEST of all time, or GOAT if you will, is a phrase bandied about far too often, but you'd have to agree it applies to Stubbs if judged on the influence he's had on equestrian artists to this day. It is appropriate that we focus on some of his mos

The 2022 Derby winner, trained by Sir Michael Stoute for Saeed Suhail, has been put down after failing to recover from a fetlock fracture sustained in training, in August. British eventer Simon Grieve's retired top ride has been put down, aged 24. Ma

THE disqualification of Buster Edwards in a novice riders' race on 1 April means Amber Jackson-Fennell is the new champion female novice rider for the 2022/23 point-to-pointing season. The horse, ridden by J Parker, won at Bitterley but gave a positi

Eventing legend Pippa Funnell will join the British Eventing board as a nonexecutive director - a voluntary role with a four-year term - at the AGM in December. Badminton 2023 winner and European champion Ros Canter scored her second five-star victor

The Archers has featured a horse injured as a result of fireworks, and a campaign to ban the local display. The compromise; silent fireworks. Now for such to happen in reality… To Pau, where Tom McEwen sported an air hostess outfit, complete with nat

GIN company Wild Fox Distillery's latest offering is a “toast to all things equestrian”, and fit for “the perfect G&T in the back of the horsebox”. The Lancashire company's new Mane Event gin includes “bright ruby grapefruit and strong herbaceous zin

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pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle I PASSED the landmark age of 75 in September and am ramping down my cross-country course-designing. I leave this week for the US for what will probably be my last CCI4*-L course, at Terra Nova in Florida. I

“HE was called Topspin before we knew he was going to live up to his name. I always knew that he had talent and a good jump, but we did two or three shows when he was five and then gave up because when other horses came towards him in the dressage wa

MY idea of a daily hack, even as a child, was probably 12 miles a day. I could never see the point of tacking up just to ride around the block. I still say there's no point going out for less than an hour. I'll do anything to avoid turning round too,

THIS horse sustained an incomplete fracture of its radius (forearm) due to a kick. The rest of the bone was intact and acted as a natural splint but was very fragile. There was a real chance that as the horse got up from lying the load could cause a

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EQUESTRIAN portrait painter Madeleine Bunbury, renowned for her life-size paintings, was inspired by seeing Whistlejacket as a young girl. “The first time I saw his portrait was in a book, but I just thought, 'How can anyone paint that, how is it eve

EACHING the top of Newmarket's Warren Hill gallops with Sir Mark Prescott on a late-spring morning, artist Melanie Wright was greeted with an unexpected sight – Sir Mark's string of Flat-racing royalty with their heads down, grazing in a bucolic wood

STUBBS' popularity really took off in the middle of last century. American art collector Paul Mellon, who owned Mill Reef, bought his first painting, Pumpkin with a stable-lad (right) in 1936 and became a champion of his work, creating the Yale Cente

SAFFRON CRESSWELL had good reason to be excited about her Bicton BE100 three-day event winner, Angell's Choice, who stormed around the jumping phases to finish on her dressage score of 30.8. “Angell's owner, Jennifer Angell-James, bred her so this wa

ACCOUNTANT Georgie Selley notched up her best international result to date when she finished second in the CCI3*-S at Bicton with her failed ex-racehorse, Ballinameen Boyle. “He wobbled his way around his first BE100 at Bicton last spring and less th

AT Sentower Park, Belgium, the 1.55m CSI3* grand prix was won by Great Britain's Harry Charles and rising star Sherlock (pictured, below). In a four-way jump-off, Harry went head-to-head with Lorenzo De Luca on F One USA, coming out over halfa-second

WHEN a diagnosis of neck arthritis ended his eventing career prematurely, Monbeg Match Point switched to dressage. After a successful summer, the seven-year-old is notching up the wins with Cheryl Bezants – scoring 70.65% to take the novice 38 silver

EX-RACEHORSE Powder King is finding his dressage form with Lucy Bell, scoring 70.86% to win the elementary 43 with a personal best at the level at Swallowfield EC, Warwickshire. The Kings Best-sired 16-year-old had been retrained for general riding a

“HE isn't always easy, but we're starting to find our partnership,” said William Roberts of Saint Tropez, who won the elementary 43 at Onley Grounds EC, Warwickshire, with a convincing 76.38%. “He was super throughout the whole test and really let me

TRACEY MITCHELL'S post-pandemic purchase Mr Hardcore continues to impress. The six-year-old Hennessy gelding scored a 70%-plus elementary win at Dressage at Belmoredean, West Sussex. “This is the first time he has tried the hardest elementary and he

FIRST WIN KNOCKAHUNNA JESTER made easy work of the prelims at Saddlesdane EC, Kent, to win both. Based with rider Joe Bright since February, the nine-yearold is relatively new to the competition scene. “He had two very quiet years, through no fault o

“VERY exciting” was how trainer Nigel TwistonDavies described Idalko Bihoue after a superb display of jumping helped to secure a facile seven-length victory in the 2023 Thoroughbred Census novices' limited handicap chase on day one of The Showcase, r

THIRTY-SIX years after legendary jockey Norman Williamson rode his first winner at Clonmel, his teenage son Josh achieved the same feat, winning a handicap hurdle at the same track on the Edward O'Grady-trained home-bred Housemartin. In heavy going,