Horse & Hound

THIS week’s issue combines our review of the year (p50) with the stories of all your winners from the 2023 Horse & Hound Awards in partnership with NAF (p34). Since creating these awards we have been blown away by the passion the equestrian public sh

The Philip Hobbs-trained three-time Grade One winner has died aged nine, after he sustained a fatal injury on the gallops while in training for Newbury’s Long Distance Hurdle. Eventer Phillip Dutton’s championship ride has retired from international

Australian Lyndal Oatley’s 2022 World Championship ride has retired aged 14, after a rib injury was found. The pair achieved top results at big tour across Europe. Van Olst Horses’ six- and seven-year-old dressage young horse world champion made his

Olympic dressage champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl won the FEI’s best athlete award. She said it was TSF Dalera BB’s success too. Olympic showjumping champion Ben Maher has finished on the podium in his last three World Cup legs, including second wi

So much respect to H&H inspiration Dylan Ward, who was asked who his favourite dressage rider is. After thought, he said: “Myself!” Ours too, Dylan. Carl and Charlotte had a ride round Cheltenham as a fundraiser for the Olympic team… or was it? Will

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A VIDEO showing a strange man urinating in a family’s dining room as they eat may not be what you’d expect from the FEI, but it’s part of the new Think Outside The Box campaign to raise awareness of contamination. The video shows a family enjoying a

alexandra.robinson@futurenet.com @alexrob_ journo_ OPINION AS always, the end of the showing season was a whirlwind of championship shows for us, swiftly followed by the Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). I was fortunate enough to enjoy a relaxing end-of

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald I HAVE just returned from competing in the Global Champions League (GCL) Super Cup Final at the Global Champions Prague Playoffs, where I was the under-25s rider for Georgina Bloomberg’s New York Empire team.

THREE words have always been important to me – look, listen and learn. You never stop learning if you are around horses. Looking means really looking. Don’t fall in love at first sight with a horse and later wish you hadn’t. Looking means observing y

TIMES have certainly changed and they go on changing. My first hiring out of a pony was half a crown – today we charge £15 for a half-hour riding lesson and £20 for a full hour. Other stables charge more but a number of them around Lincoln have close

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LORDSHIPS GRAFFALO has enjoyed a stellar year under Ros Canter, picking up a Badminton victory, plus double gold at the European Eventing Championships. “He’s been unbelievable this season, and thank you so much for voting for ‘Walter’,” said Ros. Sa

THE first time Terry Pendry was offered the job as stud groom and manager to Her Majesty The Queen at Windsor Castle, he turned it down. At the time, he was four years away from securing a military pension and decided it wouldn’t be fair on his wife

MARK EDWARDS was still in the lorry on the way back from jumping a superb triple clear on Flying Tinker II to secure Britain’s Nations Cup win in Portugal, when it was confirmed his pocket-rocket had been voted Showjumping Horse of the Year. Acceptin

ROS CANTER crowned an outstanding year by beating Carl Hester, John Whitaker and Will Morton to the Professional Rider of the Year award. The Lincolnshire-based 37-year-old won Badminton in May on Lordships Graffalo by an astonishing 15 penalties, an

FIVE-STAR event rider Alice Casburn came to the awards as a finalist in this category for the second year in a row, and this year went home with the prize. The 21-year-old has had a sensational couple of years at the top of the sport with her outstan

CLAD in possibly the best waistcoat of the night, eight-year-old Dylan Ward took to the stage to accept his award amid great applause. Dylan was diagnosed with Ewing sarcoma, a rare form of bone cancer, last year. The damage caused by the cancer has

WORKING hunter pony Cashelbay JJ is no stranger to top accolades. Now 20, he has won at the likes of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS), Royal Windsor, the Royal International (RIHS) and Royal Dublin, as well as eventing to BE100 level. Now he’s added the

A FAMILY in their first season of showing topped a 53-strong M&M lead-rein final. Krystal Parry led her daughter Myla Grundy, seven, and their typey 12-year-old Welsh section A, Isycoed Dragon Slayer, to the crown for the Wow Factor Showing Series. K

LUCY GASSTON enjoyed elementary and medium overall wins at Belmoredean, West Sussex, with Joyful Spring – one of two dressage horses she bought after having a baby and selling her eventers. Eight-year-old Fürst Romancier daughter “Lily” had previousl

WITH a background in racing, Kirstin Mellor is off to a flying start in dressage with Jupiter TN. She and the showjumping-bred nine-year-old scored a 73.46% outright novice win at Hill House EC, Lincolnshire. “I was a bit naïve thinking it would be e

MOTHER and daughter Rebecca Chalmers and Georgina Chalmers-Gray each scored a double at Netherton EC, Perthshire. Rebecca rode Sheena Melvin’s 20-year-old former broodmare Miss Schufro to elementary silver and medium bronze wins, while Georgina claim

THE SKELTON brothers, trainer Dan and jockey Harry, are no strangers to multiplewinners, but Saturday’s Haydock double was a particularly memorable one. Ten years after Harry rode his first winner for his brother on Mister Grez at Ffos Las, the broth

WHAT ON EARTH HAPPENED TO SHISHKIN? HOT favourite Shishkin marched round the Ascot paddock, seemingly raring to go for his seasonal return in the Grade Two chase. The only tweak to his arsenal came in the form of cheekpieces to assist Nico de Boinvil