Horse & Hound

BADMINTON'S 75th anniversary run provided yet another sporting extravaganza (report, p42). Bathed in sunshine the event looked, and felt, glorious. As for the result, congratulations to Caroline Powell, who stealthily rose up the leaderboard with her

Georgina Andrews’ show horse, an intermediate show hunter, working hunter, and ladies’ show horse, has died, aged 34. He won many supremes, and the RIHS eight times. The 10-year-old grand prix showjumping stallion, produced and ridden by Denis Lynch,

Irish jumper Trevor Breen is recovering from surgery on his C1 vertebra after a fall. His family said “there is every sign” he will make a full recovery. Paralympic medallist Natasha Baker made a winning return to competition at Hickstead, following

To a horse safari holiday, where the boss was asked if the horses are ever reluctant to drink. “They don't always want to eat but always want to drink,” he said, adding after a pause: “Like our guests.” Overheard in a lesson, a trainer telling her yo

EQUESTRIAN mental health and wellbeing charity Riders Minds is bringing its helplines inhouse to offer additional services, including support for people experiencing bullying or confidence issues. The change, made ahead of Mental Health Awareness Wee

A dressage rider said she's heard that if one has one's phone in one's pocket during a test, it's a -2 score immediately. It does beg the question why one would need one's phone; at X, take a quick selfie in working trot? This week's award goes to th

1) Who is the oldest woman to compete in the Olympics to date? 2) Who was the first grey horse to win Badminton? 3) Which disease is caused by a genetic defect that appears to affect Connemaras exclusively? Answers from 9 May 1) Richard Walker, 18 ye

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Edited by Pippa Roome pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle OPINION HARKING back to Kentucky, some of our British Paris hopefuls decided that a Derek di Grazia course there would be a better preparation for the Games than Eric Winter's Badminto

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WE began by discussing some of the family's earliest memories of the sport: DAVID: I first rode at HOYS [Horse of the Year Show] when it was held at Harringay Arena. I can imagine I didn't have any proper clothes, probably riding in jeans and a jumpe

IRELAND'S Lucy Latta, who made an extraordinary Badminton debut by finishing second, comes from a family steeped in horsemanship. Her grandfather William Powell Harris competed at Badminton in the early 1970s and was reserve for the 1972 Munich Olymp

OPINION THE judging was very consistent from start to finish – the ground jury were not overly generous, but that doesn't matter because they stuck to their level. The top pairs were all in the right order. It's always easy to criticise from outside

THREE first-timers besides Lucy Latta completed with crosscountry jumping clears. ● Northamptonshirebased US rider Grace Taylor was 18th on Game Changer, saying: “He's a very laid-back horse, but his eye was taken by the crowd the odd time. Once he w

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CHLOE MILNE recovered from a stroke last October to make her first run of the season a winning one at Brechin Castle, held at Kirriemuir. Chloe, who won a BE80 with her partner of 10 years, Cremmdalla Crem (Dory), was diagnosed with a small hole in h

JILL MALCOLM steered her own Connemara mare, Oran's Autumn Lass, to a BE80 win at Brechin Castle at Kirriemuir. “Oran had come over from Ireland as a threeyear-old with another couple of ponies. None of them were in a good condition and they were all

ALMOST 10 years to the day after riding him at his debut event, in a potential international dressage horse four-year-old class at a Wellington Riding Premier League show, Matt Hicks competed San Marco for the second time – winning the grand prix at

Kimblewick (May), Kingston Blount, Oxon JAMES KING celebrated a treble at Kingston Blount, his first win coming in the conditions (level two) with Mot Pour Mot for Fred Hutsby and Marcine Marshall. The seven-year-old pulled up last time and was fourt

Edited by Catherine Austen catherine.austen@futurenet.com @cfausten123 ONE winter's evening in the 1920s, as Raoul Millais hacked home from a day with the Beaufort, he found himself riding alongside Lieutenant–Colonel Guy Hanmer. “You the painter fel

FOR many years now, and we have lived here for 14, Adam has been wary of going away. Not because he doesn't enjoy a change of scene, but for fear of what might happen in his absence. It is an old farmers’ superstition – tried and proved by many more

THE King's Troop officer, Olympic rider and former Badminton winner died on 14 December, aged 87. Born 8 January 1936, James was the son of Brigadier Cecil Robert Templer and Angela Mary Henderson. He attended Charterhouse School in Surrey, then the