Horse & Hound

A RIDER who won the Pony Club national tetrathlon championship two years ago is to represent Great Britain in the modern pentathlon at the Paris Olympics this week. Charlie Brown, a former member of the Ludlow Hunt branch of the Pony Club, has been c

PARIS 2024 has delivered drama and thrilling results – and for equestrianism, that's been in part due to the format of three to a team with no drop score that riders and chefs d'equipe understandably dislike. Columnists Graham Fletcher (p14) and Tim

“AUNTIE ROSIE”, as she was affectionately known, died on 25 June, aged 84. Born in 1940 in Ayrshire, she was educated at Wellington School for Young Ladies, where she excelled in sports. After school, much to her father's disapproval having paid for

Radio 1 listeners may have heard Olympic gold medallist JL Dublin named “star listener” last week. Do we think “Dubs” is a Radio 1 fan? Or does he prefer maybe Bruce Springsteen, Born to (Have) Won? (Oof. Ed). A supermarket tried to get in on the act

Para dressage rider and swimmer Suzanna Hext got engaged to her partner Gareth Petts. Suzanna said it was “the easiest yes I've ever said”. Showjumper Jack Whitaker topped the Samorin CSI3* 1.50m grand prix qualifier with Equine America Valmy De La L

SNOOP DOGG was cruising the mean streets of the Palace of Versailles, as he turned up in full dressage regalia to watch the grand prix special team final on 2 August. The rapper was joined by American author, presenter and businesswoman Martha Stewar

[email protected] @oscarw_dr WE have so much to be proud of in these past few weeks. We should be inspired by our youth riders' fantastic medals and outstanding performances, as well as the Olympics, which were a feast for the eyes – team

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“WE have Jemma to thank for introducing us. After Ozzie was broken as a fouryear-old we always hoped that he would have been the pony for her daughter, but unfortunately she outgrew him and it was decided at last year's BSPS [British Show Pony Societ

THIS is a thoroughbred racehorse who sustained a medial condylar fracture of the cannon bone. What is unique about these fractures is that they can spiral up the cannon bone, and this makes them a high risk for worsening during recovery from general

THIS is a horse that fractured a part of its calcaneus, which is in the hock. This fracture is simple (with only one fracture fragment) and only minimally displaced, which makes it amenable to standing fracture repair. The biggest advantage to repair

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[email protected] Team medals 1 2 3 Paris Olympics, France “MY dad said before my round, 'Enjoy it, whatever you do – you've worked hard to get here'. And afterwards, he said, 'Enjoy every minute of that ceremony, this will probably be th

French President Emmanuel Macron poses for a selfie with a fan while watching the Olympic showjumping team IT was clear walking Santiago Varela and Grégory Bodo's course for the team qualifier on Thursday that the fences were a wonder of design and c

TWO alternate riders transferred from that role to Olympic debutants to medallists in less than 48 hours. Olivier Perreau, 38, and home-bred Dorai D'Aiguilly (pictured) stepped up for France when Kevin Staut's Viking D'La Rousserie failed the trot-up

I DIDN'T see the logic of the three-to-a-team format before, but I'm a convert. It made the competition more exciting and understandable to newcomers. The setting looked unbelievable and Paris lived up to the Olympic tradition of bold, intimidating j

FEDERICO FERNANDEZ (pictured), 56, was en route to a young rider championship at age 19 when the plane he was travelling in crashed into rush-hour traffic. Only three of 11 passengers and one horse of 18 survived. Federico spent six months in a burns

WHATEVER the realm of elite sport, peaking when it matters is the trump card. The top combinations looked to have the handbrake on in this grand prix, which served as a qualifier for the special and the freestyle, the team and individual finals. With

WHEN Yessin Rahmouni was lying immobilised in a bed for two months in the spring, he held little hope of riding in the Olympics after fracturing three vertebrae in his neck in a fall from a young horse. “I was not allowed to move because there were c

HORSE welfare were the words on everyone's lips as the Olympic dressage began just a week after the release of a video of Charlotte Dujardin hitting a horse, which led to the rider withdrawing from the Games and her subsequent suspension. The mainstr

JEWEL'S GOLDSTRIKE, the ride of Ecuador's Julio Mendoza Loor, is heartening proof that Olympic horses don't always cost six figures. “A good friend let me have him for $20,” said Julio, who scored 70.84%. “For a horse that cost $20 to come down the c

FRANCE has not won an Olympic dressage medal since 1948, but their performance here was indicative of a nation on the up. Seeded seventh for the special, they finished sixth. Alexandre Ayache scored 70.82% riding Jolene. They had one mistake, losing

I WAS so proud of the British riders; they pulled everything out of the bag and went for it. Becky was great in the grand prix, she more than held her own – you'd never have thought it was her first Olympics. Her performance looked so correct and har

THE one horse that every rider wanted to take home —and many keep trying to buy – was Sandra Sysojeva's Maxima Bella. Aged eight, this Polish horse was the youngest in the entire field by a whole two years. Last season she was contesting young horse

A NEW class for the 2024 show was the Emma Gann Future Star, held in memory of the late Emma Gann who passed away in June 2023. Emma of Emmpix Photography was a major part of the side-saddle community, having been the nationals' official photographer

A FORMER double Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) in-hand finalist provided his rider with her first-ever Birmingham ticket in the ladies' show horse final. Beth Jacomb and her Kings Master nine-year-old gelding Triple Crown (Derry, pictured) were on for

HETTIE WALKER had an extra reason to celebrate on her birthday weekend when she recorded her first BE win with top spot in BE90 section S at Burgham International aboard Graigue Palman (pictured). “I'm so pleased that everything is coming together,”

WITH just three competitive outings behind him, Everybody Dance made easy work of the prelim and novice bronze classes at Brook Farm Training Centre Area Festival, Essex, to win both titles. “He has never travelled that far and I nearly didn't take h

Kingswood EC Area Festival, Staffs SHIRLEY WRIGHT pocketed two Area Festival titles here, the medium and advanced medium silvers, with Der Blitz. Yet when she bought the Damon Hill gelding three years ago, 13-year-old Blitz had next to no competition

Northcote Stud, Lancs SAMANTHA JIMMISON was “in shock” to head a hard-fought NAF Five Star silver league semi-final with the seven-year-old Mourinho II, securing the Yorkshire rider her first ticket to Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). “He's a super, re

US rider Andrea Baxter's five-star ride, whom she competed at Burghley and Kentucky three times, has died aged 19. They won four-stars and came 12th at Burghley in 2019. The Willie Mullins-trained four-time Grade One winner, out of Quevega and by Wal