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AS the curtain closed on Defender Blair Castle International Horse Trials, spirits have been lifted with the announcement of a new international event at Scone Palace in Perthshire. The event will run in the parklands and adjacent Perth racecourse fr

THE final preparations are under way for the Paris Paralympic Games as organisers report tickets to watch the para dressage have sold out (3–7 September). Britain’s horses are set to travel via LeShuttle today (29 August) and stop at a private yard i

NEW initiatives to “support sport horse welfare” have been announced in the United States following the death of showjumper Chromatic BF at the FEI World Cup Final. Katharine Branscomb’s 13-year-old gelding Chromatic BF collapsed and died in the stab

Share your news story Call 0330 390 6386 Email [email protected] @ jones_eleanor_ ERIC LAMAZE has been ordered to pay over $572,000 (£433,000) plus costs, in a case regarding horse sales dating back over 15 years. In the Ontario Superior Co

DOUBLE five-star winner Piggy March and her husband Tom will lead eight cyclists on a 1,100km ride from Blair Castle to London, aiming to raise £500,000 for Spinal Research and the British Eventing (BE) Support Trust. The ride is in memory of Tom’s s

Email to [email protected] Name and address must be included. Letters may be edited. @ horseandhound instagram.com/horseandhound facebook.com/horseandhound ANOTHER amazing result for the Team GB eventing team (among all the Team GB equestrian s

BELLA INNES KER has numerous claims on her attention – not least an impending debut at one of eventing’s toughest tracks – but an unexpected call from an eager journalist barely breaks her stride. “This sounds great -please do ping me an email,” she

I left university quite relaxed about life, even though I probably shouldn’t have been. I was always so sure what I wanted to do but really, I knew so little about corporate law. I just picked the top law firm in Ireland, did one interview, and was t

SIGNIFICANT advances have been made in equine assisted reproductive techniques over the past decade, one of the most notable being the increasingly popular intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) following ovum pick-up (OPU). OPU is the first step in

PARA dressage made its debut at the Atlanta Paralympics in 1996, but it took a further eight years, at Athens in 2004, for the riders to be allowed to compete on their own horses. Since then, the sport has grown in profile and truly runs in parallel

DEFENDER BURGHLEY Preview DEREK DI GRAZIA is asking some terrific questions on this year’s track. There are inviting, big bold fences, and demanding fences – difficult turns and angles. He is really testing the top five-star horses. This is not a wal

● HORSE & HOUND will have four journalists and a photographer on the ground at Burghley throughout the competition. THE Horse & Hound team will be creating extensive online coverage of Burghley in addition to what will be included in the magazine rep

[email protected] @pipparoomeorkyle DEFENDER BLAIR CASTLE 22–25 August Defender Blair Castle, Perthshire “HE’S king of the castle now, king of Blair Castle,” said an emotional Wills Oakden after claiming the CCI4*-L title to complete a histor

HIGHLIGHTS 13–18 August Frickley Park, S Yorks LIZZIE BAUGH took top honours in the Ideal Financial Management Ltd CCI3*-S aboard the exciting albeit “quirky” eightyear-old Piltown Concorde. Lizzie and the gelding she owns alongside Janette Shipley a

HARVEY CROCKER, 15, and The Night Traveller (Hugo, pictured) chalked up an unlikely first win in a BE90 section at West Wilts (2). The 17-year-old gelding, who belongs to Harvey’s mum Jess, was all but written off in 2018 after a serious hind suspens

IAN STARK received some of the biggest cheers on crosscountry day when he jumped clear round the CCI3*-L with Chatsworth Diamond (pictured), collecting 25.2 time-penalties. The 70-year-old confirmed that Blair will be his final competition at this le

[email protected] @oscarw_dr BURY FARM EQUESTRIAN VILLAGE HIGH PROFILE 23–24 August Bury Farm Equestrian Village High Profile, Bucks THE grand prix went down to the wire, with Tom Goode and Furstenrausch PS emerging the winners with a 0.6%

Aspen Cooling Ltd Solihull (2), W Midlands BEN DARBY and Grand Chateau went one better than their second placing last time out at Aston-le-Walls (3) when they headed the open novice. The pair added just 0.8 of a time-penalty across country to their d

HIGHLIGHTS 15–18 August Onley Grounds Area Festival, Warks JENNY AINSCOUGH is learning quickly how amazing mares can be once you have them on side. Having always had geldings, Jenny took the lease on James Bolton’s 14-year-old mare Florence PFB last

Chard Equestrian Area Festival, Somerset KATIE PALMER took time out from her busy schedule running a restaurant full-time to land two Area Festival titles with her 12-year-old gelding, Headmore Braithwaite. The pair won the advanced medium straight b

Northallerton EC Area Festival, N Yorks DESPITE two hip replacements, Hilary Janion is proving that you can still enjoy riding and competing. Partnering her 14-year-old Sandro Hit gelding Sir Wilhelm, she won the medium 73 with 67.4% and advanced med

[email protected] @jen_donald HIGHLIGHTS 12-20 August Young horse league championship show, Coombelands SOME strong combinations battled for the remaining spots for the Events Through a Lens talent seeker inc seven-year-old championship b

CAMILLA LIM-GOULDER claimed her first national title and then made it a double when she headed both the 1m and 1.10m contests at the Just For Schools Summer Championship final at Stoneleigh, Warks, aboard Rockmount Casper. “They were quite competitiv

Dublin Horse Show, Ireland JOE TRUNKFIELD was briefly reunited with Gracie Johnson’s Cruze to land the Defender puissance on his first visit to Ireland’s premier show, sharing victory with Ireland’s Mikey Pender on Hearton Du Bois Halleux after both

[email protected] @alexrob_journo_ NATIONAL HUNTER CHAMPIONSHIP 19–20 August Sport Horse Breeding of Great Britain National Hunter Championships, Addington Equestrian, Bucks A CHANCE meeting at Aintree and subsequent Facebook friendshi

A TWO-YEAR-OLD filly took the Laidlaw Perpetual Challenge Cup for the best young horse of the show. This was Rebecca Monahan’s Dermish Not A Dare (pictured), a daughter of Irish Draught CC Captain Cruise, bred by Gabriel Mullins. ONE TO WATCH When Re

HIGHLIGHTS 12–18 August Dublin Horse Show, Ireland A HOME-BRED star of the future came to the fore to provide her proud breeders with their first-ever Dublin supreme hunter title. Hurst Show Team’s exquisite four-year-old lightweight mare Tattygare M

Pembrokeshire County A HOME-BRED three-yearold dazzled en route to booking her debut in the HOYS in-hand supreme final. Matt McGivern was at the head of Sarah Baker’s future intermediate Copybush So Fashion (Sophie), a daughter of Small-land Maytino

[email protected] @murray_bex JCB PONY CLUB CHAMPIONSHIPS 9–17 August JCB Pony Club Championships, Offchurch Bury, Warks MOLLY RATTUE had a successful but eventful week at the Pony Club JCB National Championships, with a winning double. The

[email protected] @cfausten123 RYDAL 15 August Rydal, Rydal Park, Cumbria RAIN poured down in biblical fashion at Rydal this year but it didn’t stop last year’s fellhound champion, Blencathra Satin 19, from seeing off the opposition to r

THE blackberries are thickly clustered, the skies are hanging heavily and there’s a real nip in the air at night now. My horse is bored out of his brain with walking and trotting round the roads; he puts his mind in neutral, creeps downhill and can b

EVERY summer, sometime in July, Adam gets a call from our neighbour Simon asking if he would like a lift to the Rydal, the hound show in Cumbria. Simon is good company and his wife Mrs O makes a great picnic, so this is an excellent invitation. Also,

A JUDGE has been struck off by a showing society after he struck a “frivolous pose” in a photo at the Royal International (RIHS) in July. Russell Marks said he is “stuck for words” after the British Miniature Horse Society (BMHS) told him it was prep