William Fox-Pitt Day One of Dressage complete at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, and one of the three people to have won the event 5 times, William Fox-Pitt, is in the lead with the decent chance of getting his second ride, Neuf De Coeurs, in front or close to the leading score of 39.7….
Could there be a more exciting place to be than England right now? Less than one year to what promises to be the most exciting Equestrian Olympics we’ve seen for generations. The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials entry list illustrates the influx of foreign riders, basing themselves here or simply visiting to step up their…
Highclere Horse Trials This Weekend Too I keep telling myself I planned it this way, but the truth is I’ve been procrastinating over this particular holiday weekend for while. It’s the Europeans at Luhmühlen, and I’ve not been there since I lived in Aachen when Thatcher was in power, and continental Europe still had controlled…
Burghley App The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials has released (or possibly leaked!) it’s official iPhone App in preparation for what promises to be one of the greatest Burghley’s of all time! Whether you’re sitting in the relative comfort of your saddle or armchair, or attending the event to gaze in awe at the sheer…
All The Aussies Are Over Here! It seems to have been a quirky year for eventing. A number of top horses are out with injury, we’ve had a southern hemisphere invasion, Badminton ran over Easter weekend, a few Germans ran their Badminton mounts again at Luhmühlen in June, and now it’s back to Luhmühlen for…
Caroline & Lenamore | Burghley 2010 Winners As you will have read all over the internet already, Lenamore is a very popular winner, and an extremely well deserved win it is too. I’ve always liked this horse and rider, since I first saw them at Badminton in 2005, and I’m probably a little bias as…
Mark Phillips | Burghley Course Designer I’ve always thought the course at Burghley rides so much better than it walks, which I think is all credit to Mark Phillips, whereas the course at Badminton walks better than it rides, which is no bad thing and makes it all the more interesting. There is so much…
Mary King | A little too relaxed in the Burghley Dressage I almost forgot about Burghley this year, with all the noise around the World Equestrian Games, and whilst the dressage hasn’t really produced any shocks, apart from the two senior GBR Team members (Mary & William) getting additional penalty points, due to lack of…
More Foreign Riders Are Moving To Britain Chasing Medals Someone now based in the states, recently told me she really missed the eventing circuit back here in the UK, and trawling the web last night looking at photos and videos of events from around the globe got me thinking about how lucky we are in…
Carry your bag sir? Does anyone need a groom or an extra pair of hands at Blenheim, Burghley, WEG or any other event for that matter? It’s been a very long time since I worked as groom or pupil, or mucked out for that matter, but having recently sold my business I find myself with…