Horse & Hound

IN his column this week, Carl Hester talks about his long-standing “super-groom” Alan Davies taking a step back from his work as full-time groom to Carl and Charlotte Dujardin (pl4). Alan was an integral part of the British dressage team’s meteoric r

Share your news story Call 0330 390 6386 Email [email protected] @ jones_eleanor_ HORSES who have undergone neurectomies may be allowed to return to national dressage competition in certain circumstances under new British Dressage (BD) rule

BRITISH DRESSAGE (BD) has set out clearer rules on what different levels of weather warnings mean for national competition to help members and venues know where they stand in advance. The British Equine Veterinary Association has welcomed the rules,

Ellen Whitaker’s top horse has been sold to the Saudi Equestrian Federation for Khaled Al Mobty to ride. Ellen and Tilly and Andrew Shaw’s mare jumped at the Nations Cup final. German dressage rider Dorothee Schneider’s double Olympic team gold medal

The Van Olst Horses’ eightyear-old stallion, ridden by Britain’s Lottie Fry to young horse World Championship gold medals in 2021 and 2022, was voted KWPN dressage horse of the year by the public. The St Leger winner and 2019/20 champion National Hun

World number one Lottie Fry won four classes at Exloo CDI with plus-70% scores; the grand prix and special on Dark Legend, the freestyle on Don Joe and the prix st georges on Jackson. Groom Alan Davies, 56, is stepping back from his fulltime role wit

A rider was amused by one of those oh-so-accurate social media predictions for the year. “In 2023, you will buy a new house,” the prediction stated. Ah, so close but for a tiny oneletter substitution… Tennis legend Serena Williams and her husband Ale

NOBODY has ever been daft enough to say cobs can’t jump but if they had, Alun would convince them otherwise. The part-Hackney was caught on camera by owner Rachael Wainwright. Rachael told H&H her aim in the groundwork clinic was to build trust and c

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• January 2019 Vets and experts at the Animal Health Trust (now the Cambridge University-based Equine Infectious Disease Surveillance, or EIDS, group) become aware of a strain of EI circulating in France that in the first week of the year is responsi

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IT’S 8am and I’m sitting on the ground next to my parked car at the top of a hill in the middle of beautiful Exmoor. It’s a sunny morning in mid-May. Around me, the bracken is starting to unfurl its green fronds, and small lime-coloured leaves are em

GRAND prix dressage rider Lara Edwards runs her own yard. She finds it important that you genuinely rate the product you are endorsing. “I don’t feel like you can take on a full sponsorship role until you are sure you’re promoting something you like

Joint-masters: Rachael Lenton, Mary Skipwith, Ed Turner Huntsman: Ed Turner Country: a variety from the drains of the Fens to the valleys around Market Harborough and sticky arable in between Founded: 1927 by Noel Lloyd Interesting fact: all three ma

JACHTVERENIGING SOESTDIJK 19 November Jachtvereniging Soestdijk, Manege Winterswijk, Netherlands “WE’LL have herring after the first run, sherry after the second and beer after the third,” says Paul Paardekooper, a long-standing member of the Soestdi

Onley Grounds EC, Warks EMILY COI.I.ER'S 10-year-old mare Ashley scored 78.17% to head the medium freestyle, performing to a pop soundtrack featuring Alan Walker and Calvin Harris. The victory followed a plus-70% double win at the level three days ea

Solihull EC, W Midlands “HE has really grown in confidence,” said Ruth Whitmore of Autopilot II, overall winner of both the novice 37 qualifier and the elementary 43. Her Astral 53 warmblood, who turns seven in July, excelled at combined training las

“I THOUGHT we were just window shopping,” said Trudy Johnson, recalling her surprise when her husband raised his hand to buy a three-year-old gelding at Addington Sales in 2015. “He was the cheapest horse on the day and no one else was bidding for hi

CERTAINLY RED made use of his ample stamina to give trainer Lydia Richards, jockey Marc Goldstein and owners - the Venetian Lad Partnership - a good Saturday winner. “That is nice as it hasn’t happened for a while,” she said. “I thought two miles fou

North Cornwall, Wadebridge KIMARELLI delivered a surprise win for connections after a change of tactics paid off. The Schiaparelli mare set out as 16/1 outsider in the four, five and six-year-old maiden with Darren Andrews in the saddle for trainer J

IT was ladies’ day at Sandown, with the three chases won by female trainers but not, I am sure they will not mind me saying, by the usual suspects. Lydia Richards, who is having her best season for years, won the Read Nicky Henderson’s Unibet Blog Ha

• Olympic eventing team gold medallist Tom McEwen • England international polo player Ollie Cudmore • Five-star event rider Bubby Upton • Leading amateur jump jockeys Ed Bailey and Noel George • Olympic dressage team gold medallist Laura Tomlinson •