Horse & Hound

I, LIKE many, am a big fan of Kitty King. If you owned a nice event horse, she is very much the sort of rider you would like to have riding them. She doesn’t have many in the yard, so as to be able to ride and train them all herself and give each the

The 2020 Champion Hurdle winner, who scored seven graded wins for JP McManus and trainer Nicky Henderson, has retired aged nine and is in foal to Walk In The Park. The Highland stallion has died, aged 30. Snowy was Olympia supreme M&M champion in 200

THE new organisers of Blenheim Horse Trials have committed to “continuing to organise it into its fourth decade”. Stable Events, which ran the 2023 fixture, has signed a contract with the estate to provide “stability” for the horse trials. H&H asked

British jumper Jessica Hewlett won the Bemer Young Rider Tour, a series for European riders under 21, resulting in an entry to four CSI shows in 2024. Rider Kevin Acres was crowned Irish dressage national champion with Ganesh at Mullingar Equestrian,

To Arena UK, where Tom Whitaker did a demo on a stallion he was riding for the first time. Asked what he was trying to achieve, he said: “Just trying not to fall off in front of this big crowd.” Wise words. Lucinda Russell reveals she wrote notes to

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TWO broodmares at a small stud died this summer - but both their foals have been taken on by other mares, alongside their own. Family-run Cimbri Stud’s four 2023 foals were delivered safely but two of its foundation mares died. Briarose suffered a ut

[email protected] @pollyrose21 AFTER two of the busiest, craziest weeks of the season it seemed really fitting that in the year of British Dressage (BD)’s 25th anniversary we were able to bring home team gold. The European Championships at Ri

BEING selected was a relief after repeatedly being the first reserve over the past few years. I was hopeful after second at Luhmühlen in June, but the selectors keep their cards close to their chest, so I didn’t have any inkling one way or the other.

ON Wednesday, we did a team course walk, which I’m not a huge fan of because you can’t see the fences well, but it was a chance to get a feel of the terrain and questions. It was beautifully built and designed but I was thinking, “This isn’t great if

THIS was my third Europeans with Kitty. At the first, Luhmühlen, I was like, “What is going on?” but now I know everyone and it’s the same sort of procedure, just a different venue. The stables were all ready when we arrived, thanks to the British te

THE formation of a NPA is a compensatory action to minimise load through the suspensory apparatus, which then results in increased load through the deep digital flexor tendon (DDFT), and subsequent crushing of the heels and elongation of the toes. Ho

AN essential component of determining whether a horse’s NPA can be corrected with a balanced trim is the health of the digital cushion and ungular cartilage. A healthy digital cushion helps to distribute the energy from the impact of landing via the

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A FEW former in-hand finalists heading to the NEC in 2023: JUST months after he’d stood supreme of his age group in Dublin, the then three-year-old netted the horse section and finished reserve overall at HOYS behind Mark Buckley’s Crafton Blithe Spi

HORSE OF THE YEAR SHOW 2023 takes place 4-8 October at NEC Birmingham. As well as five days of national showjumping championships, top international riders will contest the CSI3* classes, which culminate in the leading showjumper of the year on Sunda

JAMES WILSON considers his seven-year-old grand prix winner Vuitton Of Picobeilo Z to be “really special”. He bought the mare during lockdown as an in-foal three-year-old, having seen her loose jump. “She was expensive, so initially I said no, but th

OF the Zangersheide Studbook horses currently competing around the world, Tobago Z, Landon and Beauville Z NOP came out as the top three. The top-ranked 15-year-old Tobago Z (Tangelo vd Zuuthoeve x Mr Blue) has proved a star for Germany’s Daniel Deus

JUSTINE WARD, who finished third at Burghley in 1995 on The Bullett, is enjoying a second foray into eventing after a “very long” hiatus. Justine and Billy Brody, a home-produced youngster bought from the Billy Stud auction, topped a BE100 section at

ELLA LAWTON-SMITH is equally as comfortable in a laboratory coat as in a show jacket, and the University of Bath student – who is on placement this year, working in the flavour department of a toothpaste factory – dished up a BE100 win at Little Gatc

EXUBERANT former breeding stallion Kerouac kept a lid on his enthusiasm to score a 78% advanced medium freestyle win at Burrows Court Farm, Glos, with Matt Frost. “He’s been quite an athlete to ride in the 18 months I’ve had him,” said Matt, who star

AFTER an up-and-down five years with her KWPN gelding Hialito N, Alicia Jardine-Laurie can finally crack on. “He now has to get up the levels super-quick,” said Alicia of the 11-year-old gelding, who headed both the elementary straight and freestyle

Warren Farm EC, Merseyside SUZANNE GREGSON claimed both of the novice tests with her nine-year-old former showjumping gelding AVM Ravello. “We’ve changed him from his showjumping ways,” said Suzanne, who bought the Vancouver son, bred by Allen Breen

Quob Stables, Hants IN a dramatic comeback after breaking her back in five places in a freak riding accident a year ago, Jessie Vanassche is making progress up the dressage ladder with her eight-year-old Irish Sport Horse Lisfarty Cruise Hill. She an

Scottish National Equestrian Centre, W Lothian IMOGEN CASELY and Welsh section C Parvadean Estelle scored a double novice win. “We’re going to the Area Festival championships at Arena UK in October and she’s feeling good,” said Imogen, 15. “Stella is

REBECCA RAINE, 17, rode her mother Karen’s novice 153cm contender UK Today (pictured) to finish her debut show season as second day supreme at Westmorland County after topping the overall working hunter pony championship. The six-year-old gets her sc

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NOW that’s a tidy profit. Grand prix showjumper Last Resort, who changed hands for a six-figure sum, was sold as a foal for just £400. By the thoroughbred stallion Hildenley, he made £2,200 as a three-year-old and his price rocketed to six figures th