The World Cup Qualifiers for Western Europe moved on to Madrid this weekend with classes for dressage and showjumping. Meanwhile the sales circuit moved back to Tattersalls in Newmarket for the annual foal sale, a sale which posted more records. Tina Cook, the event rider has announced her retirement. In Madrid, the first day of
As the unusually warm autumn continues towards winter, the equine sporting schedule starts to show signs of coming to an end in Europe. Stuttgart staged their annual World Cup Qualifier for dressage and show jumping. Charlotte Fry of Great Britain has been named as the FEI Equine best athlete of the year at the FEI
All the action was concentrated in France with eventing, dressage and showjumping on the card. The final 5 star horse trials took place at Les Etoiles de Pau over the weekend with some quite surprising results? In Lyon, the French staged another round of the World Cup Qualifying rounds for both dressage and showjumping. Read
Ben Maher with Faltic HB takes his third Longines Global Championship in Riyadh while the World Cup Qualifiers start in earnest in Europe for both showjumping and dressage. King Charles is to start to reduce The Late Queen’s string of race horses and breeding stock starting this autumn. Read More This article has been moved
The final major race day in Europe of the year took place at Ascot for Champion’s Day. The day is designed to be the finals of the Qipco sponsored races which have been run throughout the season at various race courses throughout the UK. The 5 star horse trial event at Fair Hill Equestrian in
The Future champion’s weekend at Newmarket saw two further Group 1 races for two year olds only. At Tattersalls, the October Yearling Book One took place during the week with records falling in just about every facet. In St Tropez hosted the top world show jumping classes of the week and in Birmingham, the annual
The famous Longchamp Track in Paris The Arc de Triomphe weekend is always savoured by the racing world with no less than eight Group 1 races at the Longchamp track in Paris over the weekend. French trainers were looking to repair some of their reputations as they had only won four Group 1 races in
The show jumping finals of the FEI Nations Cup was staged at Barcelona in Spain with fourteen teams competing for the prestigious title and generous prize money available. It ended being a close contest for the top three places. There were fourteen nations with teams to qualify for these finals. Barcelona Jumping In the first
As we in the northern hemisphere slip into the autumn, racing and sport horse competition starts to wind down in some cases and into final championships for the rest. At Newmarket, the racing fraternity start to look towards next season’s classic contenders with two group 1 races for juveniles, and in New York, the next
Funerial Procession for |The Late Queen in London Monday 19th September 2022 saw the state funeral procession, service and burial of Her Majesty, The Late Queen Elizabeth II. An historic event watched by millions across the world. In a week where the world unified and stood still to remember the enormous part The Late Queen
We have to report that sadly, in the Prix du Moulin at Longchamp, this year’s classic winning Coroebus broke a leg during the race and was put down. Frankie Dettori fell foul of the German whip rules in Baden Baden. At Burghley in the UK, the horse trials keep the eventing community busy for one
The centre stage of our sport of showjumping was concentrated on Belgium and The Netherlands over the weekend. Recently, the final leg of the European Nations Cup was held in Dublin. At Valkenswaard in the Netherlands, the latest round of the Longines Global Champions Tour was run and in Brussels, the B Read More This
There are two racing festivals in Europe during August, one at Deauville in France and the other at York in the UK. Both had some excellent racing on the cards including Baaeed, currently the number one rated horse in the world; and secondly, the Australian wonder mare – Veery Elleegent – over for a European
The World Equestrian Games continued with the showjumping following the dressage. The whole of the FEI World Jumping Championships was sponsored by Agria and presented by Helgstrand. Louis Konickx. Dutch Course Designer The showjumping at the games comprised of both a team and individual medal competitions. The first class of the event was a speed
The once in four year Ecco FEI World Equestrian Games was staged in Herning in Denmark for the dressage, showjumping and vaulting during the last week or so. In the dressage part of these games, there were plenty of thrills and spills with some surprising results. Read More This article has been moved to our
