The weekend saw the first and only five star horse trial eventing take place in 2020 in France at Pau, won by Laura Collett. There was also top class racing around the globe, on what was mainly atrocious heavy ground. To make a change, there were also World Cup qualifiers in the USA, the first
There are a few race horse trainers who not only have the ability to train and place horses to their best advantage, but also have extraordinary wisdom in what they do. John Oxx, who has recently announced his retirement, is one. John Oxx was born in 1950. His father John Oxx Snr, was also a
As European racing comes to an end for the year in Europe, the Champions Day at Ascot was another race meeting where further records were broken. It was the tenth anniversary of the ‘Champions’ meeting. There were also two dressage World Cup qualifiers over the weekend. At Ascot, the racing provided the first ever double
It was on a cold February morning in 2014, a bay filly was born at Banstead Manor Stud in Newmarket. Who was to know then, that this filly was to become Enable, many believe the world’s greatest record breaking female race horse of all time?
In a rare feat for this year, Keysoe Equestrian managed to complete its second FEI dressage competition on schedule. It was doubles all round for Charlotte Dujardin in the dressage and The O’Brien trainers also completed a double in The Fillies Mile and Dewhurst. Britain’s Scott Brash has been away for so long now, one
Last weekend saw the centenary running of one of the world’s most famous horse races, “The Prix De l’Arc de Triomphe” at the opulent Paris racecourse – Longchamp. It was probably one of the most bazaar renewals of the race in its rich history since its first running in 1920. In 2019 it was hotly
The weekend saw a massive twenty seven Group or Grade 1 races across the world, but the main meeting was undoubtedly the Longchamp meeting in Paris France where Enable was attempting more records. With the end of term champions sorting themselves out in Europe and America and spring time in the Antipodes, to keep up
The main equestrian news of the week again involved racing. With the autumn coming on apace, juvenile Group 1 races are being run around the globe. In St Tropez, showjumping put on its 5 star Grand Prix; and a rare Dressage World Cup qualifier did actually take place in Hungary. Ireland held the main horse
Fifty years ago this year was the last time that a colt won the Triple Crown in the UK, Nijinsky. The horse was trained by the legendary Vincent O’Brien from Ballydoyle stables in Ireland. (No relation to Aidan O’Brien, the current incumbent at that address.) Nijinsky won all three classics in the UK, The Two
The first and only long format 4 star eventing competition this year took place at Burnham Market in Norfolk GB over the weekend. Last week, Pat Smullen, the one of the most successful Irish jockeys of recent times died, a great loss to the racing community. The FEI are talking about re-instating the 2021 European
