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RIO: Teams Showjumping Showdown

August 18th, 2016
Story – Chris Hector and Photos – Rebecca Ashton It’s got to the stage where I am not entirely sure what day it is – tomorrow’s rest day can’t get there quick enough. What can you say about the final round of Teams? I guess it proves yet again that showjumping is THE spectator sport in […] Read Article 2 Comments »

RIO: Showjumping – Teams

August 17th, 2016
Story Christopher Hector and Photos Rebecca Ashton Jumping is on, and the atmosphere is back, especially when the first rider out, Luciana Diniz is Portuguese, that’s like family for this crowd. She is riding yet another of those amazing For Pleasure mares, this time Fit for Fun, so sweet, so careful. Clear round. We ended the […] Read Article 3 Comments »

RIO: Dressage – The Kur

August 16th, 2016
It's time for the Kür - the individual final - can Valegro makes it to back to back gold? Read Article 11 Comments »

Remmington’s test – who knew?

August 15th, 2016
The Horse Magazine understands that after Rotterdam, Remmington was tested twice, once by the FEI vets with the results released on August 3, but also by the Australian team vet! Rotterdam was at the end of June, the Australian vet team should have received the report by mid July. So who did they tell? Not […] Read Article 15 Comments »

RIO: Day 1 Showjumping

Just following the format of the showjumping competition is an art in itself. So the first day's competition is an individual competition, with a rest day tomorrow, and the teams competition the day after that.. Read Article 4 Comments »

RIO: The Dressage Special

August 13th, 2016
Story – Christopher Hector and Photos – Rebecca Ashton Not entirely sure that making the Special part of the teams competition really works – sure it’s going to get more exciting as the three teams in contention send out their riders, but it also blows the number of competitors out to 24 and there is not […] Read Article 2 Comments »

RIO: Dressage Grand Prix – Day Two – good bits and bad bits…

August 12th, 2016
Story Christopher Hector and Photos Rebecca Ashton Day 2, and some of the gloss taken off by the news that Sue Hearn has been found guilty by FEI of not declaring a controlled substance, and fined. Really it is no huge deal, as the penalty indicates, but it does raise a few questions about the competence […] Read Article 17 Comments »

RIO: Dressage Grand Prix – Day One – Teams

August 11th, 2016
Story by Chris Hector and photos by Rebecca Ashton Sue Hearn and Remmington are living the dream. The very first combination into the dressage arena at the Rio Olympic Games, and Sue and Lloyd, the horse she made from the start are looking good. The trouble is the judges don’t really look for those crucial elements […] Read Article 17 Comments »

RIO: Sandra Auffarth’s ‘STOP’

August 10th, 2016
Here it is in technicolour – thanks to photo ace, Rebecca Ashton – and you can see that a. the fence judge got it wrong when he gave her a run out on the second fence in the water – the first two are one obstacle) the final skinny frog jump is a separate fence […] Read Article 1 Comment »

RIO: The Individual Final

Top 25 go into the Individual Final which is probably 10 too many. There are horses in this class carrying so many faults that they have no chance of winning, why send the poor things around another time? Stuart Tinney’s Pluto has two down, an improvement on his 17 faults in the first round. Another […] Read Article 2 Comments »