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RIO: Eventing – The Team Final…

August 10th, 2016
There are not great surprises at the trot up, although with Australia, New Zealand and Germany down to three combinations each, after the cross country, the potential for disaster loomed large. They all passed easily – and while the majority of the horses looked fine, the ones that didn’t, still got through. The only one […] Read Article 2 Comments »

RIO: Game on, let the battle begin

August 9th, 2016
The moment of Truth – we are in the lead but the margin is scary – 126.4 to the Kiwis, 137.5, with the French on 122 – but unlike Australian and NZ, the French still have four horses in their team and have the luxury of a discard score. Most of the horses looked really good […] Read Article 4 Comments »

RIO: Eventing – What a difference a day makes…

The first rider out, Canada’s Jessica Phoenix with A Fine Romance proved that you could get home but she ended up with 76 cross country penalties, and the horse took a decent whack on its stifles, tomorrow morning might be tough. Then France’s Astier Nicolas on Piaf de b’Neville showed how to master the course. […] Read Article 26 Comments »

RIO: Day Two of Eventing Dressage Highs and Lows

August 8th, 2016
It would seem our morning chanting soldiers take the Sabbath off and we were left to our own devices for waking up this morning. So far, no more bullets have dropped through the media tent roof so we’re all good – although it has been revealed that the bullet came from a machine gun located […] Read Article 2 Comments »

RIO: Shane Rose after his test

….in which the American judge at C, Marilyn Payne consistently scored Qualified and Shane about 2 points below the other two judges…. and no, you can’t see me in the press scrum, I don’t like getting the same answers as everyone else has, so this is our one on one: Did you do something awful […] Read Article 12 Comments »

RIO: Christopher Burton after the dressage…

August 7th, 2016
Where did you first see Santano? “It’s a great story. Rebecca, my wife, sat down one night in the winter time, with the Ipad and she said, I’m going to find you a horse. He was in England, Sarah Gallop who is still very supportive, had him as a dressage horse, but the cat is […] Read Article 2 Comments »

RIO: Day Two – Eventing Dressage

I even beat the soldiers up this morning. The jet lag has finally kicked in (or could it be just the excitement that it all begins today) and I was up at 03:00am. The whole media village was buzzing with the first day of sport and we sambaed our way to the equestrian stadium with […] Read Article 13 Comments »

RIO: Day One Trials and Tribulations

August 6th, 2016
Rebecca reports: “First days” can often be a little trying while you sort the system and work out where everything is and so it was today. Because our accommodation is a military base, our wake up call is the 6am cry of offices….in serried ranks assembled. We are feeling quite safe with the multitude of […] Read Article 3 Comments »

Hanoverian of the Month – Comte

August 1st, 2016
Comte descends from the dam line of Gaeta and was born in East Frisia in 2003. His pedigree features the well-known Contendro, one of the most influential jumper sires in Hanover, combined with the blood of foundation stallion Grannus, via his dam’s sire Granulit... Read Article Comments Off

How to pick a good trainer?

July 27th, 2016
Over the 30 years we have been making The Horse Magazine we have tried very hard to keep the fakes and phonies out of our pages. Sure, there have been one or two who have slipped past our guard, but on the whole, we have succeeded... Read Article 1 Comment »