Mark Todd

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Mark Todd’s Olympic Mount for Sale

Word is out that New Zealand’s Mark Todd is selling three of his mounts, including his 2012 Olympic eventing team bronze partner, NZB Campino. Keyflow, Todd’s sponsor announced on Tuesday in a blog that in addition to Campino, who finished 12th individually in London, Todd has put NZB Grass Valley and NZB Regent Lad on […]
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Hawley Bennett-Awad Leads Canadian Olympic Eventing Team

Hawley Bennett-Awad of Langley, BC, is the highest-placed member of the Canadian Olympic Team for Eventing, holding down 31st position following the conclusion of dressage, the first of three phases comprising the Eventing competition at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, GBR. Bennett-Awad, 35, completed the dressage phase on Saturday, July 28, riding Gin & […]
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Olympic Eventing: Day 2, Dressage Phase

Japan’s Yoshiaki Oiwa and Noonday de Conde produced a sensational test to take the individual lead in the closing stages of Eventing dressage at the London 2012 Olympic Games in Greenwich Park (GBR) today. The quiet-spoken 36-year-old admitted afterwards that he could hardly believe it. “I’m a bit shocked”, he said at the post-competition press […]
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Opening Weekend of the 89th Royal Horse Show

The Honourable David C. Onley, Lieutenant Governor of Ontario, officially opened the 89th Royal Agricultural Winter Fair this morning, and with it, the prestigious Royal Horse Show at the Ricoh Coliseum. The action begins tonight with the initial rounds of both the $100,000 Canadian Show Jumping Championships Presented by Greenhawk, and the $20,000 Good Crop […]
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Triumphant Todd Heads to Rolex

Mark Todd (NZL) has flown to the US for this weekend’s Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event (April 28-May 1) in a bid to keep up momentum in the HSBC FEI Classics™. Todd interrupted celebrations for his magnificent win at Badminton last weekend and within 24 hours was on a plane en route to Kentucky, where today […]
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Mark Todd Rolls Back the Years to Win a Fourth Badminton

It was a special moment in Eventing history as an ecstatic crowd at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials (GBR), first leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™, rose to their feet to salute the achievement of Mark Todd (NZL) in winning for the fourth time here since 1980. “Thirty-one years’ experience comes in handy sometimes!” […]
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Mark Todd is Back in Pole Position in Closest Ever Finale at Badminton

There was a thrilling climax to Cross-Country day at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials – the first leg of the HSBC FEI Classics™ – when Mark Todd (NZL) returned to a hero’s welcome, having produced a masterful display of riding to bring the inexperienced NZB Land Vision home clear and into the lead. However, […]