It was history in the making in Cape Town (RSA) on Nov. 13 with an all-female line-up of winners at the FEI Awards Gala 2022 presented by Longines.

The evening saw the young eventer Alice Casburn (GBR) take home this year’s Longines FEI Rising Star Award that was created to recognise young athletes between the ages of 14 and 21 who demonstrate outstanding equestrian sporting talent.

Casburn, who competed in her first 5* event only 12 months after her first 4*, has taken the eventing world by storm. The youngest entry on the 2022 Badminton Horse Trials entry list having turned 20 in January this year, Casburn went onto win individual bronze and Team gold for Great Britain at the FEI Eventing European Championships for Young Riders in July 2022. At her 5* debut at the Burghley Horse Trials, and as the youngest athlete at the competition, she recorded a double jumping clear on her second generation home-bred horse Topspin.

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