The French rider won this event last year with a different horse, and was in fine form all week with the mare Caracole de la Roque.

The Canadian Olympic hopeful and Pan Am gold medalist was competing at the FEI Dressage World Cup Western European League in Madrid.

Solstice Pecile of Wishing Stone Farm inexplicably posted horrendous videos of her dragging a horse and later laughing at its injuries.

The former world endurance champ fell afoul of a rule she helped introduce after accidentally buying a massage cream containing capsaicin.

Michael Payne: "I have watched with dismay, frankly with utter disbelief, as certain groups try to defend their equestrian interests.”

Daniel Deusser (GER) won the rich Grand Prix and young guns Miami Celtics took the League final at the showdown in the Czech Republic.

The Las Vegas event attracted a field of 27, with 6 making the jumpoff over Brazilian Anderson Lima's course.

Jumper Hicham Gharib adopted a new name until he was exposed by a “whistleblower” and snapped by the official show photographer.

The eventer rode to honour her former student who died in a tragic accident, and raise awareness of the fund that bears her name.

The practice of “calendar blocking” by shows occupying multiple dates they don’t use is to be tackled by eye-watering financial penalties.