Gary Barber’s Uchenna, patiently piloted by Patrick Husbands, rallied last to first to win Holiday Monday’s $105,600 Belle Mahone Stakes, at Woodbine. Trained by Mark Casse, Uchenna, sharing 9-5 favourtism with Hot Kiss, settled last of six in the 1 1/16-mile route for older fillies and mares as Josdesanimaux ripped of splits of :24.23 and […]
With just two days to go until the Opening ceremony of the Rio 2016 Paralympic Games on September 7th, Para-Equestrian athletes from 29* nations are preparing to compete on the world’s biggest stage in a bid for the most coveted medals in the sport. The list of definite entries is published here by the Fédération […]
The Spanish athlete Paula Muntala Sanchez riding 10-year-old part-Arabian Echo Falls emerged victorious after the 120km Meydan FEI European Endurance Championship for Young Riders and Juniors in Portugal, leading the Spanish team to gold as well. Held at the Rio Frio Equestrian Centre, 38 athletes aged between 14 and 21 from 11 countries left in […]
Defending World Champion Boyd Exell from Australia came, saw and conquered at the 23rd edition of the FEI World Four-in-Hand Driving Championship at Breda, the Netherlands. Exell won all three phases of the combined competition and was crowned individual World Champion for the fourth time in a row. Boyd left Dutch drivers IJsbrand Chardon and […]
Keean White of Rockwood, ON, clinched the 2016 Angelstone Triple Crown series having won the most money in the three Saturday night events hosted at his own Angelstone show grounds in August. Over the course of the three tournaments, White won $33,140 with multiple placings on different horses to beat out Ireland’s Conor Swail who […]
Christopher Burton (AUS), one of the most talented riders to hit the Eventing circuit in the last few years, emerged victorious on Nobilis 18 at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), final leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, even if he did live a little dangerously in the closing stages of the competition. Such […]
Christopher Burton (AUS) and Nobilis 18 were pure class at the end of a challenging Cross Country day at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), final leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016. They had the second fastest time of the day – finishing just 8 seconds over the optimum time of 11 minutes 11 […]
The stylish Christopher Burton (AUS) is on course to win his first CCI4* on British soil after storming into the lead at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), final leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, with a stunning Dressage test on the 17hh Nobilis 18. Burton, who also led the Dressage at the Rio […]
Bettina Hoy (GER) lit up the arena on day one of the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (GBR), final leg of the FEI Classics™ 2015/2016, with a beautifully executed Dressage test on Designer 10 that was in a class of its own and may prove hard to beat. The only fault in a show-stopping exhibition […]
Amateur show jumper Rebecca “Becca” Weissbard died after a fall while competing at the HITS-on-the-Hudson VIII in Saugerties, N.Y., on August 31, 2016. The 22-year-old from Manorville, on Long Island, was riding Remember Me in a 1.0m Jumper Classic when her mount tripped after knocking a rail and fell on her. The pair won a […]
