CONSIDERING “what it’s like for a horse to be a horse” should be at the heart of efforts to improve equine mental wellbeing, it has been proposed. A World Horse Welfare webinar on 25 August, supported by the University of Nottingham, covered how best to support horses’ mental health. Andrew McLean, a zoologist who specialises …
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The Land Rover Blair Castle International Horse Trials CCI4*-L has seen a reshuffle at the top of the leaderboard on an influential cross-country day where the terrain ensured the time was difficult to achieve. New leader Rosie Fry and Too Blue Too II added 2.8 time to their dressage score to take the provisional top-spot …
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Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo demonstrated their class when winning the Landrover Blair Castle International Horse Trials CCI4*-S. Ros and the nine-year-old gelding, owned by Michele Saul, took the lead in the dressage on Thursday and maintained this position throughout. The pair jumped clear in both phases, collecting 0.4 time-penalties in the showjumping and 0.8 …
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Sarah Bullimore will achieve a rare feat this autumn when she rides on a British senior championship squad on her home-bred gelding Corouet, whose dam Lilly Corinne she rode on her last championship appearance. Sarah found out she had been chosen for this year’s European Eventing Championships in Avenches, Switzerland, when she had a call …
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The Chedington Bicton Horse Trials draw for next week’s five-star competition (3-5 September) has been released. David Doel will be the pathfinder on Galileo Nieuwmoed and will also wear number 36 on Ferro Point. There are two horses who have already won five-stars in the field – Ringwood Sky Boy, who starts as number 10 …
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The Tokyo Paralympic team dressage competition has set off to a blistering start. Find out what happened on the third day of action in the Equestrian Park… There is still all to play for ahead of the final day of the dressage team contest at the Tokyo Paralympics, with all but two of the 15 …
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Natasha Baker came out all guns blazing in her team test at the Tokyo Paralympics dressage competition to keep Britain in strong contention for the gold medal. Riding Keystone Dawn Chorus, a 10-year-old Dimaggio mare, Natasha scored 76.618%, to finish second among the Grade III riders in the team rotation. This result puts Britain at …
It was the moment that Ireland’s Kate Kerr-Horan pulled out of the driveway of her family home at Broomfield Equestrian Centre in Wicklow when the magnitude what it meant to be going to the Tokyo Paralympics hit her. “The Monday before we left, a load of our friends came and they threw me a going …
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Natasha Baker produced an excellent test in the Paralympics dressage team competition to strengthen Britain’s hopes of team gold after Lee Pearson produced a personal best earlier in the day at the Tokyo Games. Natasha was in the 10-strong Grade III section, and her score of 76.618% was just shy of her personal best with …
11 things judges say vs. what they are really thinking… – Horse & Hound {“piano”:{“sandbox”:”false”,”aid”:”u28R38WdMo”,”rid”:”R7EKS5F”,”offerId”:”OF3HQTHR122A”,”offerTemplateId”:”OTQ347EHGCHM”}} Alex Robinson 28 August, 2021 13:02 Judging can be a thankless task at the best of times, so we salute the dedicated few who wake at the crack of dawn, thrown on their best attire and trek off to stand …
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