Tag: Eventing

Harry Hall One Club ACE Championships head to Aintree

Suzanne Ashton
The Harry Hall Ace Championship banner

It’s just over a week until the first Harry Hall One Club ACE Championships at Aintree International Equestrian Centre! New for 2023, the Anyone Can Event (ACE) Championship Series hosted by British Eventing and sponsored by Harry Hall One Club, has offered numerous championship leg qualifiers throughout the UK during the winter months of 2022/23. The arena-style set-up with a height of 70cm-1m, aims to encourage people into the sport and is open to anyone who is BE registered, aged 10 upwards. The exciting initiative, which has been described as…

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An Eventful Day at Burghley Horse Trials

Suzanne Ashton
Pippa Funnell (GBR) on MGH Grafton Street. Image credit Steph Freeman

A day of thrills and spills at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials sees just 33 riders complete the demanding track, but Great Britain’s Pippa Funnell remains in the lead of a British stranglehold of the top three, riding MGH Grafton Street. Adding just four time faults to their dressage score, the combination lie on 26.8 going into tomorrow’s show jumping. ‘Not pretty but effective’ would be the best way to summarise the 2003 Burghley winners’ round with the 11-year-old gelding. I was bringing two young horses who were five…

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