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NEW Dengie Pure Grass, Ideal for Horses with Food Intolerances Dengie, the UK’s favourite horse feed company, is delighted to introduce NEW Dengie Pure Grass, a naturally nutritious 100% chopped grass feed with absolutely nothing else added! Made from pure, British grown grasses including Fescue, Rye and Meadow Grass, Pure Grass is soft, easy to chew and highly palatable.  It is also extremely versatile being suitable to use as a hay replacer or extender to provide more enrichment in the stable as well as bulking out the bucket feed. The…

Longines FEI Para Dressage European Championships 2019 By Rob Howell Top scores by Frank Hosmar and Sanne Voets secured The Netherlands’ their second major international team title at the Longines FEI Para Dressage European Championships in Rotterdam today. In front of an excited home crowd, the pair led both their Grades in the final day of the team contest. The win comes just under a year after their victory at the FEI World Equestrian GamesTM Tryon (USA), the first time Great Britain were beaten in a European, World or Paralympic…

Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 By Louise Parkes On a day of breathtaking sport, Germany’s Isabell Werth brought the Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 to a close when claiming her third gold medal of the week in the Freestyle riding her great mare Bella Rose. And on a day filled with personal-best performances, her compatriots Dorothee Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl clinched silver and bronze, with Schneider only 0.314 off Werth’s winning score. The competition built to an incredible crescendo as rider after rider excelled themselves in front…

Longines FEI Jumping European Championship 2019 A first-ever team medal for Belgium Germany stays in silver medal spot and Britain bags the bronze By Louise Parkes On Thursday (22/08/2019) Belgium rose to the top of the leaderboard, and on Friday (23/08/2019) they held on tight to win their first-ever team medals in the 62-year history of the FEI European Jumping Championships – and they were gold! Otto Becker’s German side were firm favourites to take the title for the eighth time, but in the end they had to settle for…

European team bronze medallist Holly Smith will be competing at the final show of the Hickstead season – the Science Supplements All England Jumping Championships (29 August to 1 September). Holly is currently representing Great Britain at the FEI European Jumping Championships in Rotterdam, where she helped her team clinch a team bronze medal as well as securing qualification for Tokyo 2020. Holly has had an excellent form at Hickstead in recent years, including second places in the Al Shira’aa Derby and the Nations Cup, plus wins in the Bunn…

Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 Isabell Werth takes back-to-back Grand Prix Special gold Team-mate Schneider pushes her all the way By Louise Parkes In a mighty battle between two of the sport’s true greats, Isabell Werth, the lady recognised as the reigning Queen of international Dressage, won through once again in the Grand Prix Special at the Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Two years ago in Gothenburg, Sweden, Werth pinned team-mate Sonke Rothenberger into silver medal spot, and this time around it was her…

Longines FEI European Championships Rotterdam 2019 By Rob Howell The Longines FEI European Para-Dressage Championships got off to the most dramatic start possible yesterday (21/08/2019) with a tie at the top of the Grade I individual competition, an exceptionally rare event in the sport. Norway’s Jens-Lasse Dokkan (Aladdin) and Italy’s Sara Morganti (Royal Delight) both scored 75.036%, with Dokkan given the gold after the final four collective marks were tallied. Sport results don’t get any closer than that! Dokkan has been riding at top international level for well over 20…

Longines FEI European Championships Rotterdam 2019 By Louise Parkes Germany took the lead with four fantastic performances in the Speed class on the opening day of the Longines FEI Jumping European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands yesterday afternoon (21/08/2019). Reigning World Champions, Simone Blum and DSP Alice, were first to go and established the early lead with a sensational round. And when team-mates Christian Ahlmann and Clintrexo Z and Marcus Ehning with Comme Il Faut were even quicker, and then Daniel Deusser wrapped it all up with a stunning…

Germans already in command after the first day of Dressage: Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 By Louise Parkes Team Germany took the first step on the road to their 24th team title when Dorothee Schneider and Jessica von Bredow-Werndl posted the two best scores on the opening day of the Longines FEI Dressage European Championships 2019 in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Von Bredow-Werndl’s 76.894 with TSF Dalera BB topped the leaderboard until the closing stages when Schneider overtook her with a mark of 80.233 for a fabulous test with Showtime…

British team celebrates strong team performance at FEI European Endurance Championships Great Britain’s Senior Endurance team posted its best result in nearly a decade by registering its first successful team finish since the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky in 2010 at this weekend’s FEI European Endurance Championship. The gritty performance saw four out of the five British riders complete the 160km championship distance, a feat only equalled by Spain, who took team Gold. With the top three riders from each team counting to the final team score, Great Britain took…

RoR Goffs UK National Championships Hosts over 270 Retrained Racehorses The Aintree International Equestrian Centre will this week host over 270 retrained racehorses, who are each entered for this year’s RoR Goffs UK National Championships. The event spans over four days, featuring high-class competition, staged exclusively for retrained racehorses. The event, known as Britain’s largest event for showcasing the versatility of the thoroughbred, is held from Thursday 22nd August until Sunday 25th August. The annual spectacular, features classes that focus on disciplines; dressage, showjumping and showing. The RoR Northern Dressage…

Alfie Bradstock and Elliott Smith were the joint winners of Saturday evening’s Theraplate UK Puissance, held at the Bolesworth Young Horse Championships. As the rain from earlier in the week had finally cleared, crowds gathered around the international arena for the last class of the day where a big heart, accuracy, and timing was everything. Both Alfie and Elliott each took home a shared prize fund of €1755, onboard horses H. d’OR (image above), owned by Darragh Magner and Flamboyant III (below), owned by Victoria Smith, respectively. Both combinations tried…

The British Eventing Senior Selectors have confirmed the combinations that will compete at the 2019 Boekelo Horse Trials (NED), 10 – 13 October. With only 15 guaranteed spaces allocated for Great Britain, riders wishing to compete at the event were invited to apply and saw more than 60 applications received. Of the 15 guaranteed places, 12 will go to confirmed combinations; with the option of three wildcards should the selector need them. In previous years Boekelo have accepted between 22 – 25 British combinations but this cannot be relied upon…

New National Champion, Harriet Nuttall and Silver Lift survived a roll at the last fence to win the Equestrizone CSI2* final at a sun-baked Equitop Bolesworth Young Horse Championships. A competition packed with drama and speed there was a good turnout ringside for the 1.30m class which had everything to keep them entertained. The up-to-height track saw a gallop to the final fence, an upright with water tray which fell with ease. Zach Beesley and VDL Groeo Alitta put in a great effort finishing in a time of 36.07 seconds…

Age is irrelevant. The  Long from the USA; the 2013 Mongol Derby was won by 19-year-old Lara Prior-Palmer from the UK.   It doesn’t matter where you’re from or what you do for a living; we’ve had competitors from nearly everywhere you can think of, and they range from tech geeks to businesswomen to former jockeys.   You do need to be able to ride. You won’t have to jump a five-barred gate or do a canter pirouette, but you must be able to cope with seriously long days in…

Laura Jackson, a former Badminton competitor turned show jumper pulled off a great win in the Voltaire Design CSIAm-A Platinum final at the Equitop Bolesworth Young Horse Championships. Riding the talented seven-year-old, Gloria VI, Laura was full of praise for Jo Bamford’s mare. Based in Warwickshire, she evented as Laura Sheard, competing at top-level until selling her leading rides when she bought two young horses that showed great promise in the world of showjumping. Said Laura: This is my first time at Bolesworth. I have been wanting to come and…

SIXTEEN-year-old Annabel Lomas was the delighted winner of a fast-paced Equerry Horse Feeds CSIAm Bronze final at a sun-kissed Equitop Bolesworth Young Horse Championships. With 15 through to the jump-off, Buxton-based Annabel had her work cut out, but riding the 10-year-old mare, Vraiecocotte Berence, she kicked on to the last, clear in 33.40 seconds. Said Annabel: This is my first win at Bolesworth in the International Arena and she went fantastically. I have just finished at school so it really is a fantastic summer for me. We bought her from…

LOUISE Saywell and her long-time partner, Feigtling ran out the winners in the Equestrizone CSI2* Two Phase 1.30m at the Equitop Bolesworth Young Horse Championships. Securing the class with nearly a second to spare from James Whitaker and Wallstreet VB, Louise, and the 14-year-old are having a great season. Said Louise: He’s a great horse against the clock and is very adaptable.  We keep him fresh by not over-facing him, jumping a ranking class then a speed to just make sure he is sweet and enjoying the job. He always…

NEW Holland Cooper Equestrian for 2019, available online and in selected stores … Luxury fashion brand, Holland Cooper, has today launched its new equestrian line – Holland Cooper Equestrian. Available online and in selected stores, the range has been performance tested and meticulously designed to flatter the female shape. This unique collection provides contemporary garments that celebrate the various disciplines within the sport, including a range of gilets, jackets, breeches, base layers, leggings as well as a range of accessories. Compliant with British Eventing and FEI regulations, the new range…

A stellar cast chases Longines FEI European Championships Jumping gold and glory By Louise Parkes There’s a whole lot hanging in the balance as the Longines FEI Jumping European Championship 2019 gets underway in Rotterdam, The Netherlands next Wednesday (21 August). Not only will the best horse-and-rider combinations from all across Europe try to etch their names onto the prestigious Roll of Honour that dates all the way back to 1957. But the competition for the three Olympic qualifying spots up for grabs will also be ferocious, so it won’t…

By Rob Howell Rotterdam (NED) will host the Longines FEI European Championships for para dressage, the third to be held alongside Jumping and Dressage, from Wednesday 21 – Sunday 25 August. Some 66 riders from 21 countries will compete for medals. Who will be the riders and rivalries to look out for? Great Britain and The Netherlands are set to renew their para dressage rivalry at the competition with The Netherlands clearly determined to add the European team title to the world title it famously won at last year’s FEI…

Largest field gathers for Fitth Pony Club Endurance Championships Endurance GB and The Pony Club have announced a field of more than 70 riders will line up for The Pony Club National Endurance Championships at Euston Park in Suffolk today, Thursday 15th August 2019. The Pony Club riders will tackle a range of distances in classes ranging the 20km Grassroots section to the 56km Open class. This will be the largest field to have contested the fledgling competition which first began in 2014, with 25 branches of The Pony Club…

Tara Best, founder and Director of rural and equestrian PR company Tara Punter PR, is delighted to share the exciting news that the business has reached the south west regional final of this year’s Rural Business Awards. The Rural Business Awards were established in Leicestershire in 2014 and have since become a nationally-recognised celebration of the entrepreneurial talent helping the UK’s rural sector thrive. There are 11 award categories encompassing a diverse range of product and service-based industries including rural food & drink, tourism and diversification. Tara Punter PR has…

And who will claim the Olympic qualifying spots? By Louise Parkes When the Longines FEI European Dressage Championships 2019 get underway in Rotterdam, The Netherlands next Monday (19 August) the biggest question will be whether athletes from any other nation can seriously challenge the mighty Germans. There may have been brief lapses in their domination of the team gold medal leaderboard – the Dutch coming out on top in 2007, 2009 and again in 2015, and Great Britain victorious in 2011. However, in the 56-year-history of this event that takes…