Rising British star Max Warburton won the British Eventing Young Horse Championship class for six-year-olds, supported by The Howden Way, at Cornbury House Horse Trials on Saturday 14th September, 2024. Max, 26, rode Earl Dorado, a Diarado gelding owned by Max himself and Nicky and Robin Salmon. The Salmons are long-standing supporters of eventing who have owned top horses such as Lord Killinghurst and Mr Cruise Control with Andrew Nicholson.  Max completed on his dressage score of 27.5, and said: “The young horses are a massive part of the sport and if we don’t have them coming along, we don’t

Cornbury House Horse Trials announces increased prize-money Riders at Cornbury House Horse Trials in Oxfordshire (8-11 September) will be further rewarded for success at this much-praised event, now in its third year, with a considerable boost to its prize-money. There will be a Leading Rider prize of £2,500 plus a perpetual trophy for the person who accumulates the most points across all of the event’s international and national classes during the event, which runs at CCI3*-S, CCI2*-S, intermediate and novice levels. The event. has quickly become a leading proving ground for young talent, both equine and human, and the three

Stars of the future shine at Cornbury House Horse Trials 2021 Two real stars of the future shone on the final day of Cornbury House Horse Trials (8-12 September 2021) in Oxfordshire.  Seventeen-year-old Finn Healy, individual and team gold medallist for Britain at the 2019 Pony European Championships, won the NAF Youth Performance CCI2*-S riding the 10-year-old 17hh grey mare Fathers Compromise. The pair finished on their dressage score of 26.7. Finn said: It feels amazing to win! Fathers Compromise is so cool – she’s stepped up the levels really quickly, from BE100s last year to her first novice at

Cornbury House Horse Trials 2021 Livestream Ready to Go! All the cross-country and showjumping action from Cornbury House Horse Trials 2021 (8-13 September) will again be free to view on the event’s own livestream service. The livestream coverage will be presented by Nicole Brown, well-known in eventing for her work on the Event Rider Masters series, Horse & Country TV and the EquiRatings Eventing Podcast. Our free livestream at the inaugural Cornbury House Horse Trials in September 2020 was extremely popular and was viewed by many thousands of people all over the world,” said event founder and president David Howden.

William Fox-Pitt Posts First Win at Cornbury House Horse Trials British Olympian William Fox-Pitt became the first winner of a showpiece class at the inaugural Cornbury House Horse Trials and declared that he was “daring to dream a little” after his victory in the CCI2*-S on the exciting youngster Centurian Bay. The Irish-bred gelding is owned by Oxfordshire-based Robert and Pep Glenn. Robert bought the handsome seven-year-old last year as a golden wedding present to his wife and the horse was named for a combination of their 50 years of marriage and William’s 50 years of age. We came here

Cornbury House Horse Trials Livestream Confirmed for Inaugural Event Cornbury House Horse Trials have invested in their own Livestream facilities to bring all the showjumping and cross country action to the public, for free. Despite the inaugural year’s event running behind closed doors, eventing enthusiasts will be able to watch the Livestream for free via the event website, or the Facebook page Organiser Richard Clapham said: Event founder and president David Howden’s original vision for this spectacular new addition to the equestrian calendar was centred around putting on the very best event possible for horses, riders, owners, connections, fans and

Cornbury House Horse Trials Set for Inaugural Event this September The inaugural running of Cornbury House Horse Trials is set to take place between the 11 and 13 September, an event the organisers are looking forward to adding as a regular fixture in the British Eventing Calander. David Howden purchased the property in 2017, which forms part of the Oxfordshire based 5000-acre Cornbury Estate. He was then later surprised to learn of horse trials that once took place on the site during the 1990s (see video below). Naturally, with his family’s deep-routed connection to horses and enthusiasm for the sport,