“The courses are quite different but we’re using many of the same features (as the 2015 European Championships track)” says Alec Lochore of the 2016 cross country course at Blair where the ground is ‘nearly perfect’
As they say, it is a long way to the top. Marcia Williamson takes a humorous look at the road to becoming an elite eventing rider and it all starts with that advert for a ‘really lovely mover’
The FEI Eventing Independent Audit by Charles Barnett “ An Audit into Eventing Incorporating an Analysis of Risk Factors for Cross Country Horse Falls at FEI Eventing Competitions” has been published
Our wrap up from a very sunny Little Downham 2 Horse Trials in Cambridgeshire where winners included Olympians and first timers .......
Bert Bolton and his thoroughbred Purple Sands have put up some impressive cross country performances in the first half of the year and the 22 year old has his eyes set on Badminton in 2017