Our final CCI5* of the 2026 season is looming in just a few weeks, and we’re preparing to head to the south of France for Les 5 Étoiles de Pau — frankly one of the
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Military Boekelo has played a key role for Tokyo Olympic champion Julia Krajewski (not least due to the fact that she’s based less than two hours down the road) as she develops horses into eventual
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The morning of Boekelo cross country was bright with promise; the morning light made the live feed look nearly cinematic as the first horses left the start box. In the end, it would be a
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Military Boekelo-Enschede 🐴 (@militaryboekelo) The personal bests kept coming as dressage wrapped up averaging nearly two penalties better as a field than the competitors’ 6 Run
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Gemma Stevens has intentionally produced the Chilli Morning clone, Chilli Morning IV, since he was a just-saddled three-year-old. “Four” is one of three clones of the great eventing stallion who won Badminton in 2015; all
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While we are sadly not covering Boekelo full-tilt as we ordinarily would this year (budgets, they’re a real pain), we’ll nonetheless be keeping you as up-to-date as possible on this absolutely bursting CCIO4*-L field. Some
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Saturday at Stable View Oktoberfest began with dressage for the Training and Modified riders, show jumping for the CCI2*-S competitors, and cross country for the Intermediate division. Christina Henriksen and her own Cisco’s Calor
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The first day of competition kicked off as the coldest morning so far this season in Aiken, with a brisk wind chill of 49 degrees. Lucienne Bellissimo and Horse Scout Eventing LLC’s Dyri were the
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Thailand completed a remarkable rise from third place to team gold at the Aichi-Nagoya 2026 Asian Games on Wednesday, while China’s Alex Hua Tian successfully defended his individual title with Manjushri. Cross-country was moved to
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Defending individual Asian Games champion Alex Hua Tian made a strong start to his title defense as eventing got under way at the 20th Asian Games Aichi-Nagoya 2026 on Tuesday. Typhoon Dujuan, which has dumped
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Britain’s Tom McEwen made history today (Sunday, September 20) at the Agria Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials, as the first ever rider to win both the Agria CCI4*-L and the GFS Saddles CCI4*-S 8 &
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British Olympic and world gold medallist Tom McEwen enjoyed a superb day at the Agria Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials and is now dominating the leaderboard in both competitions. He now holds first and second
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Oxfordshire’s premier equestrian event, the Agria Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials, kicked off today at the iconic UNESCO World Heritage site, as riders began their conquest for the top spot, with Australian and Great Britain
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How do you measure a Burghley win? You can do it in starts: 539 internationally over the course of a career. You can do it in career years: 24 and a month, give or take,
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28 horses came forward for this morning’s final horse inspection at the Defender Burghley CCI5* following an enormously influential cross-country day yesterday, and just 27 will remain in the competition as we had into today’s
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There are days when Burghley reminds everyone that this is, at its heart, an enormous and unforgiving task, and the world’s best event horses really get their time to shine, and today at the 2026
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The start of September marks the beginning of fall here in the UK; the weather’s turned, the trees are shedding their load and the mud has already begun to make its comeback after the long,
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We’re just a couple of hours away from the start of cross-country here at the 2026 Defender Burghley Horse Trials, where designer Derek di Grazia will once again be our shepherd over the inimitable hills
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Defender Burghley has always felt like the event at which a horse who might not excel on the flat can triumph – so fiercely influential is the cross-country test, and so complete the stamina challenge,
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What does it take to get a nineteen-year-old horse to a five-star in peak condition and at the top of his game? Turns out it’s pretty simple, actually. “He’s turned out in a group of
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When it comes to sixteen-year-old Chilli Knight, winner of the ‘pop-up’ pandemic five-star at Bicton in 2021, dressage isn’t about flash or fandango – instead, says rider Gemma Stevens, he just has to do “his
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Before the first horse inspection at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials even got underway, two hugely surprising things happened: David Doel withdrew, and it rained. Quite a lot, actually. Okay, okay, so over the last
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Just in time for our First Horse Inspection at Defender Burghley, we’re locked and loaded with this year’s Form Guide to the field ready to battle it out for the top honors all week long.
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