The European eventing season is in its final month – though what a month it is, with the Event Rider Masters finale at Lignieres, the Nations Cup finale at Boekelo, the Young Horse World Championships at Le Lion, and the CCI5* at Pau – while those of you above the Mason-Dixon line will likely be thinking about hanging up your skull cap for the winter, too. But has that ever stopped EN from finding an event – and a heaping helping of eventers – to obsess over? No. No, it most certainly has not.
This week, the FEI are helping us to quell our end-of-season anxieties, as they wing us straight to the Land Down Under to meet Amanda Ross, who rode at the 2000 Olympics but somehow, infuriatingly, still looks younger than all of us. That’s probably because she was one of the earliest adopters of rider fitness regimes – but also, we suspect, because of her irrepressible joie de vivre. We first met her at Blenheim CCI4*-L last season, at which she and Koko Popping Candy finished tenth, and now she’s on the Tokyo trail. Get to know her – and get excited about a deeper dive into Australian eventing this winter – in her day-in-the-life vlog. Bonzer!
