Just over a week ago, the 2025 Agria FEI European Eventing Championships wound down to a thrilling conclusion in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. As always, the championships served up a fascinating indicator of where
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In every generation of event horses, one or two stand out as the sort of athletes and personalities that will leave an outsized hoofprint; a legacy that lasts well beyond the years they actually spend
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On Saturday evening at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championships at Blenheim, the Swiss team were in bronze – on the brink of winning their first eventing medal since 1981 – and Andrew Nicholson, their
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We’re neither bright-eyed nor bushy-tailed on this final (early) morning of the Agria FEI European Eventing Championships, but fortunately for morale and word count, we have practically nothing at all to report from the final
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You’ll forgive us, I hope, for the time it’s taken to get this report written up: we were busy checking to see if Mercury’s in retrograde, or a full moon is coming, or if we’d
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It’s Championships time once more ENers and I’ll be bringing you live updates of all the cross country action from the Agria FEI Eventing European Championships as 17 nations and 9 teams duke it out
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Vittoria Panizzon has ridden at nine senior championships for Italy, including three Olympic Games, but at the beginning of this season it seemed unlikely that she would make it to a 10th. She was entering
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When I first manage to find the time to sit down for a chat with Turkey’s Kumru Say, one thing is immediately clear: I’ve got to stop whinging about how jam-packed my schedule is. We’re
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Never let it be said that we at EN won’t hold our hands up when we issue a retraction: early this week, we printed a preview of this week’s Agria FEI European Eventing Championships in
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The second day of dressage at the 2025 Agria FEI European Championships at Blenheim Palace brought a few key elements to the table: glorious sunshine (a bit reflective on the plastic sheeting covering the palace,
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“I like a challenge,” said Felix Vogg in his deadpan manner. His Blenheim Europeans ride Frieda has certainly been that; for the 12-year-old Casalito mare even to be here will have surprised people, and for
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More often than not, the path to riding at a senior championship is stony, steep and slow. Occasionally — aand cheeringly — it is not. Hungarian competitor Noémi Doerfer did her first 90cm class when
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It’s high championship season for European riders this summer, and we’re all set to go with the final FEI Eventing European Championships, this time for Senior riders. The Europeans return to Great Britain for the
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In the autumn of 2022, while much of the eventing world turned its attention to the World Championships in Pratoni del Vivaro, a German uprising was underway in the grounds of Blenheim Palace. And at
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In 2008, Yasmin Olsson Payne was told she would never ride again. An accident while hacking with friends left her with a bleed on the brain and bad facial lesions, and many 11-year-olds would have
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There are championship riders, and then there is Karin Donckers. The 54-year-old ever-jolly Belgian is making her 30th senior squad appearance – she was riding at championships before a good percentage of her rivals were
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After a season full of 4 p.m. first horse inspections, there’s something very discombobulating about heading to the trot strip at noon – but when there’s an Opening Ceremony to cram into the afternoon, plus
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Welcome to the 2025 Agria FEI Eventing European Championships at Blenheim Palace, and your most immediate opportunity to practice some light-hearted patriotism (even if the team you end up supporting isn’t the one from your
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The week of the 2025 Agria FEI Eventing European Championships is upon us, and over the next 24 hours or so, some of the greatest horses and riders from across our broad continent will descend
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Halfway through a bustling eventing season, Valerie Pride has barely had a moment to breathe — let alone pause to reflect. The year kicked off, as it often does, under the hot Florida sun, where
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With just two weeks to go, the anticipation is building for the prestigious Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace from 18 – 21 September. All nations have now released the names of their
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High Performance Eventing Manager Dag Albert has named Ireland’s Senior squad for the upcoming Agria FEI Eventing European Championship. Albert has chosen an experienced sextet for the championship taking place at the UK venue in
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The FEI Eventing European Championships for Young Riders and Juniors 2025 in Strzegom (POL) highlighted the unpredictable nature of Eventing, with the jumping phases proving decisive in both the Young Riders and Juniors categories. This
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