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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More than 300 horse and rider combinations gathered for a thrilling weekend of eventing competition at Aspen Farms Horse Trials and the United States Eventing Association (USEA) Area VII Championships September 12-14. The stakes were
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Canada’s Lindsay Traisnel picked up a second consecutive CCI4*-S victory this weekend in North Carolina at The Fork at Tryon International. Teamed up with Patricia Pearce’s Bacyrouge, who is aimed at the MARS Maryland 5
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New Zealand rider Clarke Johnstone became the inaugural winner of the Arena Racing Company (ARC) Racehorse to Eventer Challenge at Cornbury House Horse Trials, which carries a £45,000 first prize – unprecedented in the sport
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Manvendra Singh became the first Indian event rider to win an FEI international class on British soil for many years when he took section J of the Uvex-sponsored CCI2*-S at Cornbury House Horse Trials in
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British Olympic gold medallist Tom McEwen has made a flying start to Cornbury House Horse Trials (10-14 September), winning two sections of the Pragnell-sponsored CCI3*-S on day one of the Oxfordshire event. This makes him
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Updates to the list of FEI Warning Cards for Eventing were made following the conclusion of Defender Burghley CCI5* this past weekend. To that end, six Recorded Warnings have been handed down from the Ground
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There’s something incredibly soothing about watching Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo go into battle for a major victory. Such is their composure and consistency that nothing they do ever feels hurried, harried, or at-risk –
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It’s TIME! We’ve officially landed on site at Defender Burghley, and it’s time to get underway tomorrow beginning at 10 a.m. local time with the first session of dressage. As always, we’ve rounded up the
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We’re quite accustomed to this point to some Sunday morning drama, but perhaps because we’ve gotten our fill of drama in the form of endless episodes of The Hills late at night while writing our
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Over the last couple of days at Defender Burghley, one of the most prominent narrative arcs has been the better-than-expected performance of many horses who haven’t necessarily shone previously in the first phase – and,
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It’s Saturday at Defender Burghley which can mean only one thing, EN’s classic live blog is set to bring you every scrap of the action throughout the day. Fingers poised on that refresh button ENers…
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Every year at Defender Burghley, I consider creating a drinking game out of asking riders what they think of the course. A shot for every time I hear the words “it’s big – it’s Burghley”,
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Big, bold, Burghley – all the usual buzz words are being bandied about as the riders mull over the test set by “absolute magician” Derek di Grazia for this year’s cross country. There’s a fair
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