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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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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