We shared this video earlier this week inside News & Notes, but it’s also worth sharing on its own! Our most recent CCI5* winner, Lara de Liedekerke-Meier, is gearing up for a trip to Paris
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If you can expect anything from the cross-country finale of CHIO Aachen’s star-studded, invitation-only CCIO4*-S, it is simply this – the unexpected. There’s a few factors that contribute to this – first, because it’s an
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by Julia Krajewski (@julia_krajewski) According to EquiRatings, since the SAP-Cup came into play 16 years ago, the leader after show jumping has gone on to win seven
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As is our wont on Friday at Aachen, we save the editorial heavy lifting for the dressage report – which you can read here – and let the showjumping one a scant few hours later
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Though Germany hasn’t managed to steal the lead in the first phase of CHIO Aachen’s CCIO4*-S – they sit second, by a small enough margin of 3.3 penalties to Great Britain – they do have the
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If there’s any such a thing as Mecca for horse people, it can be found within the grounds of CHIO Aachen. Tucked away in an unassuming bit of an overlooked city (at least since the
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It’s nearly time to kick off the eventing competition, also known as the SAP Cup, at CHIO Aachen (Germany), where a strong roster of teams and even some Olympic hopefuls looking to make a strong
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Aachen is always a crucial event in the global calendar for a few reasons: first of all, that it’s an invitational, and nations must first be given the go-ahead by the competition to enter teams,
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We’ve just about dried out from — and emotionally recovered from — the wet and wild cross-country finale at CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S last Saturday, and that means there’s just one thing for it: a seriously tough
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We’re still buzzing from THAT insanely influential, seriously exciting cross-country finale at CHIO Aachen’s CCIO4*-S on Saturday – and from the thrill of seeing a top-ten finish for Belgium’s Lara de Liedekerke-Meier, too, who’s leading the
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It’s quite a feat to produce a horse to the pinnacle of sport. When a horse achieves success such as a CCI5* win, the credit is rightfully distributed amongst the rider, the groom, the coaches,
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View this post on Instagram A post shared by CHIO Aachen (@chio_aachen) Click here if the Instagram post above does not display in your browser. The storied eventing career of SAP Hale Bob OLD (Helikon
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If, hypothetically, you’d won the World Championships at the tender age of 25 years old, and had won every British national age title going along the way, and had been second in one of the world’s
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Rise and shine, all my fellow eventing nerds (and good reasonable-time-of-the-morning to all of our friends tuning in from the UK and Europe!) — it’s cross country day at one of my personal favorite events,
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As we anticipate the final phase of the eventing competition in Aachen, we’re taking a look at what the horses and riders will be facing as they set out onto the notoriously technical 4*-S track.
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While this evening’s showjumping phase at CHIO Aachen’s CCIO4*-S may not have been enormously difficult by the numbers – 20 of the 44 starters jumped clear rounds, with 17 of those doing so inside the
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It’s as much of a treat for eventing fans to get to watch World Champions Yasmin Ingham and Banzai du Loir as it is for the talented pair to ride in the most prestigious competitions in the world
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There’s plenty of time left to get to know the field of competitors at this week’s CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S, part of the World Equestrian Festival held each summer in Germany. It’s a spectacle to put
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There are certain competitions that we find ourselves counting down to each year, and CHIO Aachen — northern Germany’s ‘World Equestrian Festival’ — is absolutely one of them. This brilliant, buzzy celebration of horse sport
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When it comes to a show of the size and scale of Germany’s CHIO Aachen – the World Equestrian Festival – it’s hard to know which way to look, which arena to prioritise, or which
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Aachen week carries a lot of excitement, which means I’ve been fooling around on YouTube for most of my work days looking back at different views of this incredible venue. I chose two helmet cams
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It’s officially CHIO Aachen week, and we’ll be coming to you live from Germany later this week when the eventers take center stage. Aachen is not *solely* about eventing, though, as it’s an all-encompassing equestrian
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We’ve finally gotten a look at the 43 horse and rider combinations representing 10 nations in next week’s CHIO Aachen CCIO4*-S – plus, the six horses and riders who’ll be taking part in the Jump
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