This weekend sees a new event on the British calendar take centre stage: Northampton’s Aston le Walls Equestrian Centre, run by former team rider turned coach and selector Nigel Taylor, has long been a stalwart
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Following the news of Barbury International’s departure from the British Eventing and FEI calendar, a successful tender process has resulted in its International fixtures being relocated to another popular venue. Aston le Walls in Northamptonshire
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What happens when you put over 200 horse-and-rider combinations into a CCI4*-S? A lot of things, really — including a journalist and photographer with a memory card absolutely brimming with photos, all of which would
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It’s that time again, folks: time, indeed, to don your Simon Cowell caps and pick your favourite superstar from an enviable line-up of options. This time, we head to England’s Aston le Walls, the inaugural
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There’s always an element of unknowability about an inaugural international track, even when that track is laid at a venue that’s prolific and well-loved for its national tracks. But today, designer Captain Mark Phillips and organiser
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When offered the task of designing the inaugural Aston-le-Walls CCI4*-S track, Captain Mark Phillips had a couple of challenges on his hands: he had to start effectively from scratch, and he had to turn a venue
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“Our new Constitution is now established, everything seems to promise it will be durable; but, in this world, nothing is certain except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in 1789, before, we presume, scratching his
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Saying goodbye to our beloved events — for a year, perhaps, or two — is beginning to feel worryingly par for the course after more than a year of battling the Covid-19 pandemic, but every
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Eventing in England resumed two weeks ago at the national level after the season was halted due to the Covid-19 lockdown. The sport itself is the same — three phases all counting to a final
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So begins five jam-packed days of competition at Aston Le Walls in Northamptonshire, the purpose-built eventing base of Nigel and Ann Taylor, and it almost seemed like pretty much everyone who competed at Badminton over
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