So far, anyway! The British eventing season kicked off in earnest a couple of weeks ago at a tumultuously weathered Spring Festival of Eventing at Thoresby Park, and all of us weathered some serious storms
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In many ways, it feels like I’ve split this week between two — or more — completely different events. On Thursday evening, I arrived at the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby Park on a warm,
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Welcome, ladies and gentlemen, to the wet and wonderful Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby Park, where thus far several of the national classes have been cancelled, and priority given to 3* and 4* sections, in
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I’ve been at this game for a fair while now, but even so, eventing still finds ways to treat me — and, well, all of us — to entirely new experiences. The absolute onslaught of appalling
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The British eventing season: Will it? Won’t it? And is even the first international of the season, the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby Park, doomed to succumb to the weather? Certainly, it’s doing its best
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It’s that wonderful time of year for us eventing nerds: events happening each weekend and that tangible feeling of “something’s coming…” heavy in the air. It’s very nearly 5* season — in fact, the southern
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The 2023 MARS Equestrian Badminton Horse Trials is just under six weeks away, and even despite the abortive start to the British Eventing season, which has seen a number of cancellations due to either snow
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With the start of eventing season comes the start of Who Jumped it Best season, and in fitting fashion, we’re delighted to bring you a second instalment this week – this time from the UK,
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The first CCI4*-S of the British season is always an excellent early indicator of form ahead of Badminton, and though this year’s fixture took place at a new venue – Nottinghamshire’s grand Thoresby Spring Carnival of
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When Piggy March and her European silver medallist Brookfield Inocent put a slick 23.9 on the board yesterday, there were just a few horses on today’s line-up that we could feasibly eye up with a view to overtaking
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2019 was a pretty good year, in hindsight, wasn’t it? We didn’t have a global pandemic to reckon with; energy prices hadn’t skyrocketed; we weren’t yet collectively suffering from some sort of generalised weirdness as
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The British eventing season has taken an early hit to its calendar after today’s announcement that the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby, Notts., the intended opener for the year’s international roster, has been cancelled amid uncertainty around
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