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Oscar Williams
H&H dressage and sport horse editor
Oscar graduated from York St John University with a master’s degree in Literature in 2021 and joined Horse & Hound in October 2023 as our dressage and sport horse editor.
Raised in Lancashire, Oscar started riding aged 12 and has never looked back. A keen member of the Lancaster & District branch of the Pony Club, Oscar learnt to ride on a string of hand-me-down ponies. He soon convinced his parents to get him his own horse – a wholly unsuitable, but very much loved Welsh section C called Crossfield Bethan.
Oscar went on to complete an equine management course at Myerscough College and, unable to see a stride, took up dressage. Growing to love the sport and inspired by the London 2012 Olympics, Oscar worked for Emile Faurie for four years after leaving college. Under his tutelage, Oscar competed at the 2015 National Dressage Championships and travelled with Emile’s horses to CDIs at Aachen, Vidauban, Saumur and Achlieiten.
Oscar’s favourite event is London International Horse Show and his pinch-me moment is being paired to ride with Charlotte Dujardin in a five-year-old class in what was his first-ever competition.
Oscar still competes and rides as an amateur and now lives in Scotland with his wife Kirsty and their two boisterous spaniels Miffy and Dougal.
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‘It’s such an honour’: European individual gold as Britain’s next generation impresses
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‘I don’t think about the records’ – Charlotte Dujardin on her priorities and preparations for Paris
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‘It’s a completely different pressure’ – Carl Hester on competing at his seventh Games
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British Paralympic dressage team for Paris 2024 announced: who’s heading to Versailles?
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The most decorated British dressage team ever assembled – what you need to know for Paris
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All your questions about the Olympic dressage format in Paris answered
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Paris Olympic dressage teams: find out who will ride at the Games
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‘What a great journey’: Olympic record-breaker Carl Hester to be the subject of new biopic
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Charlotte Dujardin poised to make Olympic history in Paris
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Giraldo – meet the Paris-bound star flying the flag for Irish dressage
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US dressage team for Paris 2024 announced: who will be riding down the centre line?
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British Olympic dressage team for Paris 2024 revealed: who’s made the cut?
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‘It’s been a living nightmare’: dressage rider to miss Olympics after suspension increased
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Meet Ireland’s sole Olympic dressage rider at Paris 2024...
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Mount St John Freestyle – the comeback queen looking for her crowning moment
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‘You will always be in my heart’: Olympic medal-winning dressage star dies aged 29
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‘I’m saving something for Paris’: Imhotep imperious as Carl Hester debuts new music
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Jagerbomb – meet Becky Moody’s charismatic home-bred star and ‘total legend’
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Olympic medal contender withdraws from key selection trial, another hopeful retires
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