
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor
Pippa, an Exeter graduate, has worked for H&H since 2003 and has held the role of eventing editor since 2005. In 2014 she was promoted to hold the role of head of sports and in 2016 she took on the position of magazine editor, while still keeping her eventing editor responsibilities.
Pippa has reported at two Olympics, in Rio in 2016 and Tokyo in 2021, from the 2010, 2014 and 2018 World Equestrian Games (WEG), and at the five-star horse trials at Badminton, Burghley, Luhmühlen, Pau and Kentucky.
Outside eventing, Pippa has reported on the 2014 (Lyon), 2015 (Las Vegas) and 2018 (Paris) dressage and showjumping World Cup finals, as well as the 2015 European Showjumping Championships in Aachen. She reported the showjumping at the 2010 and 2018 WEGs and worked across all the disciplines at the Olympics in 2016 and 2021.
In 2009, Pippa won the IPC Media digital journalist of the year award.
Pippa has ridden all her life and progressed through the Pony Club to be a working pupil for eventers Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks during her gap year before university, pairing up with the chestnut gelding VIP (Peanut) to complete her first CCI* (now CCI2*-L). She continued to event Peanut during university and while working for H&H, competing up to intermediate level and completing seven CCI*s (now CCI2*-Ls) in total.
When Peanut retired, Pippa took a break from competing for 10 years. In 2018, she returned to the fray at BE90 level with the 15.1hh Connemara Kiltulla Lad (Alfie), who is mostly her mother’s dressage horse but likes to moonlight as an eventer.
Follow Pippa
-
-
British event rider pays tribute to tiny winner who started her career: ‘He had a special light inside him’
-
Charlotte Duajrdin, Zara Tindall, Pippa Funnell and more top riders in action this week
-
Tom McEwen spearheads Brits’ Aachen eventing win, plus protest over top of individual leaderboard
-
‘I’ve never felt this confidence before’: Badminton grassroots winner on the visionary mentoring programme which helped her triumph
-
‘Our strong bond was the most special part’: top-10 Badminton horse dies, aged 25
-
He eats the tack, licks cars and loves a cuddle – meet Ros Canter’s Badminton runner-up Lordships Graffalo
-
The Hickstead Derby’s 60th running – and four other events to follow this week
-
Ben Hobday’s off to Germany and there’s a clone about – four events to follow this week
-
Which rider is going to work for Pfizer? Who celebrated by watching Love Island? Six things you might not know about last week’s Bramham
-
Izzy Taylor triumphs, Ian Stark’s thoughts on the sport’s direction and an injury update: seven must-read stories from Bramham’s final day
-
Update on the riders who were hospitalised following falls at Bramham Horse Trials
-
Izzy Taylor takes Bramham CCI4*-L on Monkeying Around in dramatic final showjumping session
-
Course-designer Ian Stark on Bramham’s cross-country: ‘The sport is vulnerable and we need to ask questions about what direction we’re going in’
-
Ros Canter on the horse who kick-started her career: ‘He’s a glass half-full person with a really loud whinny’
-
Rider celebrates 10-year partnership with her horse by winning national under-25 championship
-
Four held at Bramham final horse inspection and three withdrawn
-
Izzy Taylor takes one class lead, Ros Canter wins another and a young rider bravely battles injury – nine must-read stories from Bramham
-
British rider moves up to lead Bramham under-25s after cross-country – despite riding with severe knee injury
-
Ros Canter takes second after Bramham CCI4*-L cross-country, as Zara Tindall and Izzy Taylor’s second ride fault
