Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor
Pippa is magazine editor and eventing editor at Horse & Hound. An Exeter graduate, she 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), the 2022 World Championships and at the five-star horse trials at Badminton, Burghley, Luhmühlen, Pau, Kentucky and Maryland.
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.
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13 tips from Pippa Funnell: take your time, steer with your eyes, and repeat, repeat, repeat
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Olympic rider speaks up on public acceptance: ‘We have to explain we give the horses a good life’
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Rider aims for Paris Olympics in two equestrian disciplines: ‘We’ll go for it’
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What events will Britain’s Tokyo eventing gold medallists target before Paris?
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What you can compromise on – and what you can’t: Ingrid Klimke on choosing young horses
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Top horse returns from injury to target Paris Olympics: ‘He’s full of himself’
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Major horse trials cancelled for 2024: ‘Incredibly sad news’
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H&H’s essential guide to the Paris 2024 Olympic cross-country course
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Farewell to one of the quickest cross-country horses of his time, aged 30: ‘He was a family member’
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Horse & Hound’s essential guide to eventing dressage scoring
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Horse & Hound’s essential guide to eventing penalties
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Should you wear a stopwatch to go cross-country when eventing?
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Happy 70th birthday, Ian Stark! We look back at the flying Scot’s career…
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Badminton makes a tweak to entries system for 2024
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JL Dublin – the whole package of an event horse and ‘a credit to Nicola Wilson’
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British five-star winner sold as potential Olympic mount – but not leaving his stable
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Farewell to Olympic and five-star horse who ‘epitomised the rags to riches story’
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Stellar entries for first eventing fixtures, plus high-profile horse moves and key comebacks
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Tom McEwen shares an update on Toledo De Kerser following Burghley injury