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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8 things horsey people say in the office in winter (with translations for non-horsey colleagues)
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British one-two-three at conclusion of Maryland 5 Star dressage
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Leaderboard shake-up at Maryland 5 Star as experienced rider and first-timer impress
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A five-star debut, a horse produced by a Brit and a married couple competing side by side
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Brit grabs clear lead on first day of Maryland 5 Star: ‘There’s so much more to come with him’
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Elegant thoroughbred takes early Maryland 5 Star lead, plus a frustrating error of course
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Honesty is the best policy – but not everyone agrees: 8 life lessons you learn when you sell a horse
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How to watch Maryland 5 Star live from anywhere in the world
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European visitors are pathfinders at Maryland 5 Star as two horses withdrawn
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Medal-winning horse withdrawn from major event as he undergoes surgery
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Horse who finished in the top 10 at the Olympics dies: ‘He was such a little legend’
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A Matter of Trust by Lucy Ann Huxter
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Previous winners of Pau Horse Trials: Olympic medallists, the sire of a five-star horse and a French female first
Check out all the Pau Horse Trials winners since the French event became a five-star in 2007 – which were a flash in the pan and which were genuine stars?
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H&H’s eventing editor: ‘There are vital roles beyond riders’
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World number one, riders out to make amends and five-star first-timers among large entry for Pau
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A British-bred mare and a purple patch: revisit the previous winners of the world’s next five-star
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A super mare, the best first-timer and a British-bred star: who won the special prizes at Burghley?
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British team pair seek to prove themselves again with entry to Blenheim Horse Trials
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British rider becomes world number one: ‘This means a lot because it shows consistency’