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The final day at Blenheim Horse Trials is now complete, and we have a stallion winner and an amateur rider taking home these major titles. Here’s a round-up of the stories you won’t want to miss from Sunday, 18 September
There is a new name on the CCI4*-L trophy at Blenheim Horse Trials as a German rider topped the main class. And it was cross-country day for the young horses, with an exciting finale as the contenders jumped in reverse order of merit.
Semi-professional rider Malin Hansen-Hotopp’s Blenheim Horse Trials dream came true when she took the win in the CCI4*-L class
Lizzie Baugh was the highest-placed British first-timer, where she was also making her CCI4*-L debut with a very special horse
Piggy March landed an all-the-way win in the CCI4*-S for young horses on Halo.
Before the action began, there was drama at the final horse inspection.
A precious skewbald with royal relations was in the mix in the CCI4*-L.
And a 20-year-old rider enjoyed a dream Blenheim Horse Trials debut, jumping double clear.
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Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.