An Olympic champion just loves the camera and 10 other great bits of horsey social media this week
Enjoy some of our favourite updates from equestrian social media channels during the past week. From some famous retirees to early Paralympic highlights, we saw it all on social media.
Equestrian social media posts of the week
Happy retirement to Battaash, a great sprinter of our time
This looks very civilised
London 52, Laura Collett’s Tokyo Olympic ride, looks to be very at home with cameras
How great does former National Hunt superstar, Sprinter Sacre look?
Fair play to Laura Tomlinson, who is riding like this, despite being due to give birth this autumn
Eve McCoy looks like a chip off the old block while representing Great Britain at the Children on Horses Europeans
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Cheeky Chappy
Georgia Wilson is all smiles while taking part in the arena familiarisation at Tokyo, just a day before she went on to take individual bronze
And here Georgia is at the end of her fabulous test
You can’t blame Sophie Wells for breaking into a beaming smile after her individual silver medal-winning test
But our favourite social media post this week is…
Smile if you’re en-route to winning gold
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Gemma is an experienced journalist, who was a member of H&H staff from 2014 to September 2025. She is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at Epsom in August 2018. Gemma’s has reported from numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.