It’s coming up to summer show season and parents and children up and down the country will be preparing costumes for the fancy dress class. Many hours will be spent slaving away at the sewing machine or painting perfect designs, all hopeful for a red rosette.
We asked Horse & Hound readers to send in their best efforts and we received countless pictures of wonderful outfits.
Here are some of our favourite costumes from Frozen’s Elsa to dressage star Charlotte Dujardin…
Pirate and parrot
Florence and her pony Kitty at the Edenbridge Show 2014
Charlotte Dujardin and Valegro
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Macy dressed as Charlotte Dujardin with a mini Valegro
Racing Stripes
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Kim Slack on her horse Dobby as racing stripes
Welsh dragon
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Lexi Harrison riding Dyfwyg Satina with mum Samantha Harrison at Gower Show 2014
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Frozen
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The Parry family as Frozen characters. Esme is Elsa, Rosie is Anna, Sarah is Kristof and Molly the horse is Sven
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Emily Tyson as Elsa, riding Angel as Sven. Annabelle Tyson as Anna, riding Teddy as Olaf. Paul Tyson as Kristoff.
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Evie-Mae Mackay with her pony April as Elsa from Frozen
We take a look back through the H&H archives to bring you some of our favourite fancy dress moments
Shrek
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Emily Tyson as Princess Fiona, Micky as Dragon and Angela Tyson as Puss in Boots
Alice in Wonderland
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Darcy Brass as the mouse riding Micky the mad hatter, Emily Tyson as Alice riding Teddy as the White Rabbit. Paul and Angela Tyson leading
Harry Potter
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Folly Dot Bonnie with Isabelle, Noah and James as the Hippogriff-Buckbeak from Harry Potter
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Poppy Latham-Hill in Dubai dresses as Harry Potter with Putwell Golden Gift
Pirate ship
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Emily Knode and Sneakers as the Jolly Sneaker and his captain
Rapunzel
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Emily Tyson, Teddy and Paul Tyson
Caveman and dinosaur
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Seth Brown and his pony Magic as caveman and dinosaur
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Rachael joined Horse & Hound in 2014, initially as a digital sub editor then became part of the news team as a writer in 2015. The philosophy graduate studied journalism at the Press Association before working as a local reporter at the Brentwood Gazette. Rachael is now a mum of two and still loves all things equestrian, including hacking, dressage and jumping with her cob Bert. Rachael left the H&H staff to go freelance in June 2019, but still contributes to our magazine and website, as well as our sister magazine Country Life, among others.
