Hot tub horsebox and 10 other bits of excellent horsey social media this week

Enjoy some of our favourite updates from Twitter and Instagram during the past week. From an Olympic horse swimming with his rider to some trot-up acrobatics, it all happened on social media this week.

Don’t miss the exciting competition on this weekly page. Our favourite tweet each week will win either an Apatchy mini tablet case or an Apatchy cosmetic bag, personalised with your own initials. For more information about the competition and to find out who this week’s winner is, go to the bottom of this page.

Tweets of the week

Ingrid Klimke and her Olympic mount Hale Bob enjoy a dip

We’re a little bit in love with event rider Lucy Jackson’s new four-legged friend

Ring any bells?

Mark Todd gives a thumbs up at the Blenheim trot-up

Katie Barber has to hold on to a feisty Woodfield Ria at the first Burghley trot-up

Libby Head’s Burghley ride, Sir Rockstar, sprouts wings at the Cottesmore Leap

Libby Head

Clearly cottesmore leap wasn’t big enough so we had to jump it bigger!! EDIT: wow! I did not expect such a reaction from this photo! I just want to clarify – the jump itself was not made bigger…I…

Event rider Kirsty Johnston has the right idea taking a blow up hot tub with her to three-day events

Poor Pippa Funnell somehow manages to see the funny side of being deposited at the Trout Hatchery at Burghley

William Whitaker gets to the bottom of his disappearing garden

Pardon?

And congratulations to this week’s Tweet of the Week winners

We know we shouldn’t laugh but we can’t help it

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Tweet of the week competition

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