Ben Maher ( GBR) riding Explosion W in the Jumping Individual Final for the Olympic Jumping Competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games held at Equestrian Park in Setagaya-ku in Tokyo in Japan between the 23rd July and 8th August 2021
In our 64th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, currently supported by Petplan Equine, two Tokyo Olympians in the form of individual gold medal winner Ben Maher and team silver medallist for the USA, Laura Kraut, talk about their Tokyo experiences. Moving on to the week’s top news stories, H&H’s Pippa Roome talks to H&H’s news editor Eleanor Jones, senior news writer Lucy Elderand news writer Becky Murray about modern pentathlon, use of training aids and a new live-streaming model in eventing. In this week’s advice section, we welcome back personal trainer Katie Bleekman, who will be offering advice on returning from injury as a rider. We hope you will find this useful.
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In our 64th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, currently supported by Petplan Equine, two Tokyo Olympians in the form of individual gold medal winner Ben Maher and team silver medallist for the USA, Laura Kraut, talk about their Tokyo experiences.
“I can’t quite believe we actually won” – Ben Maher on his Tokyo experience
Moving on to the week’s top news stories, H&H’s Pippa Roome talks to H&H’s news editor Eleanor Jones, senior news writer Lucy Elderand news writer Becky Murray about modern pentathlon, use of training aids and a new live-streaming model in eventing.
“In the UK and Ireland, we have The Pony Club, and a lot of our modern pentathletes have gone through Pony Club, but a lot of other countries don’t have that” – Eleanor Jones on the debate around riding in modern pentathlon
In this week’s advice section, we welcome back personal trainer Katie Bleekman, who will be offering advice on returning from injury as a rider.
“My main piece of advice is that returning to the saddle isn’t a race and you shouldn’t rush it – you wouldn’t do the same with a horse” – Katie Bleekman
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Former web features editor, point-to-point editor and digital racing editor
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.
