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Mary King on a donkey, plus 7 other tweets that stopped us in our tracks this week


  • Enjoy some of our favourite tweets from the past seven days. From eventing legends trying their hand at donkey racing to a miraculous save with the help of a fellow jockey, it all happened on Twitter this week.

    Apatchy logo highest res may 1Don’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

    Sportsmanship at its best

    This sounds like a logistical nightmare

    Dennis looks like he has grand prix potential for Alice

    It doesn’t look like these two are playing ball!

    Two of the world’s greats, Mary King and Mark Todd go head-to-head on a different sort of four legs at Ballindenisk Horse Trials in Ireland

    This looks very tempting

    The wonderful Treve doing her best steam train impression during her final piece of work in preparation for her attempt at winning her third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe this weekend (4 October)

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

    Poor old Blyth Tait only wanted a lovely picture with his horse. Instead he got this…

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    Tweet of the week competition

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