Show ruling boosts Olympic qualification hopes for top British riders
Riders have welcomed the FEI decision
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Riders have welcomed the FEI decision
As part of the measures put in place to mitigate the risk of the European outbreak reaching the UK, on 18 March BEF and its member bodies introduced equine health self-certification forms on the EIDAG’s advice
The Kentucky Three-Day Event 2021 draw has been done – find out who will be first on course and what back number your favourite rider will sport
The Great Horses for Health relay starts on 2 May in Yorkshire and will take place in 11 regions of the UK over five months
‘We’ve said from the start that if we can help just one other family from the agony of suicide, then the initiative will have been worth it.’
“It’s not easy to sit on a horse like that; it can be a perception it’s a push-button kind of job but when you ride an animal of that power and that capability it can be quite intimidating to some people. As a young girl she coped amazingly well”
William Fox-Pitt explains why he has swapped which horse he will ride at the Kentucky Three-Day Event and why he was eliminated on his last prep run for the US five-star
The awards were set up by the British Horse Society in 1984 as a legacy to Sefton, the 19-year-old Household Cavalry horse who survived the IRA bombings in 1982
During her 10 years’ service Orla attended premiership football matches and took part in numerous public order and ceremonial duties including the Black Lives Matter and English Defence League protests
“We are proud to have given her six months of the care and devotion that she so deserved but we wished we had her with us for longer”
“I haven’t done the things I enjoy for so long, and to see the horse I love so much when everything’s so difficult, and I get so frustrated and upset, was like going back to who I really am”
“Normally it takes 12-18 months to fully train a police horse but Bess got through the training in 12 weeks. Within a few weeks of her starting at the training stables she was nannying younger horses”
Find out how this thrilling race unfolded this afternoon
“Because we are lunatics, we decided we still wanted to do something to help our charities and our objective now is to break the world record for the longest continuous CPD programme ever produced”
“All we saw was this 17hh horse hurtling towards us, and we thought ‘oh my god’, but then realised she was trying to get Belle up”
The Duke of Edinburgh “passed away peacefully” this morning at Windsor Castle
“MND has devastated lives for decades — it’s destroyed my life — and it’s something money can help with, but it’s desperately under-funded”