Great Britain’s team gold medal-winning trio of Scott Brash, Harry Charles and Ben Maher, as well as Germany’s newly crowned individual Olympic champion Christian Kukuk, will be joined by bronze team medallist Simon Delestre of France and the Dutch individual bronze medallist Maikel van der Vleuten for a special ceremony at the London leg of the Global Champions Tour. The medallists’ ceremony will take place in the main ring at Royal Hospital Chelsea on Saturday, 17 August at 1.15pm ahead of the start of the day’s five-star action. The grooms and riders will be given gifts and there will be a live Q&A.
Defender Burghley Horse Trials cross-country course-designer Derek di Grazia (left), and event director Martyn Johnson (right).
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Defender Burghley Horse Trials is celebrating after it was announced on Monday (12 August) that its title sponsor is extending its long-standing support with a new “multi-year” agreement. Event director Martyn Johnson said that Defender’s “renewed investment means we can continue to deliver and develop a world-class event every year”. Land Rover has been the official vehicle supplier to Burghley since the early 1990s and became title sponsor in 2005.
Our thoughts are with all the connections of a 10-year-old gelding, who was found in his field with his “jaw hanging off” after a dog attack. Sunny’s injuries were so severe that he had to be put down, despite vets’ best efforts to save him. “The guilt, the sorrow and the anger are just overwhelming,” Sunny’s loaner Kirsty McMath told H&H. “And it’s not just our family, it’s Sunny’s owners too, they’re devastated.”
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Carol is an experienced journalist and editor, who is also a passionate amateur rider and dedicated horse owner, having ridden since childhood. She has a particular interest in the emotional well-being and ethical training of horses, alongside veterinary matters, having garnered extensive first-hand experience of numerous equine health conditions through more than 30 years of horse ownership.
