News Archive | August 2008

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August 31st
- Ellen Whitaker back in the spotlight with Scope Festival win
August 30th
- Laura Renwick on flying form at Scope Festival
August 29th
- British Young Horse Championships gets thumbs up
- Brockenhurst Park Horse Trials axed for second time
- New Forest at centre of row over grazing plans
- Heather Fell wins Olympic silver in modern pentathlon
- Pony rescued from bizarre accident in New Forest
- Future of Olympic equestrian sport under threat
- Equine wormer survey: horse owners invited to take part
- Sara Squires’ Burghley diary: 6 days to go
- Deadly horse virus kills Australian vet and 5 horses
- BSJA/Scope Festival hosts under-21 championship win for Condon
August 28th
- Breeder sets up fund to feed dying Spanish horses
- Horses cut in what could be witchcraft say locals
- Countryside Alliance is looking for local heroes
- Olympic show jumpers’ B tests positive plus US dressage rider
- Ellen Whitaker wins ladies championship at Scope Festival
August 27th
- Tracy Garside’s Burghley diary: 8 days to go
- Lost Thelwell cartoon goes under the hammer
- Tickets for European jumping and dressage championships on sale
- Horse of the Year Show invites Britain’s top 10 show jumpers
- Equine photographer strikes gold with unique studio portrait
- Scope Festival brings Helen Tredwell further Foxhunter success
August 26th
- Foal dies in Surrey after being dumped and hit by car
- BSJA/Scope Festival off to flying start as riders descend on Stafford
- Sport horse yearling crowned BSPA supreme in-hand
August 25th
- Royal Angel takes supreme at BSPS Summer championships
August 23rd
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic diary: the final installment
August 22nd
- 12-year-old girl dies in fall from horse while out hacking
- Early hours Olympic dressage meeting was ‘inappropriate’ says FEI
August 21st
- Eric Lamaze is Canada’s first Olympic show jumping champion
- Racehorse trainers insulted by inside info training
- ‘Horse passports are failing’ says Essex police
- Irish hunting groups take on the saboteurs
- British woman faces equine welfare prosecution in Spain
- Hunting Act removed from latest edition of police manual
- Horse owners warned of ragwort epidemic throughout Britain
- Investigation into Exmoor pony stampede death
- Katie Price in dressage masterclass at HOYS
- British junior eventers win dual European gold
- Jo-Anne Williams’ eventing death ruled accidental by coroner
- Irish rider Denis Lynch blames ‘Equiblock’ for positive doping test
- Sara Squires’ Burghley diary: 14 days to go
- Frankie Dettori joins BetfairClub ROA 1st birthday celebrations
- Norway may lose Olympic bronze following positive dope tests
August 20th
- William Fox-Pitt gives up ride on Parkmore Ed
- Red Rum’s half-brother rescued from lake by firefighters
- Entire Ebor race meeting at York cancelled but feature races rescheduled
- Blair Castle Horse Trials attracts a quality field
August 19th
- Former amateur jockey slims down for first race in 26 years
- Ebor meeting at York — day one and two cancelled
- FEI investigates “unusual” dressage meeting in Hong Kong
- Anky van Grunsven makes Olympic history in Hong Kong
- Equifest Showing Show hailed a huge success
- H&H Olympic news quiz: The week that was
- Tracy Garside’s Burghley diary: 16 days to go
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games diary: the team competition
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic Games diary: the team competition
August 18th
- America wins show jumping Olympic gold in Hong Kong
- Peppermill will not jump in Olympic show jumping competition
- Northern Irish eventer Stephen Moore, 45, has died
August 17th
- John Whitaker out as Britain sit in equal 4th place at Olympics
August 16th
- Isabell Werth has narrow lead going into Olympic dressage freestyle
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic diary: first individual round
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic diary: the wait is nearly over
- Imke Schellekens-Bartels out of Olympic dressage individual
August 15th
- United States claims pole position in Olympic show jumping
- Olympic cross-country course changes explained by FEI
- FEI eventing committee chairman Wayne Roycroft ‘will not resign’
- Fears over United States’ horse export for slaughter ban
- Pony Club mounted games team disqualified for ‘cruelty’
- Irish dealers and breeders to get new code of conduct
- Increase in horse attacks leads to calls for database
- Jamie Gray pleads not guilty to trading standards charges
- Ebor Festival hosts charity football match for jockeys
August 14th
- Burghley first-timer’s diary: Tracy Garside
- Burghley first-timer’s diary: Sara Squires
- Germany wins Olympic dressage team gold in Hong Kong
- Police Horse of the Year competition staged at Aintree
- British Olympic show jumpers raring to go in Hong Kong
- Flat jockey Kirsty Milczarek rides out her claim
August 13th
- Emma Hindle lies second overnight in Olympic dressage
- London Riding Horse Parade in Hyde Park promotes rider safety
- Cheltenham Festival gets new race and earlier start for 2009
- Two stables burnt down in an arson attack in Norfolk
- Mary King’s Olympic Games diary: show jumping day
- Michael Whitaker and Portofino out of the Olympic Games
- Rogue Cotswold Horseboxes dealer receives suspended sentence
August 12th
- Elizabeth Rogers is side-saddle rider of the year for 5th time
- Olympic cross-country course designer hits out at “interference” from the FEI
- Germany’s Hinrich Romeike is Olympic eventing champion
- New £10,000 Tristram Ricketts Fellowship for horseracing project
- Olympic eventing gold for Germany with bronze for Britain
- Britain prepares for Olympic dressage challenge in Hong Kong
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
August 11th
- Pensioner arrested for molesting horse
- Mary King’s Olympic Games diary: cross-country day
- Child stable after being impaled by metal spike at Dublin Horse Show
- Puffa polo blog: Even polo ponies don’t like plastic bags
- Polo day raises cash for strangles research
- Germany dominates after Olympic cross-country phase
August 10th
- Young eventer dies in rotational cross-country fall at Hartpury
- Mary King’s Olympic Games diary: dressage phase
- Beatriz Ferrer-Salat withdraws from Olympic dressage contest
- Lucinda Fredericks holds on to pole position in Hong Kong
August 9th
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games diary: the opening ceremony
- Galan De Sauvagere is withdrawn from Olympic eventing competition
- Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks lead the dressage in Hong Kong
August 8th
- Meet H&H’s Burghley first-timer diarist Tracy Garside
- Tom Hudson’s death mourned by show jumping supporters
- Mark Todd will be Olympic eventing pathfinder in Hong Kong
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 1 day to go
- Parkmore Ed held at first vets’ inspection in Hong Kong
- Blue Cross rewards exceptional equestrian students
August 7th
- Blow to French Olympic eventers as Espoir de la Mare is withdrawn
- Grand National winning jockey Mick Fitzgerald is retiring from race riding
- Case adjourned for teenagers accused of shooting ponies
August 6th
- Five show jumping teams held up on way to the Olympics
- Horse thefts in Sussex prompt police security warning
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic countdown diary: 2 days to go
- Heythrop huntsman pleads not guilty to charges under the Hunting Act
August 5th
- Horse and rider rescued after getting stuck upside down in a ditch
- Stallions to arrive in Australia — a year after horse flu outbreak
- Typhoon expected in Hong Kong for Olympic equestrian events
- Vaulter Joanne Eccles is number five in the world after World Championships
- Halfway to Heaven gives Aidan O’Brien his 17th Group One win of the season
- Ben Maher wins Scouts equestrian badge
August 4th
- New 5-day TV series follows ‘Vets in Action’ on Channel 5
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
- Follow TeamGB’s Olympic progress with Will Connell’s online diary
- Four prize-winning show ponies die in lightning strikes
August 3rd
- Gatcombe blog: the perfect way to work off an ice cream
- Ruth Edge cuts through the British Open pack at Gatcombe
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 5 days to go
- Katie Price hits back over Cartier International polo snub
- Gatcombe blog: Festival of British Eventing first-timer’s thoughts
August 2nd
- Brook Staples speeds to novice championship victory at Gatcombe
August 1st
- Live transport for slaughter blog day 5: Italian border
- Live transport for slaughter blog day 4: Slovenia
- Horses killed and jockeys injured in 5 horse pile-up at Kempton
- Live transport for slaughter blog day 3: Hungary/Slovenia border
- Discounted winter dressage membership for event riders
- Andy Griffiths speaks out over FEI disciplinary tribunals
- Live transport for slaughter blog day 2: Zebrzydowice staging post