‘In my world I’ve won my own little event’: Piggy March thrilled by young horse performance at Blenheim

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Blenheim Horse Trials dressage: Piggy March and Cooley Lancer
Piggy March and Cooley Lancer in the dressage phase of the CCI4*-S at Blenheim Horse Trials 2021.
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Piggy March was first into the ring on the second day of the CCI4*-S in the Blenheim Horse Trials dressage, riding Cooley Lancer. The Lancer Stud’s gelding won the six-year-old world young horse championships at Le Lion in 2019, and showed his mettle here in front of the Blenheim Palace to score 30.1 and go into seventh.

This elegant chestnut with a white blaze and three white socks looked active and accurate but Piggy was perhaps holding a little back to help him handle the atmosphere. This is a first attempt at four-star for the gelding by Coeur De Nobless.

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.