‘He made it feel like Pony Club’: Sarah Bullimore and tiny Corouet breeze round tough Euros track

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European Eventing Championships cross-country: Sarah Bullimore and Corouet
Sarah Bullimore and Corouet at the 2021 European Championships.
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Britain’s second individual rider Sarah Bullimore and her home-bred Corouet breezed round clear for just 0.8 time-faults to post yet another brilliant round for the Brits at the European Eventing Championships cross-country.

The diminutive chestnut, who is owned by the rider, her husband Brett and the Kew Jumping Syndicate, was a perfect match for this sinuous track. He fairly skipped round to stop the clock just two seconds outside the time. Some of the riders are having to nurse their horses home, but Corouet was absolutely pinging at the end, bounding round for fun.

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.