An Olympic ride franks his class, a tiny grassroots champion and the battle of two racehorses – find out what happened on the final day at Gatcombe

Four more champions were crowned at the Magic Millions Festival of British Eventing today (Sunday, 7 August) with a Kiwi topping the British Open. So, who featured in the Gatcombe Horse Trials results?

Tim Price took today’s headline class, the Magic Millions British open championship, riding his Tokyo mount Vitali.

• Find out Tim’s view on why the optimum time is so hard to achieve at Gatcombe

As Tim is a New Zealander, the national title went to runner-up Oliver Townend on Dreamliner, one of his three rides in this championship

• Learn what Oliver and other placed riders had to say

Bur first, there was a shake-up in the dressage order, with Pippa Funnell moving up to take the lead after showjumping clear

• What made the track so clever, according to Pippa?

Feisty 15.1hh Iwan landed the Corinthian Cup thanks to impeccable jumping displays

• Find out from his rider Amy Barlow why she persevered with Iwan despite multiple involuntary dismounts

A classy ex-racehorse moved up in the fourth and final phase of the Retraining of Racehorses/National Trainers Federation championship for retrained racehorses to take the title

• Learn what winner Andrew Downes had to say about his talented winner’s second career

There were also two open novice sections on this final day of the festival, won by Nicholas Lucey (Ta Kalo Arlo) and Caroline Martin (Galway Bay Redfield HSH Conner). That completes the Sunday round-up of the Gatcombe Horse Trials results.

Yesterday, the Dodson & Horrell British Novice and Evelyn Partners Intermediate Championships were decided, with Oliver Townend and Tom McEwen running out respective winners.

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Martha Terry

H&H features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on dogs of all shapes and sizes. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs, one a street dog from Gambia who was abandoned at three weeks old. Now, her constant companion, whether by her feet at her desk or walking cross-country courses, 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.