Horses for Heroes sponsored ride deadline is coming up
You have until 18 December to sign up for the UK’s largest ever sponsored ride — Horses for Heroes.
More than 1,000 riders have already signed up for the event which aims to raise at least £1m for the services charity Help for Heroes.
Run by Ascot Racecourse and Hpower Group (organisers of Olympia and Royal Windsor Horse Shows) the “Horses for Heroes” ride, on Saturday, 10 July, hopes to attract 2,010 riders who must first raise at least £500 each
Riders start from Ascot Racecourse, ride through Windsor Great Park before ending back at the racecourse and crossing the finishing post on the track.
Riders must pay a £100 non-refundable deposit to register, via www.horses4heroes.co.uk, and must sign up by Friday, 18 December.
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A self-confessed newshound, farmer’s daughter and journalist of many years' experience, Charlotte worked on regional papers before joining H&H in 2007. A regular rider, she visited Ireland in 2010 to investigate the fate of Irish horses through the recession, to much acclaim, and reported from the FEI General Assembly in Rio de Janeiro in 2011. She left Horse & Hound in March 2013.