Laura COLLETT (GBR) riding London 52 during the dressage phase of the FEI World Team & Individual Eventing Championship at Pratoni Del Vivaro near Rocca Di Papa in Italy between 14-18th September 2022
The World Eventing Championships are under way in Pratoni del Vivaro, and Britain got off to a super start. Badminton winners Laura Collett and London 52 stormed into the lead scoring 19.3, with Yazmin Ingham on Banzai Du Loir, competing as individuals, in second on 22. Ros Canter and Lordships Graffalo, the only other British combination to have competed on day one, are in fourth place on 26.2. “I’m well aware that I’m sat on one of the very best horses in the world and people expect you to deliver – luckily he delivered,” Laura said. “I’m the luckiest person to be sat on him and he really does just keep getting better and better.”
The creators of a new documentary on the ridden horse pain ethogram hope it will improve horse welfare and performance, as well as horse sport’s future. The 35-minute film follows the story of showjumper Galina, owned by Lauren McMahon, who had started refusing jumps and becoming less willing to work on the flat, but was not overtly lame. Sue Dyson, who created the ethogram, said the aim is to “raise more awareness that so many of these behaviours that people accept as normal for horses are not normal”. “Pain-free horses don’t react like that,” she said.
There are only six more days to nominate in the 2022 Horse & Hound Awards, in partnership with NAF. Once again, the award-winners will be those people and horses nominated and voted for by H&H readers. You have until 5pm on 22 September to let us know who should be considered, after which a shortlist will be drawn up, and public voting will open.
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Eleanor is an experienced journalist who spent over eight years working for local and national newspapers before joining H&H as news editor in March 2016. Passionate about equine welfare and exposing the truth, Eleanor has reported on all aspects of the industry, from Brexit to anti-bullying campaigns, and from dressage rules to mules. Her sport of choice is showjumping, in which she competes her own horses, and she also enjoys reporting at local jumping shows through to international championships.
