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Tributes to heroic £500 horse who won at the highest level, the Cheltenham star now stunning in the show ring, and more things the horseworld is talking about
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GCFH00 Australia's Paul Tapner rides Inonothing to victory and celebrates on the final day of the Badminton Horse Trials 2010 held at Gloucestershire Park
Event rider Paul Tapner has paid tribute to his Badminton-winning ride Inonothing, who died at 29 following a long and happy retirement from eventing.
Paul describes Jenny and the late Claus Waaler’s Inonothing as a “tough and heroic” little thoroughbred. Bought for a bargain at £500 he was intended to be a hunter, but disgraced himself on the hunting field to the point he was sent home on his first time out.
Paul convinced the Waalers the horse would be much better suited to eventing and so it was – he won at every level including at Badminton as well as contesting the World Equestrian Games in 2010 for Australia.
“He had a heart of gold, was as tough as nails and would try his utmost to do whatever I asked of him,” Paul said.
Having nailed his racing career with a Cheltenham Gold Cup victory for Henry de Bromhead under Rachael Blackmore, A Plus Tard is now outperforming his peers in his second career – or you could argue third – in the show ring. Last year the horse was busy excelling in dressage with Emily Kate Robinson in Ireland.
This month, ATP, who is now 11-years-old, pulled of an excellent showing double by winning the racehorse to riding horse title at Balmoral and then again at Dublin Horse Show.
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“That was one off the bucket list!” Emily Kate told H&H. “And it’s such a hard class to win. Dublin was really hot; Native River came over from England and he’d won at Hickstead; there were some big names in it.”
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Sarah has worked at an equestrian journalist and editor since 2004 and has held the position of Horse & Hound Editor-in-Chief since 2014. She has reported for Horse & Hound from major championships including Europeans and World Equestrian Games. She has co-written books on horses and horse sport including The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies. She has owned and ridden horses since 1993, and worked for and trained with Olympic gold medallist event rider Leslie Law prior to going to university. While studying for a BSc at London School of Economics Sarah also worked for top British dressage rider Louise Spate.
