1. Emily Moffitt leading team to Super Cup Final win
Team London Knights, led by the squad’s owner, 23-year-old rider Emily Moffitt, led Sunday’s €3.5million Super Cup Final at the GC Prague Playoffs. Emily, who made her senior championship debut for Great Britain at the Europeans earlier this year, was confident on Friday, calling her father to say: “We can definitely win this on Sunday”. “The more pressure the better for me, but I owe it all to Winning Good – he is spectacular. Having this atmosphere here is the best and is what it is all about,” she added.
Swedish showjumper Henrik von Eckermann and his 11-year-old gelding King Edward won the Longines Global Champions Tour (LGCT) Super Grand Prix on Saturday night (20 November). And he did so despite not being able to use his reins over the first five fences. “King Edward has a lot of energy and nerves,” explained Henrik, who was part of the Swedish gold medal-winning team at the Tokyo Olympics. “Normally when the gates open I try to trot in, but I waited and then the doors were closed behind him so he got a bit of a shock. Just to make himself calm, he wanted to go backwards so I said ‘OK we’ll go in backwards!’ You just have to take the moment sometimes.” However the horse managed to get his tongue over the bit in the process. Luckily it went back after those first five or six fences, giving Henrik a little more influence.
Henrik von Eckermann ( SWE) riding King Edward in the Team Jumping Qualifier for the Team Final for the Olympic Jumping Competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games held at Equestrian Park in Setagaya-ku in Tokyo in Japan between the 23rd July and 8th August 2021
(Image credit: Peter Nixon)
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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.
