23-05-2018
This week, Greatwood Charity was delighted to welcome Cheltenham Festival winner Cole Harden to its Clench Common paddocks, after the 9-year-old gelding was retired from racing due to an injury.
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With her A Levels behind her, eventer Chelsea Pearce, who is based near Marlborough, is making the most of her gap year.
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Al Shaqab Lockinge Day (May 19) is Newbury Racecourse's most important day of the Flat season - this year it saw the royal wedding, sunshine, extra security, no violent scenes...and some remarkable racing.
Read more16-05-2018 A Correspondent
Georgie Strang has joined the Marlborough area’s unique stable of top eventers - joining Sir Mark Todd’s yard at Badgerstown on the edge of the Marlborough Downs.
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The skylarks were so high you could not spot them against the blue sky. Limato was exercising on trainer Henry Candy's gallops north of Lambourn - the weather was perfect, the turf was amazing and Limato looked a picture.
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Nereo took Andrew Nicholson to his first Badminton victory in 2017. Now, on the last day if Badminton 2018, the eighteen year-old Lockeridge based eventing horse has been retired from top-level competitions.
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New Zealand eventer Jonelle Price has won the prestigious four star 2018 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials - 4.9 penalty points ahead of Britain's Oliver Townend. Jonelle is the first female winner of Badminton for eleven years.
Read more27-04-2018 A Correspondent
Blyth Tait, one the world’s most respected event riders, will design the novice cross-country course at this year’s St James’s Place Barbury Horse Trials (5-8 July).
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Hardly a day goes by without an offspring of the great and unbeaten racehorse Frankel does not make the news. It could be the price fetched at auction or a dramatic win or Cracksman's prospects...Frankel is still news. Here is a two-year-old son of Frankel out of Dance With Another, who...
Read more23-04-2018
Newbury racecourse marked the opening of its Flat racing season by installing a remarkable sculpture at the heart of the parade rings - Tom Hiscocks' massive yet finely realised depiction of a drinking horse.
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Cole Harden gets a taste of Greatwood's grassThis week, Greatwood Charity was delighted to welcome Cheltenham Festival winner Cole Harden to its Clench Common paddocks, after the 9-year-old gelding was retired from racing due to an injury.
Chelsea Pearce with (left) Albert VI and (right) Kilnaboy BuffetWith her A Levels behind her, eventer Chelsea Pearce, who is based near Marlborough, is making the most of her gap year.
Georgie Strang & Cooley Earl at Badminton (May 2018) Georgie Strang has joined the Marlborough area’s unique stable of top eventers - joining Sir Mark Todd’s yard at Badgerstown on the edge of the Marlborough Downs.
Nereo took Andrew Nicholson to his first Badminton victory in 2017. Now, on the last day if Badminton 2018, the eighteen year-old Lockeridge based eventing horse has been retired from top-level competitions.
Blyth Tait in cross country action (Photo credit www.trevor-meeks-photography.co.uk)Blyth Tait, one the world’s most respected event riders, will design the novice cross-country course at this year’s St James’s Place Barbury Horse Trials (5-8 July).
An unusual sight on the parade ring's big screenAl Shaqab Lockinge Day (May 19) is Newbury Racecourse's most important day of the Flat season - this year it saw the royal wedding, sunshine, extra security, no violent scenes...and some remarkable racing.
Limato on the gallops with Harry Bentley aboard (Photo: Francesca Altoft for Newbury Racecourse) The skylarks were so high you could not spot them against the blue sky. Limato was exercising on trainer Henry Candy's gallops north of Lambourn - the weather was perfect, the turf was amazing and Limato looked a picture.
(Pic from BBC Sport coverage)New Zealand eventer Jonelle Price has won the prestigious four star 2018 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials - 4.9 penalty points ahead of Britain's Oliver Townend. Jonelle is the first female winner of Badminton for eleven years.
Tom Hiscocks stands beside his Drinking Horse Newbury racecourse marked the opening of its Flat racing season by installing a remarkable sculpture at the heart of the parade rings - Tom Hiscocks' massive yet finely realised depiction of a drinking horse.
