24-06-2019 A Correspondent
It was Tim Price's first win in an Event Rider Masters (ERM) competition - and his wife Jonelle took second place. A great day at the office for the New Zealand couple who live in Marlborough.
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Up on the Marlborough Downs, preparations for the Barbury International Horse Trials (July 4-7) are on schedule at the Barbury Castle Estate. The temporary stabling for up to a thousand horses are built and the main marquee is up.
Read more19-06-2019 Harriet Hodgkinson
Salisbury racecourse hosted their Family Father’s Day race meeting, with a crowd of 5,000 including children (June 16) and Daddy’s Daughter was undoubtedly the most appropriately named winner of the day.
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New Zealand's Tim Price - recently named world's No. 1 eventer - has added another top trophy to the cabinet - this time taking out the Longines CCI5*-L at the Luhmuhlen Horse Trials in Germany (June 16).
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Antonia De Vegamay have earned the chance to emulate Sea Of Class in the Irish Oaks after coming from last to first to run out a clear cut winner of Newbury’s feature race (June 13), the Listed Johnnie Lewis Memorial British EBF Stakes.
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In 2013, on a bit of a whim, Lara Prior-Palmer travelled to Mongolia and became the first woman - and the youngest competitor - to win 'the world’s longest, toughest horse race'. Six years later this niece of Lucinda Green has written an astonishing book about her race: Rough Magic.
Read more14-06-2019 Harriet Hodgkinson
It was unseasonably damp and cold at Salisbury for their fifth fixture of the season (June 11). 32 millimetres of rain in the 18 hours before racing left the ground soft, heavy in places.
Read more11-06-2019 Emma Blackburn
Antonia De Vega, winner of last year’s Group 3 Prestige Stakes, is ready to make her first start of the campaign in what promises to be another informative running of the Listed Johnnie Lewis Memorial British EBF Stakes for fillies at Newbury (June 13).
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Tim Price has made it to the top spot in the International Equestrian Federation (FEI) World Eventing Rankings announced yesterday (June 4).
Read more04-06-2019 Harriet Hodgkinson
2018 Salisbury champion jockey Oisin Murphy made a dash across country from a successful afternoon at Goodwood, where he rode a double, to ride Pempie to victory for Andrew Balding, in the closing race on the card - the 10-furlong classified stakes (May 25).
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Charlie Appleby, who landed the first big handicap of the 2019 Flat Turf season in Britain winning the Lincoln, has set his sights on capturing the season’s first older horse Group 1 prize with emerging miler Mythical Magic at Newbury on Saturday, 18 May - Al Shaqab Lockinge Day.
Tedworth 2018: All together now...nearlyTrainer Tim Underwood will decide later this week whether to let Timmie Roe bid for a six-timer at the Tedworth Hunt meeting at Barbury Racecourse on Sunday (April 7).
Noel Fehily spots his wife among his fellow jockeys in their guard of honour Newbury, Saturday, March 23: Noel Fehily delivered the perfect ending to an illustrious career in the saddle when he bowed out as a jockey with a victory on his final ride.
Altior (Photo: Newbury racecourse)Altior, Beware the Bear and Pentland Hills, Nicky Henderson’s heroes from last week’s Cheltenham Festival, will parade at Newbury, when the track hosts its last jumps fixture of the 2018-19 season (Saturday, March 23).
Tim Price & Sky Boy - with visitors reflected in the mirror Like racing trainers, as their season gets underway, Britain's eventers are looking obsessively at weather forecasts. It is vital for them to get competitions in before the major events - Badminton (May 1-5) comes up pretty quickly.
The seven year-old gelding Paisley Park seems to be taking star celebrity status in his stride at Emma Lavelle Racing's stables in Ogbourne Maizey, near Marlborough. Posing for visitors from a syndicate, he looks a picture [above] in his Sun Racing Stayers' Hurdle cloth - in the safe hands of travelling head girl Laura Scrivener.
Winner's enclosure: Neil King (left) with Richard Johnson & The Knot Is TiedLocal trainer Neil King had good reason to remember his first winner at Newbury since February 2008 when The Knot Is Tiedwon the Be Wiser Insurance Juvenile Handicap Hurdle race under champion jockey Richard Johnson.
Noel Fehily, who announced he would retire from the saddle after riding his seventh Cheltenham Festival winner last week, will end his illustrious career at Newbury on Saturday (March 23).
Chelsea Pearce & Kilnaboy Buffet at Moreton The British eventing season opened in earnest last Saturday (March 2) at Moreton in Dorset.
