18-06-2018
Following her recent success at Badminton Marlborough's Jonelle Price followed up with another CC14 win this time in Germany at Luhmühlen Horse Trials. Eventing NZ tweeted their congratulations to Jonelle, a key member of their team who has only just returned to competitive action following the birth of son Otis last...
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Newbury Racecourse has announced the introduction of a new £100,000 stayers' handicap sponsored by JLT - and named the JLT Cup.
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Local eventer Chelsea Pearce has scored a major victory at the Brand Hall International Horse Trials (June 1-2) near Market Drayton.
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Andrew Nicholson has been made an Officer of the New Zealand Order of Merit for his services to equestrian sport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List.
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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.
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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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The Aldon International in Somerset is one of the first major eventing competitions of the season. It was cold riding there on Saturday (March 17) - and Sunday's part of the competition was cancelled.
Valdez in the Barbury Castle Yard warm-up ringDeclarations made today (Wednesday, March 14) for the final day - Gold Cup day - of the 2018 Cheltenham Festival have been overshadowed by the news from Ladies' Day.
Altior at Henderson's Seven Barrows yardCheltenham got a little more rain on Monday and more is expected during the week. So the talk is all about the going. Until, that is, news came in that Altior had suffered a setback.
Keith Ottesen [pictured above] has been appointed as Clerk of the Courseat Newbury Racecourse, succeeding Richard Osgood, who leaves at the end of the year.
Josephine Saunders with a Hillwood mare & offspring (Photo copyright Dan Abraham)People like Josephine Saunders, who works at the Hillwood Stud in Aldbourne, are the backbone of the racing and bloodstock industries - the six thousand or so women and men who look after the horses at training yards and stud farms throughout the British Isles.
Neil King with Lil RockerfellerIt was not so much the betting forecasts that mattered on Day One of the 2018 Cheltenham Festival, but the weather forecast. And then the sun shone.
Full Irish exercising on the Bonita Racing Stables' gallopsCheltenham Racecourse had ten millimetres of rain during Sunday-Monday night - and the going by 9.00am on Monday morning was 'heavy, soft in places' - from Sunday's 'soft, heavy in places'.
Sceau Royal leads a group up the all-weather gallop at Barbury CastleEveryone with the remotest interest in jumps racing will have an eye on runners during the Cheltenham Festival. The local trainer to watch is Barbury Castle's Alan King who over the years has had fifteen winners at the Festival - some of his most important achievements out of a total to date of 1,321 national hunt winners - and counting.
Luke Harvey at last month's Barbury International Point-to-PointWhere do I start with Luke Harvey - the man who tweets as @LeglockLuke? Jockey, trainer, TV personality, comedian, bon viveur - all that and he's probably the best-known owner of point-to-pointers in Britain. Luke lives at Kingston Lisle - just over the downs from Baydon.
