05-02-2019 Jake Exelby
THIS MEETING HAS BEEN ABANDONED DUE TO THE EQUINE FLU OUTBREAK *** The second Vine & Craven point-to-point of the season takes place on Sunday (February 10) at Barbury Racecourse and the eight scheduled races, which kick-off at 11.30am, have attracted an excellent 161 strong entry.
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Barbury International, which this year runs from 4th - 7th July, has a new organising team at the helm. Musketeer Event Management, which already stages Burnham Market and Houghton Internationals as well as numerous One Day Events, has taken over the reins. They are looking for a new 'title sponsor'.
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The Barbury International Horse Trials have been dropped from the 2019 programme of six venues for the Event Rider Masters televised series of competitions.
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Denman, the only horse since Arkle to win the Hennessy Gold Cup twice, is to be permanently remembered at Newbury Racecourse with a specially commissioned set of gates bearing his name.
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Cheltenham Racecourse, 26 January 2019: a man is standing in the parade ring. He is a little apart from his friends. He has his back to the big screen that is showing twelve horses racing over hurdles. He is blind. He is moving slightly from foot to foot - swaying...
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Newbury Racecourse's meeting on Wednesday (January 16) will be the first overseen by their new Clark of the Course, Keith Ottesen.
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Thirty year-old Guy Simmonds' first stop on his epic solo 2019 journey - by any standards the journey of a lifetime - was Rockley. He came to see para-equestrian dressage rider Alison Fryer.
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Newbury Racecourse's final final fixture of 2018 (December 29) saw a classy Betway Challow Hurdle and two tight finishes. But the day was as much about the people who make horseracing such a popular sport, as about the card of seven races.
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Marlboroughequestrian.news used to have a Horse in the Spotlight feature. Then we changed it to a Horse Profile feature - currently featuring Paisley Park on the strength of his amazing recent victory at Haydock.
Read more19-12-2018 A Correspondent
It will truly be the end of an era at Newbury on Saturday, December 29, Betway Challow Hurdle Day, when Clerk of the Course Richard Osgood officiates at the track for the final time - 99 years after the first member of the Osgood family joined the racecourse staff.
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Ed Barrett's charity walkWhy do we go to the races? For the sport? To have a flutter - and keep the bookies in profit? To be with chums? To watch extraordinary horses?
Ian Balding with the Mill Reef statue Ian Balding has been paying tribute to the best horse he ever trained as he recalls the life and career of the great Mill Reef, one of the most popular racehorses of all time, who was born 50 years ago this year.
MilansbarMore than 200 visitors and owners went to Neil King's Ridgeway Racing yard near Barbury Castle for his annual open day - looking ahead to the coming jumps season, his fifth at Upper Herdswick farm.
Anna and New Rich going down to the start (Photo copyright Debbie Burt - with thanks)When the phone rang on June 14 asking if I could ride in this year’s Magnolia Cup, my heart leapt. This was a race I had always wanted to ride in.
Sir Dancealot takes the Ladyswood Stud Hungerford Stakes (Photo: Newbury Racecourse)The feature race at Newbury Racecourse's Ladies Day (August 18), the £150,000 G2 Ladyswood Stud Hungerford Stakes over seven furlongs was won by Sir Dancealot (David Elsworth/Gerald Mosse) come out on top in good style.
The victorious Great Britain team (pic off TV coverage) Great Britain's eventers won the team gold medal at the eighth World Equestrian Games at Tryon, North Carolina - and Ros Canter on Allstar B took the individual gold.
The Land Rover Burghley website announces Tim's victory"What a super year" said Tim Price after his victory in the land Rover Burghley Horse Trials on Ringwood Skyboy.
Tim Price takes to his bicycle to get around the Barbury Horse TrialsNew Zealand’s highest-ranked eventer, Tim Price, has his sights on claiming the crown at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (August 30-September 2).
Newbury: HM the Queen's Magnetic Charm led into the winner's enclosureNewbury Racecourse's Dream Lodge Group Summer Raceday on Tuesday (August 7) was a revival of a fixture that was dropped from last year's list - and it opened with a win for Her Majesty the Queen's appropriately named youngster Magnetic Charm ridden by James Doyle and trained at Newmarket by William Haggas.
