Innholdsfortegnelse for 18-Aug-2022 i Horse & Hound

THE World Championships in Herning, Denmark, have been a treat for horse sport enthusiasts. Britain’s showjumpers qualified for Paris 2024, and won their first World Championship medal since 1998 (report, p58). Meanwhile Britain’s para dressage team, whom we are so used to seeing bring back team gold and a plethora of individual golds to boot, had less of a gold rush this time, but were no less impressive and laden with ribbons on the plane home (report, p42). For many years other teams have been trying to catch up with Britain’s para dressage riders, who have stood in a league of their own. They have caught up, and there is a more level playing field plus challenges for the Brits looking forward to Paris 2024. It was interesting reading Sophie…

Olympic and European dressage champion Jessica von Bredow-Werndl gave birth to her second child, Ella Marie, on 11 August. Ella Marie has already met Jessica’s horses. Sweden’s world number one showjumper Henrik von Eckermann was crowned world champion with 12-year-old King Edward at the showjumping World Championships. Report, p58. Eventer Ellie Fredericks, daughter of Lucinda and Clayton, was second in her first CCI3*-L, on Pure Trendsetter, to Alex Hua Tian on Jilsonne Van Bareelhof. Report, p82. Eventer Mollie Summerland was the best-placed Brit at the Haras Du Pin Nations Cup leg, with Charly Van Ter Heiden. Michael Jung won on Fischer Chipmunk, and the British team came third. Group One-winning trainer Harry Dunlop will call time on his career at the end of this Flat season. He blamed rising costs and…

YOU know when you’re at an equestrian event and are desperate for a quick freshen up, and just don’t know where to turn? Exotic Queen has the answer. Helle Kristiansen’s miniature US horse was trundling round the site at the Herning World Championships with a giant bottle of hand sanitiser. Helle, also the owner of Danish company Nathalie Horse Care, which makes the hand sanitiser concerned as well as bespoke horse and dog shampoo, told H&H the mare, and her three stablemates, were on site all week. Plenty of passers-by took the opportunity, even in these times less affected by Covid, to have a quick squirt. “The reaction has just been incredible,” Helle said. “People love it, and they love the ponies, too.”…

1) Name the first event horse to be cloned. 2) What colour was jumper Strawberry Mojo? 3) Which Olympic gold medallist made his worlds debut this year? 4) The Pratoni World Championship course-designer Giuseppe della Chiesa show-jumped and evented internationally, but was also an amateur jockey. How many races did he win? 5) Who are the three foundation stallions of the thoroughbred breed? Answers from 11 August 1) It’s a derivation of the two places Richard and Georgina Sheane grew up in, Coolnakilly and Ballinacoola 2) Twinshock Warrior 3) 2008 4) Five 5) Bramham 2018.…

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald FRIDAY night’s World Championships medal decider was one of the most exciting team competitions I’ve ever seen. With only 10 teams, in a great time slot for people to sit down and watch, plenty of twists and turns and it all coming down to the final team riders, it made for great viewing; it was a great shot in the arm for Nations Cup team competition. When it works so well, you have to ask, “Why don’t we have that format at the Olympics? Why do we need to tinker with something so successful?” Course-builder Louis Konickx did a fantastic job all week, but it also showed just how much strength in depth nations need to be competitive in a championship. Sweden’s gold was thoroughly deserved and what…

Horse & Hound Awards 2022: celebrating the stars of equestrianism in partnership with in partnership with Nominate your stars athorseandhound.co.uk/awards WE’RE back! Yes, the Horse & Hound Awards return for the seventh year in a row, running again in partnership with NAF. Last year’s awards enjoyed fabulous participation, with over 103,000 votes cast. We are thrilled to be planning another glittering ceremony at Cheltenham Racecourse. Some 300 people, including Olympic and Paralympic superstars, will gather to enjoy a glamorous evening of champagne, winner reveals and dancing. As in previous years, the H&H Award winners will be nominated and voted for by you, the readers. We seek to recognise both the big names who have made 2022 special and the unsung heroes who make it possible for all of us to enjoy…

Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Championships The championships ended on a low note for Australia’s Lyndal Oatley, who was eliminated from the special when the ground jury deemed the button-cute grey gelding Eros unlevel late in her test. “He put his heart and soul into yesterday, and today the tension was a bit too much [resulting in] the irregular rhythm,” Lyndal said, adding that Eros was “absolutely fine”, but that the judges made the right call. LOTTIE FRY was always destined to be a star. And on a glorious night in Herning, Denmark, she proved just how extraordinary a rider, and a competitor, she really is, to be crowned world champion in the grand prix special. Her gold medal-winning ride, the dreamy black stallion Glamourdale, also showed that he was…

LOTTIE FRY and Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour were neck-and-neck through the championship, with no more than 1.5% separating them in any of the three tests. Perhaps unsurprisingly, in no test did all seven judges agree on their winner, with two having Lottie to win over Cathrine in the grand prix, and a single judge having Cathrine to win over Lottie in both the special and the freestyle. So what is so good about these two very different combinations from a judge’s point of view? “Glamourdale is so powerful and expressive, and Lottie rides him so beautifully – she looks like she is hardly doing anything up there,” said Britain’s Peter Storr. “The highlights are the two-time changes, the half-passes and of course the extended canter is quite amazing, stunning actually. Cathrine was…

A CHANGE of format for this year’s championship meant that the tests ridden for the team and individual competitions in Herning were reversed. They do, however, retain the same test names – for now at least – meaning that, somewhat confusingly, the “team test” was ridden for the individual medals in each grade, and the more difficult “individual test” was used to decide the team medals. Most riders welcomed the change, Natasha Baker pointing out that it brings the championship format more in line with a CPEDI, where the team test is ridden first. Others found they had to put some effort into remembering which test to ride when. “It sounds as if it would be easy to transfer, but our team and our individual tests are the same movements…

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THE biggest climb of the final day came courtesy of Germany’s Marcus Ehning and Stargold (above) who, the rider says, “makes me look good”. Their eight faults on Friday night were their only rails of the week; they came into the final in 17th and were the only combination, other than the medallists, to jump double clear on Sunday, finishing fifth. Marcus said that his vet died and his blacksmith was injured last year, so everything new meant Stargold was not at his best. “There was lots to improve,” he said. “But the jump was there. He’s gone like a dream and that’s why he deserved to be here.” Jens Fredricson and Markan Cosmopolit (below) went into the final in second and jumped clear in the first round, but then…

HOYS section judge James van Praagh felt compelled to voice his opinions about Grandstand Media’s decision to video his classes. “I have absolutely no objection to it in principle, but it’s very sad that showing has come to this point,” said James, a panel judge for more than 25 years who is still involved with riding and producing event and other horses on a daily basis. “Videoing classes won’t deliver what people want or perceive. For a start, how can someone standing outside a ring have the same view that I do, looking at a particular section of the ring as each animal crosses my vision? “Also, what might look like a nice ride can in fact feel very different to the judge, and how does anyone know what I…

Share your news story Call 01252 555021 Email eleanor.jones@futurenet.com @jones_eieanor_ WHAT a week it was. Britain comes home from the World Championships not only with team dressage silver, as confirmed last week, but double individual dressage gold, showjumping team bronze, seven para dressage medals and a full set of qualifications for Paris 2024. Golden girl Lottie Fry and Glamourdale, after a sublime performance that had helped secure the team medal, went on to take both grand prix special and freestyle individual gold, with jaw-dropping skill and class, scoring 82.50% in the special and 90.65% in the freestyle. “I didn’t dare to imagine this. I know everything is possible with Glamourdale – he is the best horse in the world – but to be able to show off what he did…

UNDER-18S MOVE TO CORNBURY HOUSE CORNBURY House Horse Trials (8-11 September) is to host the Howden Way national junior championships for under-18 riders at CCI2*-S level, alongside its other classes. British Eventing (BE) CEO Helen West said she was “absolutely thrilled”, adding: “Cornbury holds a special place in my heart, as I won the final selection trial for the British junior team for the Europeans there in 1997, so it seems particularly fitting that the junior championships be there 25 years later.” Event founder David Howden made a seven-figure investment into BE this year to create the Howden Way, to train and develop British horses and riders. MONGOL DERBY THIRD FOR BRITISH RIDER BRITISH rider Chris Walker and Irishman Patrick Heffron finished joint third in the first 2022 running of…

▲ A CHEEKY TIPPLE(S) We hear that never in the field of human jumping championships has a medal been so much celebrated… we won’t go into any detail but it’s fair to say that a jolly good time was had by all. Which could not be more appropriate. Cheers! ▲ TUCKING IN Another World Championship medallist, still on a high after her brilliant achievement, was asked how she planned to celebrate. “Probably eat a lot of food!” she said. Also entirely appropriate, and with no chance of a hangover. Winning. ▲ SCIENCE To a press conference at the World Championships, on research into the effects on movement of riding horses barefoot rather than with shoes. Excited about the study, the lead scientist said: “This is a wet dream for a…

pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle WHY are so many of our supposedly ambitious, up-and-coming riders avoiding the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe? I imagine they might say they expected the ground to be hard, that they don’t like the terrain… They need to think again. In all the years I was riding there, I thought that when it was dry, the going was some of the better ground that we have in those conditions, because it is old turf. The couple of fields in which the turf was newer are no longer used. Sure enough, when I was there last weekend, I thought what the organisers had done with the ground was very good, and when I looked at it after the horses had run on it, you could see their hoofprints…

alexandra.robinson@futurenet.com @alexrob_journo_ WHILE showing wouldn’t often be perceived as the most riveting sport for spectators, I found myself sat on the edge of my seat at this year’s Royal International (RIHS) while watching some of the best in the business battle it out for the hotly contested supreme titles. It was fantastic to see riders taking a few risks and really going all out to clinch these prestigious championships. In the pony supreme Mia Donaldson and show pony and part-bred champion Wilderness Early Bird, and Ruby Ward and working hunter pony champion Noble Ronan, proved exactly why they are both worthy nominees for the new British Show Pony Society (BSPS) Robert Oliver showman’s award. Both gave a fabulous account of themselves while also playing to their mounts’ strengths; Ruby impressively…

Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Championships polly.bryan@futurenet.com Team medals 7 The number of qualifying slots on offer for the Paris Paralympics, not including host nation France 1.94 The points difference between the USA in bronze and Britain in fourth Orifarm Healthcare FEI World Para Dressage Championships, Denmark SOMETIMES in sport, it all comes down to priorities. Certainly coming into this championship, Britain’s overriding goal was to secure vital qualification for the Paris Paralympics, and with it a chance to maintain their unbeaten Paralympic gold run. And so it was mission accomplished on that front. But there’s no getting away from the fact that this was Britain’s most disappointing championship finish to date, with the team finishing in an unfamiliar fourth place. They came so close to bronze. Sophie Wells needed a…

LEE PEARSON has long advocated for a return to para riders being able to choose to ride in a higher grade than the one they are allocated in the classification process. “The able-bodied world wouldn’t be able to tell you you can’t do something nowadays, but I don’t know why the FEI para dressage [committee] can tell you that you can’t compete against that less disabled person,” he reasons. “You could be taken to court in the real world if you said, ‘No you can’t go to work with able-bodied people, Lee.’” Lee acknowledges that there are safety concerns around the topic, but also points out that most grade II riders, such as him, train at a level far above that of grade II competition. “The horses are getting more…

Agria FEI World Jumping Championships Team medals SWEDISH chef d’equipe Henrik Ankarcrona, who along with his team had come to Herning with sights set firmly on the top step of the podium, described the championship rollercoaster, of dizzy heights to depths on the turn of a pole, to perfection when he said: “You want this so bad, it hurts.” Although the competition had more peaks and troughs than the Pacific, Sweden were on the crest of their wave from start to finish. They took the lead on day one, adding only four faults over the next two days, so by the time the Stutteri Ask Stadium reached boiling point under the floodlights on Friday night, and although by then the live team scoring had stopped working so no one knew…

Agria FEI World Jumping Championships Individual medals 0 rails down by the medallists on the final day 1 pole between Ben Maher and the podium “I OWE him for this for life,” Henrik von Eckermann said of King Edward after they were crowned world champions. “I will remember this to my last breath.” The world number one rider and the unassuming little chestnut, who already had Sweden’s team gold under their belts, saw off the best horses and riders in the world to win, nearly three penalties ahead of Belgium’s Jérôme Guery on Quel Homme De Hus, with Maikel van der Vleuten on Beauville Z NOP taking the bronze. Henrik and the Edward 28 x Feo gelding were on the team that won gold in Tokyo last year, but came…

IT’S great for the sport when the world number one rider and the best horse win the gold medal – you can’t ask for more than that at a championship. As in Tokyo, Henrik von Eckermann’s brilliant partner King Edward didn’t touch a pole all week – he is out of this world. The Swedish team were odds-on favourites and they walked it in the end. Hats off also to Jérôme Guery and Quel Homme De Hus, who has always been a top-class jumper. Now aged 16, this will probably be his last championship, so a silver medal is thoroughly deserved. Maikel van der Vleuten and Beauville Z are another to have kept their form from last year’s Olympics, where they also won individual bronze. Beauville twists from left to…

National Welsh Championships, Three Counties, Worcs A SCOTTISH rider shone with her Welsh section D stallion to book their fourth Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) place as a partnership. Kayleigh Evans and her own Trehewyd Cardi, a 14-year-old by Gwenllan Brynmor, have been together for seven years. Kayleigh produced him for his previous owner, David Lorimer, before she purchased him during 2020. Last season they qualified for the London International Heritage supreme final, after qualifying at the British Show Pony Society (BSPS) Heritage championships. “Cardi is a total gentleman and is a big softy; he thinks everyone is his best friend,” said Kayleigh, who was flying solo at the show and had travelled down from her base in Aberdeen to compete at the National Pony Society (NPS) summer championships…

NAMED after a footballer as a foal and described as a larger-than-life character, 20-year-old gelding Rooney scored an elementary silver win with Rosie McAuley at Alnwick Ford Equestrian Area Festival, Staffs. “He’s the perfect showman between the white boards and a brilliant teacher,” said Rosie, who had the chance to buy Rooney two years ago as a schoolmaster. “I can’t tell you how much I’ve learnt. He’s very patient, but you have to get it right or he’ll either ignore you or guess. “I was also really pleased with him in the medium,” added Rosie, a programme manager for the Civil Service. “He had a spook and I went the wrong way, but we were well placed in a strong class.” ONE TO WATCH…

catherine.austen@futurenet.com @cfausten123 West of England, Honiton, Devon FOXHOUNDS A WARM and sunny Honiton welcomed large crowds around the ringside and full classes within. While the larger Gloucestershire packs took both the championships, the locals held their own in the open classes, most notably the Portman, who won the bitch two-couple. Matt Ramsden MFH (Beaufort) was joined by last-minute substitute Guy Morlock MFH (Spooner’s and West Dartmoor), standing in for Mike Felton, to judge the doghounds. The first class, for the best local unentered, set the tone for the day with a ring packed with quality hounds. Taunton Vale Foreman was the eventual winner – a handsome whiskery son of the influential VWH Footpad 19. He later added the unentered championship to his laurels. This year, special prizes for the old…

IF you want to go all Enid Blyton on the subject, you can. Thelwell ponies, cherubic children, hastily packed picnics and lashings of Lucozade Sport. It’s Pony Club camp time again. On the surface all is glorious, but lurking behind the scenes, requiring a drum roll all of their own, are the Pony Club jump trailers. Three of them. The evil nemeses of every North Northumberland branch of the Pony Club mum. The jump trailers have been on the scene forever. I’d hazard since the days that I was in the Pony Club. Meanwhile, towing vehicles have evolved from aged Volvo estates to housesized pickups and Discoveries with maximum torque. These ancient contraptions retain a vintage feel and they radiate malevolence: jockey wheels and back ramp fastenings like rusty snares.…

TIGER ROLL The 2018 and 2019 Grand National winner, trained by Gordon Elliott for Gigginstown House Stud, is entered for the racehorse to riding horse class at Dublin Horse Show, along with 2017 winner One For Arthur. DON HENRICO Rodolpho Riskalla’s multiple world and Paralympic medal-winning ride has retired aged 19, after securing double bronze at the World Championships. The Brazilian grade IV rider also campaigned Gestüt Schafhof’s stallion to top placings at small tour. GLEN SHIEL The Archie Watson-trained eight-year-old, whom Hollie Doyle piloted to her first Group One victory with their Champions Sprint win on British Champions Day in 2020, has retired. The Pivotal gelding, owned by Hambleton Racing, finished in the frame in multiple Group races during his eminent career.…

polly.bryan@futurenet.com @pollyrose21 THE legacy of medals carries on. What a mind-blowing competition the World Champs turned out to be for Britain. The myth of having to go and compete against the best in the world before a championship was blown out of the water. Our three high-scoring combinations had done two competitions each this season and for Gareth Hughes’ Classic Briolinca, an older horse, this was good management, saving an experienced horse for the big day. Charlotte Dujardin and Lottie Fry showed huge potential at the shows they did, but the improvement and problem solving is delivered at home. Competition is the icing on the cake. Along with stalwart Richard Davison and the ever-useful Bubblingh (who literally was!), the team arrived with fresh, sound, eager horses. There was no doubt…

There was another female starter, Judy Grange, who retired years ago but I’m currently the only one among 17 or so full-time starters. In my interview they asked what my ambition was, and I said, “I’d like to be the first lady starter for the Grand National.” What else would I wish for? You don’t realise how much goes into the role until you’re doing it. It’s a 10- to 15-minute window before every race; the pressure’s on. The safety of horse and jockey is paramount when they’re under the starter’s care. We check the ambulances, doctors and vets are in place, the time (we can’t go early), the head gear, if there’s any blood from the nose or fetlock, or missing shoes. We carry spare girths, goggles, whips and…

IN work supported by The Horse Trust, the Royal Veterinary College’s Comparative Neuromuscular Diseases Laboratory offers horse and yard owners the option to detect and quantify HGA toxin in suspect material from trees. “Our lab offers the only test available to horse owners, which can help to provide people with concrete information about the risk level in their horse’s environment,” says Richard. “This in turn allows owners and yard managers to make informed decisions about what they need to do to manage the risk to their animals from atypical myopathy.” The lab also offers testing of horse blood and urine samples, submitted by your vet, if they suspect atypical myopathy in your horse or in field companions. This should help to establish a much more rapid and accurate diagnosis, and…

Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Championships polly.bryan@futurenet.com Individual medals Freestyle medals Blue Hors FEI World Dressage Championships, Denmark “GLAMOURDALE is one in a million – I don’t know if I’ll ever ride one like him again,” said Lottie Fry, after being crowned double world champion. Glamourdale is indeed the sort of horse that dreams are made of, and he and Lottie made many dreams come true this week. It’s hard to know who enjoyed themselves more, as they danced in the huge, electric stadium, Lottie or Glamourdale. Both are born performers and they put on a captivating show in Herning. “Every time you bring him out, he is ready to show off – it doesn’t matter if there’s one person there or 1,000,” said Lottie. Actually, there were more than…

Agria FEI World Jumping Championships jennifer.donald@futurenet.com Team medals Individual medals 24 years since Britain won a team world medal 6 championship medals won by Henrik von Eckermann Agria FEI World Jumping Championships, Denmark IT had been nearly a quarter of a century since Britain won a medal at a World Championships – the last coming in 1998 in Rome – or Olympic qualification at the first attempt, always the major goal. But this time was different to the past five championships, over the past 24 years. This was a British team that had the horsepower and the rider talent to make amazing things happen on the world stage, and they did, taking team bronze less than a pole behind silver medallists the Netherlands, qualifying for the Paris Games, and also coming within…

FAMILY AFFAIR FOR the first time, the Fredricson brothers were on the same Swedish championship team (pictured, above). Both Peder and Jens are veterans at this level, but Peder, 50, said it was “fantastic” finally to be on a team with his 54-year-old brother. “We’ve been riding together since I was three,” he said. “We’ve done a lot of other competitions, and I’ve done a few championships where he’s been with me on the ground to help; I’ve been with him at a lot of shows but this is the first time we ride together. It’s fantastic.” RULE CHANGE THE change in the time-penalty rules, which applied at a major championship for the first time this year, proved influential. Until 2022, riders incurred one time-fault for every four seconds commenced…

pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle NAF Five Star Hartpury, Glos ALEX HUA TIAN led the NAF Superflex CCI3*-L from start to finish on his own 13-year-old Jilsonne Van Bareelhof. With a strong first-phase score of 25.4, the pair won despite having a pole down on the final day. “I’m a bit annoyed to have had a pole down on what is such a good jumper,” said Alex. “But I have a new bit, which I’ve been trying for the first time this weekend and I think he just took a few fences to settle into it.” Alex’s reasoning behind changing bit did prove helpful on cross-country day though. “I’ve swapped him into a cherry roller as he’s a very big striding, bold and brave horse, and before I have always felt a little…

ABIGAIL CLARE put a “strange week” behind her to triumph in the BE90 at Skipton (2) with the eight-year-old Irish-bred Lisbane Cavalier (pictured). “Work has been a nightmare this week, on Thursday I had a car crash and then on the way here the sat-nav took us the wrong way and we ended up driving through the centre of Burnley, so all in all it’s been a bit stressful,” explained Abigail, who works full-time in bookkeeping and claims handling. “I’m over the moon. It all lined up here and came together. He’s smart on the flat which is helpful at this level and is lovely to showjump, but he’s still a bit green across country.” The duo added just 1.2 cross-country time-penalties to their dressage score of 28 to finish…

alexandra.robinson@futurenet.com @alexrob_journo_ Coloured Horse and Pony Society (CHAPS) Championships, Arena UK, Lincs JANAY ATHERDEN and her mighty Red Rock ticked off another box on their rapidly growing joint CV when a superb performance netted the pair their first Harrison Civil Engineering overall ridden supreme title. The cream of the country’s coloured contenders braved sweltering heat throughout the three days, but in sauna-like conditions for the indoor finale, Janay looked as cool as a cucumber as she delivered a polished, balanced and accurate “showman’s” show with her Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) section champion to set an unbeatable target. As a final flourish, she halted to collect a glass of champagne from the gallery to toast judge Danielle Heath, the spectators and her fellow competitors before calmly heading back into…

GRACIE BROOKES, 11, and her Welsh section B gelding Weydown Montague (Mowgli, pictured) were crowned HOYS junior champions after leading a huge small breeds qualifier and securing their first-ever HOYS ticket. Gracie’s mother, Leanne Brookes, bought the five-year-old from Sam and Suzi Roberts last October. “We viewed him at the BSPS Heritage championships; we knew Sam and Suzi thought a lot of him,” explained Leanne. Mowgli is based with Team Ahern. “We’ve spent the past three years trying to get to HOYS,” Leanne added. “Gracie is on cloud nine and was crying her eyes out. Team Ahern have really nurtured Gracie into the rider she is today, helping her overcome nerves. Mowgli has a temperament to die for, too.” It was a day for HOYS debutantes, as Scarlett Marshall and…

martha.terry@futurenet.com @marthaowenorterry British Riding Clubs (BRC) NAF Five Star National Horse Trials Championships, Swalcliffe Park, Oxfordshire HAREWOOD Combined Training Group’s Louise Wilson and Blackrock Fred proved the pair to beat in the open 100+ after they completed on their dressage score of 30.5 to win. The duo finished six penalties clear of their nearest rivals, team-mates Anna Whiteley and I’Like. These performances helped Harewood Combined Training Group to first place in the team competition. “It’s an achievement to qualify for this event let alone win both the team and individual titles, I can’t believe it. It’s extra special to do it on a horse I have produced myself,” said Louise, who has owned the 11-year-old Irish/Westfalian gelding for eight years. “Until he was seven, all we’d done was showjumping as…