Innholdsfortegnelse for 27-Oct-2022 i Horse & Hound

AS readers, you will know that although we don’t feature a great many articles billed as “Training” in H&H, there are learnings to be had throughout every report, interview and feature in this magazine. Aspiring event riders looking for the edge, not to mention eventing and Piggy March fans, wall particularly enjoy one of our new occasional franchises, “How I won…”, for which Pippa Roome speaks to Burghley winner Piggy this week. It fascinates me how top sports people manage their state of mind at any pinnacle event, and it’s incredible to hear Piggy speak in such detail about how her days unfolded at Burghley, and what happened in between. I’m in awe of a lot of things about Piggy, not least her riding style, affinity with her horses and…

IN THE NEWS WAR OF ATTRITION The 2006 Cheltenham Gold Cup winner has died aged 23. The Mouse Morris-trained Presenting son, who retired to owners Gigginstown House Stud in 2010, won 14 of his 34 starts, including three Grade Ones. DASSETT ARTHALENT Olivia Davidson’s national seven-year-old eventing champion was the highestplaced horse for Britain at the young horse World Championships at Le Lion. He and Piggy March came second. Report, 3 November. SANTINI Richard and Lizzie KelvinHughes’ Gold Cup runnerup has started affiliated eventing with William FoxPitt. The 10-year-old, trained by Nicky Henderson then Polly Gundry, came fourth in the 2022 Grand National.…

Email to hhletters@futurenet.com Name and address must be included. Letters may be edited. @ horseandhound facebook.com/horseandhound instagram.com/horseandhound SHINING EXAMPLES I WHOLEHEARTEDLY agree with Joanna Dobson’s sentiment about riding school ponies (letters, 13 October). Four of my nine riding school ponies qualified recently for the unaffiliated dressage championships at the Grange Equestrian Centre in Devon. It was the end of the summer, so they had all been ridden by every type of rider over the holidays, from complete novices upwards. They absolutely rose to the occasion and had never done a lap of honour before, which was very exciting for everyone! We all felt so proud to be up against privately owned horses, who perhaps don’t have many other riders on their backs. So cheers to the humble riding school pony!…

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald THE jumps season is really starting to get going and it was marvellous to be back at Cheltenham for their Showcase meeting and to get a winner out of it, too. The rain came at just the right time, which meant the ground was perfect - the whole track was in great condition. There was good racing over the two days and we were provided with a few hints for the Festival there in March, such as Saturday’s bumper winner, Encanto Bruno, trained in Ireland by John McConnell, and Charles Byrnes’ winning hurdler Shoot First - and even my winner in the novices’ chase, Chemical Energy. All three are likely to have engagements at Cheltenham in March, so having been there and seen it all can only be…

I WALKED the cross-country course five times. On Wednesday, I went on my own after the briefing, just to get a feel of it, then on Thursday I walked it with Thomas and we filmed for piggymarch.tv On Friday, I went round with Tilly’s owner Trevor Dickens and his family, and met the BBC to analyse a fence. Then after winning the five-year-old Burghley young event horse with Cupid March, I wheeled the track with Thomas for the minute markers. On Saturday morning, I walked it with my sister Nini, who helps with Tilly on crosscountry day. I was conscious I hadn’t walked the course with any other riders, so on Friday I sat down with a few I respect - Pippa Funnell, William Fox-Pitt, Tom McEwen and we chatted…

HORSE&HOUND ALL IN A DAY’S WORK If someone had said to me as a child - even five years ago - that I’d represent Britain at World and European Championships, I’d have thought they were nuts. I did gymnastics before I rode, when I was tiny. I gave up the gym when I was about 13. Then I worked at a riding school, but never had my own horse. I had great opportunities there. I was teaching students and we thought vaulting would be a great activity. I thought I’d be the guinea pig, with a Poly Pad and a roller on a riding school cob. It took off from there. That was about 2011 and I started properly in 2012. I carried on doing grassroots stuff and started vet…

catherine.austen@futurenet.com @cfausten123 “SOME hunts have very good relationships with their Pony Club branches and riding schools – others don’t. Let’s build our links with the community – on the whole, we are really good at that but there’s always room for improvement…” Viscount Astor is compelling when he’s warming to a theme and few themes exercise him as much as hunting. He calls me on Zoom from the Isle of Jura, to a backdrop of crashing waves, where he’s fishing and stalking. William Waldorf Astor (the name given to every Viscount Astor, it seems) has field sports and politics running through his veins and, at the age of 70, has an undiminished appetite for both. Lord Astor&s grandmother, Nancy Astor, was the first woman to sit in Parliament, having come…

IF you were to have a conversation with most huntsmen for long enough, after the initial doom and gloom moaning wears off, you are likely to find that he or she is quite the optimist. After all, who else would strive to do a job where out of all your days hunting and all the work put in “off the pitch”, you probably finish a season with only five or six days that were just fantastic and everything went perfectly? As I said, we’re a body of optimists. While out autumn training for trail-hunting early one morning, as I walked around the side of the covert while hounds were drawing, a very cheerful subscriber asked, “Good morning, Gareth, how are you?” What came to mind was, “I’m feeling just bloody…

LAURA SCHROTER tended to struggle in the showjumping with Marengo Bonaparte, the disappointing clatter of tumbling poles often keeping them away from the business end of leaderboards. “No matter how much I opened my hands, he would tuck his head into his neck and brace against his bit, often cat-leaping over the jumps,” she said. Despite Laura riding Marengo Bonaparte in the mildest of plastic snaffles, the problem persisted and she found herself consumed with trying to think of a solution to the problem, ultimately deciding to try a hackamore. “I bought the softest, most padded one I could find and used it first at home. He took to it in an instant and although it feels like I’m riding him in a headcollar, it’s transformed our jumping.” I OWE…

HIGHLIGHTS 10-16 October Edited by Polly Bryan polly.bryan@futurenet.com @pollyrose21 Associated Championships, Bury Farm EC, Buckinghamshire TIREVE WHAT’S WANTED, a true golden oldie at the grand age of 27, claimed a competitive British native pony elementary win from a field of 25. The Welsh section C gelding, who stands just 13hh, was competing at his fifth championship show in six weeks. “He loves it,” said rider Amelia Ward of “Freddy”, who was her first pony 13 years ago. “He was so naughty, screaming his head off all weekend and generally being a devil. He’s a bit long in the body and short in the legs, but what he lacks in flash he makes up for in technical accuracy and correctness.” By contrast, Amelia described her part-bred Arab novice winner, Sea Lark,…

BUSY equine vet Beth Ault competed two horses at Felbridge Showground, West Sussex, before going straight to work in the afternoon and turning them out there in the field. “I enjoy the dressage” BETH AULT “Work is manic,” said Beth, a practice manager at Lingfield Equine Vets, who headed both novices with her 16-year-old, part-bred Connemara gelding Toberpatrick Ben. “I’ve evented Ben at grassroots level, but I’ve always enjoyed the dressage. We’ve done a few competitions this year and he has been incredibly consistent.” Beth, who trains with Daniel Bremner, was also placed with her coloured cob gelding, Splash Moran.…

THE last domestic Group One Flat race of the season before the Guineas next May, the Vertem Futurity at Doncaster, was won impressively by Aidan O’Brien’s Auguste Rodin. The colt was already winter favourite for the Derby – a bit of a poisoned chalice because I think Camelot in 2011 was probably the last one to go on and win at Epsom – but is now as short as 3/1 for it. It has not been a fantastic year by Ballydoyle’s normally high standards, the star being the Gold Cup winning stayer Kyprios. ONE TO WATCH…

Share your news story Call 01252 555021 Email eleanor.jones@futurenet.com @ jones_eleanor_ THE ballot system will be scrapped and an overhaul of the fixtures calendar is under way as British Eventing (BE) takes significant steps aimed to modernise the sport for the benefit of its members. The intention is to give more flexibility to the calendar by removing red tape, and so ensure BE is offering the best fixtures. The removal of the ballot process is underpinned by members’ feedback, and the aim is to move away from the costly, bureaucratic system of entering in advance, only to find out weeks later this has been unsuccessful. BE chairman Mark Sartori alluded to changes to the calendar and the ballot system in the BE podcast with EquiRatings. “I would argue that [BE]…

BADMINTON DATE TWEAK FOR 2023 THE 2023 Badminton Horse Trials will start a day later than planned to avoid the cross-country clashing with The King and The Queen Consort’s coronation. The ceremony is to take place on Saturday, 6 May, during the CCI5* that was due to run from 3-7 May. Badminton has confirmed that the dressage will run on the Friday and Saturday, cross-country on Sunday and showjumping on Monday, 8 May. Saturday’s dressage will start early and the ceremony will be shown on big screens. Event director Jane Tuckwell said: “We very much hope that the wonderful and historic occasion of the coronation will make it a truly memorable Badminton.” FIRST TRAIL-HUNT TRIALS TO BE HELD THE British Hound Sports Association is holding a Trail-Hunting Hound Trials Day…

Olympic champion Ben Maher made history when he became Global Champions Tour champion of champions for a third time, on 22 October. Ben won the title in 2018 and 2019. Report, p58. Paralympic medallist Natasha Baker is a British Horse Society ambassador. She will share her “knowledge, enthusiasm and determination” on accessibility and participation. Dressage rider Annabella Pidgley, 17, has made a victorious grand prix debut with Charlotte Dujardin’s Tokyo medal-winning ride Gio, on plus-73%. Annabella took over the ride in autumn 2021. Irish eventer Padraig McCarthy and Pomp N Circumstance won the CCI3*-S at Bicton (19-23 October), on the final weekend of the British eventing season. Report, p62. International grand prix dressage rider Jill Day was elected British Dressage chairman at the organisation’s annual general meeting. She takes over…

REALITY A non-horsey chap who very kindly mucked out his sister’s horses in her absence was feeling the pain when she returned. “There is hay and straw everywhere and I still stink after a bath,” he groaned. Welcome to our world, young man. TRIALS Hats off to Parklands EC, which has had a delivery of super-duper shavings forks and is offering all potential customers the chance to try them out. Some 30 stables are available to make sure they work properly, every day, and this opportunity is free! Where do we sign up? TRAINERS That’s the shoe sort, not the coach sort. In the US, one can now buy “sneakers” for one’s horses, if one has a mind to, for $1,200 (£Don’tAsk). Per shoe. And they’re “wearable art”, apparently… but…

pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle THE discussions around the difficulty and length of cross-country tracks at the top level have again been brought into focus this autumn by the differences between what we saw at Burghley, the World Championships and then Maryland. The cross-country course for the World Championships at Pratoni wasn’t what I had expected at that venue - I knew it would be a shorter track than normal, but I thought the jumps would be bigger. When I walked it, though, I was impressed with designer Giuseppe della Chiesa’s ideas and could see what he was trying to do, and it was exciting to watch. When you have experienced riders such as Michael Jung, Andrew Hoy and Tom McEwen having to work hard and making it look difficult, it obviously works…

RIDER GARETH HUGHES “IN our sport, there are two things that make a horse good. The first is talent, and Briolinca is talented in the movements where there are the most marks, like piaffe and passage. The second is their heart and brain, so when it gets tough they try harder. Briolinca will battle for me and try really hard, even if she’s nervous or scared. “She’s talented, beautiful and a real madam. She is not by nature a big mover, but she is very good in the collected work. As a younger horse she had quite a lot of nerves, but now she is much more confident and feels very neat, and she is so secure in her movements that shell never come off a line. It gives me…

Lord Astor’s agenda for the BHSA • For all hunts to build stronger links with MPs and policymakers, and for hunting, through the BHSA, to be more prominent in discussions and media on conservation, rural issues and more, rather than relying on the Countryside Alliance. Some parttime regional hunting PRs are being recruited with this in mind. • To protect access to MoD land and regain access to Forestry Commission and National Trust land for legal trail-hunting. • Once the BHSA is fully up and running, he would like to see future BHSA chairmen chosen through a vote: “I might be a hereditary peer, but I do believe in elections!” • Membership open to all at a cost of £40 a year. • To guide hunts through further amalgamations as…

THE East Sussex and Romney Marsh (ESRM) hounds arrive from Sussex, on a train, for a meet the next morning at Preston Lodge in the Cottesmore country. They are the pack I hunt today, except Ludwig, Dagger, Daffodil and Lustful are all in their third season. Two Welsh hounds appear on the way to the meet, one tiny and one huge. They are Bader and Horatio from the Mendip Farmers and slip out of a hedgerow with sterns wagging gaily. It’s a few years before World War II and although the wire and poultry funds are groaning under barrow-loads of cash, there is no discernible class system. The meet is gracious and inclusive, hosted by Sophie Wetherby - who has travelled back in time. Hot food in small quantities is…

ALTHOUGH professional producers were on their customary top form, “hobby” exhibitors also shone. One of the most delighted was Lancashire-based Julie Chadwick, who watched Liam Priestley win the RIHS 2023 small breeds qualifier and take his ticket on her beloved Dartmoor, Langfield Hollywood Heights (Toby). “Neither Toby nor I have been in the best of health,” said Julie, 63. “I can no longer ride, so I work him from the ground. I lunge him and long-rein him up and down the Burnley hills. His success is a testament to his wonderful temperament and Liam&s amazing ability to ride him so beautifully in the ring. He mainly only meets him at shows but is so very talented.” I OWE IT TO…

ALISTAIR CHRISTIE told H&H that the standard of the competition had been “tremendous” throughout the week. JUDGE’S VIEW “There are horses here who have won the Royal Highland for years, multiple Cawdor cups. I don’t think you’ll get a better show of Clydesdales than we’ve seen this week,” he said. Of the newly crowned supreme world champion Tulloes Emily, he said she is “an outstanding filly”. “She’s exactly what you want to see in the breed. She fills the eye from nose to tail, she’s correct, has long, silky hair, beautiful action and just oozes breed character,” enthused Mr Christie.…

EACH grand prix in the LGCT series offers a ticket to the €1.25m Longines Super Grand Prix at the Prague Playoffs in November. Here are this year’s contenders. LUDGER BEERBAUM (GER) qualified as the winner in Doha KATRIN ECKERMANN (GER), Miami Beach DENIS LYNCH (IRL), Mexico City SANNE THIJSSEN (NED,) Madrid MAUN BARYARD-JOHNSSON (SWE), Saint Tropez CHRISTIAN AHLMANN (GER), Hamburg DANIEL DEUSSER (GER), Cannes HENRIK VON ECKERMANN (SWE), Stockholm MARLON MODOLO ZANOTELLI (BRA), Paris MAX KÜHNER (AUT), Monaco PIETER DEVOS (BEL), London MICHAEL PENDER (IRL), Valkenswaard CHRISTIAN KUKUK (GER), Rome MCLAIN WARD (USA), New York HARRIE SMOLDERS (NED; pictured below), Riyadh…

Rodbaston, Staffordshire FARAH JONES and 15-year-old Ourland Gilmour topped the line-up in the Heritage Insurance diamond qualifier, continuing a successful first year as a partnership. Farah, who works freelance riding, teaching and providing yard cover, bought the horse from a client last September. “I had him on a lease to begin with and we ended up qualifying straight for nationals, so I threw myself in at the deep end,” Farah said. “We’ve had a great year we’ve had two international onestar wins since April, one at our first international at Chepstow and one at Chard and he also won at the Welsh masters.” The “cheeky” gelding has no recorded breeding on his dam line, but is believed to be out of a thoroughbred/Trakehner mare by King Of Sparks. “I think…

AFTER surviving emergency surgery two years ago for colic caused by a strangulated lipoma, side-saddle prelim winner Diorissimo (Dylan) is enjoying a varied lifestyle with owner Lois Seymour. “We call It Dylan’s bucket list challenge,” said Lois, who explained that she and the 20-year-old gelding are having a go at everything she’d previously lacked the courage or confidence to try. “When we saw that side-saddle would be at the Associated Championships this year, we decided to give it a go. He’s an elegant horse with a gorgeous temperament and will happily switch between the two [side-saddle and astride].” Lois, an import shipping clerk who trains with Clare Ashley, keeps Dylan in her back garden and schools him on an area of flat ground in an orchard. “We’re not the usual…

EIGHT months after their last outing - at the Easton College winter regionals Tracey Nelson and her lockdown purchase, Zafiro J, excelled at Anvil Park Stud, Norfolk, to win the novice 22. “I had a hip replaced in June and the horses had six months off,” explained Tracey, who bought “Zaf” as an entire four-year-old from Spain. “He is very genuine and solid, but very hot. It took me a year to get him to stretch and work over his back, and bend, but he loves his work. “He’s my first Spanish horse," she said, adding that the six-year-old gelding is now working at elementary-medium at home. “He’s on good form his first show back and he nails the novice.” ONE TO WATCH…

THERE is a really good series on the BBC at the moment called Saving Lives at Sea. In the last episode I watched, they told the story of a keen swimmer who was dragged out to sea by a rip tide, only to be saved in the nick of time by the lifeguards. The following day, the swimmer was back in the sea again. “Madness,” I thought. Which was stupid really, because as riders we do something similar all the time. We fall off, we get back on again. Falling off and riding go together like bread and butter. It’s an essential part of the game. When people say, “I've stopped riding,” it’s not really the riding that made them stop. It’s the falling off that they can’t handle anymore.…

The Horse & Hound Podcast H&H discusses the latest news on The Horse & Hound Podcast: horseandhound.co.uk/podcast ITALY is bidding to retain its position as host country of the 2022 endurance World Championships after the plug was pulled weeks ahead of the scheduled event. This year’s championships were originally set to be held in Verona from 19 to 23 October, but were cancelled in September as the safety of horses and riders “could not be guaranteed” (news, 15 September). “This was not a decision we took lightly, as we fully understand the ramifications it will have, but we had to take our responsibilities and respect the assessment of our technical experts,” FEI president Ingmar de Vos said at the time. The FEI reopened the bidding, and has extended the cut-off…

MEET this stunning “supercob” who’s both silver and gold, changes colour - and is a dab hoof at dressage. Catherine Chalkly and Bradwell Dun Deal, both 16, came second in the elementary dressage to music at the British Riding Clubs championships at Bury Farm on 30 September. Catherine’s proud mother Hannah told H&H they have owned the buckskin gelding, who is to be aimed at medium this winter, for four years. “People always ask what colour he is, and what breed,” Hannah said. “They ask if he’s for sale, even when we’ve stopped at service stations!” She added that she was nervous at the championships “Catherine was the only junior in the class and there were some very good riders there - but all went well. I was very proud.”…

polly.bryan@futurenet.com @pollyrose21 AS costs rise and entries fall, show venues are fighting for every entry to stay viable. But at what cost to the quality of dressage judging? Taking late entries has become the norm, even if it means squeezing another rider into the gap between classes that should enable judges to draw breath and prepare for the next test. Centres frequently run tests from prelim to advanced medium with one judge across all classes. At a recent show, a judge assessed more than 20 horses over eight different tests; one novice, two elementaries, two mediums, two advanced mediums and one advanced. “We’ve done enough preaching to the converted” A three-and-a-half-hour session with no breaks is enough to leave any judge’s brain well fried… and wondering if the next one…

VANIR KAMIRA (Tilly) left for Burghley on Tuesday with groom Amy Phillips. I worked her in the morning, then she had a few hours in her field, had a bath, dried off on the walker and left mid-afternoon. Tilly lives out a lot at home so she had plenty of hand-grazing all week. She can tie up and she goes off her food at times; grazing keeps her appetite up. She stuffed her face all week at Burghley, so she was obviously pretty content. I sorted our son Max for school on Wednesday and then drove to Burghley. Amy and I stayed in the lorry, while my husband Thomas travelled to and fro from home with Max.…

GROOM Amy Phillips (left, with Tilly, Piggy and Piggy’s sister Nini) is a huge part of Vanir Kamira’s performance. “She is a bit of a pain in the bum, but she’s worth it because she performs when you need her to,” says Amy. “I joked that I was basically employed for the three weeks before Burghley just to do Tilly. “I do feel I make a bit of a difference with her because she’s so fussy. You feel the pressure, so it’s a relief when it goes well. I bawled like a baby when she came out of the dressage.” Tilly’s feeding regime is unusual. “She has about seven tiny feeds a day,” says Amy. “She eats better at an event than at home - it’s almost like she’s carb-loading…

“I CALL Briolinca my little princess and she makes me smile every day. It is incredible to see her back out this year doing what she loves. She and Gareth are such an amazing partnership. In Compiègne, I couldn’t see her for tears by the time it got to the final halt. They were tears of joy and a feeling of accomplishment; we’d done it and she was back. “Normally when we travel away with her, she can be a little bit nervous and on edge when we first arrive, and she doesn’t tend to eat or drink very well away from home. But after just 24 hours at the World Dressage Championships in Herning, she settled, happy and eating well. “We spent a lot of time hand-walking and hand-grazing…

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BSPS HERITAGE CHAMPIONSHIPS 15-16 October Edited by Alex Robinson alexandra.robinson@futurenet.com @alexrob_journo_ BSPS Heritage Championships, Arena UK, Lincolnshire A NEW Forest pony proved a shining example of the breed’s versatility on the flat and over fences, culminating in a coveted London International ticket, the open Heritage worker tricolour and the show’s New Horizon Plastics £1,000 overall Heritage supreme title. Vikki Smith had Penny Sutton’s attractive blue roan working stallion Lovelyhill Folklore (George) right on song throughout the weekend, oozing presence, quality, athleticism and breed type. A fascinating mix of big winners and talented newcomers lined up for the 11-strong final supreme, which brought this highly successful show to a close. “This pony was a standout winner for me,” enthused supreme judge David Ingle. “He is correct and performed an uphill, light and…

WORLD Clydesdale Show chief executive Ailsa Clark told H&H that bringing the show to Scotland had been a “momentous journey”, and that it may return to Scotland in 2027. “It’s magical to be holding this in Scotland and it’s really important,” she said. “We want to keep our breed going and to have the show brought to the home of the Clydesdale has been a huge achievement. It would not have been possible without the support of all of the committee and sponsors”.’ TALKING POINT…

BICTON ARENA (3) 19-23 October Edited by Pippa Roome pippa.roome@futurenet.com @pipparoomeorkyle Bicton Arena, Devon A MASTERFUL cross-country round that was bang on the optimum time left Padraig McCarthy and Pomp N Circumstance at the head of affairs in the CCI3*-S at this popular West Country fixture on the final weekend of the UK eventing season. The result, however, briefly hung in the balance, the Irishman awarded 15 penalties for jumping the wrong side of a flag at fence 7a and leaving long-time leader Barnie Brotherton believing that the winner’s spoils would be his. The penalties were, however, rescinded as swiftly as they had been awarded. “My score had reverted to the right one before I’d even told the stewards that I’d just touched the flag with my toe,” said Padraig.…

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @ jen_donald HIGHLIGHTS 22-23 October Cheltenham Showcase Meeting, Gloucestershire JUMP racing’s return to Cheltenham for its first autumn fixture, the Showcase, marks the unofficial start of the jump season. Coinciding with the first serious rain for some time, added to the feeling that, at long last, National Hunt racing has lift-off for the 2022/23 season. I was beginning to think it would never come. Wincanton, ironically, was still abandoned on Sunday because of its quick ground, but trainers who have been hanging back with their good horses will now start to kick on, and we can expect a succession of good horses making their reappearance in the next few weeks. A theme at the headquarters of jump racing in recent years has been the balance of power between Britain…

FIRST CHELTENHAM WINNER WILLIE MULLINS does not usually bother too much with the Showcase meeting, but the victory of Dads Lad in the 888sport Handicap Chase provided a welcome first winner at the course for jockey Brian Hayes. With the retirement of Messrs Walsh, Geraghty and Power in recent years, Hayes, 34, the partner of Rachael Blackmore, is now one of Ireland’s senior jump jockeys and is working his way up the pecking order of jockeys at Closutton, something he likened to “getting in the Liverpool team”. Patrick Mullins, representing his dad, said: “That’s his first winner at Cheltenham, but it won’t be his last. He’s been a big part of our team for the past couple of years and I just thought that the ride won it.”…