FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes He is young, talented, ambitious and has a superb string of horses. Could 22-year-old Harry Charles become only the third-ever British rider to claim the coveted Longines FEI Jumping World Cup™ title when the 42nd Final gets underway in Leipzig (GER) next week? In…
Continue ReadingFEI PRESS RELEASE – by Louise Parkes Being more Jessica…. With two Olympic and three European gold medals all collected over the last eight months, Germany’s Jessica von Bredow-Werndl and TSF Dalera BB look hot favourites to take the FEI Dressage World Cup™ title when the 2021/2022 Final gets underway…
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Continue ReadingFEI EUROPEAN CHAMPIONSHIPS FOR PONIES 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes Quality performances were the order of the day at the FEI European Championships for Ponies 2021 in Strzegom, Poland where France claimed Team and Individual gold in both Eventing and Jumping, and Germany dominated the Dressage podium. Dressage…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Team Jumping Final Tokyo (JPN), 7 August 2021 Photo Caption: FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes It’s almost a century since Sweden last won Olympic Jumping Team gold, and when they did it tonight they did it with both style and grace. A magnificent performance…
Continue ReadingFEI Press Release by Louise Parkes It was a tough day at the office for many of the nations competing in the Team Jumping Qualifier at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games in Baji Koen Equestrian Park today. But for Team Sweden it was just another walk in the park. Since…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Jumping Individual Final Tokyo (JPN), 4 August 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes “I don’t know what was more pressure, this or getting married in two weeks!”, said Great Britain’s Ben Maher as he clutched the Individual Jumping gold medal he just won at…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Eventing Team and Individual Final Tokyo (JPN), 2 August 2021 Photo Caption: Germany’s Julia Krajewski has entered the equestrian history books as the very first female athlete to take the Individual Olympic Eventing title following victory with Amande de B’Neville at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic…
Continue ReadingWHAT THEY HAD TO SAY….. Sam Watson (Flamenco) – Those devices are there to look after us and I fu approve not only because they do that but because they make you ride precise and accurate, and it was the one time I let adrenalin go – there’s the fence,…
Continue ReadingTOKYO 2020 OLYMPIC GAMES – Eventing Cross-Country Tokyo (JPN), 1 August 2021 FEI Press Release by Louise Parkes World number one, Great Britain’s Oliver Townend, regained the individual lead he established on the first day of the Dressage phase with a perfect ride on Ballaghmor Class on Cross Country day…
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