Willa Newton scored her first Burgham International Horse Trials win on the final day of the five-day Northumbrian eventing extravaganza, taking section E of the NIS Group Ltd and Encon Technical Solutions CCI2*-S on Da Vinci. The Leicestershire-based rider added nothing to her leading dressage mark of 24.8 on six-year-old Da Vinci, whom she [...]
Piggy March boosted her chances of British team selection for the European Championships with a convincing victory on Jayne McGivern’s Halo in the Project Pony-sponsored CCI4*-S section C at Burgham International Horse Trials (24-27 July). Piggy’s finishing score of 19.8 with the 12-year-old Holsteiner stallion is a Burgham CCI4*-S record; the pair added nothing [...]
Piggy March has soared to the top of the leaderboard in CCI4*-S section C, sponsored by Project Pony, at Burgham International Horse Trials (24-27 July). Piggy posted an exceptional dressage mark of 19.8 aboard Jayne McGivern’s lovely grey stallion Halo to overtake Oliver Townend and Cooley Rosalent, who go into Saturday’s showjumping and cross-country in [...]
Oliver Townend has won Burgham International Horse Trials’ feature class - the CCI4*-S - an impressive seven times since 2016, and he has given himself the best possible chance of adding to that tally by leading the dressage after day one at the Northumbrian event. Riding his 2024 Burgham winner, Paul and Diana Ridgeon’s [...]
Twenty-year-old Jemima Howden scored her first ever international victory in the NIS Group Services Ltd CCI2*-S on the final day of Burgham International Horse Trials, supported by Project Pony. Riding her father David’s seven-year-old grey Van Kaunitz, Jemima was third after dressage with a mark of 25.2. She picked up just 0.8 of a [...]
Oliver Townend and Cooley Rosalent strolled to victory in the Holme Dodsworth Metals CCI4*-S at Burgham International Horse Trials, supported by Project Pony - Oliver’s seventh win in Burgham’s feature class in the past decade. Riding her father David’s seven-year-old grey Van Kaunitz, Jemima was third after dressage with a mark of 25.2. She [...]
Oliver Townend shot to the top of the leaderboard in the Holme Dodsworth Metals CCI4*-S during the second of day of dressage with a brilliant score of 19.8 aboard his Kentucky CCI5* winner, Paul and Diana Ridgeon’s 10-year-old mare Cooley Rosalent. Shropshire-based Oliver said: “I’m very happy with Cooley Rosalent’s performance today; she’s just getting [...]
Britain’s Tom Jackson has taken a convincing lead in the Holme Dodsworth Metals CCI4*-S class at Burgham International Horse Trials (24-28 July), presented by Project Pony, with a personal-best score of 22.9 on Patricia Davenport’s Capels Hollow Drift. Tom and the 13-year-old grey were part of the British squad at the 2023 European Championships in [...]
With the largest number of entries in the event’s history and perfect conditions underfoot, Burgham International Horse Trials 2023 (26-30 July) looks set to be the best yet. Riders from every continent with the exception of Antarctica will be competing at Burgham, and they encompass 20 different countries as far-flung as Norway, Namibia, Morocco, China, [...]
Tickets are now on sale for Burgham International Horse Trials (26-30 July) - and, for a limited period of time, visitors can attend Northumberland’s premier international equestrian event for just £1 per person. Early-bird offers on tickets for Burgham, which attracts the world’s very best event riders and their top horses every year, mean [...]
