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 [...]
A highly successful Burgham International Horse Trials 2023 concluded with victories in the two CCI2*-S sections, sponsored by Encon Technical Solutions Ltd and NIS Group Ltd, for Harry Meade and Katie Magee. Harry, a regular traveller from his Wiltshire base to Burgham in Northumberland, won section E aboard Mandy Grey’s seven-year-old Uvera Z on [...]
Oliver Townend and Piggy March shared the honours in the feature classes at Burgham - the Holme Dodsworth Metals CCI4*-S sections - between them with a victory apiece in a thrilling finish to a day of top-class horse sport. Oliver was scoring his sixth CCI4*-S win at Burgham, this time with the Hazeldines and [...]
