Author Archives: Lulu Kyriacou

Andrew Nicholson, New Zealand's outspoken and brilliant event rider, has decided to step down from top level competition. Nicholson's record is the stuff of legend. He's won five of the...

CHIO Aachen, in Germany has been running its championship show for over 100 years. It is probably the most noted event in Europe, featuring top class dressage, show jumping, driving,...

There may have been controversy over the format changes in the equestrian competitions at Tokyo 2020, but no one will be able to dispute that these Olympic Games have been...

Gemma Tattersall won her first five-star event Sunday at the Chedington Bicton Park Horse Trials and left the press conference with £40,000 in prize money and a marriage proposal from her...

Any thoughts that the Burghley replacement, CCI5* Chedington Bicton Park Horse Trials, was a going to be a pale imitation of a ‘proper’ 5* event were banished on Saturday when...

It may be a new event, but the leaderboard has a familiar feel with only one newbie to the level in the current top ten at the Chedington Bicton Park...

With the opening of the Chedington Bicton Park CCI5* in the south west of England, eventing at the highest level is back in the UK after an absence of two...

The USA Para Equestrian team closed the 2020 Tokyo Paralympic Games with their best ever medal total. The haul includes the individual gold in the Grade 1 Freestyle for Roxanne...

Within 24 hours of British rider Ben Maher winning the individual gold medal in show jumping at Tokyo 2020, teammate Scott Brash has been subbed out of the British squad for...

In the last 20 years, following multiple rider and horse deaths due to cross country falls, a number of safety measures were introduced into the sport of eventing. Not the...

The medal chances of the Swedish eventing team were dashed a few hours ago when Ludwig Svennerstal was forced to withdraw his horse Balham Mist from the Tokyo Olympic Games....

Horses became involved in Olympic competition approximately  680 BC when chariot racing was introduced. Then, as now, the animals were considered as much athletes as their riders. In the chariot...

Amidst the horse withdrawals and riders declining to travel as reserves to Japan, one might be forgiven for thinking that this Olympic Games doesn’t matter to some equestrians as much...

After the forced withdrawn of Jamie Kermond from the Olympic Games, the remaining two Australian show jumping riders have been waiting on tenterhooks to hear whether they could compete as...

Australia’s James Kermond, a member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympic show jumping team, has tested positive for cocaine and is suspended from taking part in the Games.   The new...

The British Olympic eventing horses will fly to Tokyo today. Piggy March’s Brookfield Inocent will not be among them. Ros Canter and Allstar B, originally slated as the non-traveling reserve for...

Rowan Willis, the Australian showjumper currently splitting his time between the UK and USA circuits, has decided to withdraw from the Tokyo Olympic Games, for which he was named as...

More shake up on the U.S. Olympic Eventing team. Following the substitution of Boyd Martin's Luke 140 for Tsetserleg and just when it looked like Team USA would get to...

Mollie Summerland (GBR), the youngest ever winner of the CCI5* at Luhmühlen, Germany, revealed that her stable star Charly van ter Heiden picked up an injury at the event and...

Three-time Olympian Edwina Tops-Alexander will captain a rookie Australian Olympic show jumping team in Tokyo, her fourth Games. She has twice finished in the top ten individually, logging ninth place...