1. Rider interviews after horse falls Event riders involved in horse falls at FEI competitions in 2024 will be asked to speak with the ground jury to help improve cross-country safety in future, in a step the Eventing Riders Association (ERA) has welcomed. Although the FEI already collects a certain amount of data on falls, […]
Eventing came together to look forward and talk about the future in a meeting called at Thoresby following many withdrawals among the top-level classes. The wet spring – England’s dampest March in 40 years according to the Met Office – has sliced through the eventing calendar. At the Eventing Spring Carnival at Thoresby Park, organisers […]
New time limits on how long a cross-country course-designer can officiate at the same venue are among the final draft of 2023 eventing rules to be vote on
Horse & Hound Trending: Credit: Rupert Gibson Photography Britain’s national eventing championships will run at Burgham International Horse Trials (28 July- 1 August), in a “real celebration of equestrian sport at all levels”. Following the cancellation of the Festival of British Eventing at Gatcombe, and a tender process, the Northumberland venue will run the British Open, the intermediate, novice and novice restricted championships, alongside the established CCI4 -S, CCI3 -S and CCI2 -S international classes, and national classes. Burgham event director Martyn Johnson said: “It’s very exciting for the north, which sometimes misses out on big sporting events, that the British Eventing [BE] fixtures panel has trusted us with running these historic and important championships.
Horse & Hound Trending: Library image. Credit: Real Time Imaging/Steve Dawe A brouhaha about number bibs has arisen over a mid-season rule change by British Eventing (BE) to support sponsors. During the past year, enterprising companies started selling reusable numbers that fit inside competitor number bibs, in reaction to BE’s Covid regulations. Before the pandemic hit, competitors would collect the two sheets of A4 paper with their number printed on them from the secretary when they arrived at an event. However, as part of the sport’s safe return after the coronavirus enforced halt in 2020, BE stated competitors should print their own bib numbers before arriving.