Olympic Equestrian News

PRINCELY HONOUR: Mark Todd after receiving his Knighthood for services to Equestrian Sport from the Prince of Wales following an Investiture ceremony at Buckingham Palace.

EVENTING legend Sir Mark Todd was one of a number of sports stars who were honoured at Bucking-ham Palace yesterday.

EVENTING legend Sir Mark Todd was one of a number of sports stars who were honoured today at Buckingham Palace.

Tinne Vilhelmson-Silfven and Don Auriello heads the Swedish team for the opening leg of the FEI Nations Cup Dressage in Vidauban, France, on Friday.

KUALA LUMPUR: Praveen Nair inched closer towards qualifying for the 2014 Youth Olympic Games with another faultless performance at the Bukit Kiara Equestrian and Country Resort.

In Carriage Driving, 55 year-old Barry Captstick won the Horse Pairs, beating current World Champion, Hungary's Vilmos Lazar, into fourth place by 16 points.

With her gold medal win at the 2012 London Paralympic Games in the Grade 1b individual test, Formosa is only the second Australian to win a Paralympic gold medal in Equestrian.

New Zealand bronze medallists in the teams competition at last year's London Olympics; Andrew Nicholson victorious at three successive four star events, most recently Kentucky last month; and Jock Paget triumphs on his first attempt at Badminton this week.

NICOLA Wilson endured a difficult afternoon of show-jumping at the weekend as New Zealand debutant Jonathan Paget claimed a thrilling victory at the Badminton Horse Trials.

If there were ever any doubts about the Queen 's acceptance of the Duchess of Cornwall , they were dispelled at the Royal Windsor Horse Show on Friday.

Lexington, KY - May 8, 2013 - The USET Foundation is pleased to announce that this year's recipient of the Pinnacle Cup Trophy at the Rolex Kentucky Three-Day Event CCI**** is Bruce O. Davidson, Jr.

FORMER bricklayer Jonathan 'Jock' Paget has won the 2013 Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials on his debut in the event.

Phillips, the Queen's grandson and brother of London 2012 team silver medal-winning eventer Zara Phillips, is organising the event at Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park from June 6-9. It will see a welcome return to London of elite outdoor showjumping and is set to attract the world's top riders, including British Olympic team gold medallists Nick ... (more)

The neighs have it: Thumbs up from Boris Johnson as Nick Skelton leads him around the Olympic Park Boris Johnson might just have found his Tory stalking-horse as the London mayor took the reins of a noble steed at London's Olympic Park.

Not so long ago, Jonathan Paget was laying bricks on Sydney building sites and trying to learn how to stay on bucking broncos for eight seconds at rodeo school.

The Duchess of Cornwall today made an appearance at the Badminton Horse Trials to hand out trophies to the winners.

Grand Slam-chasing duo William Fox-Pitt and Andrew Nicholson remain in the hunt for equestrian's richest prize after a thrilling day of cross-country action at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials.

Beezie Madden already had experienced unprecedented success as an equestrian athlete, becoming the first woman to pass the $1 million mark in show jumping earnings and the first American rider to reach the top three on the world ranking list.

'That is lovely. Just lovely," says a young woman wearing white jodhpurs and a tweed jacket.

ZARA Phillips put herself firmly in contention at the Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials today with a quality dressage performance on her London 2012 horse High Kingdom.