Photography for post artwork: Megan Wright Media Today sees the aQuelle Foresyte Winter Classic host the FEI World Cup Qualifier. Tune in on Equilive to see all the action:
Gilles Thomas claims World Cup win The Nekkerhal erupted in celebration as Gilles Thomas (BEL) secured a spectacular victory in the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup Qualifier at Mechelen, capping off an extraordinary year for the 27-year-old Belgian star. In a dramatic finish that had the packed arena holding its collective breath, Thomas and his…
First Austrian winner in 36 years as home crowd celebrates dramatic jump-off at ExCeL. Austria's Max Kühner and EIC Cooley Jump The Q delivered a masterclass performance on Sunday evening (December 21) to win the Longines FEI Jumping World Cup presented by Agria at London International Horse Show, becoming the first Austrians to claim the title…
Winners of the Toyota Midrand World Cup Qualifier HQ Magazine were fortunate enough to catch up with Tamar Gliksman on her fabulous win at the Toyota Midrand World Cup Qualifier aboard her special stallion Farnham Stable’s Capital Kronos. Here’s what she had to say: The win HQ: First and foremost, huge congratulations on your incredible win!…
A strong field of 26 competitors took part in Sunday’s WCQ, several of whom have recently moved up to the WCQ level. Kate Launder set a fair track that rode well and produced a 27% clear round rate. The clear rounds included two previous WCQ winning combinations, George Coutlis on Callaho Lord Cris and Ronnie…
Photography: @chloer.photography_ With two challenging Championship tracks built on the Saturday, a tough Championship was expected on Sunday. The 1.40m Championship track was certainly up to height and standard, but the 54 strong start list handled it well, with few spills and an impressive 44% of the class jumping clear and proceeding to the jump-off! One glance…
When Graham Winn spoke to course builder, Bernado and asked "How many clears are you hoping to get?" he responded that he was going to build a Championship track, and a championship track is undoubtedly what he built! Following a retirement at number 1, Protein Feeds Campbell and Lisa Williams jumped a picture-perfect clear round, showing…
The Biogen 1.40m championships saw another testing, world-class track. Bernardo managed yet again to place jumps and lines in far different locations from what we would typically see. There was only one direct 5-stride line and also a two-stride combination of oxers, which is an unfamiliar obstacle here. All other distances gave the combinations a…
The final day of the Biogen World Cup Qualifier began with the Callaho Warmblood Stud 1.35m Championships. As one would expect, the Championship Day courses were up a level from what had come before. The technical track jumped well, with 17 of the 60 starters going through to the jump-off, and vying for one of the…
Despite possibly the coldest Maple World Cup qualifier day in history, as the show has been moved earlier on our calendar, the wind was quite refreshing, and the same can be said of Bernardo Costa Cabral’s courses. The general consensus among our top riders was that it has been such a breath of fresh air to…