When is Badminton Horse Trials? Badminton Horse Trials normally takes place in the first week of May each year. However, in 2024 the event will take place in the second week of May, after Royal Windsor Horse Show. What is Badminton Grassroots? The Badminton Grassroots Championship takes place just before the 5-star event with competitions […]
Bedmax, the Northumberland-based NOPS-accredited bedding manufacturer, has retained Nico as their equestrian photographer.
In recent years Blenheim Palace Horse Trials has been organised by British Eventing and the event photography split between two companies due to the number of things going on. Working for E. S. Photography, and subsequently 1st Class Images when they merged I have been covering the three days of arena eventing. This year, however, […]
Horse & Hound kindly commissioned me to photograph the Chedington Bicton Park 5* Horse Trials for them, something I was very honoured to do. More photos here: Bicton Park Horse Trials Photos The Bicton Arena horse trials were arranged in a very short period of time as a replacement for the Land Rover Burghley Horse […]
Barrowcliffe Farm, in Leicestershire, is typical of much of the surrounding countryside in the heart of the traditional hunting homeland. Ridge and furrow fields of rolling pasture extend for miles. In recent years the owners have been developing an equestrian cross country training facility, spread across three of their adjacent fields, and covering about 35 […]
The next in my series of lockdown mini-interviews is with Newmarket-based Bubby Upton. Please introduce yourself So, my name is Bubby Upton (real name Isabelle) and I’m 22 years old (March 2021). I live at my family home just outside Newmarket, where I have lived my whole life and that’s where my first riding memories […]
Please introduce yourself My name is Heidi Coy, I’m 21 years old and am a international event rider. I grew up surrounded by horses on my parents’ Dairy farm in the heart of Leicestershire, a career in horses felt inevitable for me. My Mother had my first pony lined up before I was even born! […]
A quick post because I get a lot of people ask me where it is. For many years now I have used the automation features of Photodeck to add images which are tagged with certain keywords to a gallery, known as The Tumblers Club. What is The Tumblers Club? The gallery contains nearly all the […]
The road to Badminton Horse Trials 2021 has been an extraordinary and completely unexpected one, with lots of changes to both personnel and event. Photos of Badminton Horse Trials 2021 In June 2019, it was announced that Hugh Thomas, long term Badminton Horse Trials Event Director, would be retiring, and that his experienced Assistant Director […]
Badminton Horse Trials will take place behind closed doors in 2021, unless COVID restrictions are relaxed.
Laura Collett won this year's only 5-Star three-day-event at Pau this weekend with Karen Bartlett, Keith Scott and her own London 52
Stonesby rider Willa Newton returned to competition at Oasby Horse Trials after a long injury lay off and won an Open Novice section with Georgie Jelf’s Cock A Doodle D
My photos from the British Eventing competition can be viewed here: Thoresberton International Horse Trials 2020. The International classes at Osberton act as an annual National Championship for six and seven-year-old classes as well as popular long format 2-star and 3-star competitions for older horses. This year, as a result of the Covid pandemic, the […]
Photographs of Thoresby Park International Horse Trials At the tail end of a season hugely disrupted by COVID, Thoresby Park stepped in to host the young horse championships usually hosted by the Osberton Estate, a few miles away in Nottinghamshire. Thoresby Park was the ancestral home to the x family … This inaugural event featured […]
I was offered the chance to photograph a fun ride on farm land North of Grantham, in Lincolnshire. Scroll down for a link to the rest of the images.
Queen’s granddaughter Zara Tindall competed at British Eventing Cornbury House Horse Trials in Oxfordshire at the weekend, with three horses.
This is a placeholder for a future article in which I will detail the various parts of this project. For now, the Equestrian Dashboard, a sort of resource kit for equestrians of all types, is being developed here. Equestrian Resource Kit in Notion You may need to create a Notion account to view this resource […]
Irish event rider and championship medallist Cathal Daniels was teaching in Leicestershire this week. The 23-year-old from County Galway had been competing in the arena eventing class at the Liverpool International Horse Show and found time to teach at the newly opened equestrian centre at Hyde Lodge Horses, near Tilton on the Hill. Daniels, whose […]
The Cottesmore Hunt, founded in 1666, continued the tradition of meeting on Boxing Day in Oakham as they congregated in Cutts Close today. Despite heavy rain there was a good turn out of mounted and foot followers as well as a handful of quiet protesters. Although fox hunting was banned in 2004, exemptions include trail […]
In May I was phoned by Thomas March, Piggy French's long term partner, who asked me if I was free to photograph a party which was being held to celebrate Piggy's win at Badminton Horse Trials a couple of weeks previously. I said I was and the date was duly secured. Nearer the time, Tom […]
I traditionally start my eventing season at Oasby Horse Trials, near Ancaster in Lincolnshire, where the four-day competition runs sections from BE90 level up to Intermediate. The intermediate competition includes open sections which have become a recognised warm up for horses planning to compete at Badminton in May, followed usually by a three (now four) […]
For the first time in in recent years the Belvoir Hunt Ball was held in Belvoir Castle, Leicestershire, in February, having previously been held in mid-Summer, in a marquee at the kennels, on the Estate. The Grade 1 listed castle is the ancestral home to the Dukes of Rutland and sits in of 15,000 acres. […]
UPDATED - 11th April 2018 Before I begin, please don't tell me that I should be using C1 or something else. I have tried everything and for my purposes - and I know this is true for lots of photographers like me - Lightroom is the nearest thing to "the best tool". That doesn't mean […]
Last week I completed a Jaguar Land Rover commission to photograph three new Discovery Sport vehicles. British Dressage, British Eventing and British Showjumping have a new partnership with iconic British automotive brand, Land Rover. This alignment sees them become the Official Vehicle Supplier to the three governing bodies of the Olympic equestrian sports. Land Rover […]
Wiltshire teenager Tahnia Jordan-Jones completed a stunning Horse of the Year Show double when she won the Squibb Group Pony Foxhunter Championship. Barely 48 hours after landing the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers class on Jumper, Swindon-based Tahnia added Foxhunter success with the same pony in spectacular fashion. It was the first time such a double […]
Reigning Supreme Horse of the Year and Cob of the Year Champion, Our Cashel Blue, delighted the crowds on the penultimate evening of Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) when he successfully defended The Colosso Family Cob of the Year Champion title, navigated once again by Allister Hood. The lightweight cob, who seems to turn […]
Robert Walker was delighted to ride Jill Day’s Lightweight Show Hunter, View Point, to victory in the Catplant Group of Companies Ltd. Show Hunter of the Year Championship, two years after piloting the gelding’s brother, Vantage Point, to the same title at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) 2015. By Loughahoe Guy out of Quality […]
Broadstone Dolce Vita, William Moran and Pearl Underwood’s star mare, was tonight crowned the new Cuddy Supreme In-Hand Champion at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS). The 17-year-old mare now has one of the most prestigious and sought-after titles in the showing world to her name, following a prolific winning ridden career with Amy Underwood. […]
If you were lucky enough to watch the prize giving ceremony at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials this year you will know that the presentations were nearly upstaged by this chap, a gorgeous army dog called Caesar. Soon after the event the handler got in touch with me to ask if he could have a […]
We wake in Dublin to find that air conditioning does not seem to work in our apartments. It is very warm in our rooms and we all feel a bit dehydrated but it doesn't matter too much because today is our lay day and we only have a few non-time-specific jobs to do. We drive […]
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