1. Burghley’s bid to carry the 2026 eventing World Championships
Yesterday (9 February) the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials organising crew introduced plans to bid for the 2026 eventing World Championships, and are in discussions with UK Sport about accessing funding. The five-star venue has held the World Championships twice earlier than, in 1966, and 1974. Occasion director Martyn Johnson mentioned Burghley is “synonymous with the head of the game of eventing”, and internet hosting the championships would deliver big advantages to the occasion and local people. “It might additionally focus our longer-term imaginative and prescient for the occasion as we proceed to put money into upgrading the everlasting infrastructures for athletes and horses to enhance additional a world-class venue,” he mentioned. The bid course of, run by the FEI, is open and can conclude by June.
2. Ben Maher’s “unscheduled vacation”
Olympic showjumping champion Ben Maher is recovering from a fall on the Wellington Equestrian Pageant in Florida, the place he has been leaping a string of horses. Ben mentioned on 8 February that owing to the “dangerous fall” he will probably be taking an “unscheduled vacation”, however he hopes to be again quickly. The Tokyo gold medallist had been having fun with a profitable couple of weeks within the States, and had clocked up plenty of high placings together with together with his Rio Olympic companion Tic Tac and new high mare Dallas Vegas Batilly. Ben mentioned he’ll preserve everybody up to date on his restoration and appreciates all the type messages.
3. Unsuited mixtures placing welfare in danger
This week in his unique H&H column Carl Hester mentioned horse welfare, following an Worldwide Dressage Riders Membership Zoom assembly he attended led by equine vet and researcher Rachel Murray. Among the many assembly’s discussions was how the fallacious match between horse and rider may cause “confusion and harm”. Carl mentioned riders who lack confidence and switch to dressage as they discover it much less scary than leaping, or riders who should not bodily match sufficient to take a seat on the ability, will not be positioned to journey a sparky younger horse ahead with confidence. “Horses attempt laborious to please and people keen temperaments, if not strengthened, educated and managed appropriately, can put them in danger. We have to shield them. This isn’t criticism; it’s a name for training to be the precedence, for us to hearken to extremely certified practitioners like Rachel when speaking about welfare,” he mentioned.
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