10 Unforgettable Olympians: Glengarrick
Rider: Heelan Tompkins
Athens, 2004
The oldest and smallest horse in the field, ridden by the youngest rider – 26-year-old Heelan Tompkins - Glengarrick didn’t win...
10 Unforgettable Olympians: Diagonal
Rider: Daniel Meech
Athens, 2004
Daniel Meech came closer than any other New Zealander to Olympic show jumping glory at the Athens Games, finishing 12th overall...
British Olympic equestrian team longlist
The British have announced their 2016 Olympic longlist. All riders from 2012's gold-medal-winning dressage team are named, and Peter Charles is the only 2012 rider missing from this...
Australian Olympic longlist
A longlist of riders who are possibly going to be representing Australia at the Rio Olympics has been released. The offical final entries must...
Olympic Blog #2: Carrot on a stick?
My Olympic media fitness programme is going well. So far I’ve achieved more than my goal of 10,000 steps per day (with one exception...
Don’t dream. It’s over. No Andrew Nicholson at Rio
It's official. Andrew Nicholson will not be going to his seventh Olympics in Rio. While this won't come as a huge surprise following the...
US names its Olympic eventing team
The United States Equestrian Federation has just named its Olympic eventing team. It is:
Phillip Dutton on Fernhill Cubalawn, with Mighty Nice and Fernhill Fugitive...
German Olympic teams named
The German Olympic Equestrian Committee has released their longlist for the Olympics. In both the jumping and eventing disciplines, they have released an A and a B list...
10 Unforgettable Olympians: Big Red
Rider: Joe Yorke
MONTREAL 1976
Big Red was a rangy 11-year-old chestnut by Final Court. Originally part of a full New Zealand show jumping team for...
Olympic Blog: number one – 50 sleeps
I've known I have had media accreditation for the O's (that's what the cool people call the Olympics) for some time but it is...
