Mary King on a donkey, plus 7 other tweets that stopped us in our tracks this week

Enjoy some of our favourite tweets from the past seven days. From eventing legends trying their hand at donkey racing to a miraculous save with the help of a fellow jockey, it all happened on Twitter this week.

Don’t miss the exciting competition on this weekly page. Our favourite tweet each week will win either an Apatchy mini tablet case or an Apatchy cosmetic bag, personalised with your own initials. For more information about the competition and to find out who this week’s winner is, go to the bottom of this page.

Tweets of the week

Sportsmanship at its best

This sounds like a logistical nightmare

Dennis looks like he has grand prix potential for Alice

It doesn’t look like these two are playing ball!

Two of the world’s greats, Mary King and Mark Todd go head-to-head on a different sort of four legs at Ballindenisk Horse Trials in Ireland

This looks very tempting

The wonderful Treve doing her best steam train impression during her final piece of work in preparation for her attempt at winning her third Prix de l’Arc de Triomphe this weekend (4 October)

And congratulations to this week’s Tweet of the Week winner

Poor old Blyth Tait only wanted a lovely picture with his horse. Instead he got this…

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Tweet of the week competition

The winner of the Horse & Hound tweet of the week competition can also be found by searching Twitter for #HHTweetOfTheWeek. The winner will receive an Apatchy mini tablet case (pictured left) or an Apatchy cosmetic bag (pictured below right), personalised with their initials.

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Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at Epsom in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.