
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor
Pippa is magazine editor and eventing editor at Horse & Hound. An Exeter graduate, she has worked for H&H since 2003 and has held the role of eventing editor since 2005. In 2014 she was promoted to hold the role of head of sports and in 2016 she took on the position of magazine editor, while still keeping her eventing editor responsibilities.
Pippa has reported at three Olympics, in Rio in 2016, Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024, from the 2010, 2014 and 2018 World Equestrian Games (WEG), the 2022 World Championships and at the five-star horse trials at Badminton, Burghley, Luhmühlen, Pau, Kentucky and Maryland.
Outside eventing, Pippa has reported on the 2014 (Lyon), 2015 (Las Vegas) and 2018 (Paris) dressage and showjumping World Cup finals, as well as the 2015 European Showjumping Championships in Aachen. She reported the showjumping at the 2010 and 2018 WEGs and worked across all the disciplines at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024.
In 2009, Pippa won the IPC Media digital journalist of the year award.
Pippa has ridden all her life and progressed through the Pony Club to be a working pupil for eventers Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks during her gap year before university, pairing up with the chestnut gelding VIP (Peanut) to complete her first CCI* (now CCI2*-L). She continued to event Peanut during university and while working for H&H, competing up to intermediate level and completing seven CCI*s (now CCI2*-Ls) in total.
When Peanut retired, Pippa took a break from competing for 10 years. In 2018, she returned to the fray at BE90 level with the 15.1hh Connemara Kiltulla Lad (Alfie), who is mostly her mother’s dressage horse but likes to moonlight as an eventer.
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‘We bought him to go novice… now we’re thinking about five-star’ – Bramham success for a teenager on the rise
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Multiple four-star winner who was placed at Badminton retires: ‘She’ll spend her days being the queen she is’
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‘We either terrify fancy horses with our flying feather or people want to hug them’ – meet the gypsy cobs winning in affiliated eventing
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‘I’ve seen legends win this – and I’m very proud of the horse he’s become’: Bubby Upton wins Bramham
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Two horses sent to holding box at Bramham final trot-up and three leave competition
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Yasmin Ingham scores first Bramham win by finest margin on ‘super brave and bold’ young mare
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‘Relief’ as rider who re-rerouted after Badminton disappointment takes Bramham under-25 national title
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Young British talent eyes up first senior four-star long win on ‘phenomenal’ horse as Bramham cross-country juggles leaderboard
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A future force, an arrogant veteran and a five-star winner who’s gaining confidence in top 10 as Bramham dressage concludes
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‘I rang Pippa Funnell and thought about going home’: Piggy March on her ‘nightmare’ preparation for Bramham dressage with new ride
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‘He was unbelievably sharp’: time and patience pay off as young Brit takes lead in Bramham four-star long
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Brit who hit headlines at Badminton leads under-25s at Bramham: ‘He knows what he needs to do, does it, then has a sleep’
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British Olympic medallist’s daughter competes at Bramham: ‘Mum’s fab – but I have to tell her to be harsher on me!’
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Young British competitor takes over ride on two five-star event horses: ‘I’m grateful for the opportunity’
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Home-bred leads Bramham four-star long dressage, as his full sibling ‘twins’ are due
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Meet new world number one Harry Meade’s top horses, from the surprise five-star performer to the sensitive worrier
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First look at how Bramham’s new course-designer has put his stamp on these challenging cross-country tracks
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One horse leaves competition and three held at Bramham first trot-up
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‘The sport I Iove’: new leader tops British one-two-three in world rankings
