8 mega moments from the 2019 H&H Festival of Eventing
Here are just a few of our favourite moments...
Horse & Hound Festival of Eventing
The Horse & Hound Festival of Eventing was held for three years (2017 to 2019) over the May Bank Holiday weekend at The College Equestrian Centre at Keysoe in Bedfordshire.
The annual unaffiliated three-day event had direct entry classes at 70cm, 80cm, 90cm and 1m. The dressage was on Saturday, cross-country on Sunday, followed by a horse inspection and showjumping on Bank Holiday Monday. There were no roads and tracks or steeplechase phases.
Download the 2019 results (PDF format)
The Horse & Hound Festival of Eventing gave unaffiliated riders the chance to enjoy a great stay-away show experience with their horse, with the opportunity to be crowned a Horse & Hound champion and win an armful of exciting prizes.
Entered riders were able to join a closed facebook group to plan their competition and share their highs and lows throughout the event.
The Horse & Hound team were on site throughout the event, reporting extensively for both the magazine and website and interviewing riders, as you can read below.
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the mother of five contesting her first three-day event
Meet this inspirational rider who has a lot on her plate
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the vet who nearly gave up riding and her special ex-racehorse
‘The hours are long and sometimes we have to do sad things, I get on Limey and it all goes away’
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H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘you have to ride what you’ve got’ - overnight leader claims 70cm victory
‘Mango really helps me out and she did today in the showjumping – I can trust her’
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H&H Festival of Eventing : ‘he was fly-bucking in the warm-up’ - Silver scoops 80cm title
‘He can forget he has a rider on his back if you’re not careful so I have to talk to him’
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H&H Festival of Eventing: 12-year-old produces polished round to be crowned 90cm champion
‘He has a really good jump – the first time I sat on him I fell in love’
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H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘perfect Poppy’ jumps her way to 100cm victory
‘I’m quite a competitive rider, I definitely wanted to win’
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘I left all of my clothes at home’
Meet the rider who emergency-bought underwear only to discover all the security tags had been left on
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘I had a sudden urge to jump at 50’
'It was on my bucket list and I thought ‘I need to do this’'
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the 73-year-old rider and her home-bred, part-bred Highland Pony
Meet the veteran rider and her “difficult but wonderful” little horse
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H&H Festival of Eventing:‘I didn’t expect it in the slightest’ — new overnight leader in the 70cm
‘The last event I took her to two weeks ago we had a set-back and were eliminated — she took a disliking to drops and ditches’
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H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘he could have gone round twice’ — 80cm leader holds on to the top spot
‘It’s a lovely course and it flowed really well, the going was perfect’
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘He catapulted me face first’
Find out about this combination’s comeback following a horror fall
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H&H Festival of Eventing: rider’s second pony moves into the top spot of the 90cm
‘He was way really quick but I had my watch on and left him to it’
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H&H Festival of Eventing: it's all change at the top of the 100cm - 'she loves the water'
'She loves water so it never worries me – she speeds up for it'
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Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: 'the vet thought she had had a stroke'
'I knew it wasn’t her time to go – she wasn’t done yet'
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Tales from H&H Festival of Eventing: rider side-lined for nine months returns after eight weeks
'“I asked when I could ride again and the surgeon joked that I should never ride again!'
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H&H Festival of Eventing: gelding who likes to make his own moves up takes the lead in the Spillers 80cm
'I've had a year to get to know him better'
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H&H Festival of Eventing: young rider takes first and third place overnight in the Ariat 90cm
Charlotte has stormed into first and third place, while her mum, Claire lies in eight
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H&H Festival of Eventing: 'Penguin' comes back from injury to take 100cm lead
Penguin spent six months on box rest following a suspensory ligament injury but has returned 'on form' to take the lead after the dressage
