Category: Horse Heroes
Eventing is a truly unique and diverse sport. Riders and horses of every sort, colour and creed enjoy the challenges that eventing brings, and throughout its history there have been many non-conformist success stories that capture the minds and hearts of participants and spectators alike. Horses such as Charisma, Murphy Himself, Just William and Mulry’s […]
Mother Theresa of Calcutta once said that some people come into our life as blessings and others come into our life as lessons. Hannah Francis is surely both. Diagnosed with a rare and aggressive form of cancer called Osteosarcoma in 2015 at just seventeen years of age, Hannah decided to make a bucket list and […]
Joseph Murphy is a man on a mission. His journey from GAA mad teenager to Olympian has been the perfect melting pot of planning, opportunity and sheer hard work. With an innate ability to spot top class potential in a horse and an accurate and forward riding style, Joseph has built himself a solid string […]
Lindsay Graham really is all things to all people. Slowly but surely, she is carving a successful business out of eventing both her own and client’s horses, producing young horses and also teaching. Her friendly manner and her positive approach to life make her someone that everyone wants to know, and she is working hard […]
Cathal Daniels is a young man on a mission and he is turning heads everywhere he goes. The 20 year old rider based in the west of Ireland has enjoyed a glittering career in ponies and juniors, and now as a young rider he finds himself on the training squad for the Rio Olympics with […]
Padraig McCarthy is one of life’s great achievers. He finds himself on the eventing high performance squad for Ireland with his eye firmly on getting to the Rio Olympics, and he has travelled a road less ordinary to get there. The 38 year old Tipperary native is based at Warren Farm in Devon with his […]
Irish eventer Sam Watson had a remarkable year in 2015. Best known for his solid partnership with the evergreen Horseware Bushman, Sam has carefully built up a team of superb horses since London 2012 and looks set to be a force to be reckoned with in the years ahead. London was undoubtedly a sticking point […]
Jonty Evans is known as one of the nicest men in eventing, and it seems only fitting that he also happens to ride one of the nicest horses in eventing. Cooley Rorkes Drift announced himself in no uncertain terms at the start of 2015 when winning the Aldon International in March. He beat his stable […]
Alice Dunsdon is a happy girl. Fresh from her incredible trip to the Adelaide International 4* with her horse Fernhill Present (aka Hilly), she is on the brink of making history. Thirty-year-old Alice, from Guildford in Surrey, runs a small but select string of event horses and is a joint master of the Surrey Union […]