Most sensible five-star rider joins the British Eventing board, and different issues the pony global is speaking about

Pippa Funnell joins British Eventing board

Pippa Funnell will soak up a four-year time period as a non-executive director at the BE board, following the organisation’s AGM subsequent month. Pippa used to be inspired to position herself ahead for the voluntary place via stakeholders within the recreation. “I need long run generations to have the alternatives I’ve had,” she mentioned. “I believe BE now greater than ever wishes everybody to jointly determine what’s best possible for our recreation; prioritising the horses, the competition from grassroots to world, the house owners, and really importantly, the organisers – as a result of with out them there could be no recreation.” Attorney and novice eventer Will Cursham will stand at the board for a 2nd time period.

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New £10,000 area eventing championships

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Enviornment eventing lovers can experience an exhilarating new championships subsequent 12 months. The unaffiliated Konsileo Insurance coverage Nationwide Enviornment Eventing Championships, which will even incorporate Retraining of Racehorses categories, might be held at Sedbergh, Cumbria, in Would possibly. “That is going to be an incredible nationwide championships, with £1,000 going to the winner of the senior sections and a prize pot of over £10,000 in general,” mentioned organiser Katharine Martin.

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Since becoming a member of H&H in 2018, Becky has lined a large vary of equestrian information together with welfare issues, veterinary research, FEI Tribunal hearings and highway protection campaigns. She has additionally interviewed best riders together with Scott Brash, John Whitaker and Ian Stark, to call only a few. Becky’s reporting has taken her to Canada for Spruce Meadows and France for Pau five-star, in addition to the Royal Highland and Blair Citadel World Horse Trials nearer to house. She used to be additionally a key a part of the far flung reporting group for the Tokyo Olympics and the Europeans.