Congratulations!
The H&H staff want to congratulate two tournament riders who’ve not too long ago welcomed their first kids. Coral Hardman (née Prepared) and her husband Oliver’s son, Rupert Oscar Hardman, used to be born on 15 February, whilst Lissa Inexperienced and Giorgio Audino’s new arrival, Emilia Rose Audino, used to be born on 20 March. Coral stated that they “couldn’t be happier”, including “our hearts are very complete as we head into this thrilling new bankruptcy of our lives”, whilst Lissa described motherhood as “our most enjoyable and essential adventure but… my middle/mind/eyes are complete to the brim.”
In finding out what Coral’s plans are for this season
April fools – or are they?
This 12 months, our April idiot tale used to be in regards to the earliest instance of “matchy-matchy” horse and rider equipment, relationship from about 35,000 BC. Expedition chief Dr Rob Graves, of the Complex Prehistoric Analysis Institute Laboratory (APRIL – see what we did there?), described discovering the pony and rider, entire with tack together with a pad beneath the saddle made out of sabre-tooth tiger’s pores and skin, as a “startling discovery” and “a big anthropomorphological in finding”.
Whilst maximum readers appropriately known this as a spoof tale to mark the day, some assumed that the tale revealed later the similar day in regards to the BSPS introducing a pastime horse championship used to be additionally an April idiot, when it used to be now not.
Take a look at our April idiot tale and the BSPS’s pastime horse championships
A tragic farewell
Our ideas are with proprietor John Fairley, teacher John Quinn and all of Highfield Princess’s connections after the home-bred mare died, elderly seven, having sustained an inoperable fracture whilst in her solid. In spite of the most productive efforts of the Rainbow Equine Medical institution vets and their staff, she may now not be stored.
Highfield Princess, pictured successful the Flying 5 Stakes on the Curragh in 2022.
Mr Fairley stated: “Highfield Princess used to be the delight of Yorkshire, a celebrity at the racecourse and adored by way of such a lot of, for her irrepressible spirit at domestic and at the racecourse. We’re pondering of everybody who liked and admired her, in the United Kingdom and all over the international. She will probably be for ever held in our hearts.”
Learn complete tribute to this particular horse
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