A five-star rider’s wedding ceremony, the passing of a much-loved choose, and different issues the equestrian world is speaking about

Pony Membership department assist at five-star rider’s wedding ceremony

5-star eventer Rosie Thomas, who ending thirteenth at Burghley in 2008 driving crowd-favourite Barry’s Finest, married Andrew Willmett on 29 September in St Michael’s Church, Bockleton. Rosie can be chief teacher of the Ludlow Hunt department of the Pony Membership, and when she got here out of the church she was met by a shock guard of honour – 21 of her younger riders dressed of their finest jodhpurs and Pony Membership sweatshirts, whips adorned with pink and white ribbon. Rosie mentioned: “It was a shock to see them, I feel I mentioned ‘what are you lot doing right here?’! I feel the boys had a number of sword fights beforehand – however I didn’t see it! It actually was an excellent day.”

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Farewell to an excellent of the dressage world

Rosemary Herbert, the revered dressage choose and mentor, died peacefully on 20 September 2024, aged 96. Rosemary was concerned in pony, junior, younger rider and senior groups, travelling Europe as a chef d’équipe or selector for Britain. A few of her proudest moments have been when Nice Britain gained a younger rider silver medal in 1986 and a senior European silver medal in 1993. She loved mentoring up-and-coming judges, a lot of whom have turn out to be revered judges themselves. She was massively revered within the equestrian world, priding herself on her integrity and all the time keen to share her information and nice wealth of expertise with others.

Obituary: Rosemary Herbert

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Sarah has greater than 20 years expertise as an equestrian journalist and editor. She has reported from main championships together with the Europeans and the World Equestrian Video games. She has co-written books on equestrianism together with The Full Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies. Sarah has ridden since childhood, owned horses and ponies for over 25 years, and labored for and skilled with Olympic gold medallist occasion rider Leslie Legislation previous to going to college.