1. Who will take the honours on the World Cup finals?
The showjumping and dressage World Cup finals obtained underneath manner yesterday in Leipzig, Germany, and the vaulting and driving begins at the moment (8 April). H&H will likely be bringing you complete stories from the dressage and showjumping throughout the weekend from our on-site reporter, H&H dressage editor Polly Bryan, together with when you possibly can watch your favorite riders, how the Brits are getting on, and all the most recent updates.
Find out methods to watch the motion
2. Welfare considerations in transporting horses overseas
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Top riders have spoken out about their “nightmare” journeys crossing the Channel with horses since Brexit. World eventing gold medallist Gemma Tattersall and showjumper Elizabeth Baker have been each held up for hours on current journeys to Europe, with Gemma having to rearrange for certainly one of her horses having to be collected from Calais owing to a mistake in paperwork. Elizabeth, whose horses have been on board for 16 or 17 hours owing to delays, partly from ready for vet checks, stated no paperwork ought to come earlier than the welfare of horses.
Read the total story and what Defra needed to say in regards to the delays
3. Have you picked your Grand National winner?
The Randox Grand National is the race the nation stops to observe and this 12 months’s takes place on Saturday 9 April at 5.15pm at Aintree racecourse in Merseyside. With 40 runners racing over 4m2½f with 30 fences to barter, selecting the winner of the historic race is not any simple job so we’ve known as within the specialists to share their Grand National suggestions. Don’t overlook to take a look at H&H’s full information to this 12 months’s runners and riders within the present problem of the journal too.
Read the specialists’ Grand National suggestions
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Isabell Werth and Weihegold OLD win their third World Cup Final collectively in Gothenburg in 2019
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Indie Vaughan-Jones and All Over At Midnight win at Great Witchingham in March 2022.
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