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When is a BMW Mini Cooper a Horsebox….?

24 Saturday Jan 2015

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[Equihunter Horseboxes] Well we are just three weeks into the new year and at Equihunter we’ve delivered our next creation for a customer in Aberdeen … An Equihunter Arena based upon the BMW Mini Cooper.

BMW Mini finished in Ice Blue plus Cooper S trim

BMW Mini finished in Ice Blue plus Cooper S trim 

Now I know what you are thinking…. You’re never going to fit a horse into a Mini Cooper !!!

So we did the next best thing and made our Arena “look like” the Mini our customer had in mind… finished in BMW Mini Cooper Ice Blue paint and trim.

Equihunter Arena finished in BMW Mini Ice Blue

Our Latest Production – The Equihunter Arena finished in BMW Mini Ice Blue … prices start from £21,000 including vat

It’s not just a ‘pretty face’ either, this horsebox has it all as well inside…..

  • Sleeping for two in the Luton Cab
  • Lined Luton Cab Area with Reading Light and ladder access
  • Gas Hob with on-board LPG Gas supply in dedicated cupboard
  • Portable flushing toilet
  • Stainless steel sink and tap
  • Electrically pumped water supply
  • Leisure battery with charging circuit
  • 12v outlet
  • Seating for two
  • Internal (locked) twin saddle racks
  • Wardrobe with hanging rail
  • Ample shelving
  • Twin side lockers
  • LED lighting with automatic blue night calming lights
  • High pressure pumped horse wash
  • Horse Area twin floor mounted liquid drain holes

….and a lot more besides…

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Our thanks goes out to our graphics designer Luke Allen and the production team led by Graham Allen.  

If you are interested in receiving more information about the Equihunter range of horseboxes, please use the contact details below…

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Felbridge Show Centre, 
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Felbridge, 
East Grinstead, 
West Sussex, 
RH19 2NU

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Riding high – Equestrian sports bask in Olympic success: The Oxford Times

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

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[The Oxford Times] Following London 2012, Britain is officially the best country in the world at Olympic horse riding. Team GB aced the equestrian event with three gold medals, one silver and one bronze.

The club has welcomed 20 new members since the Olympic games.

The club has welcomed 20 new members since the Olympic games. Photo: Pigeon House Equestrian

With more than 20 stables and equestrian centres in the county, Oxfordshire is a great place to learn. Sarah Hill, who runs Pigeon House Equestrian near Woodstock, said the club has welcomed 20 new members since the Olympic games.

Ms Hill, 42, from North Leigh, near Witney, said: “It has been really good for the sport.

“The British are great riders, going back years and years.”        equihunter horseboxes

She said it takes 18 months for a rider to build up the necessary bond with their horse.

Olympic horse riders compete in three disciplines – dressage, show jumping, and eventing, which combines the first two skills with cross-country racing.

Ms Hill’s 17-year-old daughter, Olivia Abdolrazaghi, is in training to become a professional horse rider, and hopes one day to compete in the Olympics.

Next year she will take part in eventing competitions, for which she had to register with the governing body, British Eventing.                  horse lorry

Miss Abdolrazaghi said: “It is a very competitive environment, but I like the thrill of it.”

At each event, the competitors first walk the cross-country course with their trainers to memorise the route……

Read the full story at The Oxford Times…..

The Oxford Times – Pete Hughes
5th Feb, 2013

Contact: Sarah Hill – Pigeon House Equestrian

Telephone: 01993 881628
Email: info@horse-rides.co.uk

Unlike Gatcombe Park, the Olympic equestrian competition will survive the rain: Telegraph

12 Thursday Jul 2012

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[Telegraph] Given all the criticism about limited space, expense, absence of legacy, damage and lock-out of local users, Greenwich Park’s most redeeming feature could also be its most unexpected: the ability to run an Olympic cross-country when other major venues have sunk under mud.

Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s Equestrian Venue Manager, says Greenwich has huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials

Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s Equestrian Venue Manager says Greenwich has huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials  (Photo: Getty Images)

Gatcombe Park usually welcomes unseasonal rain to take the sting out of its quick-drying parkland but even this has fallen victim to waterlogging.

It is, though, hard to find a senior equestrian who thinks the Olympic competition will suffer the same fate. Though not involved with 2012, Mike Etherington-Smith, course designer at Sydney 2000 and typhoon-prone Hong Kong 2008 said: “It’s still three weeks away. There are a lot of experts down there with enough experience of the sections of the park that get wet to have dealt with it already.”

Seventy days’ worth of fixtures have been rained-off since March. It has cost national governing body British Eventing (BE) £750,000 in rider-entry abandonment fees; it may now extend the national season to November to catch up. There are huge losses for small events that operate on a shoestring anyway and some retailers look for half their annual turnover at headline fixtures. The British eventing team might have looked slightly different if Badminton had run and given a prodigy the opportunity to impress.

But Greenwich is not like any other horse trial, and that is why its sporting programme should survive. There are plenty of tarmac and hardcore tracks to move spectators about, no horseboxes or spectator cars to be towed in and out, no pedestrian-heavy shopping villages, and the park has naturally good drainage. A positive Jeremy Edwards, Locog’s equestrian venue manager, says this gives Greenwich huge advantages over the UK’s annual “pop-up” trials. One of his media room colleagues added with equal optimism: “If any site can take a battering, it is us.”

Edwards was venue manager at Sydney 2000, a permanent build. Greenwich has presented different challenges but he says he is “happy with progress”.

He said: “I have seen no…..

Read the full story at the Telegraph……

by Pippa Cuckson – the Telegraph’s equestrian correspondent
July 11th, 2012

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