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Are things on the up for horsebox manufacturers? Easy2Insure

31 Friday May 2013

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[Easy2Insure] A recent report in the Financial Times suggests that niche motor industry businesses are currently bucking the economic trend and doing rather well.

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The report looked at a number of businesses in the usually hard-hit North East of England and found that, rather than struggling during one of the worst economic periods in decades, small manufacturers and specialist producers are doing particularly well financially.

One of those listed is the UK’s largest horsebox maker Equi-Trek. The firm is the largest maker of horse boxes in the UK and produces everything from £5,000 hitch and go trailers to luxury mobile homes for professional showjumpers that run into hundreds of thousands of pounds. So why are things looking so bright for horse box manufacturers, and could this be part of the ‘Olympic Legacy’ we’ve all heard so much about this year?

A little extra disposable income and some smart options such as group ownership and syndicates has also meant that more people are being encouraged to enter what was previously thought of as an elite sport. But there are still expenses and along with the tack, the equipment and, of course, the horse, owners need to be mobile. And that means investing in a horse box…..

Read the full feature at Easy2Insure……


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31st May, 2013


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

06 Wednesday Feb 2013

Posted by Equihunter Horseboxes in Dressage, Equestrian News, Eventing, Olympics, Showjumping, United Kingdom

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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


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Duchess of Cambridge battles horse allergy to learn to ride: The Telegraph

24 Wednesday Oct 2012

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[The Telegraph] The Duchess of Cambridge is learning to ride despite being allergic to horses, it has emerged.

The Duchess was seen enthusiastically supporting Zara Phillips at the Olympic Games

The Duchess was seen enthusiastically supporting Zara Phillips at the Olympic Games. Photo: Wikipedia

The Duchess of Cambridge has taken up the favourite Royal pastime of riding, disclosing she was learning after finding a passion for horses.

Despite allegedly being allergic to the animals, she told Paralympic medallist Lee Pearson she had now taken up the sport.

Speaking at a Buckingham Palace reception for Olympic and Paralympic athletes, Mr Pearson disclosed he had even offered the Duchess of Cambridge dressage lessons after she confided in him.

Mr Pearson, who won his tenth Paralympic gold medal this year, said: “Kate said she’s learning to ride so I offered to give her some lessons.

“She held my medals and said how heavy they were, and asked if me if I’d been riding all my life.”

He added he had even given the Duchess advice after the Countess of Wessex made him aware the novice rider was allergic to horses.

“I said ‘so am I – but anti-histimines are wonderful’,” he disclosed.

The Duchess of Cambridge has previously displayed an affinity for horses after admitting she was moved to tears while watching the theatre production War Horse.

She was also seen enthusiastically supporting Zara Phillips at the Olympic Games, as she competed in the equestrian event.

Mr Pearson was just one of the Olympic and Paralympic medallist who spoke to the Duchess and other members of the Royal family at a reception last night.

The Queen, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Duke of York, the Princess Royal, and the Earl and Countess of Wessex, greeted athletes and praised them for their achievements……

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The Longines Royal International Horse Show: Sussex Living

15 Sunday Jul 2012

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[Sussex Living] Just days before the start of the London 2012 Olympic Games, some of the best riders in the world will be at Hickstead for the Longines Royal International Horse Show – the official show of the British Horse Society.

With last year’s victory by the German team, the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours

With last year’s victory by the German team, the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours

The world’s top eight showjumping nations will arrive at the All England Jumping Course in West Sussex for the FEI Nations Cup™ of Great Britain. This flagship event – with a E200,000 prize fund – will be held on Friday 20 July, and following last year’s victory by the German team the home side will be doing their utmost to claim back the honours.

Sunday’s finale class, the Longines King George V Gold Cup, is one of the most sought after international Grand Prix classes in the world. A win at the show will no doubt bolster a nation’s confidence and morale just before the Olympics, so expect to see one of the most competitive fields in Hickstead’s history. Olympic course builders Bob Ellis and Kelvin Bywater will also be creating the courses for Hickstead, giving riders a final chance to jump round their tracks just before the Games.

The international classes start on Thursday 19 July, with the Amlin Plus Eventing Grand Prix. This class sees event riders and showjumpers go head to head round a course of coloured poles and fixed rustic fences. Last year, Gary Parsonage made history by winning the class for the fourth time – will a showjumper take the honours this time?

Saturday is a very special day at Hickstead. Not only do we have the Templant Events Queen Elizabeth II Cup, the pinnacle of national grand prix classes, but it’s also Ladies’ Day at Hickstead, held in support of Variety, the Children’s Charity. Ten of the most fashionably dressed visitors will be chosen by Hickstead’s team of selectors, and invited into the International Arena for the final judging.

There, celebrity judge Barbara Windsor will pick the best dressed lady and two runners-up, with……

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Sussex Living
11th July, 2012


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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…..

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


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Equestrian selection sparks controversy in Oz: Stuff.co.nz

09 Monday Jul 2012

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[stuff.co.nz] ”You have to love keeping it in the family!” pronounced Lyndal Oatley when she heard her cousin Kristy was joining her on the Australian Olympic equestrian team to compete in London.  

Some riders claim the selection process favours Kristy Oatley

Some riders claim the selection process favours Kristy Oatley

But, in the world of dressage, the love didn’t spread far at all.

Instead, the selection of the two Oatleys – granddaughters of the billionaire Bob Oatley, a sponsor of grand prix events in the sport in Australia – has exposed bitter tensions at the perceived influence of wealth and patronage in the sport.

Kristy Oatley gained her spot at the expense of Hayley Beresford under a discretionary selection process. Yet, only two weeks ago, Beresford was ranked 111th in the world, well ahead of Oatley’s ranking of 283, as judged by the Federation Equestre Internationale. Both women represented Australia in Beijing.

Then, last Thursday Beresford confirmed form, too, was on her side, beating Kristy Oatley in Aachen in Germany – only hours before the Court of Arbitration in Sport, sitting in Sydney, closed the final legal door to her Olympic dream. She finished the event in tears.

”I am deeply devastated and at this moment cannot find the words to explain the selection process,” she said on Facebook.

Beresford last night told the Sydney Morning Herald Lyndal was clearly the best rider but that selectors were biased towards Kristy.

Other riders are speaking out, claiming the selection process was altered to favour Kristy Oatley, who was added to the shadow Olympic team after it had been finalised despite not having competed for……

Read the full story at Stuff.co.nz


Andrew Stevenson & Louise Hall
Stuff.co.nz


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