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Nick Skelton & Big Star to Retire Together at Royal Windsor Horse Show
Nick Skelton & Big Star to Retire Together at Royal Windsor Horse Show
Horse & Hound broke the news on Wednesday, April 5, 2017 that Olympic gold medalists Nick Skelton and Big Star will retire from the sport of show jumping. Their official... Read more...
Nick Skelton and Big Star during the Olympic Individual Final. Ph. Erin Gilmore
Nick Skelton & Big Star Voted NF 2016 Rider & Horse of the Year
Should it come as any surprise that the ultimate comeback pair rose to the top of the Noelle Floyd Best of 2016 Rider and Horse categories? Certainly not, after their... Read more...
Nick Skelton & Big Star in Rio
Big Star To Miss CHI Geneva and London-Olympia With Leg Injury
CHI Geneva released a statement this afternoon announcing the withdrawal of Olympic Gold medalist combination Nick Skelton and Big Star from competition at the CHI Geneva CSI5* starting December 8th-11th,... Read more...
Big Star and Nick Skelton competing at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
British Showjumping Renames National Six Year Old Championships In Honor of Big Star
It is with great delight, that British Showjumping are announcing that the current National 6 year-old Championships will be renamed the Big Star Championships for 2017 and beyond. London 2012... Read more...
Nick Skelton & Big Star compete at Rio 2016.
Nick Skelton & Mark Beever: Winners of 2016 FEI Best Rider & Best Groom
Great Britain’s Nick Skelton and his groom, Mark Beever were honored at the annual FEI Awards Gala in Tokyo, Japan on Tuesday, November 22, 2016. Skelton was named Best Rider,... Read more...
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Photo of the Day. . .
Individual Gold Medalist Nick Skelton of Great Britain and Individual Bronze Medalist Eric Lamaze of Canada walked together to the podium, arm in arm, in advance of the Olympic medal... Read more...
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Great Britain Announces Show Jumping Team for Rio Olympic Games
The British Olympic Association has today, July 5th, 2016, announced the 12 athletes that will compete for Team GB across the three equestrian disciplines of Eventing, Dressage and Jumping at... Read more...
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How Many is Too Many? Lamaze and Skelton Give Voice to Rider Frustrations at WEF
After the victory was applauded and the winning ride of the Ariat Grand Prix was discussed on Sunday, February 7th, the post-grand prix press conference at WEF took a very... Read more...
Nick Skelton and Big Star in London last year
Nick Skelton Taking it Day by Day with Big Star…
It’s now been just over a year since Big Star has been seen in a competition arena, but rider Nick Skelton reports that all is well with the London 2012... Read more...
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USA’s Jessica Springsteen to train with Edwina Tops-Alexander…
USA’s Jessica Springsteen will start a new chapter training with her fellow Gucci team mate Edwina Tops-Alexander at Stal Tops in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands this season. The horses arrived this... Read more...
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From 1979-2014; Past Winners of the FEI World Cup Finals…
Results 1979 Göteborg (SWE) 1. Hugo Simon – Gladstone, 18, 0/24.50 secs [5] 2. Katie Monahan – The Jones Boy, 18, 4/25.40 3. Eddie Macken- Carrolls of Dundalk, 6 3.... Read more...
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Nick Skelton & Big Star out of contention for World Equestrian Games…
Nick Skelton’s amazing stallion Big Star is set to be out of action for a 12 month period, following the recurrence of a leg injury that had the well-known stallion... Read more...
International Riders list for Longines Global Champions Tour event in Estoril…
2014 Longines Global Champions Tour of Estoril, Portugal Australia Edwina Tops-Alexander Belgium Pieter Devos Nicola Philippaerts Constant van Paesschen Gregory Wathelet El Salvador José Alfredo Hernández Ortega France Roger-Yves Bost Kevin Staut Germany Christian Ahlmann Daniel Deusser Hans-Dieter Dreher Marcus Ehning Greece Athina Onassis de Miranda Ireland Shane Breen Cameron Hanley Denis Lynch Mark McAuley […] Read more...
Daniel Deusser and Cornet d'Amour last year in the 2013 Longines Grand Prix of Hamburg. The pair finished second overall
International Riders List for the Global Champions Tour event of Hamburg…
International Riders list for the 2014 Longines Global Champions Tour of Hamburg Australia Edwina Tops-Alexander Belgium Gudrun Patteet Constant van Paesschen Brazil Doda de Miranda Canada Eric Lamaze Colombia Rodrigo... Read more...
Nick Skelton and Big Star will make their 2014 debut at the Royal Windsor Horse Show
Full International Riders list for the 2014 Royal Windsor Horse Show…
Royal Windsor Horse Show CSI3* DEFINITE ENTRIES BELGIUM Le Jeune, Philippe Mathy Jr, Francois FRANCE Couperie, Edouard Gonin, Julien GREAT BRITAIN Aston, Chloe Charles, Peter Davison, Joe Fletcher, Tina Funnell,... Read more...
Nick & Big Star London
Nick Skelton’s Big Star debuts his 2014 season at Royal Windsor Horse Show…
Nick Skelton’s London 2012 team gold medal winning horse, Big Star, will make his comeback return to competition from injury at Royal Windsor Horse Show, which takes place on 14... Read more...
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Longines Beijing Masters draws world’s best to famous Bird’s Nest…
It is our great honor to announce that on 9th May 2014, Beijing National Stadium, otherwise known as the famous Bird’s Nest, will receive China’s first CSI 3-Star equestrian show... Read more...
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Update on Britain’s beloved Big Star…
With such a large following, one of Britain’s most loved combinations have been enjoying some relaxing time in Florida for the start of the 2014 season. Considered one of the... Read more...
Reed Kessler and Cylana this past week in Barcelona for the 2013 Furusiyya Nations Cup Finals for Team USA
International Horse & Rider’s List for Week 8 of the 2014 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival….
International Horse & Rider’s List for 2014 WEF 8 G & C Farm CSIO4* of the 2014 FTI Consulting Winter Equestrian Festival…. # HORSE RIDER CTRY OWNER 1 926 CARTIER MAX... Read more...