Known for including a wide range of animals in his campaigns (we’ve had skateboarding peacocks and Harry Styles with his chickens) Alessandro Michele‘s Gucci SS20 animal of choice is a horse. Photographed by acclaimed director Yorgos Lanthimos, things start to make sense when you remember the filmmaker’s brilliant 2015 film The Lobster, where single people unable to find
Now owned and retrained by Sara Louise Duffy, Arvika Ligeonniere was with Willie Mullins and owned by Rich and Susannah Ricci. He is now 15yo and retired from racing at 9yo following injury. He raced 18 times, with 10 wins, 4 at Grade 1 level (2012 Bar One Racing Drinmore Novice Chase in Fairyhouse, 2012 Racing
While most former racehorse can become excellent riding horses after their racing career, there are some common less desirable behaviours that may need retraining. So what lies behind these behaviours and how can they be overcome? Stephanie Bateman finds out… The throughbred is a versatile and intelligent breed, with many racehorses able to turn their
Di Arbuthnot on making racehorses fashionable and giving them a new life, as told to Camilla Swift I first became involved with Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) in 2003, through being on the Sandown Racecourse committee. The racecourse chairman, Andrew Parker Bowles, asked me to do a study to find out what happened to horses when
Grand National runner-up The Last Samuri is thriving in his new post-racing life after retiring from a successful career on the track last year. Paul and Clare Rooney’s talented gelding retired sound and well in March 2019 following a career spanning six seasons. The popular 12-year-old, by Flemensfirth, is enjoying his retraining with Pandora Lovett,
Dual Group 1-winning sprinter Limato (Ire) by Tagula has been retired from racing and will be re-trained as a show horse by Katie Jerram. The news was first reported by Racing Post. A £41,000 graduate of the Doncaster August yearling sale, Limato raced from ages two to eight for owner Paul Jacobs and trainer Henry Candy and
Link to Christmas Show programme Christmas Show Programme 2024 Livestreaming can be found on Horse & Country TV and is free for all viewers. Follow along with the Results and Scoring Register your thoroughbred for free on Treo Eile
Treo Eile are sponsoring a prize of €150, together with a Treo Eile rosette and branded rug on the final day of the Duffys Equestrian Centre League on Saturday December 7th . This is open to thoroughbreds competing on the day, not just horses that have qualified for the final and incomposes all class height categories, with the ‘Highest
A host of racing and equestrian stars align for the Treo Eile Christmas Show Emerald Equestrian Centre, Thursday December 12 Oisin Murphy, Colin Keane, Davy Russell, Barry Geraghty, Nina Carberry, Robbie Power and Paul and Jody Townend, eventing Olympians Sarah Ennis, Sam Watson, Caroline Powell and Austin O’Connor, are among the stars aligning for this
Show Jumping in Cavan Equestrian Centre Treo Eile are acknowledging thoroughbreds in show jumping with a €150 prize, together with a Treo Eile rosette and rug at the Cavan December Show. Open to thoroughbreds in all class height categories, with the ‘Highest Placed Thoroughbred at the Show’ being rewarded. The owner should enter
