For someone who topped the British Eventing leaderboard as the rider with the most cross-country clears in 2025, experiencing two uncharacteristic falls with his top horse, Galileo Nieuwmoed, at both Badminton and Burghley could easily have been difficult to recover from.
But leading Wiltshire event rider David Doel is very...
Ros Canter and the stunning Lordship Graffalo claimed their second MARS Badminton Horse Trials title with a flawless round in the final showjumping phase, cementing the horse's status as one of the best eventers in the world. Canter now joins a select group of just five riders to have won...
The world’s greatest three-day event riders are eagerly anticipating the start of the 2025 Mars Badminton Horse Trials, which is just about to get underway (Wednesday 7 May).
The Barbury Castle estate saw a welcome return to British Eventing at the weekend with three days of competition, showcasing some of our top riders, including Laura Collett, David Doel, Tim and Jonelle Price, Tom McEwen to name just a few.
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New Zealander Caroline Powell pulled off a shock victory at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials at the weekend, after Tim Price and Vitali and William Fox Pitt and Grafennacht, who were in first and second respectively, had a number of fences down in the showjumping.
Will Rawlin describes himself as “absolutely fine” as he faces his first ever appearance at the Mars Badminton Horse Trials, which begin on Wednesday.
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David Doel’s past two seasons, with his star horse Galileo Nieuwmoed, are the stuff that most event riders can only dream of. A sixth place at his debut Badminton Horse Trials, eighth at Kentucky and runner up at Burghley are the highlights - but for him this is not quite...
Three former successful racehorses, stabled and trained now at Overton Manor Farm (and owned by the White family) in Wroughton have qualified for the Horse of the Year Show at Birmingham’s NEC in October.
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When Greta Mason drives through the famous Badminton gates for her debut appearance this week it will be a culmination of a three-year plan.
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Jock Paget For Marlborough based eventing rider Jock Paget, the Rio Olympics will be his second Games with New Zealand's team. He was part of the Kiwis' bronze medal winning team at the London Olympics.
In the midst of preparations to go to the Aachen horse show, he told Marlborough.News that New Zealand has a really strong squad. He and Jonelle Price (Minal) have Olympic experience, she has World Championships experience and Clarke Johnstone is in great form. And then there is Sir Mark Todd: "Well, he's done everything - a few times."
In fact it will be the seventh Olympics at which Todd (who is based at Badgerstown) has competed for New Zealand and the ninth in which he has been involved. He was selected for the boycotted Moscow Games, he was in team in 1996 but his horse went lame and, after his 'retirement', he was the team trainer in 2004.
The squad for Rio has Tim Price as its travelling reserve and the very experienced Blyth Tait as its non-travelling reserve.
With a rueful smile, Jock Paget adds a word of caution about Olympic prospects: "We went to the World Championships as a favoured team and it all went terribly wrong - except for Jonelle. We just have to do well on the day - and hope that's enough."
Jock is taking the 17-year-old gelding Clifton Lush to Rio: "He's been an amazing horse for me." He has ridden Clifton Lush for five years and together they have been third and sixth at Badminton, been placed fifth at Burghley twice, won the Bramham International in 2011 and the British Open Championship in 2013.
Jock Paget and Clifton LushAlso travelling with Jock and Clifton Lush will be senior groom Anke Hoyer. The team will be supplying all that is needed by way of logistic, veterinary and farriery staff.
Not long after the London Olympics Jock suffered a major problem that threatened his future and took a great deal of perseverance to resolve. After winning Burghley in 2013 - a major success as that year it was an especially tough field - his horse Clifton Promise failed a drugs test.
He knew that he and his stable staff had not purposefully fed any banned substance to the horse and he had been using the same feed and supplement without any problems for many years.
With the help of his sponsors and his home federation - Equestrian Sports New Zealand - he set out to discover how the test had been failed.
He found an endurance rider whose horse had been failed because of the same substance. This rider had used a veterinary practice which knew how to look for contamination. They tested everything in the yard from buckets to taps and did DNA tests to get a timeline so they could tell exactly when the rogue substance had been introduced.
It turned out that a supplement that Jock had been using for years had become contaminated before it reached the yard. A weed had got into a batch and in an unnoticed reaction produced the banned chemical.
Fortunately the manufacturer had kept a sample of the batch from which Clifton Promise had been fed. They sent it for testing and the result was positive. It had taken Jock ten months to be totally exonerated and clear his name. Clifton Promise was retired earlier this year.
With the Olympics approaching, Jock did not want to risk a repeat of that stressful episode. Clifton Lush has been independently tested and so has the current batch of the supplement and feed. Both were declared clean so he has bought enough of that batches to last through the Olympics: "We know everything we're using is safe."
Jock Paget is 32 years-old. He was born in New Zealand but moved to Australia when he was five. He came to riding quite late: "Where I grew up there no horses to be seen."
He left school at 15 and worked as an apprentice bricklayer. Four years later he rode a horse his father had bought, and when his apprenticeship was complete, he got a job as a working pupil.
Aged 26 he came to Britain with Clifton Promise and was based in Surrey till he moved to Wiltshire at the end of 2014: "We call Wiltshire the eventing capital of the world."
He married last November and lives near Marlborough.
Since his comeback Jock has been doing well again. Jock took Clifton Signature to ninth place in Germany's premier eventing competition, the Aachen three star, well into the prize money. He was 2.20 points behind his fellow New Zealand team member Jonelle Price who took seventh place.
Jock's main sponsor is AnaCap Financial Partners with support from other companies including The Pure Feed Company and Childeric UK. You can watch a short video made by Cavewood Productions here.
Sarah Dalziell-Clout, New Zealand's Director of High PerformanceNew Zealand's eventing squad for the Rio Olympics - four of its five members travelling to Brazil are based in the Marlborough area - are aiming to win two medals at the Games.
This week Sarah Dalziell-Clout, high performance director of Equestrian Sport New Zealand joined team members at their training camp near Chepstow.
She arrived from New Zealand three weeks ago - just in time to attend the Barbury International Horse Trials: "They showed me the gallops there - they're wonderful. And I loved the trials - it's such a great setting in that bowl in the hills."
Sarah told Marlborough.News that they have been upfront about their ambition to achieve one team and one individual medal: "Our team has pretty incredible depth in riders and horses. You always need luck on your side on the day - making sure the horses are sound."
"Now I just want to wrap the horses in cotton wool, but they have to keep training."
And they were still training this week.
Team member Sir Mark Todd - who brings to the team the experience of preparing for nine Olympic Games - was warming up and then completing a full dressage test [see photos below]. He and Leonidas II were watched by coach Erik Duvander and other members of the team.
Minal's Jonelle Price told Marlborough.News she has a good preparation for the Games with her 11-year old dapple grey Faerie Dianimo. Known in the yard as Maggie May, she is a feisty mare - in Jonelle's words 'an opinionated athlete': "A couple more gallops and then we're off."
Mr and Mrs Price watching the training sessionJonelle and Maggie May had finished seventh at the previous week's Aachen 3* competition. After their dressage test they were in second place and added just eight show jumping faults and 6.80 time penalties in the cross country.
"To get to the Olympics is why I do this sport," Jonelle told me. "Within eventing the World Equestrian Games are held in the same regard. Outside the fraternity the Olympics are recognised by the whole world. Any sporting person's dream is to get to the Olympics."
Jonelle's husband Tim is the squad's travelling reserve: "He's on a bit of a holiday as things are. But he has to be ready until the trot up" - when the horses are checked to make sure they are fit to compete.
The Rio Games may be a watershed for eventing. The International Olympic Committee (IOC) want more gender equality and more teams at the Tokyo Games in 2020. Sarah Dalziell-Clout says eventing scores well on the gender front, but getting more teams into the competition may mean some 'dumbing down'.
Talks are going on between the national organisations and the International Equestrian Federation (known as the FEI) and negotiations with the IOC will follow: "We could end up with the Olympics not being the sport's pinnacle. They have to be careful not to lose the Olympics premier position to the World Equestrian Games."
Sir Mark Todd relaxing after his dressage testSir Mark & Leonidas......it was nearly as hot as Brazil.
After the training: Sir Mark listens to the coaches
The New Zealand team's horses and their grooms fly out to Rio on July 29 - with a twelve hour flight ahead of them. The riders and the rest the team follow the next day.
Jesse Campbell with KaapachinoMarlborough-based event rider Jesse Campbell dominated at the inaugural Drishane Castle International Horse Trials at Millstreet in County Cork where he won both the CIC3* riding Kaapachino and the CIC2* on Cleveland.
Jesse, who is a member of New Zealand Eventing's high performance accelerator squad, won the Noel C Duggan Engineering CIC3* on a score of 44.3 penalties.
Then on a score of 44.7, Jesse also landed the Eventing Ireland CIC2* riding the Dutch Warmblood gelding Cleveland, an eight-year-old by the thoroughbred stallion Watermill Swatch who stands at Loughrea.
The 26-year-old, who celebrated his birthday during the event, said: “It was an incredible venue where the Duggan family had made every effort to make it a superb event. Everything was fantastic, from the facilities to the Mike Etherington-Smith designed cross-country courses, which were stunning. They even amended the schedule so that we were able to catch our ferry in time back to England.”
Kaapachino is a 13-year-old New Zealand thoroughbred that Jesse purchased as a six-year-old and then exported him from New Zealand when he relocated to England in 2010. “He’s my best friend. He’s not the most talented but he always gives me everything and tries so hard. It’s an incredible feeling and he does that every time.”
The pair competed in their first four star at Luhmuhlen earlier this year where they were well placed in the top ten after the dressage and show jumping but slipped down a few places following the final phase of showjumping.
Jesse said: “It's sometimes difficult for these thoroughbreds to showjump well after cross country, but at Millstreet, he showjumped a beautiful clear first before going out and really enjoying himself across country.”
Cleveland franked the popular belief that he is the next superstar for team New Zealand after a faultless display gave them their second two star win this season. “He won at Barbury and then went to Camphire where he finished third in a very competitive class. He’s an incredible horse with a very exciting future,” said Jesse.
More international travels are in prospect for the New Zealander before the eventing season draws to a close with Kaapachino heading to Pau in France at the end of October and Amsterdam, another exciting horse, competing at Boekelo in Germany.
Tim Price & Ringwood Sky Boy at BurghleyMildenhall-based New Zealand eventer Tim Price has finished second behind world number one Michael Jung at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (ending Sunday, September 6).
In a nail-biting finish, Price and Ringwood Sky Boy went clear in the crucial show-jumping phase, finishing on 41.5 penalty points, but Jung (Germany), the reigning Olympic and European champion, and La Biosthetique Sam FW were also faultless, taking the title on 40 points.
It was all a little déjà vu for Price, who was second to Jung at the Rolex Kentucky CCI4* in April, albeit riding a different horse.
Jonelle Price and Classic Moet were unlucky to have four faults in the show-jumping to slip from third to fifth place. Other locally-based New Zealanders Sir Mark Todd and Leonidas II left everything in place to move up to sixth and Jock Paget and Shady Grey took down a rail to finish in 16th.
Christopher Burton (Australia) finished on a high, taking third and fourth places with his horses TS Jamaimo and Haruzac.
Tim and Ringwood Sky Boy go clearBut it was a good day all round for Tim Price, as well as £46,000 pounds as runners-up, his horse won the Worshipful Company of Farriers’ Best Shod Horse Award and a $5,000 bonus prize.
“He has been a horse who has been coming along all the time but never been able to produce it in the ring at this level, so obviously I am delighted with him,” Price said. “It is such a great achievement. We almost got the little fella from Germany . . . next time."
“The horse has excelled in all three phases. I have always said he has a couple of good days in him at this level. He is not going to be one of these out and out champion horses because of the type he is . . . but I do believe in him in all three phases.”
Jonelle Price was philosophical about her fifth place finish: “It was a good round. She jumped really well,” she said of Classic Moet. “Maybe I was a little bit close to the first of the treble . . . but overall, three great phases. Fifth place – I can’t complain.” the dressage and cross country.
Results - Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials (final): 1. Michael Jung (GER) La Biosthetique Sam FW 40, 2. Tim Price (NZL) Ringwood Sky Boy 41.5, 3. Christopher Burton (AUS) TS Jamaimo 45, 4. Christopher Burton (AUS) Haruzac 47.6, 5. Jonelle Price (NZL) Classic Moet 48.9, 6. Sir Mark Todd (NZL) Leonidas II 50.5
July 2016: Paul Tapner at Barbury with Yogi Bear VIIIAustralian eventer Paul Tapner, who is based at Wickstead Farm Equestrian Centre in Highworth, leads Event Rider Masters - the new high value, high visibility eventing competition - as it moves to Blair Castle in Perthshire this weekend (27 & 28 August) for its last but one round.
The ultimate winner of the inaugural season of the Event Rider Masters (ERM) will take home a £30,000 prize in addition to the substantial prize for each round.
Paul Tapner Tapner was second in the Barbury ERM round and has finished no lower than twelfth place in the four rounds completed so far. He has a commanding lead with 87 points. He took the lead from Gemma Tattersall who missed the Gatcombe round as she was with the British team in Rio.
Tapner will be riding the grey Kilronan - and this may be their last competition together: "I’m hoping the softer ground and galloping course at Blair will suit Kilronan. He is returning to his roots as he started competing in Scotland for what might be his final competition."
"He has been such a wonderful horse and I hope the weekend is a success for him and I am also able to hold onto the lead in the Event Rider Masters”.
Other local riders will be competing after their return from the Rio Olympics. These include Marlborough-based Jock Paget, who suffered the ill-fortune of having to be replaced in the New Zealand team after his horse was injured at his Rio stable. He will be riding Angus Blue.
Jonelle PriceLeaving their Mildenhall base for Scotland will be New Zealand Olympic team members Tim Price (with Xavier Faer - a ten-year-old known in the yard as Hugo) and Jonelle Price (with Cloud Dancer - a nine-year-old known as Marley and a dressage specialist.) Jonelle is currently in fifth place - and took third place in the Bramham ERM round.
New for 2016, the Event Rider Masters is being run over six CIC three star eventing competitions held at venues across Great Britain with a total of £350,000 in prize money on offer during the series - including that £30,000 bonus for the series' leading rider.
This year's ERM finale will be held at the Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials on September 10 & 11.
This weekend’s ERM competition can be viewed for free live on Saturday (dressage) and Sunday when the competition culminates with the show jumping and cross-country phases ran in reverse order. The ERM's free streaming can be viewed online from anywhere in the world.
The jump down to the water in the main arena is probably the most watched obstacle on Barbury International Horse Trials' famous cross country course - it's in prime position for spectators and it is sponsored by Keyflow Super Premium Horse Feeds.
Appropriately enough, Keyflow's range of equine feeds was launched at the Barbury Horse Trials in 2012. They’ve been there every year since and will again occupy their stand this year in prime position with great views of the competition and a cold Pimms never far away – everyone is welcomed.
The company is run by New Zealander Cam Price who lives in Marlborough - and the company has its head office just behind the High Street.
Cam has worked in the equine nutrition business for over ten years. He headed up Australian feed giant Mitavite's operation first in New Zealand and then in Britain. With the recession and unhelpful currency movements, Mitavite decided to close its European export arm - and Cam spotted an opportunity to launch a innovative new range of products designed to give riders what their horses need in the best way possible.
New Zealand's most successful event rider, Sir Mark Todd (now based just over the downs at Badgerstown) is a Keyflow founder, shareholder and remains as an involved director. Cam told Marlborough News Online: "He is a very switched on businessman - as well as a great horseman."
Sir Mark Todd at Luhmuhlen"We went to the riders first and analysed what their horses nutritional needs were." He went to the Whitaker show-jumping family and designed a mix specifically for them: "And then we did the same for Mark. We started with the riders and horses rather than in the lab - then we met in the middle."
The 'lab element' came with Keyflow's two renowned nutritional consultants: Dr Catherine Dunnett founded Newmarket-based Independent Equine Nutrition - an international consultancy. And Australian Dr Ray Biffin who was responsible for Mitavite's very first proprietary feed in 1987.
In 2013 two Keyflow products earned British Equine Trade Association Innovation Awards - Whitaker Bros Jumpmix won and Mark Todd Maestro competition mix was runner up.
As well as the elite British show-jumping Whitaker brothers (John and Michael - and now young Jack Whitaker who is the latest show-jumping prodigy in the dynasty) and Sir Mark Todd, Keyflow have a list of Key Riders. These include Cam's brother Tim and Tim's wife Jonelle and Canadian Rebecca Howard - all based at Mildenhall.
Keryflow at Marlborough marketAt present Jonelle is fifth in the international eventing rankings - and Tim is ninth.
Probably only people in Marlborough with a definite interest in Keyflow products will have noticed this business in their midst. But for six weeks last winter Cam took a pitch in the High Street's Saturday market - just to get the name a bit better known. However, his main aim is to keep in touch with Keyflow users.
"I love building horses with the right nutrition for what they do. If you're selling ploughs you meet a famer once in ten years. With horse feed it's an everyday relationship - they open your bags of feed every day,"
So he does a lot of travelling to stables to help people with their horses' nutritional needs - usually spending two days a week on the road.
Keyflow’s feeds are put together by a production partner in East Anglia using ingredients sourced in Britain and some specialist ingredients from abroad. The feeds are then distributed from a warehouse in Corby.
One of Cam's current tasks is building up a nationwide network of stockists: "It's a very competitive market - it's not so much the number of companies, more the vast number of products most of them produce - the market gets a bit swamped. It's a very squeezey market - many retailers are short of space."
Watch this space for an announcement soon in the development of that network of stockists.
At the Barbury International Horse Trials (9-12 July), while Cam and his team will be spreading the word about Keyflow, they will also be keeping an eye on their Key Riders. Success in competition helps boost Keyflow's reputation but also proves that their products perform.
Jonelle and Cloud Dancer Last weekend they were watching the leader boards at Luhmuhlen's four and three star eventing competitions. The Luhmuhlen premier or four star competition was won last year by Tim Price.
On Sunday (June 21) Jonelle Price and the little grey Faerie Dianimo secured second place with 32.80 points just behind Ingrid Klimke's 32.70. Jonelle was very pleased with the result: "Give us another six to 12 months and I might be able to find that point one."
In all three Keyflow Riders were in the top ten with Mark Todd (fifth) and Rebecca Howard (tenth.) And then Jonelle took Cloud Dancer to fifth place in the three star competition - coming down the leaderboard a little as rails went down in the show jumping.
What successes will Barbury bring for Marlborough-based eventing riders - and for Keyflow?
Richard Hughes and the championship trophyRichard Hughes will be moving away from his Marlborough home (well, Collingbourne Ducis really) sooner than planned - he wants to get started as a trainer this autumn. Yet he still wants to be champion jockey - for the fourth year running.
In his Racing Post column (Friday, June 26), Hughes revealed he had completed his formal training to become a trainer, his yard just over the border at Danebury in Hampshire was ready and he was looking forward to buying his first horses at the July sales: "I cannot allow my training career to be jeopardised by my championship ambitions."
Hughes is currently on 37 winners for this flat race season. That puts him level with Silvestre de Sousa. But Ryan Moore is ahead with 47 victories.
Following his Racing Post column, Richard Hughes is no longer odds on to win the championship. He is now a 5-1 chance.
"The truth is, I absolutely cannot wait to train. I had thought I would aim to kick off next year, but my thinking has changed and my ambition is to saddle my first runners in September or October." He stresses he is still a committed jockey - and wants to win the championship: "...I'll continue to give 100 per cent to every horse I ride."
Hughes will be training on the site of Stockbridge racecourse. This has a long and formidable history - but it is pretty ancient history.
The racecourse closed in 1898. You can still see a small reminder of the abandoned Victorian stand which burnt down some decades ago. Racehorses have been trained at Danebury for many years - its stables boast a Derby and a Grand National winner. Though the Derby winner was Andover in 1836 and the Grand National winner was Playfair in 1888.
Hughes will be taking over Ken Cunningham-Brown's Danebury yard: "Ken would love nothing more than for Danebury to get back on the map and to one day rival Manton - and it could, because it really is that good."
It has 300 acres of grass gallops, a one-mile peat gallop, a one-mile woodchip, a round half-mile sand gallop and a five-furlong straight gallop going through the woods.
Richard Hughes already has promises from several owners that they will send horses to him. He rounded off his column: "I hope you can tell how eager and excited I am. I love being a jockey, but I know I will love being a trainer every bit as much."
The Burghley top three: Jonelle Price, Andrew Nicholson & Christopher Burton (Photo from Burghley twitter feed) The last day (Sunday, September 4) of the prestigious Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials was a bumper day for antipodean event riders based in Britain.
Australian Christopher Burton - with Nobilis 18 - won the event by a margin of five points. A margin that survived clocking up 16 faults in the final show jumping stage of the competition.
In second place came Lockeridge-based Andrew Nicholson (Nereo), with Jonelle Price (Classic Moet) in third and her husband, Tim Price (Ringwood Skyboy) in fourth. The Prices are based at Mildenhall.
Tim Price's twelve faults in the show jumping ring proved costly - putting him down from second place to fourth. Tim Price also took twenty-first place with Bango.
The rest of the top ten places included two more New Zealand riders (Caroline Powell and Sir Mark Todd - placed eighth and ninth), two British riders (Oliver Townend and Kristina Cook - placed seventh and tenth), with French rider Cedric Lyard fifth and Germany's Bettina Hoy sixth.
Belardo winning the Lockinge Stakes (Photo: Newbury Racecourse)Before a record crowd, in brilliant sunshine and with the ground drying all afternoon, Godolphin took Newbury's biggest flat race prize on Saturday (May 14) - the Class One Al Shaqab Lockinge Stakes - with a brilliant run by Belardo under Andrea Atzeni.
Belardo was an eight-to-one chance for the race on Newbury's straight mile. In the words of an expert he "...messed up the start" veering left as he left the stalls. But the ground - good, good to soft in places - seems to have suited him well.
Afterwards his trainer, Roger Varian told reporters: "Belardo has got a very good turn of foot and is a talented horse - he's shown that today...We'll stick to the big mile races and hopefully this is just the start."
The fancied Kodi Bear only managed seventh place in the twelve strong field. For the Racing Post David Orton described his race as 'puzzling': "He didn't look happy under pressure and was held prior to being tight for room." Perhaps he just did not like the fast-drying ground.
In three other races on Newbury's Lockinge Day card, local trainers took the honours.
In the first race Mehmas - trained by Richard Hannon in Marlborough (East Everleigh) - was ridden home by Frankie Detttori for a three-and-a-quarter length win over the seven finishers. And Dettori obliged with one of his winner's enclosure leaps from the saddle.
Andrea Atzeni with the cup - Roger Varian at leftFrankie's flying dismount from Mehmas Richard Hannon talks reporters through his win in the Toronado
The Hannon yard made it a double when Godolphin owned Log Out Island won the six furlong Toronado Carnarvon Stakes - another three-and-a-quarter length victory.
The five-year-old Ayrad, trained by Roger Charlton at Beckhampton, had come second in the one-and-a-half-mile Al Rayyan Stakes., but a later race gave the Beckhampton trainer a fine win.
The one mile and two furlong Al Zubarah London Gold Cup is often seen as setting patterns for the rest of the season. Charlton trained horses have won this race twice in recent years - the great Al Kazeem in 2011 and last year Time Test.
Imperial Aviator before the race Beckhampton's Imperial Aviator - carrying the Qatar Racing silks for the first time - stormed home under Oisin Murphy to a four-and-a-half length victory.
Charlton was impressed with the colt: "I wouldn't compare Imperial Aviator with previous horses, but every time he he's run he's improved."
Three weeks before Imperial Aviator had beaten possible Derby contender Ulysses in a competitive maiden stakes at Leicester. Now he is probably heading to the Tercentenary Stakes at Ascot - following the path of Time Test who won that race last year.
The weather has not been kind to Newbury so far this season - with one meeting lost to the rain.
The course having been 'good to firm' early in the week, Newbury Racecourse staff suffered a nervy few days - the rain kept coming leaving the course 'heavy in places'.
At one point after 35 millimetres of rain in twenty-four hours, it looked as they might even lose Friday's card. But the ground was drying out all day on Saturday - ending up 'Good (good to soft in places)'.
Jock Paget For Marlborough based eventing rider Jock Paget, the Rio Olympics will be his second Games with New Zealand's team. He was part of the Kiwis' bronze medal winning team at the London Olympics.
Jock Paget and Clifton LushAlso travelling with Jock and Clifton Lush will be senior groom Anke Hoyer. The team will be supplying all that is needed by way of logistic, veterinary and farriery staff.
Fortunately the manufacturer had kept a sample of the batch from which Clifton Promise had been fed. They sent it for testing and the result was positive. 
