Laura Collett rode a perfect show jumping round on London 52 under the greatest of pressure at the climax of the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship to become Britain's 21st individual gold medallist since the classification began in 1955. In the end, only 1.3 penalties separated Laura from her chief rival Michael Jung, a three-time European champion and triple Olympic gold medallist, who was also faultless in the show jumping, on FischerChipmunk FRH, and led the German team to a convincing seventh European team victory. Tom McEwen and JL Dublin were the only other British combination left in the competition after ...

Britain's Laura Collett and London 52 have a first individual championship title in their sights after a superb cross-country performance at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (GB). Laura and London 52 powered across Capt Mark Phillips's influential cross-country course, producing the second fastest round of the day, for six time penalties. They have snatched the individual lead from triple European champion and German anchorman Michael Jung, who is now second with 10 time penalties, but still within a show jumping fence of Laura. Laura's Olympic teammate Tom McEwen is currently in individual bronze medal position on JL ...

German team pathfinder Libussa Lübbeke has made a great start on her senior team debut, taking an early lead in the dressage phase at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (GB).   She scored 28.3 penalties on her family's home-bred Caramia 34, to put her 0.7 ahead of Great Britain's first team rider, Yasmin Ingham on Rehy DJ.   "It is like a dream," said Libussa. "We bred this mare, my brother rode her and then I won medals on her at Young Rider level, but we never thought she would be a five-star or a championship horse, ...

Riders representing 17 nations have arrived in the magnificent setting of Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, Great Britain, for the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship, which start tomorrow (Thursday, September 18).   As they gathered for a moving opening ceremony in the main arena, Blenheim's host, the Duke of Marlborough, said: "The Palace itself owes much of its existence to civilisation’s historic reliance on the strength and dependability of the horse.   "It is therefore a great privilege to gather here today, on the 35th anniversary of the Agria Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials, within our rolling parkland — the vision and ...