All 41 horses presented at the final horse inspection at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championships passed with flying colours and will go forward to the show jumping finale for the medals. Special mention was made of some of the great cross-country rounds from yesterday, not only the outstanding top three - Laura Collett (GBR), Michael Jung (GER) and Tom McEwen (GBR) - but also Switzerland's Nadja Minder for her bold, trailblazing performance, German individual Calvin Böckmann (fourth), the youngest rider at 24 and the fastest, and Turkish history-maker Kumru (Kuki) Say, who jumped clear at her first senior championship and ...

The scene is set for a thrilling day's sport tomorrow at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (GB) as just 1.4 of a penalty separates the German team from defending champions Great Britain, at the end of the dressage phase. The much anticipated climax of the afternoon was the head-to-head between German maestro Michael Jung (FischerChipmunk FRH), who scored the only sub-20 mark of the day with 18.3 penalties, and British supremo Laura Collett (London 52) who came close on 20.6. Michael's typically outstanding performance on FischerChipmunk FRH, who he describes as an "amazing horse, so collected ...

Tom McEwen gave home supporters something to cheer about when he rode into the lead in the dressage phase at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (GB) this morning just before the lunch break. Tom, third to go for the British team, scored 26.2 on JL Dublin and the British team currently holds a tiny 2.1-penalty lead over Germany with Yasmin Ingham and Piggy March in fourth and sixth places respectively. Germany's Malin Hansen-Hotopp and Libussa Lübbeke are now in second and third places and their third rider, Jerome Robine riding Black Ice is in seventh on ...

Strong performances by the first two German riders have put their team in the lead after the first day of dressage at the Agria FEI Eventing European Championship at Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire (GB). Malin Hansen-Hotopp and Carlitos Quidditch K (pictured) head the leaderboard on 27.8 and team pathfinder Libussa Lübbeke is now in second place on Caramia 34 with 28.3. Yasmin Ingham, who was first to go for Great Britain with Rehy DJ, is in joint third place with France's Sebastian Cavaillon riding Elipso de la Vigne on a score of 29. Piggy March is fifth on the stallion Halo, on 29.4, ...