Australian rider Sam Griffiths has topped off a fantastic year by being voted Rider of the Year – Eventing by the members of the International Riders Club as announced in L’Annee Hippique
James Bond (aka Francis Whittington) put in an appearance at Blenheim today, as did HRH The Princess Royal and by the end of the day two Australians, Andrew Hoy and Sam Griffiths, topped the CIC3* and CCI3* leader boards
Sam Griffiths says he has had some pretty tough days to get to where he is today but the hard work is all paying off for the Australian who moved to the UK in 1995
Jock Paget is back in a big way at Burghley and the Australian riders fare well but the burning question of the day is what happens if William Fox-Pitt’s wife goes into labour tomorrow?
The top three riders after the first day of dressage talk about their experience in the arena and their expectations of the famous cross country course at Burghley