Just two venues have hosted a leg of the FEI Nations Cup every year since its inception in 2012 – Boekelo (NED), where the final is held each year, and Houghton Hall in Great Britain. Sadly, Houghton is not running this year in its usual slot of the last weekend of May, but we thought we’d take a look at the Houghton winners over its history.
The Individual winner list at 4* (previously 3*) reads like a ‘Who’s Who’ of eventing with 5* winners, European Champions and Olympic medallists dominating the list, including Australia’s Sam Griffiths in 2012, the year that two sections ran, and Sir Mark Todd in 2014. That was also the year that New Zealand became the only team apart from Germany and Great Britain, to win the Nations Cup competition here.
Great Britain took the two most recent wins in 2022 and 2021, after Germany dominated with five team wins from 2015 – 2019 (the event was cancelled due to Covid in 2020), and Team GB also won on home soil in 2012 and 2013.
Australia has never won a Nations Cup leg but came close in 2012 and 2016, taking silver in both years.
The Individual winners’ list is also an impressive international line-up, evenly split between the male and female riders but with Germany and Britain dominating once again, although France, NZ and Australia have also put their nations on the individual podium
2022: Tom McEwen riding Bob Chaplin
2021: William Fox-Pitt riding Little Fire
2020: Cancelled
2019: Christoph Wahler riding Carjatan S
2018: Laura Collett riding Mr Bass
2017: Bettina Hoy riding Seigneur Medicott
2016: Nicola Wilson riding One Too Many
2015: Luc Chateau riding Propriano De L’Ebat
2014: Mark Todd riding Campino
2013: Ingrid Klimke riding Tabasco
2012: Piggy March riding Jakarta and Sam Griffiths riding Real Dancer
