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Dec 11, 2024 | 
bridportnews.co.uk | Ben Hart
Chris Robshaw is part of the 37-strong punditry team providing exclusive and ground-breaking coverage of the Investec Champions Cup and EPCR Challenge Cup (Image: ©INPHO/Morgan Treacy) Harlequins legend Chris Robshaw insists Saturday’s showdown with the Stormers is a must-win if his former club are to repeat last year's Investec Champions Cup run.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
bridportnews.co.uk | Ben Hart
Max Neumann returns to the Ibiza T100 with modest expectations despite his defending champion status. Neumann, 29, described his victory on the Balearic Islands last year as the biggest win of his career but progress since then has been hampered by a sacral stress fracture which required three months on the sidelines. The Aussie finished 19th on his return to the T100 scene in July and says this Saturday’s race will form another stepping stone in his recovery.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
bridportnews.co.uk | Ben Hart
Anne Haug is back in action just a week on from heartbreak in the Ironman World Championships (Image: T100) Anne Haug hopes she can put a difficult week behind her and recreate special memories at the Ibiza T100. Haug, 41, ran to a commanding win in the inaugural PTO European Open last year en route to claiming the world number one spot.
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Sep 27, 2024 | 
bridportnews.co.uk | Ben Hart
Flora Duffy will make her first appearance of the T100 season in Ibiza on Saturday (Image: BARTLOMIEJ ZBOROWSKI) Flora Duffy is an Olympic gold medallist in triathlon but ahead of her first T100 foray of the season she says she feels like a ‘rookie’ in the sport again. Duffy, 36, was focused on defending her Tokyo gold in Paris but a string of injuries nearly forced her off the start line.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
ealingtimes.co.uk | Ben Hart
Tim Price riding VITALI for NZL during the show jumping phase during the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (Image: Peter Nixon) Event rider Tim Price could not have been happier despite a second-place finish in the Defender Burghley Horse Trials. Price, who won the 5* event in 2018, has found the showjumping phase his nemesis in his quest for more glory in the UK, with star horse Vitali squandering a final-round lead at Burghley last year and at Badminton earlier in the spring.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
lancashiretelegraph.co.uk | Ben Hart
Eventer Andrew Heffernan was pleased to have finally completed the Defender Burghley Horse Trials at the fourth time of asking. Heffernan, 49, who is based out of Somerford Park, was among just 29 entrants to make it through the four-day challenge at the famed 5* event, with several hopes dashed across Saturday’s gruelling cross-country.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
ealingtimes.co.uk | Ben Hart
Lizzie Baugh riding B EXCLUSIVE for GBR during the cross country phase at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (Image: Peter Nixon) Event rider Lizzie Baugh continued her dream debut at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials with a clean run round the fabled cross-country course. Baugh, 26, and home-bred horse B Exclusive competed the four-mile track at Burghley on a gloomy Saturday where rivals, including Olympic medallists Ros Canter and Pippa Funnell, failed to reach the finish line.
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Sep 8, 2024 | 
ealingtimes.co.uk | Ben Hart
Aaron Millar hailed his ‘very special horse’ after conquering the famed and ferocious cross-cross country course at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials. Exeter-born rider Millar and mount Friendship VDL ensured progression to the final day of the 5* event in Stamford on a morning where others faltered. This is Millar’s first trip to Burghley for 14 years but he looked like he had never been away as plotted his way around the property and could not have been happier to come through unscathed.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
newsandstar.co.uk | Ben Hart
Lizzie Baugh riding B EXCLUSIVE for GBR during the cross country phase at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (Image: Peter Nixon) Event rider Lizzie Baugh continued her dream debut at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials with a clean run round the fabled cross-country course. Baugh, 26, and home-bred horse B Exclusive competed the four-mile track at Burghley on a gloomy Saturday where rivals, including Olympic medallists Ros Canter and Pippa Funnell, failed to reach the finish line.
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Sep 7, 2024 | 
thetottenhamindependent.co.uk | Ben Hart
Lizzie Baugh riding B EXCLUSIVE for GBR during the cross country phase at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials (Image: Peter Nixon) Event rider Lizzie Baugh continued her dream debut at the Defender Burghley Horse Trials with a clean run round the fabled cross-country course. Baugh, 26, and home-bred horse B Exclusive competed the four-mile track at Burghley on a gloomy Saturday where rivals, including Olympic medallists Ros Canter and Pippa Funnell, failed to reach the finish line.
