Insights Volume 1 2025 - The Sport Horse Issue
In this issue we share news from the dressage stallion Glamourdale
Why the Show Jumping sire Emerald's appeal shines so strongly
Meet the next generation of Laura Collett's rides
Who are Eventing's Top 100 Horses and what are the key statistics behind them and their origin?.
Keep ahead of the style stakes in our Cheltenham Festival Style Guide
INSIGHTS MAGAZINES FROM 2024
Insights Volume 7 2024 - The Christmas Issue
We talk to the team behind The Hawkstonian who is Jeremy Clarkson’s new Racehorse managed by Old Gold Racing.
Alex Bragg reflects on the 2024 season and shares why he is excited for 2025
There is news from both jumping and dressage licensing from around the world
We reflect on the FEI Sire Rankings for Show Jumping, Dressage & Eventing.
Insights Volume 5 2024 - The Autumn Special
In this Autumn Special Issue of The Insights Magazine we share the very best from the Sports Horse World this autumn and so much more.
We share why Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class are history makers after winning Maryland CCI5* at the weekend.
We speak to Harry Meade after his amazing Burghley where he had not one, not two, but three horses in the top 12 and delivered three of the most stylish rounds cross country at the British CCI5*.
INSIGHTS VOLUME 6 2024 - The dream Maker Edition
In this Dream Makers Special Issue of The Insights Magazine we share the very best from International Eventing, International Show Jumping, International Dressage and Racing and so much more !.
We share our picks from the 11th – 13th of November Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale, speak to Pau CCI5* winner Caroline Harris and share news of a new FEI World Cup Show Jumping Qualifier at Frankie Dettori’s favourite Race Track in the USA – Santa Anita.
Insights Volume 3 2024 - Special Olympic Preview Edition
In this Special Olympic Preview Edition of The Insights Magazine we have the very best of International Eventing, International Show Jumping and International Dressage in the build up to the Paris Olympics.
We share everything that you need to know to follow your favourite Equestrian Disciplines at the Paris Olympics, when and where to watch them if you are in the UK, USA and Ireland.
Insights Volume 4 2024 - The Burghley Preview Edition
Is this the year that Ros Canter finally wins her first Burghley title?. Who we are picking to for Podium places at Burghley this year and why you should also pick them.
Piggy March on her Burghley Young Horse Finalists.
Chedington – The home of Olympians. Chris Burton why the Dorset base meant so much to so many in the preparation for the Paris Olympics.
The best of Country Property close to Burghley.
Insights Volume 1
2024 - The Thoroughbred Special Edition
Who are the new full Thoroughbred Sires for Sports Horse Breeders – We ask which full Thoroughbred Sports Horse Stallons shaped Eventing’s past and which will shape Eventing and quite possibly Show Jumping’s future?.
World Number 3 Event Rider & Olympian Boyd Martin talks about his passion for Thoroughbred blood in Eventing and he shares which ex racehorses have gone on to take him to CCI5* and even the Olympic in an interview with Elouise Dubrow.
INSIGHTS VOLUME 2 2024 - Badminton Special Edition
Sport Horse Volume 2 – In this issue we have our ever popular Badminton Form Guide, we share the best of the shopping at Badminton and the most desirable country property to buy in the Cotswolds.
We speak to CCI5* event rider Kirsty Chabert and she talks about her illustrious career to date and we have news from Badminton winner Classic Moet and Denis Lynch’s Show Jumping stallion Chocolate 48.
INSIGHTS MAGAZINES FROM 2023
Insights Volume 12 The Christmas Issue Vol II
Ben Maner’s epic win of the London leg of the FEI World Cup
Ros Canter’s Pencos Crown Jewel to be sold
Boyd Martin – 2023 & Beyond
Last minute Luxury Christmas Shopping
The very best Christmas Tables.
INsights Volume 10 2023
Ros Pau’s Golden 2023 Trio – We share how the Team GBR Rider has her strongest stable of CCI5* horses following her amazing year
The full Pau 2023 Breeding Report – The complete bloodlines and trends of Pau’s top horses.
Diarado vs Shannondale Sarco – Who will be the first to get a CCI5* winner?
Tickled Pink by Topaz – The world’s most famous pink topaz jewellery
The Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale Preview - 8 pages of Irelands best young International Eventing prospects.
INSIGHTS VOLUME 8 2023
The Burghley 2023 Form Guide – Everything that you need to know about this years horses and riders in order to pick your winner of the Lincolnshire CCI5*.
Tiana Coundray talks about her show jump bred mare who she calls her Scottish Little Girl and is her Burghley ride this year.
We join the band wagon on the passion for Dahlias
True Blue – Sapphires like you have never seen before
Stamford – We share why this is possible the best place to live in England
INSIGHTS VOLUME 6 2023
Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference.
Interiors fit for a Queen
Rubies – The King of Gems
Diamant De Semilly – Who is his best stallion son and why?
The Sovereign Auction welcomes the return of Carthago-Z, an embryo from Chico Bella P and Chacco Blue!.
Team GBR announces its European selections
Bramham 2023 – Don’t fall for the marketing!
Foals of 2023 – The crème of the crop – Part 1
INSIGHTS VOLUME 4 2023
The Badminton Form Guide
The best of Badminton Shopping
Coronation memorabilia fit for a King
The Kentucky CCI5* Results
Paul Nicholls’s record breaking season
Conformation Correlation – Should we buy horses based on conformation over paper breeding
The importance of insurance at auction
Sovereign Auction’s Nations exceptional 1.60m jumping & CCI5* offspring
INSIGHTS VOLUME 1 2023
Burghley Horse Trials are to bid for the 2026 World Games
News from the 52nd Licensing Champion of Holstein Jumping sires in Germany
Do we need a new way of ranking sires that is different to the current method used by the WBFSH?
A sad goodbye to to the Shockemoehle jumping sire Conthargos
Gold Dust – The Young eventing sires that you cant afford to miss
INSIGHTS VOLUME 11 THE Christmas Issue
The Event Horses who made 2023.
Christmas with Gemma & Gary Stevens and Ros Canter.
The Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale Review
Jodie Hall McAteer on why she is coming home, passionate about breeding International Show Jumpers and looking forward to the London International Horse Show.
Christmas Gift Inspiration for Gentlemen.
Festive Jewels
Christmas Stockings
INSIGHTS VOLUME 9 2023
Frankie Dettori talks exclusively to the Insights Magazine about his new racing life in California
The Burghley Horse Trials Review – The biggest spotlight on where we are going wrong.
We share Ceylon Sapphires fit for a Princess
The are Equestrian & Sporting Art Gems from the Cotswolds
Is Sporting Memorabilia going to be worth more to riders than the prize money in the future?
Secrets on pruning your roses for garden glory
INSIGHTS VOLUME 7 2023
Team GBR are Triumphant at the FEI European Eventing Championships.
Olli Fletcher & Hello William – The 20 year old British International Show Jumper shares why his maiden 5* Grand Prix partner is one in a million.
Robert Whittaker celebrates his King George V Cup win on Vermento who was bred by his father John Whittaker.
We ask is eventing stallions really important?. We share which world leading sports horse breeding nations simply don’t think so and the impact of this on the most successful CCI5* & Championship horses in modern times.
Insights Volume 5 2023
Ben Way shares a unique Insight into Equestrian Property.
The Royal Ascot Style Guide.
Sovereign’s Show Jumping Embryo success.
The Super Sires – Contendro 1 vs Diamant De Semilly.
The Gap in Schockemohle’s CV for a Badminton or Burghley winner.
Best buys for Bantam & Hen lovers.
Coolparks Sarco – The son of Shannondale Sarco is one to follow.
INSIGHTS VOLUME 3 2023
The Easter Issue – the best Easter gifts
Leslie Law – I wish I had cloned Shear H20 and Shear L’Eau
Who are the next World Champion Dressage Sires
Monetising your breeding stock
The Sovereign Auction – 4 new auctions for 2023
De Mystifying the travel of horses to the USA
Advanced Equine Reproduction Technologies – James Crabtree
INSIGHTS VOLUME 2 2023
The Champions League – The Show Jumping stallions that you cant afford to miss.
Why we are wrong to push stallions owners for chilled semen?
Results that matter – A new view on the world’s best show jumpers.
Ballypatrick – Greg Broderick shares his methodology on selecting stallions.
The Cheltenham Style Guide – What to wear and how to wear it for The Cheltenham Festival.
INSIGHTS MAGAZINES FROM 2022 & before
INSIGHTS THE CHRISTMAS ISSUE 2022
We speak exclusively to Piggy March, Laura Collett, Jay Halim, Cathal Daniels, Sam Watson, Joseph Murphy, Meabh Flynn & Brian Flynn.
We share all the statistics that you need to know from the annual Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale in Ireland.
Dreweatts give us an exclusive preview into their Fine Art Sale featuring the most impeccable selection of Sporting Art.
We share our largest ever selection of Christmas gifts that you can still buy in time for Christmas this year.
Insights Volume IX 2022
The Burghley Breeding Report - Our most in depth CCI5* breeding report of 2022.
A full sibling to Team GBR & CCI5* eventer Lordships Graffalo
Farmers perfect storm - This year owe share how our farmers have a unique set of challenges and how they will directly impact the cost of bedding and feed products for the equestrian industry.
Christmas 2022 The Art of Giving
Insights Volume VII 2022
Laura Collett - Selecting Eventing stars of the future. How she selects her foals and youngsters.
Ben Maher - There is so much more to come. The Tokyo Gold Medallist speak to Victoria Goff at Hickstead
Gemma Stevens Joins Hickstead's Elite with Flash Cooley on winning the Eventers Challenge.
The Sovereign Auction - Olympic Eventing embryos from Tokyo Selected mare feature alongside an array of foals with Olympic eventing & CCI5* genes.
INSIGHTS VOLUME V 2022
Will Oliver Townend Win His First Bramham CCI 4 *-L Title?
The Badminton 2022 Bloodline Review
The Royal Ascot Style Guide
Coolmore Show Jumping
Two Irish Show Jumping embryos make
112,000 euros at auction in France
The Badminton Horse Trials
Form Guide 2022
Everything you need to know about the horses & riders at this years Badminton Horse Trials
Find out who we are predicting for podium places
Sports Horse Breeding
Volume 2
International Show Jumping Special Edition
Is Faltic HB the next Chacco Blue?
Ballypatrick Farms, Holly Smith, Piggy March & Chris Burton
Christmas Volume 2
The King George the VI Chase at Kempton – Will there be Frost on Boxing Day?
The Gemini Stud – Looks ahead to 2022
Snow Leopardess – Joy for the Fox-Pitt’s
Distance Selling – Advice for buyers of horses remotely
International Eventing Edition
The European Eventing Championships
Olympic Show Jumper Arko is cloned
Gemma Tattersall’s breeding programme
Our love affair with The Cotswolds
The Olympic Games Preview Guide
The Olympic Games have finally arrived and in advance of tomorrows Opening Ceremony we are delighted to share the Insights Magazine Olympic Games Preview Guide.
Sam Watson Special Edition
Sam Watson – Teams & Tokyo
The WBFSH Rankings – taking a new view
Show jumping foal sales reach new highs.
Andrew Hoy – Australia’s eventing Olympian
Phoebe Locke – from 4* to the future
Boyd Martin - from the pan am games to tokyo
The new Irish stallions for 2021
Embryos from CC15* mare DH! Babette K
VDL SJ Auction highlights in the USA
Insights March edition
Which foals sold for over
£30,000 last year?
The full Thoroughbred sires for 2021
The pivotal horses changing event horse breeding
The Billy Stud reflect on auction success
Insights Volume X 2022
The Goresbridge Go For Gold Sale Preview – our favourite lots from the Irish Auction which is a mecca for Eventers.
Pau CCI5* - A win for Jonelle Price & the mare Grappa Nera.
Team Price to move to Chedington – The home of Olympic Equestrianism
Izzy Taylor joins forces with Future Sport Horses to ride their stallion Future Guilty Pleasure.
Frankels multi-million pound sons
INSIGHTS VOLUME VIII 2022
The Burghley Horse Trials 2022 Form Guide – Everything you need to know to pick your winner at Burghley this year.
Show Jumping Breeding - Chacco Blue embryos sell for €215,000
The Sovereign Auction – Our private preview of Embryos from Olympic Eventing mares & Chacco Blue
Autumn Fashion – What to wear this autumn & where to buy it.
Gardens – Why Beth Chatto designed the blueprint for drought gardens.
Insights Volume VI 2022
Shane Breen - First Hickstead Derby Win with Can Ya Makan.
Shockemohle Foal Auction - Positive outlook for jumping foals.
Why the next room in your house will be in your garden.
Monkeying Around - Bramham CCI4*-L & next stop Paris?.
The Badminton CC15* 2022
Special edition
Laura Collett – The Tokyo Olympics and beyond
How much TB Blood do CC15* Eventers need?
The leading eventing sires in the future?
Zangersheide’s €200,000 SJ colt
Sports Horse Breeding Volume 3
Dressage Breeding – Is there a better way
to interpret the WBFSH Sire Rankings?
Was Apache sire of Gio Dressage Breeding’s greatest loss?
Ger O’Neill of Castlefield Stud – The Irish breeding gem
Sports Horse Breeding Volume 1
British Eventing’s leading horses of 2021 and their breeding trends
Jumping breeding for profit: which sires and which auctions are best?
Irelands stallion owners: thoughts on breeding for eventing
Oliver Townend and Caunton Manor Stud
Bubby Upton’s new rides for 2022
Christmas volume 1
Tim Price & Falco - Pau’s CCI5* Gamechangers
Goresbridge Go For Gold – The €1.5million sale
Cheltenham November Meeting
OPU – Liberation for mare owners
The Tokyo Olympic Games Review
Our full coverage of the dressage, eventing and show jumping from the Tokyo Olympic Games plus much more
Mollie Summerland’s
Luhmuhlen Win
Cathal Daniels Ireland’s 25 year old Eventing Veteran
Raven foal sells for €90,500
Inside Breeders Minds Part 1
The Kentucky CCI5* Special Edition
Why British and Irish breeding influenced the podium places
Ballypatrick Stables at home with Greg and Cheryl Broderick
The importance of Irish Young Event Horse Classes
Why Thoroughbreds have better physiology for International eventing
2021 BEVA approved vet practices for equine reproduction
Insights Special Edition
Insights January 2021 Edition
THE CHRISTMAS INTERNATIONAL EDITION
CC15* 2020 Special Edition
CC15* Laura Collett interview
A tribute to Puissance
Mollie Summerland bucks the trend
Legal aspect of embryo transfer and sale
The Cloning Edition
We discuss immortalisation in the form of cloning, we also meet the two clones of Cruising: Cruising still is the most successful ISH stallion of all time in Ireland.
We also meet Britain’s best equestrian portrait artists, visit Irelands new outstanding foal auction, share a ‘life in a day’ with Ros Canter and take a look at Georgie Spence’s CC13*S Cornbury win.
Special Edition: Syndication
Helpful advice and insight if you’re thinking about starting a syndicate from Nick Lucey, the legal industry, and the Championship success story of Vendredi Biats
Goresbridge Go for gold sale
Event horse syndication at CC15*, Sally Parkyn and Jay Halim interviews
FULL BLOODLINE REVIEW OF THE BE TOP 100 HORSES
SPECIAL EDITION SPONSORED BY BAILEYS HORSE FEEDS
For the very first time a comprehensive study has been undertaken of the British Eventing (B.E.) top 100 horses.
Cooley Farm Interview &
Full bloodline review of the BE Top 100
We share the percentage Thoroughbred of the British Eventing top 100 horses, talk to Sarah Bullimore in the UK, Ryan Wood in the USA and detail how Show Jumping foals are making almost €70,000 at auction this summer.
Young Riders - the Shining light for eventing
Also, the Flander’s Show Jumping Foal Auction - the rising price of SJ foals, Chilli’s Gem’s Embryo Transfer and the Portuguese Winter Tour
Event Horse
Breeding –
the CCI5*
Change Makers
And how to enter the Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity
THE FUTURITY AND GRADINGS GO DIGITAL IN 2020
AN INTERVIEW WITH EVA-MARIA BROOMER
We talk to Eva-Maria Broomer about how The Futurity and the AES are managing gradings and young horse evaluations under COVID-19.
The BEVA approved list of veterinary practices for equine reproduction services
For all breeding owners
How CC15* Event Riders are coping under COVID-19
Saluting Master Monarch, Virtual Eventing helping the NHS, WIN a Welligogs Coat worth £265
AUCTIONS, EMBRYO TRANSFER AND The rise OF EMBRYO SALES
We ask why eventers love the Goresbridge Go for Gold sale so much and how the internet has changed sports horse sales forever.
Frozen Semen
The new technologies behind it and leveraging frozen AI for increased positive pregnancy outcomes
Blenheim 2019
The impact of the Show Jumping sires and why FEI Form matters
Sir Mark Todd “Over And Out”
The Man, the legend and his International Eventing Career
The 28th of July 2019 will be a day marked both in eventing and sporting history – it was the day that Sir Mark James Todd announced he was giving up eventing. We take a look back at the outstanding career of one of eventing’s greatest living legends.
The Burghley Young Horse Event Horse Series
At nearly 30 years old, the BYEHS has raised the profile of the sport of eventing at a national level, and shaped Championship and FEI three-day-event winning horses.
The 2019 Badminton Horse Trials Breeding Review
In this latest Insights Article we take an in-depth look at the pedigrees of Badminton’s top 16 horses.
The 2019 Land Rover Kentucky CCI5* Three Day Event Breeding Review
We provide a full breakdown of the scores and look at what makes Cooley Master Class such a beautifully bred horse at this level.
The Next Generation of Thoroughbred Sires For Event And Show Breeding
We take a look at influential Thoroughbreds in event and show horse breeding and the Thoroughbred sires who shaped event horse breeding at championship level.
Eventing Sires That Shaped Team GBR: Cavalier Royale
The Irish based continental jumping sire who helped shape Great Britain’s Eventing Team from European Championships to the Olympics, described as “the most successful Continental stallion to stand in Ireland”.
Eventing Sires That Shaped Team GBR: Ben Faerie II
The little legend who made the most enormous impact on Team GBR eventing. In this second article about Ben Faerie, we review the immensely successful dual gold medal winning son of Ben Faerie, Another Fred.
Eventing Sires That Shaped Team GBR: Ben Faerie
The full Thoroughbred Ben Faerie was foaled in 1968 having been bred in the UK by William Hatton. He sired several of Great Britain’s most cherished championship level medal winning horses.
Sport Horse Breeding And HMRC: The Increasing Rise In Tax Investigations
In the last two years, an increasing number of equestrian businesses in particular studs have had an increase in enquiries from HMRC into their status as loss making. Find out what questions HMRC are asking and how to protect your stud from investigations.
Do we need full or nearly full Thoroughbreds for Championship Level Eventing?
In our breeding review of the FEI World Equestrian Games Tryon 2018 find out if full or nearly full Thoroughbreds are necessary for championship level eventing success.
Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials 2018 - Breeding Review
The Insights team reviewed the bloodline of every horse that completed the Land Rover Burghley three day event in 2018. We reveal which studbook absolutely dominated the leading horse rankings at this year’s Burghley, and we ask ourselves what really is an Irish Sport Horse?
Feeding The Weanling And Beyond
The Insights Team work with the head of nutrition at Saracen Horse feeds to discuss the latest innovation in the feeding of weanlings and how best to feed your competition horse in his first year
Eventing Superheroes
We look at the legends of international eventing who have won 1,000 British eventing points or more. We share the common breeding patterns in these eventing super heroes and share some light on what makes these horses compete at CCI4* and team level year after year.
The FEI World Equestrian Games™ Tryon 2018 - Eventing Breeding review
We look at the breeding of all of the medal winning and the top ten individual event horses at the World Equestrian Games in Tryon 2018. We ask ourselves the question; how much Thoroughbred is really needed to compete at championship level in three day eventing?
Clones, Geldings and Brothers
With full brothers at stud having broken breeding records in flat racing and international show jumping, we look at the impact of full brothers in horse breeding. We also look at the controversial trend for cloning stallions and grading geldings in event horse breeding.
Warmblood Fragile Foal Syndrome (WFFS)
We look at WFFS; what it really is and what it means to both mare and stallion owners. We reveal the need for public disclosure of veterinary testing of WFFS in stallions and share a positive case study of the KWPN Studbook who have been heavily impacted by this genetic disorder.