Catherine Austen

‘When I got off the bike my legs wouldn’t straighten up to run – they seemed to be stuck in a cycling position!’

The weather at Gatcombe Horse Trials has forced timetable changes and some class cancellations at the Festival of British Eventing

An unmistakable figure in primrose-yellow cross-country colours with that rock-steady lower leg position and arm stretched forward to allow the horse freedom, Lucinda Green was the public face of eventing for over a decade

Offering your hip flask around is the perfect ice-breaker on the trail hunting field. And who doesn’t get braver after a swig of booze on an empty stomach? But what’s the perfect tipple? I have to admit I started young — my mother considered cherry brandy (which does, after all, taste like high-quality cough medicine) …

A freelance coach said this was ‘way above anything we’d have dreamed of’ as she topped the BE100 grassroots championships results for 2025