The Cheltenham Festival Begins Today!

The Cheltenham Festival has started today, with the event taking place over the next 4 days. It is one of the biggest horse racing events of the calender, with prize money second only to the Grand National. In 2014, over 230,000 racegoers attended with approximately £250 million wagered in total.

Tony McCoy, who can often be seen wearing MacWet gloves, has announced that he will be retiring at the end of the National Hunt season. Despite being champion jockey twice at Cheltenham, the last time being 1998, many are hoping that he can pull out all the stops and go out with a bang.

Keep up with what’s going on live here: http://bit.ly/1E8nxlC

Natalie Povey

Natalie Povey is a MacWet sponsored young rider from North Wales. She first began riding at the age of fifteen, and is a Para Equestrian Dressage rider. Natalie acquired her first taste of competition in 2003 and 2005 when she competed in the RDA National Championships. The same year she started Para Equestrian Dressage and competed at the RDA Regional Qualifiers and National Championship. Natalie carried on competing whilst studying and was later selected to join the Equestrian Dressage Development Programme.

 

Natalie has been busy over the last two weeks, qualifying for the British Para Dressage National Championships at Hickstead, achieving two first places with 67.6% and 69.31% with Foxy who will now be working on white board training. She also attended a World Class Development squad session the previous weekend which went well. Furthermore, Natalie and Foxy have been nominated for the Bishop Burton CPEDI** – their first international together taking place at the beginning of July.

 

We wish Natalie all the best for the upcoming year!