Delight as new title sponsor secured for Blenheim Horse Trials

Organisers of Blenheim Palace Worldwide Horse Trials are “delighted” to substantiate Agria because the occasion’s title sponsor.

The insurer has dedicated to a three-year deal from 2025.

“I’ve been impressed with Agria’s game-changing insurance policies and the way horse homeowners have embraced Agria and its distinctive lifetime equine insurance coverage. So we couldn’t be extra delighted to welcome the corporate as our title sponsor subsequent 12 months,” mentioned Katrina Midgley, organiser of Blenheim on behalf of Steady Occasions. “Agria’s three-year sponsorship dedication demonstrates its robust help for Blenheim Palace Worldwide Horse Trials and the broader sport of eventing. We stay up for working intently with a associate that has horse welfare at its core.”

The occasion, which runs this 12 months from 19 to 22 September, options CCI4*-S for eight- and nine-year-olds and CCI4*-L courses.

Some 800 grassroots riders may also contest the using and Pony Membership eventer challenges, and the Retraining of Racehorses regional championships.

British Eventing (BE) ran Blenheim Horse Trials till 2020; that December, The Jockey Membership was awarded a five-year contract as organisers. The Jockey Membership ran it for 2 years, and present organisers Steady Occasions took over final 12 months.

Agria UK CEO Vicki Wentworth mentioned: “As a Swedish-born firm which insured its first animal, a horse, over 130 years in the past, we’re very proud to be becoming a member of Blenheim because the title sponsor in what would be the thirty fifth anniversary of its first occasion.

“We’re an organization that believes in giving each horse entry to the very best safety and veterinary care, so we’re delighted to be supporting an occasion which hosts horses starting from Olympians to household enjoyable horses and former racehorses — and we’re already a associate of RoR. We very a lot stay up for serving to Blenheim thrive over the approaching years.”

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Eleanor is an skilled journalist who spent over eight years working for native and nationwide newspapers earlier than becoming a member of H&H as information editor in March 2016. Enthusiastic about equine welfare and exposing the reality, Eleanor has reported on all elements of the trade, from Brexit to anti-bullying campaigns, and from dressage guidelines to mules. Her sport of selection is showjumping, by which she competes her personal horses, and she or he additionally enjoys reporting at native leaping exhibits by to worldwide championships.