Winter preparation paid dividends with confident step-ups, big scores and emerging talent delivered across the levels

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Riders using their voice in the ring, brave returns after setbacks and careful step-ups shaped an encouraging start to the year

Exceptionally athletic and a supreme trier, this sensitive character met his ideal match in Oliver Townend. Catherine Austen charts the career of one of the greatest partnerships in eventing history

Jake Saywell tops an A-list grand prix field and a striking appaloosa hits flying form with her new rider