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H&H’s editors highlight this season’s moments, events and horses to celebrate in their sports – plus a few shocks we really didn’t see coming

Which rising stars will break through the ranks this season? H&H holds the crystal ball

Ireland’s anchorman in team silver at the eventing Europeans talks to Pippa Roome about how early heartbreak shaped his career, his top horses and the feed change that helped his Blenheim result

At 16, I was on top of the world. I was double World Youth champion, I’d been the fastest 14-year-old of all time in Europe, and I already had a shoe contract. At 15, I was UK champion over the 100 an

International Velvet was broadcast on Christmas Day on the BBC in the 1980s – filming it was like “grown-up Pony Club camp” with a Burghley frisson, finds Martha Terry