Scone Palace International Horse Trials

10/01/2025

This is our final post, we are signing off as Blair Castle Horse Trials. 🥺 We want to thank you all again for your support over the years.

Our social media accounts will all be handed over to Scone Palace Horse Trials, so stay tuned for updates about the 2025 event. We wish them every success!

24/12/2024

🎄🐴 **Merry Christmas, Blair Family!** 🐴🎄

We hope your holidays are filled with love, laughter, and maybe even a little time in the saddle! 🐎 Thank you for being such an amazing part of our final journey this year—we couldn’t have done it without you all!

Here’s to cozy stable days, happy horses, and all the festive treats (for you and your four-legged friends). 🎁🌟 Wishing you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year ahead!

12/12/2024

We are delighted (but also sad) to offer a selection of Blair mementos for our followers to purchase. To start with, we have some smaller items, polo shirts and prints. In the New Year we will be adding larger equipment, including some of the cross country jumps which are not going to Scone Palace.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/blairhorsetrials

20/11/2024

The intrepid Cycle4Caroline cyclists setting off this morning from Blair Castle. The sun was shining but boy was it cold!

20/09/2024

The Defender Blair commemorative travel mugs flew out of the door at the event, and for anyone who missed out on one… (because you were too busy having fun at the event!) You can now grab them online.

The 1150ml mugs are perfect for keeping your drinks hot in the stables or cold after a long day of riding. This jumbo-sized mug comes with double-wall insulation, a comfy handle, a secure sip lid, and a straw.

With the years 1989-2024 printed on it, this special mug is more than just a cup – it’s a collector’s item for anyone who’s been a part of the Horse Trials over the years.

There aren’t many available, so if you want one, you better move fast! (Link in bio)

18/09/2024

If you're missing Blair as much as we are and want to nab yourself a keepsake, or if you're even tempted to do some early Christmas shopping - our limited-edition horse trials mugs are now for sale on the Blair Castle online gift shop.

Double-wall insulated for hot or cold drinks, they boast a comfortable handle, secure sip lid and a Tritan straw. They also hold a colossal 1150ml of your favourite beverage! We won’t tell anyone if you won’t 😉

👉🏻 https://atholl-estates.co.uk/shop/horse-trials/defender-drinking-flask/

03/09/2024

There are approximately 2,200 of you who have been conned into thinking that this is us…

PLEASE report the profile and unfriend him - all he wants to do is scam you out of money or your Facebook accounts…

If you have mutual friends with this account, please let them know it isn’t us.

WE WILL NEVER EVER REQUEST YOUR FRIENDSHIP - this is the ONLY official account for Blair Horse Trials - it is a professional business one that you have to like, it is not a personal one you can befriend.

30/08/2024

We are all utterly devestated to learn of Claire Lomas MBE’s untimely death.

Dan, their girls and her family are very much in our thoughts 💔

It is with great sadness that we announce the death of Claire Lomas. Our thoughts are with Claire's loved ones and friends. Claire's family have asked us to publish the following statement:
https://www.meltontimes.co.uk/news/people/claire-lomas-passes-away-aged-44-4763105

26/08/2024

Where do we even begin with our thank yous?!

… With our volunteers, that’s where.

Very simply, there would never have even been a Blair Castle Horse Trials in 1978, or any subsequent year, without our army of volunteers - incredible people who give up their time for free, often travelling 100s of miles to stand outside in all weathers so that our competitors and spectators alike can enjoy our sport.

There aren’t enough “thank yous” in the world to express how grateful we are to every single person who has gifted us their time over the last 50 years.

And it would be incredibly remiss of us to not extend a very special thank you to volunteer- coordinator extraordinaire, Lyndsay and her band of merry helpers who have ensured that everyone has been looked after impeccably, sent to the right place at the right time, been fed and watered and event entertained for the entire week. A mammoth task - executed perfectly!

Never without a smile on their faces, no matter what role they had or what the good old Scottish weather threw at them, our volunteer team are, and have always been, quite simply THE BEST.

Thank you. For everything 🙏🏻

26/08/2024

It takes a village ❤️

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25/08/2024

The moment before ➡️ the moment itself ➡️ the celebration ❤️

There was scarcely a dry eye on the estate (and not just because we were all getting rained on!) when last year’s Blair CCI4*-L titleholder Wills Oakden took the title again — and for the final time — with Keep It Cooley. Forever more, the reigning Blair champion, keeping the win right at home in Scotland. ❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

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25/08/2024

Former HOYS show jumper Robe Park Bobby only began his eventing career 3 years ago when he joined jockey Sophia Elliot’s stable. Competing in both the pony and rider’s first ever 2*, the pair gave everything they had to jump clear and inside the time around today’s cross country to add nothing to their dressage score and climb from 5th to take the win!

Speaking afterwards, Sophia said, “This is my first two-star and my first ever time at Blair Castle. I’ve produced Bobby from being a pure showjumper to being an event pony in three years. We’ve taught each other to be brave cross country because he gives his rider a lot of confidence!
I had my brilliant trainer Phil Brown with me and he helped us with really useful tactics for today so I could look after Bobby but still be quick and clear around the course. We both loved it!”

Finishing in 2nd place were Florence Drewitt (GBR) and Mrs Helen Drewitt’s Battlestown Delight followed by Chloe Chan (GBR) and her own Blennerville Rua who completed the podium by taking 3rd.

📸 Hannah Cole Photography

25/08/2024

The inimitable Piggy March led from the start to top the podium in the CCI3*L with Mrs Susie Wood’s Cooley Goodwood. Directly replicating her Blair Castle 2018 results Piggy also finished 3rd on Andrew Nicholson’s Filipo.

Swiss rising star Nadja Minder arrived in the UK to base herself with Piggy a week ago and finished a brilliant 2nd to her UK hosts with her own Top Job’s Jalisco…

We’re getting close to the very end of the very last Defender Blair Castle Horse Trials… who will take the top honours?! 🏇🏿

25/08/2024

After his aunt Frances Hay-Smith won the first ever long-format 2* here at Blair in 1989, it was a fitting end to the final CCI2*L when Wills Oakden Eventing (GBR) jumped an immaculate clear with Mr Daniel Ockenden and Mrs Stephanie Oakden’s Mile Beach to take the win today.

Less than 0.4 points behind Wills was Matt Heath Eventing (GBR) and his own and Mrs Clare Davis’ Sugar Rush TH who took second, with Max Warburton Eventing (GBR) and Brookfield In The Darco owned by Mrs Alison Swinburn and John and Chloe Perry in third.

25/08/2024

Last chance saloon! The Defender Blair commemorative travel mugs are flying out the door, so scurry on over to the Blair Atholl Estate Gift Shop by the scoreboards at the main arena to get yours before they’re gone!