Enjoy some of our favourite tweets from the past seven days. From an over-keen dressage mother to the possible secret behind a top eventer’s success, it all happened on Twitter this week.
Don’t miss the exciting competition on this weekly page. Our favourite tweet each week will win either an Apatchy mini tablet case or an Apatchy cosmetic bag, personalised with your own initials. For more information about the competition and to find out who this week’s winner is, go to the bottom of this page.
Tweets of the week
Olympic champion, European champion and apparently a real wizz on a Segway too
Michael Jung at Pau, proving that there is no limit to what he can train a horse to do?! (Photo by Jenny Lupton) pic.twitter.com/lHboCheeRv
— e-Venting (@e_Venting) October 24, 2015
Poor AP — as soon as he retires after 20 years at the top, a new £15,000 annual award for the champion National Hunt jockey is announced
Great idea …….any chance of back dating it 20 years?! https://t.co/sQpm4n91si
— AP McCoy (@AP_McCoy) October 29, 2015
Scott Brash introduces Tibetan monks to showjumping — not a sight you see every day
Tibetan monks meet show jumping at Summer Palace in Beijing! With Jeroen, @maikelvdvleuten, @janerichardphil. pic.twitter.com/DE2Q32zvse
— Scott Brash (@scott_brash) October 24, 2015
Top event rider Izzy Taylor en famille out hunting with the Bicester Hunt with Whaddon Chase
@1izzytaylor and her family getting in some early years cross country schooling #waytogo Eventing pic.twitter.com/iSlDdUOdlI
— BHWC (@bicesterwhaddon) October 24, 2015
You might be better than us at rugby (at the moment), but we bet your breakfasts aren’t as good
Kiwi breakfast time at Pau! pic.twitter.com/C31HHlvVsX
— Jacky Green (@jacks_green) October 25, 2015
Carl Hester has some particularly adoring fans
Great evening spent presenting awards at the BYRDS Central at Hartpury but why is there always a mother wanting her bra signed !?!
— Carl Hester MBE (@HesterDressage) October 26, 2015
What a cutie
Best friends!!!! pic.twitter.com/rviTnhFWMe
— Ginny Howe (@GinnyHoweEvent) October 29, 2015
Hmm…we’re not sure you’re supposed to be up there
@TheIrishFieldHW @horseandhound Co. Clare hound on the lookout at Stonehall Hunt on Thursday! pic.twitter.com/dejFMDky9M
— Finbarr (@FinbarKeating) October 29, 2015
And congratulations to this week’s Tweet of the Week winner
Fellow Irish eventer Elizabeth Power reveals the extent of Sam Watson’s workforce — his children
Slave labour at the Watsons!!! Now we know why everything is so immaculate. @watsoneventing #childabuse pic.twitter.com/WuUxI24vpr
— Esib Power (@powereventing) October 26, 2015
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Tweet of the week competition
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