Eventing form, data, and paddock-level context.
EquiRatings Eventing Podcast follows the eventing season with brisk previews, post-event recaps, grassroots features, and big-picture sport analysis. The tone is expert but loose, moving from five-star predictions and course questions to rider fitness, stable health, travel stories, and panel banter.
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EquiRatings Eventing Podcast is built for eventing followers who want the names, the numbers, and the chatter around the numbers. It moves quickly. A preview can start with Badminton or Burnham Market entries and soon be weighing five-star form, recent runs, dry spring conditions, and whether a horse is coming into the season under the radar. Reviews have the same practical edge. Thoresby becomes more than a result sheet, with talk of Gemma Stevens and Cooley Park Muse, the Lycett Scrantham Cup, cross-country problems, wind, going, prep runs for Badminton and Kentucky, and the kind of course that makes riders think without turning the day into a mess. The show likes evidence, but it is not stiff about it. Prediction-centre picks, database overviews, and global trends sit beside gut-feel arguments, remembered context, and open uncertainty. That makes the analysis feel lived-in rather than clinical. The broader format helps too. Grassroots episodes bring rider fitness and nutrition into focus through Katie Bleakman, while interview strands such as When Nicole Met widen the conversation to coaching, course design, Olympic riding experience, business pressure, and resilience. Horse care also appears in practical bursts, including stable ventilation, bedding dust, respiratory risk, and the neglected corners of professional yards. The panel dynamic is casual and sometimes very funny. Aintree stories, travel digressions, man-flu updates, mental maths, and chat-stage memories all get room before the conversation snaps back to sport. Sponsor reads are frequent, and the show often sounds close to the British eventing calendar, from Lark Hill and Thoresby to Burley and the five-star countdown. Its real strength is context. Placings become signals. Prep runs become clues. A dry start, a rail, a comeback, a selection miss, or a strong Bramham record can all turn into part of the season’s larger story.
Made for: For eventing fans, riders, owners, and horse-sport followers who want informed previews, reviews, interviews, and form analysis without a formal broadcast gloss. It suits listeners who already enjoy names, venues, scores, and selection talk.
What sets it apart: The show blends EquiRatings-style data with practical eventing judgement, so predictions and reviews are tied to form, course conditions, horse history, and season timing. Its loose panel banter keeps the technical detail from feeling dry.
The Eventing Podcast squad bring you on a weekly, data-fuelled journey through the world of eventing. Previews, reviews and analysis - all supported by EquiRatings' data.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Detailed form analysis meets candid rider insight, making the physical, strategic and psychological demands of eventing easier to understand.
EquiRatings Eventing Podcast makes elite eventing legible through informed conversation about horses, riders and the variables that shape a result.
A five-star entries list becomes your form guide, group chat and friendly argument all at once.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A focused Thorsby Park review that gives the big win, course conditions, prep context, and human moments their due.
The Thorsby Park review keeps the spring carnival tight and useful, framing the Lycett Scrantham Cup as more than a result. Gemma Stevens and Cooley Park Muse get the headline, while Catherine Austin's delight at picking the winner adds a light touch, right down to the joke…
Stable dust, hard lessons, and resilience under pressure.
The segment opens with practical stable-care advice from Spike the Vet: low-dust bedding, good ventilation, and close attention to dusty corners around drinkers, feeding bowls, feeding troughs, and hay bars.
A brisk Thorsby preview where form, selection pressure, and instinct meet around the five-star countdown.
Thorsby works as a compact study of the pressures gathering around eventing, shifting from cold weather and a season beginning to move faster into selection hopes, injury, and the regrets left by a difficult year.
A practical look at making horse-buying more transparent, starting with a new portal and clearer status information.
Equiratings' horse sourcing comes across as a serious effort to make horse buying easier to understand rather than a polished sales pitch. Nicole Brown speaks with Sam Watson, Sam Lissington, and Rosie Bainbridge about the rebrand from horse sales, the new portal, and the push…
A lively Kentucky entries debate where Vitaly's proven consistency is weighed against the full three-phase test.
Inside Kentucky 2026: Entries Reaction Show treats the Defender Kentucky entries list as an early form puzzle, not a finished prediction. Nicole, Annie and Dee move from the habit of refreshing the list into a close read of Vitaly, setting a possible six-penalty dressage edge…
A relaxed Christmas quiz turns into a warm team sign-off, with eventing banter, Adventureland lore, and burpees on the horizon.
The EquiRatings Christmas special treats a team quiz less as a contest than as an affectionate year-end gathering around the sport. London and Frankfurt keep the jumping team in motion, London making an Irish Times weekend rundown earns a small cheer, and Ali and Sean White are…
Two former winners make Burghley feel thrilling, unnerving, and intensely practical.
Burghley comes through as a test of nerve before it becomes a test of performance. Tim Price frames the event's scale as something that creates a healthy fear, while Piggy March is candid about waking at night thinking about the Cotswold Leap and the unknowns of taking NCS…
Fast talk, loud laughs, real arguments.
Clean chaos from everyday life.
The hosts reunite and share a humorous parenting story about using glow-in-the-dark stars and bedtime storytelling to help a child sleep.
The team gathers for a Christmas quiz.
Nicole welcomes Tim Price and Piggy March, two Defender Burley ambassadors and former winners, for a conversation about what the event stirs up in them.
The hosts preview the Boekelo Nations Cup series final, where the top 10 teams start from zero points after the Lignières leg won by France.
This episode previews the Badminton eventing show, featuring interviews with riders like Simon Grief and Rosie Williams discussing the season's start and preparations.
This episode previews the Burnham Market International eventing competition, featuring hosts discussing horse nutrition and sharing anecdotes from the Grand National weekend at Aintree.
This episode of the Grassroots Podcast features an interview with Katie Bleakman, focusing on rider fitness and nutrition for equestrian athletes.
This episode features expert tips on maintaining healthy horse stables to prevent respiratory issues, followed by an introduction to guest Andy Heffernan, an Olympic rider and coach.
This episode provides a high-level analysis of global eventing trends, examining dominant nations, championship competitions, and key talking points in the sport using data from the Accuratings database.
EquiRatings Eventing Podcast recaps Thorsby Park, where Gemma Stevens and Cooley Park Muse won the Lycett Scrantham Cup after three cross-country mishaps and a late reset from Prue and Emma Gage.
Spike the Vet starts with stable environment and respiratory health, making a clear case for low-dust bedding and solid ventilation.
The EquiRatings Eventing Podcast previews the Thorsby Park spring carnival, where the Lycett Grantham Cup sits alongside national classes, two-star and three-star divisions, and Horse & Country coverage.
EquiRatings opens a special on horse sourcing.
The host opens on the thrill of refreshing a five-star entries list.
The hosts reunite and share a humorous parenting story about a bedtime trick involving glow-in-the-dark stars and a long, boring story to help a child fall asleep.
This episode features a conversation with David O'Connor about the concept of social licence in equestrian sports, exploring its meaning, responsibilities, and how everyone can contribute to ensuring the sport's future survival and thriving.
This Christmas special episode of the British Eventing Show features interviews with key figures in British eventing discussing their holiday plans and ongoing preparations for the upcoming season.
This episode previews the 2026 Aiken Showcase equestrian event, highlighting the $100,000 Grand Prix Eventing competition and the Annie Goodwin Rising Star Grant recipient.