3 Minute Read
29th August 2026
Piggy March continued her hot streak of form at Scone Palace to leapfrog up to first place after cross-country in the CCI4*-L aboard Cooley Anything You Like. She also holds top spot in the two-star ahead of showjumping.
She was one of only three pairs clear inside the time over Alec Lochore’s track, lifting her from fourth after dressage.
“He is an out-and-out Badminton and Burghley horse – so powerful, brave and he has such gallop,” said Piggy. “I was very grateful for the long uphill gallops because he is a machine – it’s just difficult getting him back for the downhill ones!”
Piggy “tried new tactics” today, going directly from the stables to the startbox because the 11-year-old can find the warm-up arena exciting.
“I lobbed round the bottom field and went straight out on to the course before he realised what was going on, and he started very settled,” she said.
Piggy does not have a showjumping rail in hand over Willa Newton and Hartacker, the dressage leaders, who added 8.4 time-faults.
“He was amazing; I’m just kicking myself for the time-faults,” said Willa. “He’d had a horrid winter with his sinuses and teeth and only started eventing in July, so I didn’t know quite how fit he was, so although I’m a bit gutted to lose the lead, he was brilliant.”
Izzy Taylor, fifth after dressage, is 2.1pen behind in third on SBH Big Wall after clocking 4.8 time-faults – and sixth on new ride PSH Encore. Izzy is on the comeback trail after a broken femur kept her on the sidelines until the summer.
“This is my first ‘long’ since, and there were a lot of questions – am I fit enough? Are the horses fit enough?” Izzy said. “I’m still rusty, but the ride he gave me today was really good. The course was great and a real improvement on last year – smooth but you had to work for it, and beautiful ground.”
