Andrew Hoy Wins the CCI*** at
Kreuth, Germany
Bettina Hoy's Woodsides Ashby Dies on Course

As this year’s Blenheim Petplan Horse Trials hosted the FEI European Championships, three star competition places were at a premium last fall for competitors based in the UK.

In late September, Andrew Hoy (AUS) was one of more than twenty British based eventers who headed to Europe. Andrew won the Kreuth CCI***, in southern Bavaria, Germany with Yeoman's Point. This Pair had finished 8th at last April's Rolex-Kentucky CCI****. (Andrew and Yeoman's Point are pictured at the right jumping into the Head of the Lake, at Rolex-Kentucky last April.) At Rolex, Yeoman's Point had been allowed a re-start on Saturday, after having missed a flag on the first Roads and Tracks.

Mary King (GBR) finished second at Kreuth, on Birthday Night, normally the ride of William Fox-Pitt, who was serving a medical suspension after suffering a concussion at Gatcombe, in a Novice section in mid-September.

Ridden by Germany's Bettina Hoy, Andrew's wife, thirteen year old Woodsides Ashby, who had just won the test event for the 2006 FEI Games, at Aachen, ten days previously, died on the Cross Country course at the Kreuth CCI***. of a "suspected ruptured aorta," according to the October 6 issue of Horse & Hound. He had been leading at the time on a Dressage score of 23.1.

Erica Watson (GBR) lost the 12 year old Serving Time when he slipped on landing and fractured a pastern at the same event.

The competitor's party scheduled for Saturday night was cancelled out of respect for Woodsides Ashby and Serving Time.