Le Chameau Visits: Blenheim Horse Trials

For us, as like many others, it was a quick turnaround from this year’s Burghley Horse Trials as we headed Southwest to Oxfordshire for the horse trials at Blenheim Palace.

Beside the mightily impressive façade of Winston Churchill’s ancestral home, the Agria Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials saw over 50 riders from 17 different countries compete over four days in the FEI Eventing European Championship, including Tom McEwen, reigning Olympic champion and Le Chameau ambassador.

Like at Burghley Horse Trials earlier in the month, joining Tom on a course walk, the Le Chameau team attended the event, but this time cheering him on from the rails. Riding his horse JL Dublin, Tom finished the European Eventing Championships with an individual bronze, with team-mate Laura Collett winning an individual gold.

Throughout the long weekend, as the cooler temperatures started to creep in and the winds picked up, many chose to pull on their warm, waterproof pair of Le Chameau boots, knowing their feet were going to be suitably comfy and reliably dry for the entire four days.

Nicole Brown, Eventing Expert and Podcaster, aptly said on the podcast The Eventing Podcast, “The top three individual riders on the podium; Laura Collett in first, Michael Jung in second and Tom McEwen taking third with JL Dublin, were phenomenal all week, they would have been the top three on the predictions as well. It felt like, when it came to Sunday, there were no actual surprises in terms of the podium on the last day. They all jumped clear, and it felt like the right result.”

Find out which style of Le Chameau boot Olympic champion and Le Chameau ambassador, Tom McEwen, likes to wear around his yard when not riding in our latest interview with Tom this year.