Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor
Pippa is magazine editor and eventing editor at Horse & Hound. An Exeter graduate, she has worked for H&H since 2003 and has held the role of eventing editor since 2005. In 2014 she was promoted to hold the role of head of sports and in 2016 she took on the position of magazine editor, while still keeping her eventing editor responsibilities.
Pippa has reported at three Olympics, in Rio in 2016, Tokyo in 2021 and Paris in 2024, from the 2010, 2014 and 2018 World Equestrian Games (WEG), the 2022 World Championships and at the five-star horse trials at Badminton, Burghley, Luhmühlen, Pau, Kentucky and Maryland.
Outside eventing, Pippa has reported on the 2014 (Lyon), 2015 (Las Vegas) and 2018 (Paris) dressage and showjumping World Cup finals, as well as the 2015 European Showjumping Championships in Aachen. She reported the showjumping at the 2010 and 2018 WEGs and worked across all the disciplines at the Olympics in 2016, 2021 and 2024.
In 2009, Pippa won the IPC Media digital journalist of the year award.
Pippa has ridden all her life and progressed through the Pony Club to be a working pupil for eventers Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks during her gap year before university, pairing up with the chestnut gelding VIP (Peanut) to complete her first CCI* (now CCI2*-L). She continued to event Peanut during university and while working for H&H, competing up to intermediate level and completing seven CCI*s (now CCI2*-Ls) in total.
When Peanut retired, Pippa took a break from competing for 10 years. In 2018, she returned to the fray at BE90 level with the 15.1hh Connemara Kiltulla Lad (Alfie), who is mostly her mother’s dressage horse but likes to moonlight as an eventer.
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Positive signs for Japan’s eventers after first Olympic medal in Paris
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21 ways life with horses changes you forever
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Farewell to legendary pony who kick-started Olympic medallist’s career: ‘He set me up for life’
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Be safer on the roads: introduce your horse to traffic with this five-point plan
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11 ways you know the eventing season has come to an end
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Does your horse hate to go behind when hacking? Try these three exercises
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9 reasons why we’re big fans of the blanket clip
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Five-star first-timer completes Pau after ‘the longest six weeks’ in bed last year
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Bramham unveils Olympic rider as new cross-country course-designer
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Competing with your horse alone? Take a look at our top tips for success
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Want to introduce a horse to a new place without drama? Follow this six-point plan
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How to watch Pau Horse Trials
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Previous winners of Pau Horse Trials: Olympic medallists, the sire of a five-star horse and a French female first
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Ex-racehorse takes fourth at Maryland 5 Star: ‘He raced 60 times and he tries his heart out’
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Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class win Maryland: ‘I wish he could carry on for another 10 years so we could retire together’
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8 things horsey people say in the office in winter (with translations for non-horsey colleagues)
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Small field go forward to final showjumping after Maryland 5 Star final trot-up
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Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class head British top two after Maryland cross-country: ‘We know what he’s done, he’s special’
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No fairytale retirement win for Mai Baum as Maryland 5 Star cross-country proves influential