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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‘She’d bolt around the arena when I first got her’ – from an unpromising start to gold
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Lottie Fry and Glamourdale win London Horse Show dressage freestyle: ‘A feeling I won’t forget for a long time’
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Yesterday’s London dressage victors Becky Moody and Jagerbomb slip down order in freestyle: ‘I feel like I let everybody down, but we’ll regroup and come back better’
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Lottie Fry and Glamourdale top 86% in London freestyle: ‘He was on fire and I can’t thank the crowd enough’
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Lewis Robertson-Carrier best of Brits at halfway stage of London freestyle: ‘Diego’s still giving me more and more’
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How to get to London International Horse Show at ExCeL
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Ian Stark on superstitions, speed and ‘Saturday morning stomach’
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‘It was relentless, but event riders are a different breed’ – Piggy March on the mixed emotions of finishing charity bike challenge
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‘We’ve gone through every emotion possible and dug deeper than ever before’: charity bike riders complete 1,100km
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Glamour and high emotion – check out the photos from the ninth Horse & Hound Awards
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‘The sport will miss you more than it knows’ – William Fox-Pitt wins H&H Lifetime Achievement award
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Why a pat on the neck isn’t what your horse would choose and how to use rewards effectively in training
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Bid on training with Ros Canter and Laura Collett or a Carl Hester yard tour in silent auction
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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