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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5 things not to miss as the Olympic team showjumping concludes – British talent, beautiful fences and more
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‘I was in bed for two months this spring’: rider’s incredible comeback to compete at the Olympics
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Top team make substitution to their Olympic showjumping squad hours before action starts
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The young Olympic ‘mare of all mares’ who everyone’s talking about – and the unusual way she was trained
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Leading rider out of Olympic team showjumping after two horses spun at re-inspection
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Two horses to be re-inspected this afternoon after Olympic showjumping first trot-up
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‘He’s a goofball who enjoys training’ – meet this Olympic rider and her new equine partner
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‘I’d love to inspire everyone to do dressage’: meet Venezuela’s first female Olympic rider
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Meet the buckskin stallion contesting the Olympics: ‘He’s very intelligent and so active’
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Why did Larissa Pauluis ride at the Olympics with a heart on her hand?
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H&H Olympic reporter’s blog: ‘I had a nanosecond to decide if a medal selfie with Laura Collett was unprofessional’
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Shake-up of Olympic eventing team standings as horse withdrawn from holding box at final trot-up
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Paris Olympic cross-country times: find out when the Brits and other leading riders start
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5 things not to miss at the Paris Olympics on cross-country day – key fences, the time and Brits defending golds
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Rider eliminated for blood in horse’s mouth at Paris Olympics
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5 things not to miss at the Paris Olympics on eventing dressage day – low scores, 64 tests and more
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What’s the British team order for the Olympic eventing in Paris? Find out here
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What an outfit to start your seventh Olympics in! Check out the Olympic eventing trot-up photos
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One horse eliminated and British horse among five held at Paris Olympic eventing first trot-up