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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Paris Olympic showjumping teams: find out who will ride at the Games
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Who’s the alternate? Detail of British eventing squad for Paris Olympics released
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NAF and Agria revealed as joint headline partners for the Horse & Hound awards 2024
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11 ways owning a horse is similar to attending a hen party
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Reigning Olympic champion boosted to alternate position for Paris after Aachen
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‘If it was fantasy football, we could sell our players to other teams’ – Tom McEwen on the Olympics
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‘I’m learning French!’ – Yasmin Ingham shares her Paris Olympic preparations
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British Olympic team horse back in work and ‘feeling well’ after minor injury
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8 things you should never say to an event rider
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‘Very exciting news’: British Olympic team rider to become a father
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Power couple and a special Olympic selection – plus Badminton star’s surprise reserve slot
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14 gold medals, stable names and the youngest rider – what you need to know about the British eventers heading to Paris
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13 embarrassing mistakes most competition riders have made at some stage
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British Olympic eventing team for Paris 2024 revealed: who’s off to Versailles?
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New horse added to British Olympic eventing entries to replace withdrawn Ballaghmor Class
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‘I rode mules for eight hours a day when I was four’ – meet this rider who’s off to the Paris Olympics
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Paris Olympic eventing teams: find out who will ride at the Games
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Young rider who fell at Bramham shares update on her ‘long road to recovery’
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Horse who won a five-star for Britain named for Olympics for potential medal-winning nation