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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9 things you should never say to your riding instructor
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7 ways to get the most out of a clinic (plus 4 things not to do)
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‘Without Bramham, we’d be lost’ – a second generation winner scores in 50th anniversary year
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‘It means a lot to win this class’ – Brit holds her lead in Bramham under-25 championships
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One horse held at Bramham final trot-up as 32 progress to showjumping
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Brit retains Bramham four-star long lead after great save across country: ‘I thought I was coming off twice’
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Brit leads Bramham under-25s after cross-country: ‘We’ve worked out the system now’
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British Olympic contender wins at Bramham – and proves her new cross-country bit works
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Rider who fought back bravely from two years of serious illness leads Bramham under-25s
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British Olympic hopeful seizes control in Bramham four-star short dressage
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British rider leads Bramham four-star long dressage despite injury setback in build-up
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New partnership kick off their final Paris Olympic trial with top spot in Bramham dressage
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Mare becomes a mother same day she wins Bramham’s BE80 championships
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Top British rider holds Bramham four-star long dressage lead with ‘clever as a cat’ horse
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Would you jump this? See the fences Ros Canter and Harry Meade will jump at Bramham
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One horse withdrawn from holding box at Bramham first trot-up
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Horse & Hound’s 140th anniversary legends: Over To You — ‘I came home many times thinking that was his best round ever’
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An emotional back story, a stalwart and a young star: first Olympic eventing team for Paris revealed
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Five-star winner withdraws from Olympic contention: ‘There is not adequate time’