Harry Meade
Harry Meade is a British event rider who has been placed in the top 10 at Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials many times and is the youngest rider to have been awarded the Armada Dish, for completing Badminton five times. His best known horses include Wild Lone, Midnight Dazzler and Away Cruising.
Harry made an incredible comeback at Badminton in 2014 after shattering both his elbows in a fall in 2013. He finished third on Wild Lone and the pair were called up from the reserve bench to make their senior squad debut at the World Equestrian Games in Caen, France. After a clear jumping round across country as the anchor horse for the team, Wild Lone collapsed and died at the finish. The British went on to take the team silver medal.
In 2020, Harry had another serious accident when his foot caught in the stirrup when he fell across country while riding at Thoresby in October. He broke his right arm and suffered a head injury. Once again he made a brilliant comeback, finishing fifth at Kentucky Three-Day Event in April 2021 with Superstition, the horse he took over the ride on from Lucy Jackson at the end of 2019.
Harry has been a Horse & Hound columnist since 2015.
Harry Meade is the son of the late Richard Meade, who was the individual Olympic eventing champion at the 1972 Munich Games on Lauriston. He also won team gold that year and at the 1968 Mexico Games on Cornishman V. Richard died in January 2015.
Harry is married to Rosie (née Bradford) and the pair have two children, Lily and Charlie. He is based in Gloucestershire, very close to Badminton Horse Trials.
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Britain names nine pairs as nominated entries for Olympic eventing
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‘There’s not a course in the world I wouldn’t take him to’: Harry Meade on returning from a serious brain injury to competing at Kentucky *H&H Plus*
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Oliver Townend wins Kentucky on Ballaghmor Class: ‘It wasn’t the way I believed he’d do it, but we got there in the end’ *H&H Plus*
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Oliver Townend leads Kentucky after cross-country; dressage top three drop down the leaderboard *H&H Plus*
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Tamie Smith scores best in Friday’s dressage at Kentucky; Oliver Townend ‘close enough’ with two in top five *H&H Plus*
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Three five-star winners, a medallist and an unusual mare: 17 top horses have fun in the sun at Aston-le-Walls elite event
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Harry Meade’s return to competition after head injury: ‘I’m stripping everything else back so I can ride’
Event rider Harry Meade talks about the ‘frustratingly slow process’ of recovering from his head injury and how he is coping with competing again
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Reigning Kentucky champion Oliver Townend heads 2021 field plus Prices enter five horses
Reigning champion Oliver Townend is set to return to Kentucky, while three other British riders will make the trip across the Atlantic to take on the likes of Boyd Martin and Phillip Dutton
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Harry Meade to return to eventing after a ‘grim’ few months following head injury
Harry Meade returns to eventing later this month, following time spent recovering from the head injury he sustained last autumn
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Harry Meade on ‘a slow road to recovery’ from head injury, with balance and vision affected
Harry Meade is doing daily exercises for eye-brain function and balance as he recovers from the head injury he incurred in a fall at Thoresby in October
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Harry Meade resting after surgery: ‘He’s still suffering from significant concussion symptoms’
Harry Meade is resting at home and waiting for concussion symptoms to subside, having had arm surgery following his fall at Osberton at Thoresby
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British medallist to be operated on today after being dragged following cross-country fall
The Horse & Hound columnist got his foot caught in the stirrup in a fall while competing at Thoresby and was dragged, resulting in repeated kicks to the head
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Two medallists, an Olympic contender and a bunch of five-star horses: 15 photos from a star-studded Burgham
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Harry Meade: Eventing must serve many masters *H&H Plus*
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Harry Meade: If only you could pause a busy life *H&H Plus*
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Harry Meade: ‘Don’t drag this issue into 2020’ *H&H subscribers*
The FEI and the eventing community are out of sync, says Harry Meade
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Top horse bought for leading British rider – new partnership wins two weeks later *H&H subscribers*
A British rider won a big class in Poland last weekend, just two weeks after acquiring the ride on a high profile new horse
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Three top riders withdrawn from European Championship consideration
The three combinations have been withdrawn owing to injury and fitness issues
