Mark Phillips

Are these Badminton's hairiest fences ever?

With just a week to go until the start of this year's Badminton Horse Trials (3-7 May 2017), excitement is building at Horse & Hound HQ

Walk the Burghley Horse Trials cross-country course with designer Mark Phillips

Find out what the Burghley course designer has to say about this year's four-star track in the official course walk video

Mark Phillips: Bad riding is the problem *H&H VIP*

Horse & Hound's eventing columnist reports back from an eventful Barbury

Mark Phillips: 'I hope Andrew Nicholson is serious about applying for Yogi Breisner’s job' *H&H VIP*

Horse & Hound's eventing columnist reviews his week at the German four-star, Luhmühlen, and who we should be keeping an eye out for in the future

Mark Phillips: 'Getting BE to agree to an extra day of competition is like pulling teeth' *H&H VIP*

Horse & Hound's eventing columnist talks British Eventing fixtures and Olympic selection

Mark Phillips: 'we were witnessing history that will probably never be repeated' *H&H VIP*

Mark Phillips gives his honest opinion on the good, the bad and the ugly from this year's Badminton Horse Trials

Mark Phillips: 'this is a ray of sunshine after our winter of discontent with the FEI' *H&H VIP*

Horse & Hound's eventing columnist praises Belton for its use of technology and looks at how this could be applied to other events in the future

Mark Phillips: 'I really don't understand where eventing is going' *H&H VIP*

Horse & Hound's eventing columnist reviews the proposed changes to eventing by the FEI and why some are good ideas while others potentially devastating

Mark Phillips: When will common sense prevail with qualifications? *H&H VIP*

H&H's eventing columnist discusses the Olmpic eventing qualification system and says that eventing needs to choose between traditional sport or more prize money

Mark Phillips: A £10,000 lapse of concentration at Burghley *H&H VIP*

H&H eventing columnist Mark Phillips reflects on a bumper Burghley

Mark Phillips: We need a new 1.05m eventing level *H&H VIP*

H&H's eventing columnist explains why he is in support of a new 1.05m level in British eventing

Mark Phillips: Safety clips have a place in British eventing *H&H VIP*

H&H's eventing columnist looks at how a certain safety feature could benefit the UK and asks how much responsibility riders should take while riding cross-country

Mark Phillips: With that move, no frangible can save you [H&H VIP]

H&H's eventing columnist looks at when no amount of safety features can save either horse or rider

Eventing safety takes a step forward at Luhmühlen

Luhmühlen course designer Mark Phillips took a step forward in eventing safety when he used MIM clips on triple brush arrowheads at the international event

Walk the Luhmühlen CCI4* cross-country course [VIDEO AND PICS]

Take a virtual tour round the CCI4* cross-country course at Luhmühlen

Mark Phillips: The best horse in the world could prove useless [H&H VIP]

H&H's eventing columnist reviews thoughts on team selection and looks ahead to next week's German four-star, Luhmuhlen

Mark Phillips: High Kingdom needed general anaesthetic to treat Kentucky injury [H&H VIP]

Our eventing columnist was mortified to learn that his daughter, Zara Phillips, had been unable to compete in Kentucky and reflects on the qualification requirements for four-stars

Mark Phillips: 'competitions are won or lost by fractions' [H&H VIP]

H&H's columnist celebrates the changes to the new frangible pin rule, but believes further amendments should still be made

Burghley 2015 promises to be a 'very different' experience for riders

The cross-country at this year’s Burghley Horse Trials will be run in reverse

Mark Phillips: 'The sport has to change' [H&H VIP]

H&H's eventing columnist looks into controversy in eventing at the start of the new season