The Cambridge Riding team of Sam Cutts (Capt), Emma Kenney-Herbert, Jenny Morgan and Edd Moffett pulled out all the stops to take a record 6th consecutive Varsity Riding title, despite a broken finger for the Captain and other sickness in the ranks.

The 2008 Varsity Riding Match was held at Moreton Morrell College, Warks and was hosted by Oxford, who this year were a somewhat unknown quantity; the teams not having come up against each other in matches this year.

The Cambridge team took a narrow lead after the dressage rounds but the competition was still very open heading in to the jumping rounds. Here the Cambridge team rose magnificently to the pressure, each rider returning two zero-penalty scores to give Cambridge the win by over 20 penalties.

Kenney-Herbert and Cutts also took 2nd and 3rd individual placings respectively. Cutts said: “I am absolutely delighted with how the team has performed today. We didn’t have an ideal preparation for Varsity but skill and determination have shone through.”

6th year Vet Student Dilly Nock has also kept the Light Blue flag flying, winning the 2nd ever International Students Flat Race at Longchamps, Paris this Easter and making it 2/2 victories for Cambridge; following Cutts’ victory last year. She now heads to the final, to be held on May 15th at St Cloud, Paris.

Natalie McGoldrick (Churchill College), in her sixth year studying Veterinary Medicine, and Sam Cutts (Emmanuel College), in her fourth year of the same course, have both been shortlisted for the Great Britain Team for the Student Riding Championships, to be held in Algeria next October.

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