Entries for the annual Martin Wills Young Writers’ Award open today, with a prize fund of more than £3,000 awaiting entrants in the competition, which recognises creative writing around a horseracing theme across three categories — under-26, under-19 and under-15.
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26 Nov
2009
2009
Cook tops the prizes at BEWA awards
From Andrew Baldock, BEWA European eventing champion Tina Cook has won the British Equestrian Writers’ Association personality of the year award, it was announced today at the BEWA’s annual awards lunch, staged at Saddlers’ Hall in London. Cook, from Sussex, the daughter of former champion National Hunt jockey Josh Gifford, won Olympic individual and team [...]
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20 Jul
2009
2009
Dennis Cunnington
Dennis Cunnington, the tennis correspondent of the Press Association for many years, has died.
Continue reading →Photographer and SJA member KIT HOUGHTON, the new chairman of the British Equestrian Writers’ Association, begins his term looking forward to a year which will include the European show jumping and dressage championships being staged at Windsor in the summer and more stringent media accreditation requirements for those working at the Badminton Three-day Event.
Continue reading →By Barry Newcombe Alan Smith, equestrian writer for the Daily Telegraph for 48 years, is to become president of the British Equestrian Writers’ Association when he steps down from daily journalism next month.
Continue reading →From BEWA This year’s British Equestrian Writers’ Association’s annual general meeting and awards lunch will be held on Thursday, November 20, at Queen’s Club, Palliser Road, in west London. As many of you will know, Alan Smith, who is retiring at equestrian correspondent of the Daily Telegraph at the end of 2008, after 48 years, [...]
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24 Sep
2008
2008
Smith to retire after 48 years in the saddle
Alan Smith is to retire as equestrianism correspondent for the Daily Telegraph after 48 years.
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27 Feb
2008
2008
Elwyn Hartley Edwards: Memorial service
By Alan Smith, British Equestrian Writers’ Association A memorial service for our late colleague and friend Elwyn Hartley Edwards is to be held on Saturday, May 24, at St Martin-in-the-Fields in London at 12.30.
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