Little Fire’s Smoking Hot to Win Houghton CCIO4*-S for William Fox-Pitt

Allow us, if you will, to set the scene: you’re at Houghton International Horse Trials, sprawled in the sun-soaked grass amid a crowd of merry picnickers. In your hand, there’s an ice cream; in the other, your phone sits limp and lifeless, unable to pick out even an iota of signal as you halfheartedly attempt to upload a shot of the water jump to your Instagram story. Vaguely, languidly, you contemplate picking your way through the sea of bare, winter-whitened legs to the nearest gin bar, but then your attention is diverted by a welcome announcement: William Fox-Pitt has just taken the Houghton CCIO4*-S title. Life feels blissfully, gloriously like it’s 2013 again.

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Article written by: Tilly Berendt