BIOGRAPHY

Carl Hester was raised on the Channel Island of Sark from the age of four, educated at Elizabeth College in Guernsey. Aged 19 he applied for a job with horses in the UK at The Fortune Centre of Riding Therapy and on the centre's skewbald mare, Jolly Dolly, he won the 1985 Young Dressage Rider Championship. Moving to Bourton-on-the-Hill he competed at the first Blenheim Horse Trials and won the Spillers Dressage with Jumping Championship. He next rode for the late Dr Wilfried Bechtolsheimer (father of Laura Bechtolsheimer) and in 1990 went to the World Championships on Rubelit von Unkenriff, the European Championships in 1991 and in 1992 the Barcelona Olympics on Georgioni. Hester became the youngest British rider ever to compete in an Olympic Games. He next went into a business partnership with Kate Carter at her yard at Stow-on-the-Wold until Carter decided to move for more space. Hester too moved to buy his own yard at Oaklebrook Mill, near Newent, Gloucestershire.

2011 European Dressage Championship

In 2011 Hester riding the horse Uthopia was part of the British team that won the team gold medal at the 2011 European Dressage Championship in Rotterdam. Hester also won individual silver medals in the Grand Prix Freestyle and Grand Prix Special.

2012 Olympics

In 2012, Hester was selected with three others to represent the United Kingdom at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in the Individual and Team Dressage events. The UK dressage team won the gold medal with Hester riding Uthopia.

Hester was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the 2013 New Year Honours for services to equestrianism.

2016 Olympics

Since 2016, we have secured and organised six, international sellout tours for Carl Hester through our network of promoters across North America, Australia and New Zealand. We have also hosted four of our own masterclasses with Carl over this period including the event ‘One on One at Fifty’ to over 3000 people in the United Kingdom, that celebrated his career as a rider, trainer and a horseman. Press here

We have also secured several of Carl’s sponsorships and press over the years, including his current partnerships with Horseware, Farm and Stable and AW Jenkinson. We have also delivered multiple press opportunities for both him and Charlotte Dujardin since 2013, with The Times, Sky Sports, BBC News and Good Morning Britain to name a few.