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Ballaghmor Class – celebrating the career of this outstanding five-star eventing hero <figure><img alt="Oliver Townend and Ballaghmor Class clear a large open oxer on the cross-country course at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics" class="attachment-medium size-medium" height="169" src="https://keyassets.timeincuk.net/inspirewp/live/wp-content/uploads/sites/14/2026/01/HAH317.ev_summary.4_oliver_townend_ballaghmor_class_tokyo2020_pn21_34357-300x169.jpg" width="300" /><figcaption>Oliver Townend ( GBR) riding Ballaghmor Class during the cross country phase for the Olympic Eventing Competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games held at Sea Forest Cross Country Course in Tokyo in Japan between the 23rd July and 8th August 2021</figcaption></figure><p class="entry-lead-paragraph"><strong>Exceptionally athletic and a supreme trier, this sensitive character met his ideal match in Oliver Townend and they went on to become one of the greatest partnerships in eventing history, as Catherine Austen explains in this exclusive article for H&H subscribers</strong></p>Diamonds are forever – except in the case of horses, they are not. Ballaghmor Class is a diamond. He has dazzled at the very top of eventing for the best part of a decade, illuminating CCI5* level at a time when it has threatened to drop into shade. But he is not immortal, and, at […] https://www.horseandhound.co.uk/eventing/ballaghmor-class-eventing-legend-915067