The British Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds Equine Bridge

Open to the highest scoring Futurity Graduates, the purpose of the Equine Bridge is to support the transition of British-bred young horses into the sport. Centred on the equine athlete’s needs it brings together all stakeholders, riders, owners, breeders, trainers and the Olympic disciplines to identify and nurture talent.  

 

Identifying Equine Talent

Conceived as a continuation of the British Breeding Futurity, the aim of the Bridge is to identify young horses and ponies who have the potential and talent to represent Great Britain at FEI level. Investing in the training and production of a young horse represents a significant economic commitment. By identifying horses and ponies not only with the ability to reach the highest levels in the sport, but with the constitution and longevity to stay successful at that level, the Bridge provides invaluable information for those seeking to invest their resources, from owners, to riders, to other stakeholders such as the Olympic disciplines.

The basic structure of the Bridge event is inspired by the German-style “performance test” for young horses, in that the candidates are observed by a team of highly experienced evaluators over several days and challenges to determine their individual abilities. Where the Bridge differs significantly from other performance tests is that it offers the detailed veterinarian and allied professional input that is the hallmark of all British Breeding assessment, as well as an introduction to the benefits of technological and behavioural advances to facilitate horse care and management, aimed at supporting the key objectives of longevity and the promotion of equine health.

The Route into the Sport

The Equine Bridge programme seeks to provide meaningful support to riders, breeders and owners to ensure the Bridge horses fulfil their potential. We recognise that while the annual Bridge event itself provides excellent feedback and PR opportunities, and while its support for the optimised management and equine health is worthy, concrete financial help (or its equivalent) is necessary to facilitate the ongoing production of talented young horses.  We are therefore offering a bursary to the top scoring horse in each discipline of £1,000 to support further training and career development. 

Find Your Future Star

Our vision for the Bridge is to create a mechanism to fulfil the need to the industry to source the best horses for the best riders and to understand and overcome the impediments that are currently leading to good horses not fulfilling their potential, and talented riders being unable to find good horses in this country.

Riders and investors tell us that they need to be able to come to one place where they can see a good range of suitable horses to choose from for the future. The Equine Bridge provides an excellent opportunity by bringing together the best crop of young horses forward from the Futurity and putting them through a rigorous 2 day programme designed to provide reliable information about ability, soundness and rideability via its public, livestreamed events, webinars and public database, which provides pedigrees, linear profiles, evaluators’ comments, videos and photographs. All evaluations are carried out by an independent team of experts.

We warmly invite all interested riders and investors to attend the Bridge to take advantage of the opportunities to meet the horses and their breeders.

 

 



Wednesday, 1 October 2025 - Online Sign me up

We are very pleased to announce that entries are open for new International Virtual Futurity Series 2025

This entry form is for NON-BRITISH BRED horses


How does it work?

1. Prepare Your Videos

You need to submit TWO videos only for your virtual futurity entry:

1. Veterinary Evaluation
2. Frame and Movement

Please DO NOT send multiple videos, we only want to receive TWO videos per entry.

The footage you need to provide varies depending on the age of your entry, to see a full list of what is required, with example videos and useful checklists you can print off and take with you as you do the videos, go to: 

https://british-breeding.com/futurity/futurity-virtual-evaluations/how-to-prepare-your-futurity-videos

2. Complete Your Entry

To make your entry, go to our Event and entries will be open from 1st July
 

3. Send Us Your Videos by 15th August 2025

There are 2 ways for you to send us your videos. 

- Upload them to Youtube
- Upload them to Vimeo
- Send your video links to britishbreeding@gmail.com

4. Video Checking

Our Team then need to check your videos, so please make sure we have them all as soon as you have completed your entry, and absolutely no later than the 15th August. If there is anything missing, we will contact you.

To create a good video, remember a few tips:

- film with the sun behind you
- hold the phone in landscape when filming movement and conformation from the side
- make sure you send everything we need

5. Evaluation

Our teams will then work together to evaluate the entries. This process is scheduled to finish in late September.

6. Feedback

We then send you an email with your results and a detailed report from the evaluators. 

A Futurity certificate and rosette will follow in the post. Category winners and high-scorers will be contacted by email towards the end of the year regarding our Awards Ceremony, which will take place at the 2026 British Breeding Stallion Event.


Any questions, please do not hesitate to email - britishbreeding@gmail.com

 

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