Biography

Harry first completed Badminton in 2019 on HD Bronze.

This time he rides his mother Carole Mutch’s Irish Sport Horse Shanbeg Cooley, by OBOS Quality, who was bought in 2019 as a five-year-old from Cooley Farm in Ireland. The pair withdrew after cross-country at Badminton last year and completed their first five-star together at Burghley in 2023.

Harry lives at near Whitley Bay, Tyne and Wear, where he has a number of young horses to bring on. 

In his spare time he trains for Ironman triathlons, which takes him all over Europe. Last year he completed a full-distance Ironman and is aiming for two 70.3 Ironmans this year.

His great-uncle, Eric Thompson, completed Badminton six times in the 1960s and ’70s.