Gareth Hughes

Gareth Hughes is a British horse racing speaker and dressage specialist known for winning a number of high profile titles in both the UK and abroad. Alongside his wife and fellow horse racing speaker, Rebecca Gareth has established his own dressage yard in Warwickshire. Beginning his career under the tutelage of well-known dressage specialist and horse racing speaker, Stephen Clarke Gareth took to riding quickly and his passion for horses grew exponentially.

Gareth has toured the UK working as a sports speaker, both discussing and teaching the sport of dressage; his accomplishments range from that of speaking at popular and high profile events in the horse racing calendar as well as winning a bronze medal at the 2013 European Championships and a silver medal at the 2014 World Championships. One of his most impressive career achievements came when he placed 38th at the 2014 World Equestrian Games.

As a rider Gareth has won a number of prestigious awards including titles at the Small Tour and The Grand Prix; Gareth explores how to gain and maintain sporting success, he highlights the ambition and dedication required to achieve great things in this highly competitive sport and strives to inspire future horse racers, dressage riders and sports speakers.

Alongside running his own dressage yard, Gareth also works as an after dinner speaker at specialist horse racing events, he has been called upon to appear as the dressage specialist at corporate functions and to share interesting and entertaining anecdotes at equine after dinner speaker events.