Date of Birth
12 June 1961
Based
Shrewley, Warwickshire
General
Robert has represented GB on 86 Nations Cups, 18 of them winning ones, he has won the King George V Cup three times and has a Bronze European Championships medal and a Team Gold and Individual Bronze medals from Junior European days. Robert and Marius Claudius were Britain’s only representatives at the 2003 World Cup.
Robert and Mister Springfield represented Great Britain in the individual competition at the 2004 Athens Olympics and were placed fourth.
Robert is the eldest son of Harvey Smith and was encouraged to follow in his father’s footsteps at the age of six. By the age of fifteen, Robert had come first in the Yorkshire Grand Prix, at the Great Yorkshire Show and regards this as his first major achievement.
He competed as a junior and was a member of the British Junior European Gold Medal Squad with his brother Steven in 1977. In 1979, he was the youngest ever winner of the prestigious King George V Gold Cup at the Royal International Horse Show, and was the winner of this trophy again in 1988 and 1998. Robert won an amazing seven classes at Horse of the Year Show 2000. In 2002 he achieved the elusive double of being top rider and owner on the end of year British Showjumping Ranking Lists.
Robert was part of the British showjumping team that competed at the 2010 Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games, where he got through to the Individual Final.
Major Results (from 2005)
2010
Member Nations Cup Team:1st Abu Dhabi; Spruce Meadows (Talan)
CSI4* Antwerp, (BEL): 2nd 6 Bar (Balourado)
RIHS: 2nd Sky Sports Speed Classic (Raging Bull Vangelis) 3rd Bunn Leisure International Stakes 2nd King George V Gold Cup(Talan)
2009
British Open: 3rd British Speed Stakes, 1st Midland Masters (Columbia II)
3rd British Open Championship Final (Vangelis S)
Royal Windsor: 2nd Land Rover Open(Baldourado)
CSI5* Madrid: 1st Table C; 3rd Two Phase (Columbia XI)
Hickstead Derby Meeting: =4th Derby (Raging Bull Vangelis S)
British Masters: 1st British Masters Final (Vangelis S)
Member Meydan Nations Cup Team; 5th St Gallen,Hickstead (Vangelis S)
CSI4*W Toronto: 2nd 1.40m Against Clock; 2nd 1.50m Against Clock; 2nd 1.45m Against Clock (Raging Bull Vangelis S)
CSI5* Paris FRA: 2nd 1.40m Two Phase (Ronaldo)
CSI5*-W Olympia: 1st Christmas Tree Stakes (Raging Bull Vangelis S)
2008
CSI-W Vigo, 4th A4 (Ronaldo VI)
Sunshine Tour, 3rd A7 Vangelis S, 4th A7 (Talan), 1st GP (Talan), 1st A7 (Columbia XI), 4th A7 (Spitfire III)
British Open: 1st Speed Leg (Mr Springfield)
Member Nations Cup Team Champion: Madrid 3rd (Vangelis S)
Member Super League Nations Cup Team: La Baule (Ronaldo VI); Rome 1st (Ronaldo VI); Rotterdam 4th(Vangelis S); Dublin 1st (Vangelis S)
Addington Manor Eq Centre: 1st Foxhunter Regional Final(Uniek II)
Horse of the Year Show: 2nd Bob Hurford Memorial Cup (Vangelis S)
2007
Arena UK: 3rd 1.40m Open (Kalusha)
British Open: 5th Birmingham City Shield, 4th Accumulator (Ronaldo), 3rd Midland Masters (Vangelis S)
Aldershot Horse Show: 2nd & 4th 1.40m (Ronaldo VI & Vangelis S)
Royal Windsor: 1st Grade A comp (Vangelis S)
CSI5* Madrid: 3rd Kings Cup (Ronaldo VI)
Member of Nations Cup Team: Rome 1st (Ronaldo); Dublin 7th (Ronaldo)
CSI05* Rome; =1st 6 Bar (Vangelis S)
CSI5* Valkenswaard: 2nd A7 (Ronaldo VI)
CSI5* Lyon: 4th Accumulator (Mr Springfield), 1st 6/7 Year old class (Talan)
CSI4* Maastricht: 3rd A7 (Ronaldo VI)
CSIW Olympia: 3rd Xmas Masters, 4th Xmas Cracker (Kalusha)2nd Six Bar (Ronaldo)
2006
CSI-W Vigo: 1st Knock Out (Jerry Maguire)
CSI-W Wellington: 1st World Cup qualifier (Jerry Maguire)
1st on FEI World Cup Ranking List
CSI**** Sheffield: 1st British Open Championship (Kalusha), 4th Speed Stakes (Marius Claudius)
Member of Nations Cup Team: Wellington USA 6th (Jerry Maguire); Aachen 3rd (Marius Claudius); Rome =2nd (Marius Claudius); Hickstead 1st (Marius Claudius); Dublin 6th (Marius Claudius)
CSIO Rome: 1st Puissance (Jerry Maguire)
Hickstead Derby: 2nd Derby Trial, =4th DFS Derby (Jerry Maguire)
RHIS: 4th International Chase (Ronaldo)
CSI4* Beman: 4th A7, 5th Accumulator (Vangelis S)
Arena UK: 1st & 4th Grand Prix (Marius Claudius & Vangelis S)
CSI-W Oslo: 6th Grand Prix (Vangelis S)
CSI-W Helsinki: 1st A4 (Marius Claudius)
CSI-W Geneva: 1st A7 (Kalusha)
2005
CSI-W s’Hertogenbosh: 4th Grand Prix (Kalusha), 1st 1.50m Accumulator (Riverside Glen)
CSI-W Goteborg: 1st World Cup qualifier, 1st Two Phase, 1st A4 (Kalusha), 1st Knock Out (Riverside Glen)
CSI**** Sheffield: 1st British Open Championship (Kalusha), 1st Masters (Marius Claudius), =3rd Puissance (Laveletto 6)
CSI-A Eindhoven: 1st A7 (Marius Claudius), 2nd Accumulator, 2nd Hunting Class (Riverside Glen)
Royal Windsor: 1st B&C Handicap (Ronaldo), 3rd Gentleman’s Championship (Lanalstto); 1st Martin Collins Grade A (Kalusha)
East of England: 1st & 2nd A&B (Lavaletto 6 & O Combo de L’Eau)
Member of Nations Cup Team 2nd Lisbon (Marius Claudius)
CSIO Lisbon: 1st A4 (Marius Claudius), 1st A7 (Riverside Glen)
CSI-A Cannes: 2nd A4, 3rd Grand Prix (Kalusha)
CSI-A Gelderland: 1st A4, 3rd Grand Prix (Kalusha), 1st Accumulator (Riverside Glen)
CSI-A La Coruna: 4th Grand Prix (Kalusha)
Hickstead: 6th Speed Derby (Riverside Glen)
BSJA/Scope Festival: 1st easibed Grand Prix (Ronaldo)
CSI-A Zuidlaren: 2nd A4 (Ronaldo VI)
CSI-W Stuggart: 4th World Cup qualifier (Kalusha)
CSI-W Geneva: 1st Double &Trebles, 2nd Hunting Comp (Jerry Maguire)
CSI-W Olympia: 1st World Cup qualifier (Kalusha), 2nd Welcome Speed Stakes (Gerry Maguire), 4th Santa Stakes (Ronaldo VI), 6th Accenture Stakes (Ronaldo VI), 3rd Ride & Drive (Gerry Maguire), 1st London Grand Prix (Kalusha)
Awarded the Walwyn Trophy
BSJA Show Jumper of the Month (December)