Capital gets some equestrian magic on New Year’s Day

The capital got it’s fair share of magic on New Year’s Day when the London New Year’s Day Parade featuring ‘All The Queens Horses’ hit the global city in style.

Alongside celebrity illusionist Darcy Oake, jugglers, cheerleaders, acrobats, clowns and marching bands, this year’s record-breaking parade featured two teams of riders, 64 horses and 200 participants.

Invited for selection from all over the UK to appear in this annual event, the riders ranged from just six years old through to late seventies and were unpaid volunteers unified in their passion for horses and bringing equestrianism to the capital!

The equestrian element of the parade started off at Piccadilly Circus and finished at Parliament, with the return route back via the Horse Guards, The Mall and Buckingham Palace.

Each year the parade celebrates a particular theme, with previous year’s celebrating the ‘Swinging Sixties’ and ‘Hats Off For London’ and the most recently ‘London Moving’.

This year the parade took on ‘A Magical Thirty Years ’ to celebrate the main parade’s 30th year and amongst the creative equestrian costumes planned, magical figures from your childhood and present day all made a special appearance!

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