The London International Horse Show runs at ExCeL from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 December 2026, three FEI World Cup qualifiers across the five days.
The London International Horse Show brings five days of international show jumping and driving to ExCeL London in the Royal Docks from Thursday 17 to Monday 21 December 2026.
For most of its life it was the Olympia London International Horse Show, after the west London hall it filled every December until 2020. It moved to ExCeL in 2021 under the HPower Group and Simon Brooks-Ward.
The show kept the format that made it: the British legs of the international federation’s World Cup qualifiers in showjumping and driving.
Indoor showjumping differs from the summer version. The arena is small, the turns are tight and the fences come up quickly, which rewards a horse that can shorten its stride. The puissance, in which the wall rises until only one horse clears it, is the class the week builds towards.
More than 400 horses and ponies compete across the five days. Between the championship classes sit the Shetland pony Grand National and a dog agility competition, one of the best-attended parts of the programme.
It is a Christmas outing before it is a horse show, and most of the competition is broadcast or streamed.