Ben Faerie is a stallion who has had a great influence on eventing

Eventing

Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...

 horses in Great Britain. His descendants include Virginia Leng's

Virginia Leng

Virginia Helen Antoinette Holgate, also known as Ginny Leng, was a British equestrian competitor who achieved many notable successes in the 1980s, including winning the Individual European Eventing title on 3 consecutive occasions, 1985, 1987 and 1989, a feat which has never been equalled before...

 mounts Priceless

Priceless (horse)

Priceless was a horse ridden by British rider Virginia Leng. She competed the gelding in the sport of eventing. Priceless won four team gold medals for Britain, as well as the Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials.*Color: Bay...

 and Nightcap, and Pippa Funnell's

Pippa Funnell

Pippa Funnell MBE is an equestrian sportswoman, regarded as one of three-day eventing's sporting elite...

 mounts Primmore's Pride and Walk on Star.

• Foaled: 1968
• Color: Bay
  Bay (color)
  Bay is a hair coat color of horses, characterized by a reddish brown body color with a black mane, tail, ear edges, and lower legs. Bay is one of the most common coat colors in many horse breeds....
  
  
• Markings: Star, half-cannon on LH
• Height: 15.3 hh
  Hand (unit)
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   (160 cm)
• Breed: Thoroughbred
  Thoroughbred
  The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word thoroughbred is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed...
  
  
• Breeding: By Ben Hawke out of Faerie, by Vieuxce Manoir

Ben Faerie was bought as a two-year-old at the Ascot sales by Diana Scott, for £250. It was originally intended to use him as a stud for producing fox hunters

Fox hunting

Fox hunting is an activity involving the tracking, chase, and sometimes killing of a fox, traditionally a red fox, by trained foxhounds or other scent hounds, and a group of followers led by a master of foxhounds, who follow the hounds on foot or on horseback.Fox hunting originated in its current...

 out of half-bred mares. He began breeding as a three-year-old, and produced over 800 offspring. The first were used in the hunt field, until Virginia Leng

Virginia Leng

Virginia Helen Antoinette Holgate, also known as Ginny Leng, was a British equestrian competitor who achieved many notable successes in the 1980s, including winning the Individual European Eventing title on 3 consecutive occasions, 1985, 1987 and 1989, a feat which has never been equalled before...

 had amazing success with two Ben Faerie sons: Priceless

Priceless (horse)

Priceless was a horse ridden by British rider Virginia Leng. She competed the gelding in the sport of eventing. Priceless won four team gold medals for Britain, as well as the Badminton Horse Trials and Burghley Horse Trials.*Color: Bay...

 and Night Cap. These sons gave him a name as an eventing

Eventing

Eventing is an equestrian event comprising dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This event has its roots in a comprehensive cavalry test requiring mastery of several types of riding...

sire.

Ben Faerie had an amazing ability to pass on not only speed, but courage, tremendous jumping ability and a wonderful temperament. In 1998, 1% of all horses in Britain were by the great stallion.