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Share your news story Call 0330 390 6386 Email eleanor.iones@futurenet.com @ jones_eleanor_ EVENTING has weeks to decide on a new format for the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, after the FEI was hit with an unexpected deadline. The discipline is not yet c

DETAILS of how British Eventing's (BE) abandonment support fund will work have been confirmed in the 2024 rule changes. BE announced a fund that will provide competitors with “discretionary goodwill payments” of up to 60% of the entry fee, when unins

IT is critical horse and yard owners and vets work together to delay further resistance to wormers, as research finds “vital clues” to aid the fight. Two surveys were organised by Project WORMS (Working to Overcome Resistance and Make for a Sustainab

THE equestrian industry has to act to ensure it is viable - as many employers fear they will not be able to pay staff national minimum wage (NMW). The NMW will increase from £10.42 for over-23s to £11.44 from 1 April, and this will apply to all aged

RACING aftercare charity Retraining of Racehorses (RoR) has revealed a plan to establish training standards and an official retrainer scheme, and is seeking to massively increase funding. The news came as part of RoR's 2024-2026 strategy, which also

Email to hhletters@futurenet.com Name and address must be included. Letters may be edited. @ horseandhound instagram.com/horseandhound facebook.com/horseandhound DID you know that carriage driving is a great way of keeping older horses and smaller po

jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald NOBODY before or since has done more for the popularity of showjumping than Harvey Smith. More than anyone, he made it a non-elitist sport enjoyed by millions. Harvey recently spoke out (interview, 29 Decembe

“IT was nice to get it done,” says Hayley Turner OBE, with some understatement, of the moment she became the first female British jockey to record 1,000 wins. She partnered Tradesman to victory on 21 November 2023 for trainer David Simcock in a two-m

MY parents were not at all horsey, and I was introduced to horses by my mum's best friend, who let me ride her ponies. I then had lessons at the local riding school. All my early riding was hacking; aged 11 or 12 I would hack all day solo, from the n

WHEN it comes to keeping your finger on the pulse within the equine industry, I was delighted to attend the “current affairs” afternoon at the British Equine Veterinary Association (BEVA) Congress, highlighting the ever-evolving landscape of the prof

For you: a Grade II-listed house that was developed from a 17th-century farmhouse into a Georgian parsonage with later additions. There are six bedrooms, adaptable attic space, a library, high ceilings and period fireplaces. There is also a twobed ho

COMPETITIONS are nerveracking places to face on your own, which is why it's always nice to have a helping hand or is it? From “helicopter parents” to “absolute heroes”, here are just a handful of the weird and wonderful unofficial grooms we all know

TRAVELLING is almost a rite of passage in 2024. Whether you head off for a shorter trip, or sell up and buy a one-way ticket - some tourists grab a friend or two, or indulge in the ultimate form of self discovery and go solo. The benefits of travel a

IT'S not every horse (or trainer) that celebrates a win with a Guinness in the local pub, but then, there's nothing everyday about last month's King George winner Hewick (or his trainer Shark Hanlon). The pair arrived at The Pint Depot in Co Carlow,

IN Piggy March's biography of the brilliant Vanir Kamira (Tilly), she tells how the mare transformed from an “unexciting, weak young horse” to a dual five-star winner, one of the best cross-country horses in a generation. Tilly's other connections fr

I F your horse is unwilling to eat his feed or forage, a good place to start is to figure out what's causing this noticeable lack of appetite. “For performance horses particularly, fussy eating can just be a result of high-workload excitement and the

BICESTER WITH WHADDON CHASE 30 December catherine.austen@futurenet.com @cfaustenl23 Bicester with Whaddon Chase, Bucks ALTHOUGH a sign of a good day, a week later the Doddershall clay is still refusing to come off my hunt coat. Luckily, I heeded Lucy

Wellington Riding, Hants LAURA RENWICK'S warmup for six weeks in Valencia looked on point, as she headed both the Blue Chip Dynamic grade B&C qualifier and the 1.40m open with Kosmos A. “With the weather being as it has been, we're lucky to get to go

HIGHLIGHTS 21 January jennifer.donald@futurenet.com @jen_donald Winter Million Festival, Lingfield Park, Surrey AFTER 13 months on the sidelines, a welcome sight was the triumphant return of the Venetia Williams-trained L'Homme Presse in the Fitzdare

HIGHLIGHTS 21 January gemma.redrup@futurenet.com @gemmaredrup Heythrop, Cocklebarrow, Glos ALTHOUGH the weather did its best to disrupt fixtures across the country, two of the original five survived and battled through the efforts of Storm Isha. Jock

THE team of trainer Tom Ellis, his wife Gina Andrews and his brother-in-law Jack Andrews brought home a double across the two cards over the weekend. Gina took the 3m 4f ladies’ open at Cocklebarrow aboard Master Templar (pictured), who was having hi

AT the meet at the kennels on Saturday, one of our most supportive farmers (we are lucky enough to have many here) was there chatting to the wife of another top farmer. The latter's daughter had brought her pony out for its first day with the hounds.