Horse & Hound

AS we polish off the last of the mince pies and walk the dog more briskly than usual in an effort to see off two weeks of relative excess, thoughts turn to resolutions and goals for the season. An elite handful of those with particularly high hopes a

The Grade One and 2015 King George VI winner died from a heart attack at home on 23 December. The 16-year-old, trained by Colin Tizzard for Jean Bishop, was a dual Cheltenham Festival winner and retired in 2018. The Oppenheimers’ home-bred, who Alice

Edited by Eleanor Jones Share your news story Call 0330 390 6386 Email [email protected] @ jones_eleanor_ TENS of thousands of people enjoyed festive meets across the country, showing “how important hunting still is for the rural community”

THE British Horse Society (BHS) has launched an equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) group to help create an EDI strategy. The group comprises 12 experts and it is “central to the BHS’s overarching vision to make sure all individuals have equal op

The winningmost trainer in British history, Mark Johnston, is relinquishing his name on the licence of the joint training partnership he has had with his son, Charlie, but is not retiring. Top French showjumper Kevin Staut ended 2022 as the best ride

Loser of the week is he who not only told his girlfriend repeatedly to cut down her yard hours, but topped it by telling her to put the horse down, so she could spend more time with him. How much time does it take to say “You’re dumped”? Paul McCartn

A German relative of a UK rider sent her some all-inone suits for her soon-toarrive baby. Great, but the sender had filled in the contents on the custom form as “children’s bodies”. So horses and their semen are an issue, since Brexit, but… A court r

A HORSE without eyes has taken world records, aged 22. Morgan Wagner’s Endo, famous as Endo the Blind, has secured Guinness records for the highest free jump by a blind horse, clearing 106cm, the fastest time for a blind horse to weave five poles, 6.

Edited by Jennifer Donald [email protected] @jen_donald REFLECTING on 2022, it was always going to be a quest for normality. Globally, some Covid restrictions lingered, but we have to be thankful that we could experience key events back o

1) What is canker? 2) Who is the most recent full thoroughbred winner of a British five-star? 3) Lester Piggott is synonymous with Nijinksy, but which other top jockey shared his Classic spoils? Answers from 29 December 2022 1) Dehydration 2) 1993, E

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AS I lay in my sleeping bag, listening to a thunderstorm raging outside my bell tent and felt the fine rain falling on me inside, I did momentarily ponder my life choices. When the chance to go on a trail-riding holiday in Turkey, plus a weekend ridi

TRADITIONALLY, this is the sackcloth and ashes time of year, the lull after Christmas’s storm, when minds turn to sobriety, abstinence and being a better person. At least that’s what they say in the papers. I would prefer to push on with the excess u