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May 31st
- Feeding a barefoot horse — what’s the secret to success? Spillers explains… *Promotion*
- Sniffer dogs at all Goodwood racedays following mass brawl
- Blenheim-winning ‘horse of a lifetime’ put down after injury
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the para rider with a passion for jumping
- Gold medallist’s urgent crowd-funding for new Tokyo ride
- Chloe Chubb’s showing blog: when to bail out and a momentous victory
- Mark Phillips: A new way to look at safety *H&H VIP*
- Calls for riders to donate their brains ‘when they’ve finished with them’
May 30th
- World number one buys British-based rising showjumping star
- Teenage rider leaps into the record books
- Appeal to trace dog owner after elderly Arab sustains fatal injury
- Annie Joppe’s endurance blog: what is wrong with people?
- Horse & Hound; 31 May 2018
- Emily King to move to new yard in Cheshire
May 29th
- Pony dumped in backyard settling in well to new home
- Who needs a bridle? — and 8 other things we learnt at the H&H Festival of Eventing
- Event riders who tested positive for banned drugs suspended for one year
- Emotional Lorraine Kelly thanks NHS staff who saved her life after riding accident
- Georgia Tame’s jet set showjumper blog: the kind of news that means you have to pinch yourself
- Get ready for the challenges horses face during summer *H&H VIP*
- ‘I’m humbled by the support’: Emily King’s crowdfunding secures ride
May 28th
- H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘He’s a diamond in the rough’: promising young event horse jumps his way to 100cm victory
- Love eventing? You don’t want to miss these…
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: 4am starts, London commutes and a successful debut
- H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘He just gets better and better’ — dramatic end to 90cm championship
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the horse that cost £1 who wouldn’t go over a pole 12 months ago
- Charlotte Dujardin takes dressage star cross-country schooling
- H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘mare of a lifetime’ crowned 80cm champion
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet ‘Thug’, the pony enjoying a renaissance
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘I had to teach myself to ride again’
- Filly injured in horrific ‘acid attack’ undergoes third surgery
- H&H Festival of Eventing: former riding school horse becomes 70cm champion
- The daughter of this year’s Badminton star — and six other foals we’re excited about
- David Simpson: What can we do to boost pointing? *H&H VIP*
May 27th
- H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘He never ceases to surprise me’ — Irish cob takes 100cm lead
- H&H Festival of Eventing: Made Of Gold shines across country to secure the lead
- H&H Festival of Eventing: new leader in 80cm — ‘if she has every fence down it doesn’t matter’
- H&H Festival of Eventing: it’s all change at the top of the 70cm — ‘I honestly can’t believe it’
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘He turned up fluffy and wild’
- Not keen on pelham roundings? Check out an interesting alternative used by Scott Brash
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: the rider returning from a broken back and the horse she almost sold
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the companion pony who grew into a supercob
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: meet the 13.2hh pocket rocket with an impressive CV
- Dartmoors save the day when trek leader is taken ill
- Re-locate to this 376 acre Spanish estate with horses, carriages and a 15-bedroom house
- Katie Jerram-Hunnable: We need to safeguard qualifers *H&H VIP*
- Driver told young rider she was too fat for her pony in ‘bizarre’ assault
May 26th
- H&H Festival of Eventing: gentle giant cruises into overnight 100cm lead
- H&H Festival of Eventing: schoolgirl storms into 90cm lead on day one
- H&H Festival of Eventing: teenager and her Lipizzaner mare take the 80cm lead
- H&H Festival of Eventing: horse and rider return from serious injuries to take overnight lead
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘Donny helped me recover from bacterial meningitis’
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘I broke both my arms in a rotational fall’
- Alice Pearson’s top tips for a three-day event *Promotion*
- Tales from the H&H Festival of Eventing: ‘I’m nearing 50, if I don’t do this now I never will’
- Cheltenham Festival winner triumphs at Balmoral Show
- ‘He was a complete accident’ — Show horse with ‘unusual’ breeding qualifies for HOYS
- Walk the H&H Festival of Eventing 100cm cross-country course
- Walk the H&H Festival of Eventing 90cm cross-country course
- Brian Walker: There’s a shortage of good grooms *H&H VIP*
- The Knackered Riders Club blog: there’s no point arguing with a woman on a mission
- Meet miniature Shetland’s adorable mule foal
May 25th
- Walk the H&H Festival of Eventing 80cm cross-country course
- British eventer fined after false vaccination records found
- 1 absolute flyer and 7 other great horsey social media posts this week
- Walk the H&H Festival of Eventing 70cm cross-country course
- Sky lanterns banned from Radio One’s Biggest Weekend
- Rider breaks arm after dog ‘went in for the kill’
- Horsey nail bar offers special treats to hard-working equestrian hands
- Pammy Hutton: My competition comeback *H&H VIP*
- H&H Festival of Eventing favourite: meet Frankie Fox, 11, and her 20-year-old pony — ‘this is our grand finale’
- Hovis’ Friday diary: I’ve scared them, haven’t I?
May 24th
- Emily King launches crowdfunding campaign to buy ‘horse of a lifetime’
- Do I need to add salt to my horse’s feed? Spillers explains… *Promotion*
- Dressage chief suspended after arrest
- Small but mighty: 13.2hh one-star pony set to make eventing history
- Calling all dressage divas! Horse & Hound has a championship challenge for you…
- Dope testing: what is it and how does it work?
- Lucinda Green gives her verdict on ‘realistic’ new cross-country schooling course
- Mark Todd: Girl power is ruling this season *H&H VIP*
May 23rd
- Protecting people, horses and the sport: why clean sport week applies to you
- Transgender jockey to make racing history
- Bolesworth attracts princess to compete at the show
- TV presenter risks life and limb to stop runaway racehorse
- Joanna Thurman-Baker’s dressage blog: dreams made and hearts broken
- Horse & Hound; 24 May 2018
May 22nd
- Mare rescued with severe liver damage sparks ragwort reminder
- George’s great escape: horse’s crashing fall captured on video
- ‘Like an aircraft waiting to take off’: Carl Hester on the Windsor supreme champion
- Exposing the myths behind CLEAN SPORT *Promotion*
- A frisky Windsor Grey — and 5 more horsey moments you may have missed from the royal wedding
- Prolific Connemara mare retires to stud after illustrious showing career
- The diary of the home-made livery yard: ‘We weren’t so much showjumping, as bowling’
- Is your horse a happy traveller? *H&H VIP*
- ‘Dramatic and haunting’ film to focus on riding road safety
May 21st
- Rescue pony fulfils owner’s Hickstead dream
- Why being an investment banker has been the secret to a racehorse trainer’s success
- Train with Badminton winner Jonelle Price: a grid to improve straightness and agility
- Train with Mark Todd: teach your horse to land on the correct lead
- ‘Keep little people like me safe’: young rider’s road safety video goes viral
- Did someone say Bank Holiday weekend? Here’s 7 ways to make the most of it (with your horse)
- Oliver Townend second in Event Rider Masters leg: ‘I’m thrilled with the horse’
- Coral Keen’s eventing blog: my dream team and why I disagree with a rule change
- Darren Edwards: Pointing numbers down as bureaucracy increases *H&H VIP*
- Elderly Shetland ‘distressed’ after suspected dog attack
May 20th
- Help horses in need — by walking your dog
- World Equestrian Games prize money: what is winning worth in Tryon?
- Exmoor ponies join wild bison to control Czech vegetation
- ‘Never, ever give up’: rider overcomes cancer, broken back and missing finger
- A dream training yard complete with a period house, stables and an equine swimming pool
- Carl Hester: Are we pricing riding out of reach? *H&H VIP*
- 73-year-old undertakes 1,000-mile trek with two Belgian draughts
May 19th
- A hairy affair: 10 fantastic Fell pony stallions in their element
- Saved by the bottle: tiny donkey foal rejected by mother
- Singing Sampson eyes Hickstead glory after Hamburg win
- ‘We’re so very lucky’: Horsebox tipped into ditch by low branch
- Harry Meade: A vicious trial by social media *H&H VIP*
- When gleaming horses take centre stage at royal weddings
- ‘Never let pride or fear stop you speaking out’: Carl Hester backs Mental Health Awareness Week
May 18th
- Dog left in horsebox ‘as hot as an oven’ died despite rescuers’ efforts
- 1 sit of the Century and 8 other great bits of horsey social media this week
- Blood and whip rule changes in store after high-profile cases
- Royal wedding: horses undergo their final preparations for the big day
- Hundreds of riders to saddle up this weekend in aid of safer roads
- Kim Barzilay: Royal Windsor ballot caused much disappointment *H&H VIP*
- H&H Festival of Eventing favourite: Katie Hughes — ‘this will be my last event with him’
- Fans’ favourite back on British team after seven-year absence
- Hovis’ Friday diary: riding me is like hanging on to a hurricane
May 17th
- Luhmühlen entries: who are the key players heading to Germany?
- 200+ Countrywide staff made redundant as stores close
- Steve Guerdat: Why Royal Windsor triumphs where other major shows fail
- ‘Sit tight, I’ve got this’: British para rider clears extra 1.50m fence in 90cm class
- From journalist to jockey: a serious wake up call
- David Bartram-Lawton: I’ll say if a horse is too fat *H&H VIP*
- H&H question of the week: how can I train my horse to use his shoulders while jumping?
- Tack shop owner has brainwave over plastic waste
May 16th
- 20 Windsor winners who reigned in The Queen’s back garden
- ‘Dreams really can come true’: overweight £100 Shetland transforms into showing star
- Heavy riders and high costs behind trekking centre’s closure
- Horse ‘left to die’ in road after head-on collision with car
- Georgia Tame’s jet set showjumper blog: five shows and a Windsor win
- The challenges of equine surgery *H&H VIP*
- Horse & Hound; 17 May 2018
- ‘I had to learn to walk again’: top rider’s remarkable comeback from horror fall
- Four-star eventer retires from top-level ‘with a smile on his face’
May 15th
- Top lot sells for £31,000 at Brightwells Elite Dressage Auction
- Love Island star joins donkey’s birthday celebrations
- 8 ways to enjoy the sunshine with your horse
- Meet the pint-sized ponies preparing for the World Equestrian Games
- Fancy having a bunch of (naked) Australian farriers hanging in your tack room?
- Annie Joppe’s endurance blog: the sky is the limit
- Polly Walker: Let’s not jeopardise pointing *H&H VIP*
- Mental Health Awareness Week: ‘We need to look after each other like we do our horses’
May 14th
- Star police horse with phobia of crisp packets retires
- 7 combined training shows you don’t want to miss
- More ugly scenes as fighting mars second weekend of racing
- Royal Windsor 2018: The Queen, fake soldiers and a hairy moment in the show ring
- Piggy French speeds to Event Rider Masters victory at Chatsworth Horse Trials
- Matthew Wright’s eventing blog: it’s amazing how your luck can change
- 9 things Meghan Markle needs to know before she joins a (very) horsey family
- Stuart Hollings: Has the showing world gone mad? *H&H VIP*
- ‘Her spirit was with us’: Hannah Francis one-day event to return this summer
May 13th
- London 2012 Olympic champion wins at Royal Windsor Horse Show
- Rider with double lung transplant achieves her ambition to ride at Badminton
- Think Arabs are just for endurance? Think again…
- Horse sues former owner in ground-breaking court case
- Jason Webb’s blog: we have to take the bad times with the good
- Horsey heaven outside Windsor: you’ll just need a spare £30 million…
- Caz Light: Don’t alienate the competitors *H&H VIP*
- Long day at the yard? Put your feet up in horsey slippers
May 12th
- 7 pint-sized working hunter ponies who seem to have wings
- Yard hero rescues showjumping mare from stable blaze
- ‘I wasn’t expecting that’: Welsh C stallion bags Horse & Hound Mountain and Moorland title
- Ugly scenes as four racegoers seriously injured in mass brawl
- Young horse dumped in Nan’s back yard
- Joanna Thurman-Baker’s dressage blog: training with Carl Hester and rubbing shoulders with Valegro
- Anna Ross: I seem to have contracted own-horseitis *H&H VIP*
- Inspired by Royal Windsor? Take a look at these 5 super-smart show horses for sale
- New ‘exclusive’ spring championship show for High Flyers
May 11th
- Charlotte Dujardin and star mare Mount St John Freestyle claim Windsor double
- The moment you realise you’ve won Badminton and 8 other great bits of horsey social media this week
- Mark Phillips: A major wake-up call for Oliver Townend *H&H VIP*
- Sponsors drop Oliver Townend after Badminton – others back the world no.1
- Tales from Windsor: miraculous show horse bounces back after losing an eye
- BEF’s world class performance director leaves role ahead of WEG
- Five to be charged with animal cruelty offences
- Oliver Townend: I don’t want to be rough on horses *H&H VIP*
- H&H Festival of Eventing favourite: HGV driver Ginny Thompson
- *Calling all show secretaries* List your show free in Horse & Hound
- Hovis’ Friday diary: back to earth with a bump
May 10th
- Charlotte Dujardin and Carl Hester dominate Royal Windsor grand prix
- H&H question of the week: could new therapy stop my horse headshaking?
- Early win for The Queen at Royal Windsor
- End of an era for Woodlander Stud
- Heading to Royal Windsor with a hack? Find out what the judge will be looking for
- Last chance to enter Horse & Hound Festival of Eventing
- ‘She’s so talented’: Rio gold medallist takes on exciting new rides
- Peter Storr: Great judging of a good new test *H&H VIP*
- Got your eye on next year’s BE100 Mitsubishi Motors Cup? Take a look at the 2018 cross-country course
- Is ‘matchy-matchy’ in your horse’s best interest? Vet speaks out
May 9th
- British rider eliminated for blood at Nations Cup supports ‘zero tolerance’
- British Horse Society to take up Oliver Townend case with FEI
- Simon Grieve’s Badminton blog: moments like this make it all worthwhile
- World Equestrian Games tickets for individual sports now available
- Horse & Hound; 10 May 2018
- How to spot liver disease in horses *H&H VIP*
- Fancy having a crack at the BE90 Mitsubishi Motors Cup next year? Here’s what the 2018 cross-country looked like
- ‘He was lying lifeless on the floor’: Teddy the Shetland beats life-threatening illness
May 8th
- ‘It’s an honour to ride there’: Scott Brash and Kent Farrington head Windsor entries
- Badminton 2018: an inspirational winner, emotional farewells and a heatwave
- Andrew Nicholson’s Nereo: celebrating an equestrian legend in pictures
- Exciting opportunity to join the H&H team
- Action Fraud reveals the shocking cost of horse sale scams
- Shaun Mandy’s dressage blog: a stressful move
- David Simpson: Can under Rules courses promote pointing? *H&H VIP*
- Vaulting stars in new Galaxy advert
May 7th
- Here comes the sun: 7 summer shows you need to enter
- Rider walks dog from Burghley to Badminton for Willberry Wonder Pony
- Mulrys Error: 7 reasons we all fell in love with the ‘supercob’ with dinner plate feet
- British star hits the £150,000 jackpot with Madrid hat-trick
- Kirsty Short’s Badminton first-timer blog: from Pony Club to Badminton — thank you, Bouncer
- Jonelle Price: 9 things you need to know about the 2018 Badminton winner
- ‘I love my horses’: Oliver Townend apologises after ‘ugly’ Badminton riding
- Fergal O’Brien: They are great role models *H&H VIP*
- New tendon boots can detect horses’ lameness
May 6th
- ‘He has won to us’: Mulry’s Error completes his final four-star
- Farewell to an eventing legend: Nereo retires to standing ovation at Badminton
- Take note: 9 Cooley horses going for eventing world domination
- Jonelle Price claims first four-star title with Badminton victory
- Badminton Horse Trials: take a walk around the 2018 showjumping course
- King’s Troop commanding officer races over 5ft timber to fulfil lifetime ambition
- Top-10 contender withdrawn as three horses held at Badminton final vet inspection
- A cross-country course, jumping lane and all-weather gallop: the dream set-up?
- Julie Templeton: Value opportunities for the novice ride *H&H VIP*
- Watch Mitsubishi Motors Badminton Horse Trials live: 2-6 May
- Runaway cob rescued from car inspection pit after police chase
May 5th
- Badminton cross-country 2018: watch riders reflect on their rounds
- Kirsty Short’s Badminton first-timer blog: I was so nervous, but Bouncer was amazing
- Oliver Townend given official warning for over-use of whip at Badminton
- ‘The heart of a lion’: horse put down after injury on Badminton cross-country
- ‘She was magic’: speed-demon mare in Badminton lead on zero margin
- ‘He won’t do another big event’: Ben Hobday’s ride Mulrys Error steps down
- Your first three-day event: How best to manage and recover your horse *Promotion*
- Badminton cross-country: Michael Jung takes an early lead
- What is a breeze up sale? H&H explains all you need to know
- Badminton first-timers: Will Coleman — ‘My horse has a Jekyll and Hyde character’
- Rupert Bell: The public needs a storyline *H&H VIP*
- New bitless showing classes to offer £500 prizes
May 4th
- Badminton dressage scores: why have they changed and what do riders think?
- ‘Definitely Badminton’: cross-country course reactions from William Fox-Pitt, Oliver Townend and more
- Oliver Townend regains Badminton lead ahead of cross-country
- Strangles outbreak gives area festival riders more time to qualify
- 44 flying-changes in a row and 12 other great bits of horsey social media this week
- Britain holds Badminton lead with Ireland close behind after personal best from Jonty Evans
- H&H racing editor on the road to recovery after fall thanks to Oaksey House
- Dream of buying a racehorse? Here’s what to look for
- Kirsty Short’s Badminton first-timer blog: Bouncer has been showing off
- Isobel Wessels: Judging, riding and training, together *H&H VIP*
- H&H Festival of Eventing favourite: Anna Verrall — why fate brought her and her horse together
- Special guests invited to fence-judge at Badminton
- Hovis’ Friday diary: People I need you — let’s change eventing forever
May 3rd
- British rider pips Michael Jung to top spot on first day of dressage at Badminton
- Top eventer loses two sponsors after blood controversy
- What are the three key Fs of equestrian helmets? *Promotion*
- Oliver Townend takes early Badminton lead in quest for Rolex Grand Slam title
- Amy and Charlie the cob’s Mitsubishi Motors Cup blog: the old boy did me proud
- Princess Anne meets Grand National winner at vet school launch
- #TBT to Badminton 1968: The Queen watches 20-year-old nurse Jane Bullen win
- Diarmuid Byrne: It’s time for Todd’s fifth win *H&H VIP*
- Badminton Horse Trials cross-country course 2018: would you like to jump these?
- Burghley and Blenheim 2018 tickets go on sale
- Badminton fashion: tassels, military style and lime green trousers at the trot-up
May 2nd
- Simon Grieve’s Badminton blog: we are a pair of pocket rockets
- Kirsty Short’s Badminton first-timer blog: I feel like I’ve stepped back in time 200 years
- Badminton first vet inspection: one horse sent to holding box plus rearing drama
- Here come the stars: top riders arrive at Badminton Horse Trials 2018
- Annie Joppe’s endurance blog: changing plans and underprepared sleepovers
- US vet flies in for three-hour operation on acid attack filly
- Rider’s ‘regret’ after blood in the mouth prompts social media storm
- Meet Badminton first-timers: Madeline Backus and the horse who was her 10th birthday present — ‘we’ve had quite an adventure’
- Area festival cancelled due to strangles outbreak
- Simon Grieve’s Badminton blog: what a feeling to have just made it here
- Horse & Hound; 3 May 2018
May 1st
- Disease outbreak forces international show to cancel
- New championships adding splash of colour to dressage calendar
- Do you have the competitive ADVANTAge? *Promotion*
- Weak and shaking: emaciated ponies dumped with no water as temperatures soar
- Coral Keen’s eventing blog: an utterly heartbreaking decision
- Badminton first-timers: Georgie Strang — ‘I fell in love with him the first time I saw him’
- The road to recovery *H&H VIP*
- ‘We need a massive increase in pure breeding’: Cleveland Bays in danger of extinction