Horse & Hound’s top web moments for 2013
We shared the biggest equestrian stories of 2013 on the Horse & Hound website and via social media — and over 6million of you logged in to keep up to date. Take a look at the stories that had you clicking faster than we could say breaking news.
2013’s top 10 articles on www.horseandhound.co.uk
1. 17 signs you’re dating a horse owner
2. 9 types of people you’ll find on a livery yard
3. 50 neglected horses removed from Olympic dressage horse owner’s stud
4. Watch Irish hunters do battle in thrilling hunt chase at Dublin Horse Show
5. Event rider killed at Somerford Park
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6. 10 things that only happen to horse owners
7. Lucky escape as a horse bolts at Dunster Country fair
8. Do you recognise this horse? [dumped colt]
9. Event rider killed at Somerford Park named as Tom Gadsby
10. Bruno Bouvier killed in cross-country fall at Barroca d’Alva
Top 5 galleries
1. Walk the eventing European Championships cross-country course
2. Top 20 event horses of the past 20 years
3. Walk the Burghley Horse Trials cross-country course
4. Badminton Horse Trials cross-country course: fence-by-fence in pictures
5. Hickstead Derby Bank: how NOT to do it
Top 5 forum threads
2. Hunting: if guests turned up at a meet in casual gear…
3. A truly sickening Facebook page…
4. To those that have snow white hunters
5. Channel 4 racing [impressions of the new coverage]
Read the full article about H&H’s top web moments in our Review of the Year special issue of Horse & Hound magazine (5 December 2013)
A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.