
Nicola Jane Swinney
Nicola was one of H&H’s longest serving staff members and knows her Section Ds from her Section As. Over the years she has written six horse books and articles on topics as diverse as legendary showing producers and the best hipflask tipples. Nicola is our chief sub editor, point-to-point and showing editor. Nicola left Horse & Hound for pastures news in 2014.
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Horse & Hound’s 140th anniversary legends: Pretty Polly – the show pony who has left an extensive legacyBy Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Super-sire Kilvington Scoundrel put down after colicThe sire of top show horses including Pearly King, The Philanderer and Dance All Night has been put down
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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6 Connemaras we won’t forget in a hurryCharismatic, amenable, talented and tough — Connemaras are more popular than ever. Take a look at six of the best from history that we won't forget
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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15 things you can only say in the horseworldYou know you've been spending too much time with your horsey friends when you forget to clarify in normal conversation that your love of thrusters, whips and spurs is all in relation to horses...
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Who was crowned top M&M at Olympia 2013?H&H's showing editor will be tweeting live updates throughout the prestigious mountain and moorland classes and championship
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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14 horsey terms… and what they really meanTo the uninitiated, the language used in the horseworld can be impenetrable and may appear deliberately exclusive. So H&H is here to do some jargon busting...
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Journalist turns showing judge for the dayH&H's showing editor found judging at the North of England show challenging, and that's without taking the extreme weather into consideration
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Global Champions Tour visits London, but who knew?Horse & Hound's chief sub returns to the Olympic Park for the arrival of the Global Champions Tour to London and is surprised by the lack of publicity surrounding the event
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Royal Windsor Horse Show blog: protests, Arabs, timetables and the H&H cupH&H showing editor Nicola Swinney comments on an excellent Royal Windsor Horse Show, while wondering why Arab horses are always shown in a certain fashion
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Horse shows introduce £1,000 first prizesPrizes of £1,000 are up for grabs in two new showing competitions at North of England Shows
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Olympia Horse Show blog: M&M history repeats itselfH&H showing editor Nicola Jane Swinney reflects on the 2012 British Show Pony Society Heritage Mountain and Moorland Ridden Championship
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Horse & Hound showing editor’s review of the yearIn her review of 2012, Nicola Jane Swinney reclaims former show pony competitor Charlotte Dujardin as one of her own
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Horse & Hound showing reporter Dr Wynne Davies retiresH&H showing reporter and Welsh pony expert Dr Wynne Davies is putting down his pen and retiring from reporting
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Showing jargon explainedTo the uninitiated, the language used in the horseworld can be impenetrable and may appear deliberately exclusive. H&H is here to do a bit of jargon-busting...
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Dressage terminology explainedTo the uninitiated, the language used in the horseworld can be impenetrable and may appear deliberately exclusive. H&H is here to do a bit of jargon-busting...
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Willy Twiston-Davies vindicated by Aintree Fox Hunters winThe 16-year-old rode a similar race in the Cheltenham equivalent last month, only to be unseated at the second last when the horse failed to pick up off a long stride
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Win for Peterborough Festival of Hunting newcomersNew faces were in attendance at the Peterborough Festival of Hunting, where the Sarsgrove Harriers won their first rosette
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Small hack Royal Mile is put downH&H says a final farewell to the prolific winning small hack Royal Mile
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Hunting counties of Britain: Kent‘Never hunt south of the Thames’, the saying goes, but Kent has much to offer, as H&H finds out
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Anti-hunt campaigners suspected of phone torment
Police called in after "innocent" couple are plagued by vicious phone calls after telephone number appears in anti-hunt campaign leaflet
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
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Anarchists to attack Beaufort hunt
Anti-hunt protestors reveal plans to disrupt hunt
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Swine fever outbreak threatens hunting
Hunting in East Anglia comes to a halt to contain disease
By Nicola Jane Swinney Published
