I do enjoy a review of the year; a memento of all the good things we’ve celebrated is a reminder of why we love what we do here at H&H. For British horse sport it’s been an incredible 12 months, featuring a medal haul at the World Games, a smattering of world records and our stars holding world number one slots in all the Olympic disciplines. Incredible. All that’s left is for H&H’s readers to get behind Charlotte Dujardin for BBC Sports Personality of the Year — phones are poised.
Of course 2014 hasn’t been 100% highs — tragedies have followed triumphs, as is the way with horses and another reason we so appreciate the good times.
As a journalist, I love a good quote — my favourite this year being John Whitaker’s, “It’s the first time I’ve won a class when the bars have been shut,” on winning at Scope Festival at 2.30am, which is a barometer of time I feel should be adopted by all.
H&H's Content Director looks at how riders' attitudes towards considering themselves as athletes has changed
Horse & Hound has had an eventful year, too. We wished the best of British to some stalwarts of the team, including former Editor Lucy Higginson and long-serving section editor Nicola Swinney.
We welcomed six new recuits and launched initiatives such as our training academy — with many more developments to come in 2015.
Having fully embraced the notion of the website being, not more important than the magazine, but certainly as important, we are now pleasing more equestrian enthusiasts in more ways than ever before. And God bless horse sport, it just keeps on giving us the incredible stories to do that.
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Sarah has worked at an equestrian journalist and editor since 2004 and has held the position of Horse & Hound Editor-in-Chief since 2014. She has reported for Horse & Hound from major championships including Europeans and World Equestrian Games. She has co-written books on horses and horse sport including The Complete Illustrated Encyclopedia of Horses & Ponies. She has owned and ridden horses since 1993, and worked for and trained with Olympic gold medallist event rider Leslie Law prior to going to university. While studying for a BSc at London School of Economics Sarah also worked for top British dressage rider Louise Spate.
