1 Carl Hester throwback and 8 other great bits of horsey social media this week

Enjoy some of our favourite updates from equestrian social media channels during the past week. From some absolutely gorgeous foals to an incredibly kind dressage horse, we saw it all on social media.

Equestrian social media posts of the week

This sort of video will never get old

How cute

Ooops

What a character

Piggy March’s World six-year-old champion Cooley Lancer has a visitor to his stable

We’re fans of ‘Dayzee’

The connections of Dashel Drasher weren’t bad at making up for the noise crowds would usually make when cheering him home to win at Ascot

Carl Hester way back when…

And our favourite social media post this week is…

Fair play, Hugh Morgan — you can read more about what happened here

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Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.