Features Archive | September 2024

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September 30th
- ‘Not every day is a perfect day – patience and positivity are very important’: Lottie Fry shares her training mantras
- ‘It was like learning to ride again, but I never lost faith’: Bubby Upton on her ongoing recovery from serious injury
September 29th
- Cheltenham hero Annacotty loving life aged 16: ‘I want people to see that racehorses can be beautifully trained and cope with technical courses’
- Heaven on horseback – Ride & Recharge at Nihi resort on the tropical island of Sumba
September 28th
- ‘She’s as strong as an ox’: tiny rider born with no immune system qualifies former Pony Club pony for HOYS
- Meet Lewis Robertson-Carrier: 7 things you need to know about Britain’s new national dressage champion
September 27th
- My horse dislikes being clipped and won’t stand still — what should I do?
September 26th
- ‘If I couldn’t compete it wouldn’t bother me’: Olympian Abi Lyle’s training mantras, including why praise, variety and turnout are key
- The Horse & Hound Podcast 157: five-star event rider Bubby Upton
September 25th
- Considering giving up horses? You need to read this first…
September 24th
- 12 things you’d forgotten about turnout rugs (until recently…)
- A horsey home with pristine indoor stable yard, plus school, winter-proof turnout and more
September 23rd
- ‘I literally couldn’t walk or halt!’: Becky Moody relives her medal-winning tests at the Paris Olympics
- 9 reasons riders love (and hate) autumn
September 22nd
- ‘I brushed my teeth and Glamourdale listened to his music’ – how double Olympic bronze medallist Lottie Fry prepared for glory in Paris
- ‘She’s a miracle mare’: history-making 15-year-old rider heads to HOYS on home-bred Clydesdale
September 21st
- Harvard-educated, a brilliant horsewoman and full of great advice: why we’re watching and listening to top rider Lillie Keenan
- Meet the oldest Olympic athletes and medallists of all time
- ‘I wanted to give up’: Blenheim rider bounces back from ‘rubbish season’ to impress with ‘cheeky’ horse
September 20th
- The best lightweight riding jackets in a selection of styles
- Meet the Blenheim competitor and former lorry driver who combines horses with an office job and has five-star ambitions
- ‘We make a lot of sacrifices’: Lottie Fry on what it takes to achieve such success before turning 30, plus what’s next
September 19th
- ‘Being at Blenheim in riding boots, rather than sat in the stands, is surreal’: meet the former PE teacher tackling her first CCI4*-L
- A stunning horsey home complete with stables, arena, grazing, pool and access to some incredible hacking
September 18th
- Would you jump this? Take a virtual walk of the 2024 Blenheim cross-country course
- Now is the ideal time to review your routine *Promotion*
September 17th
- You’re never too old! Meet the top riders still smashing it in their 60s
September 16th
- A stunning farmhouse complete with stables, arena, gallops and hedges to hop!
- ‘Dalera was pushing me out of the hammock to get going’: how Jessica von Bredow-Werndl kept her Olympic champion ‘playful and happy’ through the Games
- Why we’re sad the summer season is almost over (despite being very poor and tired)
September 15th
- ‘I didn’t realise he’d lost a shoe’: Ros Canter’s fascinating analysis of her winning cross-country round at Burghley 2024
- ‘I lay there thinking, this could be it’: rider reveals fight back to fitness after serious fall
- A beautiful semi-rural home complete with stables, arena, swimming pool, tennis court, cinema and more…
September 14th
- ‘He took us past Big Ben’: family’s driving pony off to HOYS and London International under-saddle
- Autumn paddock jobs – five tasks to do before the weather turns
- ‘It’s a little spooky!’ – William Fox-Pitt rides two clones of his former equine superstars
September 13th
- ‘My competitive spirit isn’t going anywhere’: top riders talk motherhood at the 2024 National Dressage Championships
- ‘The course looks fantastic’: get your tickets for top-class competition at Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials *Promotion*
- Air ambulance incoming! What to do when horses are in the area
September 12th
- ‘Hopefully I’ll do both’: British para rider and new Grade IV national champion aiming to compete at inter I
- A lovely home in the heart of a village with stables, arena, horsewalker, lunge pen, 11 acres and more….
- How RSPCA George is proving rescue ponies can with his multi-faceted career
- ‘I walked the cross-country course five times, I knew what I was going to do’ – how Yasmin Ingham prepared for the Olympic course she never got to jump
- All about equine Cushing’s disease, with Boehringer Ingelheim | A Horse & Hound Podcast promotional feature
September 11th
- ‘Arty is my heart horse – I sat watching him for hours in Paris’: Abi Lyle shares her special Olympic memories
- Future stars to look out for at the 2024 LeMieux National Dressage Championships
- ‘Thoroughbreds are 1,000 times easier than warmbloods!’: trainer Dan Skelton on the merits of rehoming ex-racehorses as we celebrate National Racehorse Week
September 10th
- The best mare, a groom’s story and how many awards for Walter? Check out our Burghley prize-winners’ photos…
- 10 things you might not know about the new Olympic showjumping champion
- Celebrating the Burghley Horse Trials winners 2000-2024: in pictures
September 9th
- A home for the corporate equestrian just 40 minutes from London with stables, school and paddocks galore
- History makers! What are the secrets behind the USA’s first-ever Paralympic team gold?
September 8th
- ‘The horses give me drive and focus’: Burghley thrill for Jesse Campbell months after tragic loss of wife Georgie
- Burghley’s youngest rider on experience mission with ‘scrapper’ of a horse he bought for £1,000
- British rider completes Burghley despite ruptured thigh muscle: ‘Icing, strapping and physio’
September 7th
- New mum rounds off ‘maternity leave’ by tackling Burghley on her former stock horse
- Harry Meade on his three contrasting Burghley rides: ‘You have to flip mentally from one to another’
- Cushing’s veteran still improving to post personal best on Burghley debut despite dressage error
- Meet the thoroughbred bought for $1 that you need to have on your Burghley radar
September 6th
- ‘I’m 6ft6 and I can barely see over the fence!’: Burghley debutant eyes up challenging cross-country
- Tom McEwen’s groom Adam Short on the Paris Olympics: ‘The medal ceremony was like when Adele steps out on stage’
September 5th
- Meet Burghley’s oldest rider making his five-star debut with his precious skewbald horse: ‘I was going to quit eventing’
- ‘He’d bolt as a five-year-old’: meet Burghley runner Jeweetwel – and find out what his unusual name means
- ‘I have to be led everywhere’ – meet the complex Burghley mare who excels across country
September 4th
- Stylish suits, leopard print and a purple beret – see what top riders wore at the Burghley trot-up
- 20 pairs to watch at Burghley this week – will one of these combinations take the title?
- Would you jump this? Check out every fence on the 2024 Burghley cross-country course
- All about the Yorkshire Terrier: the tiny lapdog with a tenacious spirit
- Paris 2024 rider opens up about her medal-winning ‘Sun King’ – and why horses are the ‘most important judge’
- All about the Chihuahua: the world’s tiniest dog with the biggest personality
- Mark Todd’s incredible equestrian home is up for sale – would you like to move in?
- LJT Egebjerggards Samoa – Sophie Wells’ rising star that all British fans should be excited about
September 3rd
- Meet the spotted former breeding stallion turned Paris 2024 star who loves a banana
- Meet the rider making her Paralympic debut with her 13hh superstar
September 2nd
- Bags are packed! A horsey home with paddocks galore, stables, a school and more…
- Watch William Fox-Pitt walk key fences on the 2024 Burghley cross-country course: ‘Derek di Grazia is asking some terrific questions’
September 1st
- Athene Lindebjerg – the supermodel grade I horse who’ll partner Mari Durward-Akhurst at the Paralympics
- ‘What could I do to be a bit different?’: how taking a risk helped this rider secure his first RIHS supreme title
- A beautiful country home complete with lovely stables, grazing and more…