‘I hear them doing the Grand National at night!’ Carl Hester on the joys (and worries) of top horses living out

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Charlotte Dujardin and Imhotep, one of the horses kept at Carl Hester's yard who lives out
“We have good results from it”: team gold medallist Imhotep is one of the top horses kept at Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin’s yard who lives out year round.
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With Britain’s first team gold medal in the bag since the London Olympics 11 years ago, at the European Dressage Championships, Carl Hester explains why many of his top horses live out.

At the Gloucestershire yard he runs with his team-mate Charlotte Dujardin, elite stars such as En Vogue and Charlotte’s current championship ride Imhotep, spend most of their time out in the field.

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.