Horses in the snow (but not the kind that ruins your ride...)

ST. MORITZ, SWITZERLAND - JANUARY 28: A horse runs during the Team Cartier vs Team Brioni match for the Cartier Trophy during the 23rd Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow on January 28, 2007 in St. Moritz, Switzerland. The Cartier Polo World Cup on Snow is the world's most prestigious winter polo tournament. Four high-goal teams with handicaps between 20 and 22 goals are battling for the coveted Cartier Trophy on the frozen surface of Lake St. Moritz. (Photo by Scott Barbour/Getty Images)

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With snow falling heavily around parts of Britain — making life on the yard near-impossible — we'd understand if you never wanted to see the white stuff again. But with the Snow Polo World Cup in St Moritz (27-29 January 2017) fast approaching, we celebrate snow in it's other (more glamorous) guise, with pictures from last year's tournament...

Fast and furious: Team Cartier vs Maserati in St Moritz, Switzerland in 2016

Going solo… Chris Hyde’s horse makes a break for it in the Cartier vs Maserati match

Chris Hyde is safely taken off the pitch post-fall

Team Badrutt’s Palace Hotel takes on Perrier-Jouët

Out of the cold: ponies wait patiently on the lines

Team talks: Team Badrutt’s Palace Hotel vs Perrier-Jouët

Striking skies over the frozen lake of St Moritz

A quick pony swap for Team Badrutt’s Palace Hotel …

Steaming ponies in the winter sun

Eyes on the ball…

Snow spray: the Cartier team battle for the ball

It’s the perfect conditions as Team Badrutt’s Palace Hotel takes on Perrier-Jouët

Glitz and glamour: fur-clad spectators soak up the atmosphere

Icy temperatures in St Moritz

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A graduate from Durham University, Madeleine joined H&H in 2011 and became Features Editor — producing content across the magazine and website, including the popular inside back cover article ‘The horse that made me’ and the weekly ‘The best of my fun…’ interview. She has written on topics as diverse as hay making and headcams, to hot totty in the horse world and circus horses. Madeleine now works as a freelance feature writer for Country Life, The Telegraph, Horse & Hound, cntraveller.com, The Spectator and The Field, as well as writing obituaries for The Times.