Polo shirts help fight against strangles
Fancy a stylish new riding top while helping to raise money for a good cause? Horse & Hound has teamed up with clothing company Puffa to produce a special polo shirt. The shirt has been designed to support the strangles campaign launched by the Animal Heath Trust (AHT) and British Horse Society (BHS) earlier in the year (news, 8 February).
For every shirt sold, a total of £2 will be donated to the campaign, which aims to raise £250,000 over two years to fund research into a new strangles vaccine and a more effective means of diagnosis.
A Puffa spokesman told H&H the firm hopes to raise £50,000 from the sale of 25,000 shirts. Puffa managing director Neil Farrar said he was keen to get his company involved in the drive to stamp out strangles.
“When I heard about the campaign, I immediately wanted to do something to help eliminate such an awful disease,” he said. “I know this issue will be close to the hearts of horse lovers everywhere and I hope they will want to show their support by participating in this campaign
— £250,000 is an achievable amount to raise.”
H&H Editor Lucy Higginson said: “Horse & Hound is extremely pleased to play a role in this fund-raising initiative for the strangles campaign, a disease we would all like to see eliminated.”
The shirts are available in four colours — white, candy pink, ice blue and navy — and retail at £30 for adult sizes and £20 for juniors.
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They will be on sale for the first time on 7 July at the British Horse Society’s
60th birthday celebrations in Windsor.
H&H readers keen to pre-order a shirt can do so at Badminton on 3 May, where top event riders Nick Gauntlett, Lucy Wiegersma, Ruth Edge, Terry Boon and Gemma Tattersall are supporting the campaign.
This news story was first published in Horse & Hound (19 April, ’07)
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A Cambridge graduate and big racing fan, Karen joined H&H in 2006 first as deputy news editor, and rose to managing editor, via a stint as acting editor of our sister title, Horse. Alongside being vet page editor and running our annual Young Rider special issue, she oversaw our media agreements, round table features, reader panel and more. Karen left Horse & Hound in 2014.