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“Normally it takes 12-18 months to fully train a police horse but Bess got through the training in 12 weeks. Within a few weeks of her starting at the training stables she was nannying younger horses”
Find out how this thrilling race unfolded this afternoon
“Because we are lunatics, we decided we still wanted to do something to help our charities and our objective now is to break the world record for the longest continuous CPD programme ever produced”
“All we saw was this 17hh horse hurtling towards us, and we thought ‘oh my god’, but then realised she was trying to get Belle up”
The Duke of Edinburgh “passed away peacefully” this morning at Windsor Castle
“MND has devastated lives for decades — it’s destroyed my life — and it’s something money can help with, but it’s desperately under-funded”
The 2021/22 watchlist, published this week (8 April), has been updated with new categories: priority, at risk, UK native breeds and Irish breeds in the UK
Hawtins Delicato, the former medal-winning ride of Carl Hester, will now be campaigned by British Olympic rider Fiona Bigwood
‘We hope there will be more good news in the following days but in the meantime, please get behind us to help find Bashful because she needs to come home’
“I hope competitors will be inspired by the setting and that it will give them something fun and challenging to aim at as sport gets going again”
“The process of monitoring and laboratory testing, which was imposed on horses that had been in direct contact with EHV-1 outbreaks at competitions in the Iberian peninsula and subsequently across Europe, is going extremely well”
‘There is a terrible ignorance around the notion of the ‘right to roam’. It’s a funny term, because it isn’t really a right to roam, it’s a right to take responsible access’
Vets are sometimes unfairly accused of “money grabbing” yet if we choose to ignore what they tell us about obesity and management, then surely that’s a surefire way of paying more vet bills, when we are calling them out to treat a case of laminitis?
“I was excited to ride him because of how well he jumps but winning it is something I’ve dreamt about”
The research queried whether “sex-based stereotypes” may be behind the increased number of lesions seen in mares
