Show ruling boosts Olympic qualification hopes for top British riders
Riders have welcomed the FEI decision
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EHV-1 update: self-certification forms for shows recommended but not compulsory
As part of the measures put in place to mitigate the risk of the European outbreak reaching the UK, on 18 March BEF and its member bodies introduced equine health self-certification forms on the EIDAG’s advice
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Who will be the pathfinder at Kentucky Three-Day Event and when will your favourite ride?
The Kentucky Three-Day Event 2021 draw has been done – find out who will be first on course and what back number your favourite rider will sport
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More than 9,000 riders sign up for epic relay across the UK
The Great Horses for Health relay starts on 2 May in Yorkshire and will take place in 11 regions of the UK over five months
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‘We hope to use our tragedy to help others’: suicide prevention trust launched in memory of Aintree chairman
‘We’ve said from the start that if we can help just one other family from the agony of suicide, then the initiative will have been worth it.’
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‘From a Ford Escort to a Ferrari’: young eventer enjoys run on her father’s five-star ride
“It’s not easy to sit on a horse like that; it can be a perception it’s a push-button kind of job but when you ride an animal of that power and that capability it can be quite intimidating to some people. As a young girl she coped amazingly well”
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William Fox-Pitt switches Kentucky rides – and explains elimination in final run before the five-star
William Fox-Pitt explains why he has swapped which horse he will ride at the Kentucky Three-Day Event and why he was eliminated on his last prep run for the US five-star
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Equestrian ‘policing heroes’ and road safety ‘champions’ honoured in awards
The awards were set up by the British Horse Society in 1984 as a legacy to Sefton, the 19-year-old Household Cavalry horse who survived the IRA bombings in 1982
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Met Police horse famed for her courage to join equine colleagues in retirement
During her 10 years’ service Orla attended premiership football matches and took part in numerous public order and ceremonial duties including the Black Lives Matter and English Defence League protests
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Sadness as laminitis claims life of ‘powerhouse’ King’s Troop Welsh cob who starred in Downton Abbey
“We are proud to have given her six months of the care and devotion that she so deserved but we wished we had her with us for longer”
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‘For that hour, I was me again’: Hospice patient enjoys visit from her ‘heart horse’
“I haven’t done the things I enjoy for so long, and to see the horse I love so much when everything’s so difficult, and I get so frustrated and upset, was like going back to who I really am”
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Industry is measured by the care of its retired horses *H&H Plus*
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Mare who was a ‘handful’ to hunt turns police horse — and helps arrest knifeman in her first week
“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”
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‘I don’t feel male or female right now — I don’t feel human’: Rachael Blackmore becomes the first ever woman to win the Grand National
Find out how this thrilling race unfolded this afternoon
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Motorcycling vets turn virtual in innovative marathon attempt
“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”
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Ban for leading figure who falsified horses’ FEI passports *H&H Plus*
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Competition mare helps save colicking pony by jumping out of her field
“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”
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Celebrating rare equine breeds’ abilities to ensure their survival *H&H Plus*
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Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, dies age 99
The Duke of Edinburgh “passed away peacefully” this morning at Windsor Castle
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‘I still ride in my dreams’: rider whose life has been destroyed by motor neurone disease calls for more research funding
“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”
