News Archive | June 2008

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June 30th
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
- Trainer Aiden O’Brien takes record third Irish Derby win in a row
June 29th
- William Funnell wins Hickstead Derby for the second time
June 28th
- Shane Breen sets Hickstead Speed Derby record
June 27th
- Society of Master Saddlers hits out against bogus saddle-fitters
- Equestrians recognised in Queen’s Birthday Honours list
- Horse owners respond to H&H ‘missing on loan’ story
- Maria Eilberg is travelling reserve for British dressage team
- New eventing rules to reduce horse falls in America
- British Eventing adopts “one fall and out” rule for cross-country
- Owners claim negligence after horse drowns at point-to-point
- Residents campaign against use of Greenwich for 2012 Olympics
- Police appeal for witnesses after youths seen beating ponies with iron poles
- Ruth Edge’s Two Thyme withdrawn from Olympic eventing reserves
- Two ponies dumped in Lincolnshire, one emaciated, one dead
June 26th
- Pippa Funnell joins World Horse Welfare as a trustee
- Search on in Kent for missing bloodhound Humbug
June 25th
- Australian tourist helps deliver a Shetland pony foal in Puzzle Wood
- Olympic show jumping team will include two first-timers
- An all-girl British dressage team is off to Hong Kong
- Lloyds TSB offers young riders helping hand for the Olympics
June 24th
- Great Britain and Australia clash at Kirtlington Park Polo Club
- Horse-cams to cut crime at Glastonbury Festival
- British eventing team heads to Aachen CIC***
- Wrexham pensioner admits cruelty to ponies after 45 horses seized
June 23rd
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
- British Horse Society announces record membership levels
- Teenagers face charges over ponies shot in paddock
- Carl Hester ruled out of Olympics despite Lecantos being sound
- Oliver Townend and Flint Curtis are out of the Olympics
June 21st
- H&H at Royal Ascot: Double delight for Kingsgate Native
June 20th
- H&H at Royal Ascot: fabulous fillies take centre stage
- Fuel and brake lines cut in horse box damage incident
- Appleby Horse Fair mainly ‘trouble free’ reports the RSPCA
- Wiltshire Air Ambulance service is under threat
- Pony Club embraces endurance riding to celebrate 80th birthday
- British Dressage backtracks over changes to voting rights
- Paralympic show jumping seeks international recognition
- Vet John Brennand Williams loses appeal against being struck off
- David Holmes to head FEI sports department
- Pony Club polo player died from reaction records inquest
- Phar Lap killed with poison say scientists 75 years after his death
- Katie Price joins other famous faces in celebrity polo match
- Eglinton Horse Trials celebrates 50th anniversary
- Equine flu warning for Scottish horse owners after more outbreaks
- Actor joins fight to ban horse-drawn carriages from New York
June 19th
- H&H at Royal Ascot: Hats and hattricks on Ladies Day
- Crawley & Horsham Hunt takes saboteurs to court
- Carl Hester ruled out of 2008 Olympic Games
- British Equestrian Federation appoints businessman as new chairman
- Police monitoring reports of men photographing horses
- Equine welfare groups unite to fight against neglect
June 18th
- H&H at Royal Ascot: Duke Of Marmalade outruns the wind
- Sedgefield Racecourse still “safe” despite another equine fatality
- Tributes pour in for the late eventing trainer Derrick Watts
- Angry students protest against loss of Lackham College’s equine courses
- Pony stolen from a field in Bedfordshire
- Win £10,000 Rockfish Riders sponsorship in Eventing magazine
- Andreas Helgstrand is Danish national dressage champion
June 17th
- H&H at Royal Ascot: an opening day with an international flavour
- Champion Welsh A stallion loses eye after savage attack
- Fifth horse slashed in Scotland in a matter of weeks
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
June 16th
- Mark Todd selected for New Zealand Olympic eventing team
- Firefighters rescue a horse from a cattle grid
- Consistent show jumper China Drum dies from colic
- British dressage team chosen for Beijing Paralympic Games
- Sedgefield Racecourse is not unsafe says horseracing authority
- Point-to-point board seeks independent members
- British Olympic pentathletes have medals in mind
- William Fox-Pitt and Macchiato win at Luhmühlen Horse Trials
June 13th
- National Foaling Bank unites broodmare with orphan foal
- Horse rugs help save baby elephants in Zambia
- Silver Fox Challenge returns to Hambleden Estate
- Britain starts planning for all foals to be microchipped
- New hunt kennels for Bicester with Whaddon Chase
- Pony Club branch refuses to renew teenager’s membership
- Argentine polo coach signs for England role
- Lucinda Fredericks and Headley Britannia lead Luhmühlen dressage
- Owner calls for tougher sentences for horse attackers
- Newmarket opens all-weather gallop for jump schooling
- Neglect sees the return of “Crimean war” skin disease
- Caspian pony saviour Louise Firouz has passed away
June 12th
- Delia Stacey pleads guilty to breaching horse ban for third time
- Blue Cross horse receives top-level dressage training to find new home
- British juniors and young riders aim for European dressage glory
June 11th
- Headley Britannia’s second embryo transfer foal born
- Katie Price makes her dressage debut at Hickstead
- Laura Bechtolsheimer to give dressage display at Burghley Horse Trials
- Zara Phillips to miss the Olympics due to injury to Toytown
- Jessica Kurten’s ban must stay, rules Court of Arbitration for Sport
- Horses attacked in fields in Stirlingshire
- Redwings Horse Sanctuary holds summer open weekend
June 10th
- Big Brown’s defeat not injury related says trainer
- Jamie Gray gets community work for assault and criminal damage
- All event riders who fall off at the Olympics will be eliminated
- Anna Ross-Davies is dressage personality of the year
- Three million viewers tune in to watch the Epsom Derby
June 9th
- Dolendo ruled out of Olympic Games for Carl Hester
- Welsh Mountain Pony wins Cuddy ticket at Royal Cornwall
June 8th
- William Fox-Pitt wins his fifth Bramham Horse Trials
- Oliver Smith wins under-25s at Bramham Horse Trials
June 7th
- Oliver Smith heads Bramham Horse Trials under-25s after cross-country
- Dan Jocelyn leads Bramham Horse Trials after cross-country
- New Approach wins the Epsom Derby for Princess Haya
June 6th
- Horse & Hound at Epsom: racing editor’s blog
- Jessica Kurten’s suspension from competition begins
- Look Here wins the Oaks at the Epsom Derby meeting
- Tracy Garside retains top spot at Bramham Horse Trials
- Arrest warrant issued to man who failed to seek veterinary help
- Stallion parade to be held at Burghley Horse Trials
- New hunting guide for Masters of Foxhounds
- Tax windfall available for livery yards around UK
- Claims of missing loaned horses lead to police appeal
- Council checks on weekend child helpers at riding schools
- World Horse Welfare asks public to help stop live transport
- Ireland to send eventing team to the Olympic Games
June 5th
- No reports of stolen horses say police forces across the UK
- Police appeal for witnesses after a horse is stolen in Hertfordshire
- Tracy Garside leads dressage at Bramham Horse Trials
- Redwings Horse Sanctuary hosts re-homing demonstration
- Japan’s smallest horse saved from extinction
- Racing industry encouraged to learn about employment rules
- Budding jockey learns to ride and loses five stone to ride in charity race
June 4th
- Staffordshire police say no horses have been reported stolen
- Equestrian bursaries on offer to young riders from Blaze Clothing
- Two of Lancashire police force’s horses retire after a total of 31 years
- Olympic hopeful Sam Martin to host a dressage demonstration in London
June 3rd
- Mark Todd puts Gandalf to the test at local dressage competition
- Horse left with facial injuries after being burned by cigarettes
- Man’s vehicle registration number being used by horse theft suspects
- HorseWorld to receive RSPCA award for their equine welfare work
- Jumping world to celebrate life of Sylvia Rose Barnes
June 2nd
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
- Drymen show enjoys strong entries and summer sun
- TV spotlight on Greater Manchester Police Mounted Unit
- Changing times for Blenheim cross-country course
- Life-size “horseshoe” sculptures head to auction