News Archive | July 2008

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July 31st
- British Eventing changes policy on ‘one-fall-and-out’ rule
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 8 days to go
- British Olympic horses arrive safe and well in Hong Kong
July 30th
- Live transport for slaughter blog day 1: Central Poland
- Video diary: H&H follows horses being transported for the slaughter trade
- Exposing the reality of long-distance live transport for slaughter
- Henrythenavigator wins 4th consecutive Group One race
- Pony Club and school riders to jump at Hickstead
- Horse owner gets 3 month prison sentence and 15 year ban
- Riders star in TV show ,
- Norfolk village holds horse show in aid of cancer charity
- Lis Astall to succeed John Hales as BSJA president
July 29th
- Heidi White withdraws from American Olympic eventing team
- Lucy Wiegersma heads the British open field at Gatcombe
- Olympic equestrian news direct to your mobile phone
- Aidan O’Brien takes 15th Group One race of the season
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
- British Eventing names juniors for European Championships
- Teenager and horse rescued from river by firefighters
July 28th
- Young English drivers take bronze at the Junior World Trophy
- Gold and silver medals for British riders at pony Europeans
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 10 days to go
- Panorama returns to reveal the “Dirty Secrets” of horse racing
- High Court bid against hunt protestors halted by judge
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 11 days to go
- Olympic riders meet Camilla before their trip to Hong Kong
July 27th
- Germany wins King George V Gold Cup at Royal International
- Hickstead supremes crowned at Royal International Horse Show
July 26th
- More Hickstead showing champions crowned at Royal International
- Britain finish equal second in Samsung Super League at Hickstead
July 25th
- Hickstead enjoys bumper M&M showing entries at RIHS
- Cian O’Connor is Ireland’s Olympic show jumping reserve rider
- Prize-winning horse shot with an air rifle in Midlothian
- Last chance for grooms to get cheap HGV tests
- BHDTA judge struck off for wire brush incident at Sandringham
- Home-bred hunter mare wins Cuddy at Kent County
- Pure-bred Irish Draught wins Cuddy at Great Yorkshire
- Livery yard survey: public invited to have their say
- ‘Strasser’ trimmer successfully appeals against sentence
- Hunt’s legal fight against saboteurs ‘will be nasty’
- Tim Hadaway to run London 2012 Olympic equestrian competitions
- Royal International hunters get a Masterful champion
- Gary Parsonage wins Eventing Grand Prix at Hickstead
July 24th
- Prize money increase for this year’s Blenheim Horse Trials
- Jenny Pitman launches new BHS campaign at Hickstead
- British pony eventing team in silver medal position after dressage
- Hoy and Brugman found not guilty of using spiked boots
- Pensioner jailed for eight weeks for horse cruelty
- British junior show jumpers win European team gold
- Fox hunting case adjourned while film evidence is viewed
- International flavour to RIHS showing classes at Hickstead
July 23rd
- Brave Belgian rewarded after stopping runaway team at Aachen
- Vote Robert ‘Choc’ Thornton as Mr Hot Pants for Injured Jockeys Fund
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 16 days to go
- Work rider cheats death after fall on Lambourn gallops
- Sister of Cian O’Connor injured during launch of Dublin Horse Show
July 22nd
- Owner is fined £3,000 for causing a pony unnecccessary suffering
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 17 days to go
- Hickstead’s eventing grand prix gets a new look
- Animal rescue expert slams poor design of some horseboxes
- Kitty Boggis at her best at Aston-le-Walls Horse Trials
- Stalls handler will not be disciplined for slapping unruly horse
- Firefighters called to help 32-year-old horse get up in the morning
July 21st
- Jeremy Clarkson caught by Ledbury Hunt in Sunday’s Top Gear
- Betfair supports harness racing after £80,000 is bet on Kempton
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 18 days to go
- Mounted police to patrol drinkers in an Oxfordshire town centre
- Retired team-chaser mare attacked with blunt instrument
July 18th
- Pony is knifed over 40 times in North Tyneside
- Chailey Stud and Monarch Equestrian in stables court battle
- Snowball Farm hosts viewing day for riding club horses for sale
- Event riders to decide over abandonment levy
- London 2012 Olympic Games hopefuls will travel to Hong Kong
- Riding school insurance no longer on the rise
- Dubai’s royal family set endurance record at British ride
- Gloucestershire police target schools in fight against equine crime
- Hickstead calls for help to avoid show jumping crisis
July 17th
- Two youths charged in connection with stable arson attack
- Chester racecourse gets gold award for facilities and prize-money
- Warning as horse manure tainted with weedkiller kills vegetables
- Amy Stovold swaps dressage for racecar driving
July 16th
- Monica Dickinson, matriarch of legendary racing family dies aged 83
- Teacher launches new school horse riding leagues in Warwickshire
- Equestrian jewellery worth over £100,000 stolen at Great Yorkshire
- Four horses killed and a stable block destroyed in arson attack
July 15th
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic countdown diary: 23 days to go
- High Court schedules hunt’s anti-harassment legal bid for 28 July
- Strangles test discount for Scottish horse owners
- Pony Club centre membership scheme gains 15,000th member
- United States names Olympic eventing team
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
July 14th
- Hunts help farmer on charity tractor drive across the UK
- Britain’s childrens jumping team win European gold
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 25 days to go
- Outrage over cull of wild mustangs in western Amercia
- Ponies beat rally drivers in mounted games challenge
- Bettina Hoy ruled out of the 2008 Olympic Games
- Albert Zoer may miss the Olympic Games through injury
July 11th
- Jessica Kurten’s suspension is put on hold from 15 July
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 27 days to go
- Horse thief Susan Nicholson jailed for six months
- High-goal polo season gets two-week extension
- Sovereign Series introduces £2million prize for Flat racing
- Owner suspects pony was doped at Northern Horse Show
- Frankie Dettori tells H&H he will not be going into the jungle
- Surrey man given five-month prison sentence for lame horse
- Horsepower helps beat the bracken in Gower
- Vet Alan Walker returns to work after suspension
- Ian Stark reveals Gatcombe’s new cross-country courses
- Unaffiliated shows get new BHS welfare guidelines
- New Olympic Games mascot for Team GB
July 10th
- Local woman wades into river to rescue stranded horse
- Horse found tethered and abandoned in Oxfordshire
- Harness racing to make its debut at British racecourses
- BSJA steward Bob Hurford loses battle against cancer
July 9th
- Owners distraught after two ponies stabbed to death in Wales
- World Equestrian Games 2010 gets speciality license plates
- Royal Windsor Horse Show bars travellers from entry
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 29 days to go
- William Fox-Pitt to ride Parkmore Ed at the Olympics
- Jersey horse owners warned about spread of ragwort
- In pictures: Top show jumpers try their hand at polo
July 8th
- Tim Stockdale’s Olympic countdown diary: 30 days to go
- Cartier International will see England and Australia do battle
- Youths plead not guilty to killing two Shetland ponies
- Producer praises organisers’ actions after pony is injured at show
- Wiltshire white horse set for a Merial makeover
- Horse & Hound news quiz: The week that was
July 7th
- Irish eventing team selected for the Olympics
- Lucinda Fredericks wins Barbury Castle Horse Trials
- Australia names Olympic Games equestrian teams
July 5th
- Frank Ostholt wins Aachen CIC*** for second year running
July 4th
- Queen’s Award for Equestrianism contenders named
- Local shows team up to secure their survival
- Australia records eventing falls in new safety database
- New equine flu vaccination covers the latest strains
- Eddie Macken set to delight the Hickstead crowds
- Brazilian rider suffers serious fall at Aachen CHIO
- Jane Gregory’s Olympic countdown diary: 35 days to go
- Bettina Hoy leads after dressage in the team CIC*** at Aachen
- Eeyore the donkey saved from well by fire service
- Denis Lynch to represent Ireland at the Olympic Games
- Ian Millar to become oldest Olympic show jumper
- BSJA appoints Di Cornish as new chief executive
July 3rd
- London’s Low Emission Zone phase two starts on Monday
- “Don’t worry, Russel is fine,” Nick Skelton tells H&H
- Devon farmer’s Help for Heroes horse ride hopes to raise £7,000
- Police link stabbings of two ponies in Carmarthenshire
July 2nd
- Australia officially free of horse flu 11 months after outbreak
- BBC to televise Olympia for the next four years
- British male Modern Pentathletes selected for Beijing Olympic Games
- New political body to fight for repeal of the Hunting Act
- Point-to-point four did try to run a ringer at Staintondale
July 1st
- Seven polo ponies cut free from an overturned lorry in Gloucestershire
- Dressage rider Amy Stovold swaps horses for racecars to improve her riding
- Second pony is stabbed in the eye in west Wales
- Mary King’s Olympic Games countdown diary: 37 days to go
- Owner appeals for return of three-day-old foal
- Two-month-old foal stolen in Stockton-on-Tees
- Horse found strangled to death in Hampshire
- Lucy Wiegersma will miss the Olympics after injury to Shaabrak
- British vets fly to the Gambia as deadly West Nile disease strikes
- Rare horseracing colours for sale at Bonhams’ racing sale