News Archive | March 2009

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March 31st
- International indoor horse driving showcase event
- Exclusive rider blog: Charlotte Platt joins the H&H blogging team
- Normandy will host the World Equestrian Games 2014
- Foster mare needed for orphan foal
- Girl power as last British Open wildcards claimed by female riders
March 30th
- The Donkey Sanctuary launches nationwide tour
- Ruby Walsh to ride My Will in Saturday’s Grand National
- William Funnell opens equestrian department at South Downs
- Inquest rules death of event rider Emma Jonathan as accidental
- Horses affected by flooding in North Dakota and Minnesota
March 27th
- Newmarket horse park plans dropped
- British Eventing puts plans to move offices on hold
- Country sports outfitter Oliver Brown beats the credit crunch
- Anky van Grunsven denied World Cup dressage ‘wild card’ for Las Vegas
- Greenwich horse ban will not affect London Olympics
- New all-weather riding arena for Royal Windsor
- Riding stables asked to pay for playing a radio
- Money still owed by John Dyer & Son Auctions
- Breakthrough in fight against strangles
- Horse owners could be heading for cheaper insurance
- Repeal only option for ‘tattered’ Hunting Act
- Vets call for better equine disease surveillance in the UK
- Zara Phillips enters Toytown for Badminton Horse Trials
- Pony Club novice championships move to Kelsall Hill
March 26th
- Arrested Surrey Union ‘hunt monitors’ now charged
- Trevor Morse memorial fund set up as inquest opens
March 25th
- Pony racing series is back for 2009
- Riders in Cheshire can try a new sport as a polocrosse centre opens
- Five horses killed in fire at stables in Reading
- Teenager goes eventing for Breast Cancer research
- Horse industry across Wales gets a political voice
- Dee Kennedy’s blog: Badminton entrant Big El does his first event
- Injured eventer Rosie Chinery has come round from coma
March 24th
- Man arrested for throwing 5ft inflatable penis at police horse
- Riders set out on 250-mile ride for Riding for the Disabled Association
- Katie Price issues a ‘wake up call’ to the equestrian industry
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: feeling a touch below par
- Horse killed by a lorry on the A689 in Co Durham this morning
- Man escapes jail sentence for attacking a police horse
March 23rd
- Man accused of murdering Trevor Morse remanded in custody
- Lucinda Green rides Mark Todd’s Gandalf
- Investigations launched after two point-to-point horses die
March 20th
- Mare dies after being attacked by a stallion in Massachusetts
- Neptune Collonges out of action with tendon injury
- Eventer prepares to run the London Marathon
- Heythrop hunt raises £4,000 with charity talent show
- Riding schools defy the credit crunch with business on the up
- Ex-racehorse owners benefit from telephone helpline
- Speed limit on rural roads to be dropped to 50mph
- Pendle Forest and Craven Harriers move to new kennels
- Irish eventers asked to contribute to training costs
- Hunting community calls for ‘monitoring’ to stop
- Horse rescued from ditch by firecrews in Lancashire
- FEI launches TV site with action from all the top competitions
- Former Irish chef d’equipe fined €225,000 for tax dodging
March 19th
- ‘A huge relief for hunting’ — D&S Staghounds charges dropped
- Great Leighs racecourse remains unsold as bids are rejected
- Jockey Ruby Walsh has a ballad dedicated to him
- Woman suing after being attacked by donkeys
March 18th
- Shock at ‘lenient’ sentence for allowing ponies to starve
- Pit bull crushed to death by horse it was attacking
- The Horse Trust’s oldest resident dies aged 42
- Police appeal for information on stolen tack and riding boots
- Dee Kennedy’s blog: Badminton entries and youngsters’ first events
- Former racing stars to take part in charity horserace at Lingfield
March 17th
- Second Suffolk Punch dies of colic just months after companion
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: Lucy Wiegersma’s eventer comes to stay
- Rosie Chinery is making good progress after breaking neck in fall
- Horse riders in Kent say council’s actions have made riding unsafe
- Swedish woman charged with cruelty for keeping pony in cellar
March 16th
- Man fined for using pony and trap in public park
- Former whipper-in jailed for assault on hunt monitor
- Jockeys on spacehoppers raise nearly £2,000 for Comic Relief
- Discounted riding lessons for Londoners this Easter
- Thousands of pounds of specialist tack stolen from RDA centre
March 13th
- Cheltenham Festival day four blog: Kauto Star unites the crowd
- Young event rider battling for life after breaking neck in fall
- Kauto Star regains Cheltenham Gold Cup crown
- New standards for body protectors on the way
- No verdict in James Gray trial until May
- Minimum standards for barefoot trimming of horses agreed
- Event riders say farewall to Stilemans Horse Trials
- New British horse breeding campaign gets industry thumbs up
- Pony Club membership down 10% due to recession
- Riders briefed about London 2012 plans after Zara speaks out
- , puts jockeys’ diets under the microscope
- Riders’ anger at plans to clean up Irish horse sport
- Seventeen hounds and three horses die in US hunt fire
March 12th
- Online auction to raise funds for Australian fire and flood victims
- Paul Carberry to miss Cheltenham Gold Cup due to punctured lung
- Cheltenham Festival day three blog: bring back Festival Radio!
- Big upset among Cheltenham Festival favourites
- Gyrocopter death was caught on film, a court has been told
- James Gray cruelty court case to continue next week
- ‘Amersham horses were not starved — they had worms’
- Horse attack: event rider Paul Tapner warns owners to be vigilant
- Gyrocopter death: one man charged with murder
March 11th
- Vaccine to control West Nile virus licensed for use in Europe
- Cheltenham Festival day two blog: Ruby Ruby Ruby Ruby…
- Master Minded wins Champion Chase at the Cheltenham Festival
- British Eventing appoint new commercial and marketing director
- Baaa-my pony plays mother to lamb
- Police given more time to question men held on suspicion of murder
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: success at Burrows Court on a borrowed horse
- Former eventing groom wins Crufts Friends for Life award
- Dee Kennedy’s blog: Big El is on track for his first 2009 event
March 10th
- Cheltenham Festival day one blog: Ireland 11, Britain 1
- Prosecution sensationally dropped against Heythrop huntsman
- Nicky Henderson wins fourth Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival
- Jail for man who admitted failing to care for his horses
- Hunting community urged to keep cool after Warwickshire tragedy
- Event rider’s horse slashed in ‘callous’ knife attack
March 9th
- Warwickshire hunt follower killed in gyrocopter incident
- Otis Ferry may have charges against him dropped
- Stud hand stars in new Lantra careers DVD
- Hunt protestors continue to disrupt legal trail hunting
- Nina Carberry wins “outstanding contribution to jump racing” award
March 6th
- Horse Sport Ireland cracks down on doping
- Eventer Pippa Funnell writes children’s story books
- Arab horse community rallies round after fire
- New event director for Blair horse trials
- RSPCA moves on responding to welfare calls
- Weighted jumping boots could lead to long-term problems for horses
- Pony Club makes final changes to structure
- British Horseracing Authority pledge to monitor horses post-racing
- Shock as VOSA changes its mind on horsebox regulations
- Author rides to raise awareness of how horses can help autism
- Horses were domesticated 1,000 years earlier than first thought
March 5th
- Horse drawn carriages opposed in Rome and New York
- Horse killed and jockey injured in US racecourse pile-up
- Hayley Turner recovering well in hospital after stalls accident
- Blair horse trials supports World Horse Welfare
- Equine charity hosts ball to raise much needed funds
- Donkey rides to return to an Essex beach after 20 year absence
- H&H exclusive blog: Dee Kennedy introduces her Badminton diary
March 4th
- Hunting Act ‘fatally weakened’ by decision not to appeal
- Horses seized by police in County Durham are stolen
- Ban for man who left lice-ridden ponies untreated
- Racehorse Urban Sea, dam of Derby-winner Galileo, dies aged 20
- Clarissa Dickson-Wright and Janet Street-Porter vie for rural hero
- Horses drop down dead all the time, James Gray tells court
- Runaway horse and cart damages cars on Sussex street
March 3rd
- Hayley Turner hospitalised and horse killed in stalls accident
- Nicola Wilson qualifies for indoor cross-country at British Open
- Two horses attacked by a mountain lion in California
- H&H exclusive blog: Charlie Hutton shares his highs and lows
March 2nd
- Greatwood kids gain certificates through learning with ex-racehorses
- Young show jumper dies in farm accident
- Jamie Gray trial extended by another week
- Welsh pony judge Monica Hewitt jailed for four months