News Archive | August 2009

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August 31st
- Skegness beach donkeys named the best in Britain
- Readyfield bloodhounds arrive in Africa to protect rhinos
- New interactive riding computer game for Wii
- Mystery as two ‘dead’ thoroughbreds are found alive
August 30th
- Kevin Staut wins gold at European show jumping championships
- Moorlands Totilas breaks world record again at Windsor Europeans
- Paschal High Flyer is BSPS supreme champion 2009
August 28th
- Farewell to Quorn follower Joan Crosfield
- Family riding school celebrates 50 years in business
- Barefoot trimming regulations move a step closer
- Two event riders cautioned for breaking passport laws
- Nearly 80 horses seized at ranch in Texas to be rehomed
- Bloodhounds to help track rhino poachers in Kenya
- Swiss win gold at European team show jumping championships
- Michael Whitaker to appear before FEI tribunal for doping
- Polo award in memory of serviceman killed in Afghanistan
- ‘Soundriding’ communication between rider and trainer
- Show jumper Laura Newman faces extradition on hustling charge
- Clayton Fredericks in access dispute with Ministry of Defence
- Horse killed after plunging through car windscreen
- Wild Konik horses used to help maintain Kent nature park
- Nations Cup format under debate after no teams are relegated
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: inspired by Windsor Europeans
- British show jumpers soar up the leaderboard at Windsor Europeans
August 27th
- Teenagers arrested in connection with attack on pony
- Laura Bechtolsheimer makes history with record score and bronze medal
- Lynn Russell in hospital with broken ribs after horse falls on her
- Sienna Myson-Davies to miss junior eventing European Championships
- Mare stranded in lake is reunited with her foal
- Equestrian businesswoman receives £100,000 investment from ‘Dragon’
- Swiss look formidable at Windsor European show jumping championships
August 26th
- Equestrian entrepreneur enters the Dragon’s Den
- Donkeys battle it out to win Britain’s best beach donkey competition
- Britain win silver medal at Windsor European dressage championships
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: even eventers have to deal with A level results
- Windsor Europeans blog: Britain beating Germany at dressage? Surely not!
- Unregistered horse vet faces disciplinary hearing
- First all-weather cross-country training centre opens in Leics
August 25th
- H&H Live: Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials show jumping
- H&H Live: Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials cross-country
- H&H Live: Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials dressage
- Britain in bronze position overnight at Windsor Europeans
- British show jumping team announced for Europeans
- Another horse dies and five people in hospital due to hendra virus
- Three unweaned filly foals stolen from a field in Somerset
- Keep your stables secure without wires or mains power
- New equine mobility supplement: Vetrofen
- Strictly Come Dancing to star former jockey Richard Dunwoody
- Independents show strength in numbers with Bridleway Equestrian
- Follow Shires Equestrian on facebook and twitter
- Georgie Spence replaces Ben Hobday on young rider squad
- Watershed moves into equestrian public relations
- Baileys and Alltech team up for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games
August 24th
- Drama as 30 firefighters take five hours to haul horse from swamp
- Remains of an ice age horse go on display in Canada
- Sienna Myson-Davies selected to defend her junior European title
- Katy Willings’ Mongol Derby blog: the race as it happens
- Luhmühlen winner Michael Jung takes World Cup eventing final
- World’s enjoyment of apples may be down to the horse
- Brits take team gold at FEI Para Equestrian European Championship
August 21st
- Beaten, dead pony dumped in Essex field
- Supporters club to get Team GBR ‘Ontrack’
- ‘Hunt monitors’ made redundant by IFAW
- Doncaster man found guilty of illegal farriery
- FEI employs a British veterinary director
- Clare Balding’s treatment for thyroid cancer a success
- Microchipping rules clarified by Defra
- Danish exchange for Holcombe hunt
- Showing producer petitions for stop to mid-season remeasuring
- Cash boost for Dressage Horse International prize-fund
- Credit crunch and bad weather hit horse trials
- Showing rider Lynn Russell signs H&H transport campaign
- Your chance to help Team GB win medals
- H&H Live at the Windsor European Championships
- Riders urged to help ensure riding in public forests stays free
August 20th
- Host a Glitz and Glamour party in aid of The Brooke
- WSPA appeals for funds to help Middle Eastern horse charity
August 19th
- Silks auction to raise funds for 10-year-old with brain tumour
- Great Britain and Belgium could both stay in Nations Cup
- Watch Windsor Euros online and on TV
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: ups and downs in the CIC*** at Hartpury
- Dakota to perform at Windsor Europeans gala night
- Keep Safe training course for equine businesses in East Midlands
- Ensure the voice of the amateur rider is heard by AHS researchers
- Laura Bechtolsheimer on Britain’s chances at the Windsor Europeans
- Ian Stark says: “Thank you to everyone for their good wishes”
August 18th
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: YR Europeans and onwards to Addington
- Katy Willings’ Mongol Derby blog: outward bound
- Stolen pony dies after falling through bottom of stolen trailer
- Wild horse killed by high-speed rally car in Argentina
- Ian Stark being transferred to hospital closer to home
- Two miniature donkeys killed by grizzly bears in Canada
- Discounted equine flu vaccinations for horse owners
- Rider fitness discussion replay: Danny and Mike of Equicision
August 17th
- British women take team silver at modern pentathlon championships
- Could you rehome one of the HorseWorld hundred?
- Blue Hors Matiné retired to stud
August 14th
- Show jumper joins Robin Hood and his merry men
- Hay prices set to rise due to wet summer
- Owners go to court over horse competing at Dublin Horse Show
- Carl Hester signs H&H transport petition
- New machine will save horse’s sight
- Pony left severely burnt after being set alight in a field
- Oliver Townend hopes to hitch a lift — by helicopter
- The Blue Cross raises funds to bring army cat and dog home from Iraq
- Pony’s tail burnt off in ‘acid attack’ at Royal International
- Detling point-to-point organisers found not guilty of rule breach
August 13th
- Percy hunting case collapses due to lack of evidence
- Australian stud farms quarantined after horse dies of Hendra virus
- Jane Holderness-Roddam to skydive for the RDA
- Shetland ponies to visit Wiltshire Garden Centre
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: remembering my grandfather and off to Hartpury
- Katy Willings’ Mongol Derby blog: D-Day minus four
- Point-to-point organisers face enquiry after death of two horses
- Miniature Shetland becomes 23rd foal born at Redwings this year
August 12th
- Woman arrested after “assaulting” a man with her horse
- Ian Stark ‘more comfortable’ and out of intensive care
- Australian trainer dies after being crushed by racehorse
- $8,000 reward to catch Florida horse killers
August 11th
- Dead horses categorised as litter in Northern Ireland
- British team for Windsor European show jumping championships
- Winning US racehorse Drilling For Oil found butchered in Peru
- World Horse Welfare mare adopts orphan foal
August 10th
- US poisoned horses are on the mend
- Cowbridge School victorious in national schools jumping competition
- Ian Stark rushed to hospital after suffering a brain bleed
August 9th
- Ruth Edge takes British open championship at Gatcombe
August 8th
- Clayton Fredericks wins British novice championship at Gatcombe
August 7th
- Britain finishes second in Meydan FEI Nations Cup in Dublin
- Woman dragged 50m by horse-drawn carriage
- Help research the impact of African Horse Sickness
- Brits in third place after first round of Dublin’s Nations Cup
- National Equine Database recruits two new board directors
- Horse Trust needs Buckinghamshire volunteers over the summer
- Changes to veterinary law planned
- Riding for the Disabled Association organises world’s biggest riding lesson
- Saddle research group greeted with caution by industry
- Eventer Lottie Prentice is new face of charity sports bra
- Strategy to breed better Irish show jumping horses
- Katy Willings’ Mongol Derby blog: girl afraid
August 6th
- Injured team chaser Maria Badders back horse riding
- Geoff Billington’s It’s Otto dies, aged 23
- Britain drawn second to jump in Dublin’s Nations Cup
- Horse killed by lethal seaweed fumes
- Mysterious horse deaths in Florida may be for meat
August 5th
- Horse survives after jumping into oncoming car in Israel: video
- West Nile Virus confirmed in three Washington horses
- Campaign against pro-hunting website backfires on LACS
August 4th
- Blue Lights Horse of the Year Show returns to Aintree
- Charlie Hutton’s blog: YR Euros and the delights of Amsterdam
- Donkey rescued from fire put down due to trauma
- Who will take the eventing titles at Gatcombe this year?
- Sheikh Mohammed gets six-month ban from endurance riding
- Feed company wants to put 50 horses to the test in feed trial
- Household Cavalry start annual training with a swim
- Britain’s pony squads claim two European medals
- The Racehorse Sanctuary & Re-Homing Centre hosts open day
August 3rd
- Chinese donkey wears a bra instead of blinkers
- Staffordshire horse owners warned after second break in
- Eventing grand prix to be held at Windsor Europeans
- Twenty-three horses poisoned with killer leaves