News Archive | March 2010

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March 31st
- Household Cavalry soldier dies in Afghanistan
- Donkeys’ return to feature in BBC One programme
- Dressage rider Courtney Dye awakes from coma
- Rider critical after horse is spooked by motorbike on country lane
- Pony Club members raise £1,700 for Haiti earthquake relief
March 30th
- Ian Stark joins Scottish Sports Hall of Fame
- Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton’s on the sidelines
- Grand National to become first UK horserace shown in HD
- New class at Dublin for 7 and 8-year-old showjumping horses
March 29th
- Zebra pizza on the menu at East Lancs takeaway
- Pony with fractured jaw dumped in Flintshire
- Elderly Shetland pony attacked by dogs
- Zarkava in foal to record-breaking Group One winner Sea The Stars
March 27th
- Moorlands Totilas back on form to win World Cup final
March 26th
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: Badminton’s a reality as paperwork arrives
- And the survey says — dogs just love rolling in fox poo
- York & Ainsty South Hunt Pony Club branch wins £10k grant
- Second sport horse stud book opens in Ireland
- Team GB sets World Equestrian Games medal target
- Judge grand prix dressage on your iPhone or Blackberry
- Necarne Castle and Spring Hill horse trials scrapped
- Horses to travel on Eurotunnel for first time
- Parzival beats Totilas in World Cup final qualifier
- Virbac to sponsor Hickstead meetings and BETA International
March 25th
- Eight racing greats among Aintree “Legends”
- Orphaned thoroughbred foal returned to owner
- Equiport unveils £8,000 sponsorship deal for young showjumper
- Firefighters rescue mare and amorous stallion from river
- Horse dies and another suffers burns in Hampshire stable fire
- Riding for the Disabled Association has a new chairman
March 24th
- Oliver Townend enters Carousel Quest for Kentucky
- Hickstead secures £120,000 sponsorship for Derby
- New commercial director for Stoneleigh Park
- Lucinda Fredericks co-hosts eventing radio show
- Vet students win funding to research equine welfare worldwide
- Greenwich gets the go-ahead for 2012 Olympic Games
March 23rd
- Police appeal for information after horse shot with air rifle
- Four horses die in Washington State barn fire
- Firefighters rescue pony stuck between two trees
- Event rider Polly Stockton expecting a baby in July
- Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton’s ambulance trip
March 22nd
- Horse dies in stable fire in Reading
- Free dressage training for top scorer at Area Festival Finals
- Horsemeat now on the menu at Scottish restaurant
- BE100 competitors have the chance to ride at Blenheim Horse Trials
March 19th
- Alan Titchmarsh gets stuck in with fresh horse dung
- Cheltenham Festival blog: The stuff dreams are made of
- Miniature Shetland attacked by dogs in Leeds
- Lee Pearson sings for Sport Relief on BBC2 tonight
- Imperial Commander is shock Cheltenham Gold Cup winner
- British Masters showjumping upgraded to international
- Spanish Riding School performances cancelled due to cough
- Grey horses are more fly-repellent, research suggests
- Horse killed after being thrown from trailer on motorway in Warwickshire
- Horseworld urged to lobby MPs on dog attacks
- Calls to ban hot branding in Scotland get mixed reaction
- FEI will train officials to improve eventing safety
- Conservatives vow to ‘rethink horse tax’ if voted in to power
- Equestrian events back on as weather relents
- Scientists find non-invasive test for equine respiratory problems
March 18th
- Cheltenham Festival blog: A star hunter on ladies’ day
- Big Buck’s wins the World Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival
- Paralysed rider sues motorcyclist for spooking horse
- Badminton Horse Trials entries published online
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: starting the season at Tweseldown
March 17th
- Cheltenham Festival blog: Go girls!
- US horse stuck on sandbank airlifted to safety
- Big Zeb is new Champion at Cheltenham Festival
- “World’s most expensive cheese” — made from donkeys milk
- British Showjumping chief executive Di Cornish steps down
- Gyrocopter pilot Bryan Griffiths found not guilty of manslaughter
- Michael Whitaker can ride again for the British Olympic team
- Chris Hunnable takes over as BE sports commitee chairman
March 16th
- Cheltenham Festival blog: farewell hunting, long live Cheltenham
- AP McCoy wins Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham Festival
- Petplan Equine to sponsor Team GBR Ontrack
- New equestrian Robinsons store opens in Hampshire
- Jury out to consider verdict in Trevor Morse-gyrocopter case
- Pony mauled by two dangerous dogs in Derbyshire
- Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton’s mixed week
- Online dressage contest attracts horse riders from around the world
- AP McCoy reveals his Cheltenham Festival hopes
March 15th
- Courtney Dye improving and breathing without ventilator
- Venetia Williams wins Cheltenham award for ‘outstanding contribution’
- Amateur event rider killed in rotational fall at one-day event
- Top Brit rider Ben Maher reaches showjumping’s top 10
- Four threatened showjumping events to go ahead at Bicton Arena
- Carl Hester dominates Spanish Sunshine Tour with Uthopia
March 12th
- America halves the amount of bute to be allowed in equestrian sport
- Eventing FEI World Cup to run without a final in 2010
- The Pony Club to implement strict financial controls
- Royal Windsor Horse Show adds 32 new classes
- Donations to Ebony Horse Club fallen since Hoof news
- Fell Pony Society offers genetic tests for new stallions
- Trainer Kim Bailey offers ‘no win, no fee’ racehorse deal
- Bicton College says ‘we are in debt, but closure is not an option’
- Horse & Hound starts new page for grass-roots eventing
- “Violent and bossy” donkey lands his owner in court
- Massarella and Clarke up for British Horse Society Queen’s Award
March 11th
- A year in the lives of three racehorses shown on BBC4 tonight
- Gyrocopter pilot says Trevor Morse had ‘ample opportunity’ to move
- US endurance horse impaled by tree branch survives more surgery
- Horse attacked by cougar in USA
March 10th
- Land Rover to sponsor Royal Windsor until 2013
- Ten Hanoverians killed in Canadian barn fire
- New eco-memberships to OHTO
- Entries open for Equine Thesis Of The Year Award
- FEI to launch global consultation on the use of NSAIDs in horse sport
- Horse rescued from ditch by equine-trained firefighters
- Clare Balding in the running for Cheltenham Ladies’ Day Award
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: aiming for Badminton Horse Trials
March 9th
- Horse riders and owners offered training on new anti-doping rules
- Oliver Townend hopes new ride can complete Rolex Grand Slam
- Courtney Dye in “stable coma” after schooling accident
- Zara Phillips focuses ahead to London Olympic Games
- Irish pony team supporter Kerry Turkington dies
- ‘Horses Inside Out’ lecture-demo at Sparsholt
- Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton’s first events of 2010
March 8th
- Four top US riders battered by falls in one weekend
- Angelo Telatin becomes 65th British Horse Society Fellow
- Trevor Morse court case: gyrocopter pilot to give evidence today
- Help ‘Cheltenham’ charity single top the music charts
March 5th
- Karen Dixon’s Get Smart, multi-medalled eventer, put down
- Davison family will host dressage masterclass at British Open
- Courtney King Dye suffers serious head injuries in fall from horse
- Irish opposition party fight against staghunting ban
- Top riders and judges plan charity “Dressage Extravaganza”
- Top huntsmen race for hunting repeal at Ascot
- Health problems in older horses going unnoticed
- Warwickshire team chase postponed
- New hi-vis riding kit code to help safety standards
- New competition to encourage young showing stewards
- Quorn huntsman breaks neck in fall
- Swamp fever outbreak sparks tripartite review
- Shire horses to greet visitors at National Brewery Centre
- Male jockeys join sponsored leg wax for Injured Jockeys Fund
March 4th
- Liebling II sold to Canadian dressage rider Cheryl Meisner
- Deadline for World Class Development Programme application approaching
- Alex Hua Tian’s blog: new yard, new feed — and a sad loss
- Paralympic hopeful Rowan Caley wins talent-spotting competition
- Pony Club signs up to raise £100,000 for Animal Health Trust
- Horton Point, 1994 Badminton winner with Mark Todd, put down
- Horse & Hound launches improved point-to-point coverage
- Racehorse dies after winning Toals Ulster Grand National
March 3rd
- Godolphin Stud and Stable Staff Awards recognise racing’s backroom boys and girls
- Anky van Grunsven to miss World Cup dressage final
- Neglected ponies removed from farm in Powys
- Scottish Horse Show celebrates its 50th anniversary
- Speed gene test could revolutionise throughbred breeding
- Driver arrested on drink-drive charge after horsebox overturns
- Early Munnings painting expected to make £700,000
- Actor Martin Clunes heads up Royal International Horse Show
- Free training for equestrian businesses in the South West
March 2nd
- NAF associate sponsor of the Mitsubishi Motors Grassroots Festival
- Court shown shocking video of gyrocopter decapitation
- Could you home a riding pony from World Horse Welfare?
- Eventer Gaby Cooke gains surprise British Open ticket
- Olympic Coachbuilders merges with Inchmere Design Group
- Badminton Horse Trials blog: Sarah Stretton introduces her diary
- Herd of donkey statues to invade Weston-super-Mare
- Hero police horse retires to Redwings
March 1st
- British Eventing Official of the Year 2009 passes away
- British showjumpers in Portugal caught up in hurricane
- Showjumping star David Broome celebrates his 70th birthday today
- Pilot of hunting death gyrocopter in court for manslaughter