News Archive | March 2012

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March 30th
- Charity removes five starving horses from Miami farm
- Growing concern over ex-racehorse welfare
- Arrive early to avoid Greenwich Park queues this summer
- Horse & Hound forum members help catch a thief
- Horsebox company Equi-Trek offers seatbelts in living
- Peter Durrant resigns as chief executive of National Pony Society
- Redwings urges animal lovers to take advantage of tax breaks
- Could Synchronised do the Gold Cup-Grand National double?
- Saddlery research needs to be better communicated
- Shetland pony show revitalised for 2012
- New horsecare course for young travellers
- Retired Household Cavalry horse dies aged 25
- Contagious equine metritis found in mare in Gloucestershire
- Industry experts join forces for equine reproduction conference
March 29th
- Colt was pitifully thin and crawling with lice, says charity
- Top thoroughbred stallion Montjeu dies aged 16
- London arena polo match gets mixed reaction from spectators
- Badminton Horse Trials diary: Gaby Cooke’s Sir Roscoe has ‘blown his nut’
- Shetland pony to feature in Royal Ballet production
March 28th
- Jockey Richard Hughes banned until end of April
- Farewell to… Epsom-based trainer John Akehurst
- More tickets on sale for The World Comes To Windsor
- What’s in today’s Horse & Hound?
- Showjumper Vicky Tulloch poised to sell all her horses
- Cheltenham hotel offers tours of National Hunt yard
March 27th
- Supreme Products launches new “black shampoo”
- Caroline Powell’s young four-star horse Mrs Tilly put down
- Groom who died at The Hand named as Carole Tassell
- New race to be held at Cheltenham for former pony racers
- Enjoy “Jockey’s Chocs” this Easter and help injured jockeys
- Sponsorship news in the UK and Irish horse industries
March 26th
- New association to promote scientific approach to physiotherapy
- Hunt goes Flat out for Sport Relief in charity race
- Hinrich Romeike’s Marius, 2008 Olympic eventing champion, retires
- Plans to build in Newmarket rejected by Government
- Hertfordshire rider wins British Dressage young professionals award
- CLA plea to free equestrian businesses from red tape
- Nick Skelton claims his ninth win in Florida
March 23rd
- Racing fan runs a mile at all 60 British racecourses for Sport Relief
March 22nd
- Horse trials running during the Olympics try to avoid date clash
- Uthopia and Carl Hester to be immortalised in bronze
- Ariat launches new luggage collection
- Fly-grazing epidemic hits South Wales
- First side saddle steeplechase to be held since 1927
- Deadly African Horse Sickness is a very real threat
- Have you ever seen a horse wearing a wetsuit?
- Sentence “too lenient” for donkey cruelty case say charities
- Horse & Hound’s Ask The Vet goes on sale today
- Tim Bonner returns to the Countryside Alliance
- Bilsdale and Hurworth follower completes day bareback
- Supalyx launches new “Tasty Treats”
- New “ladies only” championship for female Flat jockeys
- Zara Phillips heads up strong Badminton Horse Trials entry list
- Badminton Horse Trials diary: Gaby Cooke’s struggling with the brakes
- Racing yards open gates to the public this Easter
March 21st
- Breeders told to test their mares for equine herpes
- Jane Holderness-Roddam to carry the Olympic flame
- Injured eventer Polly Williamson on the mend
- Accident on bridleway prompts better signposting
- Farewell to…dressage commentator Mike West
- What’s in today’s Horse & Hound?
- Horse rescued from Spindles Farm finds a new home
- Eventer Andrew Nicholson’s former top ride Lord Killinghurst dies
March 20th
- Twilight actress Kristen Stewart “terrified” of riding
- Highpoint, the horse who put Paul Tapner on the map, dies
March 19th
- Paul Nicholls reveals post-race silence due to ill daughter
- New Woof Wear video shows boot design process
- The Laminitis Trust to benefit from sales of Spillers’ Happy Hoof
- Watch H&H/D&H young rider bursary winner’s lesson with Pammy Hutton
- Woman found dead at The Hand Equestrian Centre
- Channel 4 wins rights to broadcast all British racing
- British and Irish showjumpers clean up overseas
March 16th
- H&H’s young rider bursary winner turns her hand to music
- AP McCoy wins Cheltenham Gold Cup
- Horse Sport Ireland to offer big prize money for showjumping series
- Stable lad wins more than £1m in Cheltenham accumulator
- Farewell to…owner and breeder Christian Marner
- British showjumpers look set to miss World Cup
March 15th
- Tina Cook wins Cheltenham charity race
- Denman to go team chasing and hunting in retirement
- Brilliant Big Buck’s wins fourth World Hurdle
- Appeal Court rules in favour of yard boss Judi Thurloe
- Horse & Hound showing reporter Dr Wynne Davies retires
- Gloucestershire farrier makes “designer horseshoes”
- BHA will review horse deaths at Cheltenham Festival
- Contraception for semi-feral Dartmoor hill pony mares
- Lowther Hound Show returns this summer
- Polly Stockton’s Westwood Poser killed on road
- US racing drama ‘Luck’ axed after third horse death
- Headley Britannia to retire from top-class competition
March 14th
- What’s in today’s Horse & Hound?
- Badminton Horse Trials diary: Gaby Cooke survives Tweseldown
- Household Cavalry barracks evacuated after gas leak
- Showjumper makes the grade as “The Apprentice” contestant
- Taunton Vale team chase to host gate jumping competition
- Can Sam Waley-Cohen do the Cheltenham Gold Cup double?
- Kent’s Manston Airport starts shipping horses in time for the Olympics
March 13th
- Shock as Rock On Ruby wins Champion Hurdle at Cheltenham
- Household Cavalry launches Fashion for the Brave campaign
- Sponsorship news in the UK horse industry
- Laura B wins Dortmund grand prix but is narrowly beaten in the special
- Racehorse trainer Charlie Brooks arrested in phone hacking investigation
- Farriers flock to Ipswich for Spring championships
March 12th
- Stolen hound puppy found after Horse & Hound appeal
- Volunteers help to police rural areas on horseback
- Kauto Star gets green light for the Gold Cup
- British showjumpers enjoy another lucrative week in Florida
March 9th
- Ancient White Horse acquires a jockey ahead of Cheltenham
- International polo comes to London’s O2 Arena
- England beat America at Hickstead arena polo test match
- Olympic volunteers struggle to find accommodation
- TopSpec winner has a “cool” time at the Ice Bar
- David McPherson and Scott Brash are victorious in Florida
March 8th
- Tim Stockdale makes successful return to competition
- Horse & Hound is top social media service in UK and Ireland
- New research shows riders relying on air ambulances
- Popular Highclere Horse Trials cancelled for 2012
- British Showjumping restricts single-phase classes
- Injured eventer Ruth Mathieson has para dressage in her sights
- Rider’s injury compensation claim rejected
- Badminton Horse Trials diary: meet Gaby Cooke and the tricky Sir Roscoe
March 7th
- New mountain and moorland package offered by HOYS
- Horse & Country TV boss in court for breach of trust
- Injured eventer Polly Williamson’s horses to be sold
- Confusion over horsebox regulations after awareness campaign on M11
- Follower to attend Bilsdale and Hurworth’s joint meet bareback
- Kauto’s work rider Clifford Baker voted stable star
- Shire Horse Show will be the world’s biggest ever
- Kauto Star “heading in the right direction” for Cheltenham
- Horse & Hound wins third Equestrian Social Media Award
- What’s in today’s Horse & Hound?
- Tom Symonds’ diary: an apology, and Festival anticipation
- Richard Davison to share Olympic experiences at Aintree conference
- Stansted Airport steps back in time to use Suffolk horses
- Seventy-year-old Japanese dressage rider aiming for Olympics
- Horse rescued from Spindles Farm helps to beat rural crime
- Aigle launches new foldable wellington boot
March 6th
- New Idolo Tether Tie launched by Softhorse
- Nick Skelton rises to number four in showjumping world rankings
- Lantra Scotland announce winner of “equine learner of the year” award
- Horse & Hound retains “most informative” social media award
- Gersemi adds new lines to its collection for 2012
- Anna Ross Davies’ yard evacuated due to huge fire
- Tim Stockdale reveals his ‘Jumping Dreams’ in new book
March 5th
- New triple dressage whip range launched
- Horse & Hound forum wins “best equestrian social network” award
- Nick Skelton wins $150,000 Wellington grand prix in Florida
March 2nd
- Ireland qualifies an eventing team for the 2012 London Olympics
- Fuller Fillies launches leg lengthening jodhpurs
- BBC Radio Wales to feature champion amateur jockey Isabel Tompsett
- Newbury hosts “Celebration of the Horse” raceday
- Bridleless not Brainless to team chase in bitless bridles
- , forum users help to rehome stray pony
March 1st
- Tom Symonds’ diary: a week packed with runners
- Kauto Star “only 50-50” for Gold Cup after fall
- Change of format for Express Eventing series
- Sponsorship news in the UK horse industry
- Case against vet reveals “murky world of showing”
- New classes for Royal Windsor Horse Show
- The Queen will open the Paralympic Games for first time
- Hunting stalwart Rodney Ellis dies aged 71
- Davy Jones, frontman of The Monkees and former jockey, dies
- Flat jockey William Buick suffers broken jaw in nightclub incident
- New Nations Cup series for eventing this year
- Show pony put down following dog attack
- Man dies following fall at Wellington showjumping festival