News Archive | March 2018

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March 31st
- Former model beats life-threatening injuries to compete at World Cup final
- New £2,000 supreme at popular spring show in memory of its founder
- Team chaser swaps mud for glam to reach Miss England final
- The ultimate bargain: Pony bought for £12 becomes teenager’s ‘supercob’
March 30th
- ‘I never found another like him’: dressage star dies in tragic accident
- Household Cavalry to play key role in royal wedding
- ‘He taught me dreams can come true’: Point-to-pointer who won Gold Cup dies aged 30
- ‘You’d be mad not to enter’: £700 top prize at 90cm event
March 29th
- William Fox-Pitt and Oliver Townend among Kentucky entries
- ‘A true gentleman’: equestrian world pays tribute to Mike Tucker
- Formula One looks to equestrian sport for inspiration after abolishing grid girls
- Equestrian employers risk hefty fines if they fail to pay new minimum wage
March 28th
- Stallion rescued after ‘endangering lives’ near motorway
- ‘Going at the top of my game’: Olympic eventer steps down from national team
- Mike Tucker, the voice of equestrian sport, has died aged 73
- Top eventer jumps clear despite loose dog at his heels
March 27th
- ‘The nightmare’s over, old girl’: elderly mare rescued from violent thugs
- British Olympic horse returns to competition after injury
- Cue Card to bow out on final day of the jump season
- Centre aims to promote rare breed at risk of losing its habitat
March 26th
- ‘He’ll never be big, but he’s got a big heart’: tiny donkey transformed after rescue
- Scott Brash reveals 2018 could be star horse’s last season following magnificent Mexico victory
- Double Olympic champion will retire this season: ‘He doesn’t feel 18’
- Light cotton rugs not ‘adequate’ alternative to shade in hot temperatures, researchers find
March 25th
- 15-year ban for owner who failed to notice horse’s ‘extreme’ injury
- ‘Pocket rocket’ eventer who hated dressage excels in showjumping career
- Showjumpers and eventers to pair up in new Bolesworth challenge
- The week that was: seven days in the horse world
March 24th
- ‘My best friend’: honour for pony who saved owner’s life
- Tethered horse reported to RSPCA found dead days later *warning, distressing images*
- Join top eventers in 100-mile hacking challenge
- Job losses at equestrian retail chain in administration
March 23rd
- Outcry after horse’s head found in stream
- Teenager’s face trampled by pony after stranger’s bridleway ‘ambush’
- Charlotte Dujardin: why cross-country terrifies me and hard work matters
- Rider injured in accident seeks nearly £10m damages
March 22nd
- Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin head Royal Windsor line-up
- Hundreds call for sky lantern festival to be banned
- Club involved in ‘inhumane’ horse incident reopened after giving thousands to equine charity
- Top prizes on offer at first Horse & Hound Festival of Dressage
March 21st
- Life-long hunt supporter to celebrate 80th birthday following hounds
- From four-star to schoolmaster: Olympic eventer enjoys new career
- Broken bit? No problem! Rider wins after tack malfunction
- Racehorse sanctuary risks closure as it struggles to meet crippling £250k running costs
March 20th
- Rising star beats Olympic legend to win first grand prix
- Meet Frankel’s little sister: adorable first picture
- Mark Todd pays tribute to NZB Land Vision: ‘The best horse I’d had since Charisma’
- Fraudulent vet David Smith struck off after leaving horse to die in agony
March 19th
- Badminton entries: defending champions return but Funnell and Fox-Pitt on wait-list
- Snow thwarts eventers: horse trials abandoned mid-afternoon due to blizzards
- British Olympic eventer sidelined after fall from youngster
- Badminton winner dies: ‘He was one of the most talented horses I ever rode’
- ‘He sped past a millimetre from my stirrup’: rider left shaken after near-miss
March 18th
- ‘It felt like she’d done it before’: Charlotte Dujardin posts 81% on grand prix debut with WEG hopeful
- See Scotland from your horse: new tourist scheme to target riders
- Legendary Connemara stallion dies aged 31
- ‘Miracle’ foal rejected by dam survives thanks to utility room stable — and his teddy
- The week that was: seven days in the horse world
March 17th
- ‘Oceans wept’ after the death of much-loved multiple champion pony
- Rider to run 156 miles in the 50°C Sahara for Willberry
- British dressage champion misses out on World Cup final place
- Hunts cleared of wrongdoing after legal battles
March 16th
- Day four at the Cheltenham Festival: Native River is the Gold Cup hero, lady jockeys on form and outsiders triumph
- Winter continues to bite: competition calendar takes a battering again
- Ban for woman whose actions led to four ponies’ deaths *warning: graphic images*
- Organisers apologise after event abandoned due to failing light
March 15th
- Day three at the Cheltenham Festival: Cue Card pulls up, Davy Russell’s treble and an impressive 18-length win
- Damning findings of BEF independent review: bullying and elitism found
- Search for a Star series introduces new Mountain and Moorland final
- Son beats London 2012 gold medal-winning father to win on grand prix debut
March 14th
- £46,000 compensation for woman who suffered blemished buttock in fall
- Day two at the Cheltenham Festival: Altior shines amid Irish dominance and Ruby Walsh sidelined again
- World equestrian games disciplines: eight sports in one location
- Donkey blown up in Afghanistan ‘suicide mission’
- Britain’s third-oldest man heads to Cheltenham Festival after 50-year break
March 13th
- Day one at the Cheltenham Festival: Buveur D’Air holds on to his crown, impressive comebacks and Festival firsts
- Why robot ‘jockey’ stunt is not all it seems: H&H finds out the truth
- Welcome Athena! Adorable foal boosts zebra population
- Moorland ponies ‘do not need rugs and stables’ despite public concern
March 12th
- Night club closed after ‘inhumane’ incident involving horse
- Laura Collett to compete talented but fragile three-star horse: ‘We take one day at a time’
- ‘I volunteer because I love it’: Pony Club chairman to retire
- Rehoming hopes for one-eyed pony found ‘hours from death’
- Gold medal-winning event horse to retire: ‘He’s very special — he taught me so much’
March 11th
- Healing power of horses: stroke survivor rides again
- Former racehorses left wandering India’s streets
- Mounted officers to run London Marathon dressed as horses and riders
- The week that was: seven days in the horse world
March 10th
- Pregnant mare abandoned on tether gives birth to healthy foal
- The one-eyed team-chasing former racehorse who ‘never says no’
- ‘He was a character and I loved him’: former champion put down aged 27
- Investigation ongoing into deaths of 16 polo ponies
March 9th
- Princess Anne: don’t hack with ‘ears full of music and phones’
- British Olympian misses start of eventing season after fall
- Air ambulance based at Cheltenham Festival to aid injured jockeys
- ‘Racehorses are like soldiers’: special retrained racehorse parade at Sandown Park
March 8th
- One rider involved in a road incident every day, says BHS
- Equestrian retail chain goes into administration: 700 jobs at risk
- The rider weight debate and why it’s not fat-shaming: H&H responds
- Excess rider weight can cause lameness
- ‘The thrill of a lifetime’: line-up for Champions Willberry Charity Derby revealed
March 7th
- Get Britain’s vaulters to WEG: squad needs funds for Tryon
- New hat and body protector rules revealed ahead of 2018 season
- Hunts come to the rescue after snow hits
- Exhausted mare trapped in snowy ditch by fallen tree
March 6th
- ‘I loved her from the moment I saw her’: HOYS champion dies unexpectedly
- Trio of Suffolk stallions donate genes to help save rare breed
- Band with passion for racing releases single in honour of equestrian charity
- New stars join Cheltenham Festival’s retrained racehorses’ parade
March 5th
- Competition calendar looking up after big freeze stops play
- Rio medallist ‘heartbroken’ as top ride’s future hangs in the balance
- Exciting new championship for grassroots eventers
- Product for barefoot horses helps rehabilitate rescued elephants
March 4th
- ‘We’ve been losing for too long’: Ben Maher on British Nations Cup triumph
- ‘He was like the Pied Piper’: Tributes paid to much-loved police horse
- Adorable donkeys foals given a second chance
- The week that was: seven days in the horse world
March 3rd
- UK equestrian sponsorship round-up
- Creative clipper creates amazing gingerbread horse
- Foal found tiny and scared stars with X Factor singer in photoshoot
- ‘They’re earists!’ Rider banned from taking her mule to competition venue
March 2nd
- ‘It’s good to be back’: jockey makes racing return after breaking her back
- Badminton-bound British eventer shares her hopes for new yard
- Lifelong rider forced to give up horses due to driver who failed to stop
- Fun ride death ruled ‘tragic accident’
March 1st
- Show centre’s contaminated hay causes horses to fail dope tests
- Severe weather warning: latest cancellation updates
- Rio Olympic medallist to miss WEG through injury: ‘He hasn’t had much luck’
- Equestrian world battles against ‘Beast from the East’
- ‘A massive character’: tributes paid to prolific Welsh stallion