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The Horse & Hound Podcast 45: Kitty King | Sustainability in equestrianism | News round-up

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    • In our 45th weekly episode of the first series of The Horse & Hound Podcast, Olympic event rider Kitty King talks to H&H editor Pippa Roome about her top horses, including the up-and-coming star Cristal Fontaine and more. Moving on to the week’s top news stories, our news editor Eleanor Jones, senior news writer Lucy Elder and news writer Becky Murray join Pippa to discuss issues around EU studbooks, new research on why being brave might not always be the right thing for riders and make-up on show ponies. We also welcome back equine vet Ricky Farr who talks about what his practice is doing to lead the way when it comes to being green in the horse world. We hope you will find it useful.

    Episode 45 of The Horse & Hound Podcast, our popular audio service available exclusively every Thursday morning for our H&H Plus subscribers, is now live.

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    In episode 45, Olympic event rider Kitty King talks to H&H editor Pippa Roome about her top horses, including the up-and-coming star Cristal Fontaine (pictured) and more.

    “He‘s quite a funny character — he’s great to ride and a super competition horse, but not the most charming in the stable — he likes his own space and can pull some pretty clunky faces at you” – Kitty King on Cristal Fontaine

    Moving on to the week’s top news stories, our news editor Eleanor Jones, senior news writer Lucy Elder and news writer Becky Murray join Pippa to discuss issues around EU studbooks, new research on why being brave might not always be the right thing for riders and make-up on show ponies.

    “The research showed many riders revelled in the fact that riding is a physical sport and that fear is something that shouldn’t effect your decision making” – Eleanor Jones on rider attitudes

    In this week’s advice section, we welcome back equine vet Ricky Farr who talks about what his practice is doing to lead the way when it comes to being green in the horse world.

    “You’ll probably say to yourself ‘climate change and sustainability has got nothing to do with my horse’, but actually I beg to differ” – Ricky Farr MRCVS

    We hope you will enjoy our latest episode and would love to hear your feedback, so please do send your thoughts to pippa.roome@futurenet.com

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    Gemma Redrup
    Gemma Redrup

    H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor
    Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.
    Gemma Redrup