This week’s Horse & Hound, on sale from 9 February, features an interview with international grand prix dressage rider Andrew Gould plus we investigate how neurodiverse riders cope with equestrian competition – and whether more could be done to help them, and more. In the Vet Clinic pages, we provide you with a guide to lameness evaluations. We have an exclusive columns from Carl Hester and Rebecca Penny for dressage and showing aficionados, while this week’s reports pages cover dressage, showjumping, racing and point-to-point action from across the UK for sport fans to enjoy. In this week’s hunting pages, Oisin Murphy delights in a day flying over the Ledbury hedges behind the visiting North Cotswold hounds ahead of his return to Flat racing. Plus meet hunter of a lifetime Blue Shamrock, who’s been perfect from day one, H&H’s hunting editor ponders the many services hunt staff offer, and more. In our nostalgic legends of the sport feature, we take a look back on the life and times of Hickstead, the showjumper who had a “nightmare” start but went on to Olympic glory.
