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10 stress-busting tips to lower your blood pressure on show day
Tensions can rise on show day, whatever level you're competing at. Emma Shadbolt asks the experts for their top tips for staying calm when it matters1. Lynn Russell, showing Have all travel boots and...
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Oliver Townend and Izzy Taylor lead British challenge at Luhmühlen
Fifteen British horses are among the Luhmühlen Horse Trials entries, lining up for Germany’s sole four-star eventing competition on 16-19 June. Two particularly strong combinations have re-routed...
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Cobsmopolitan anyone? Why show cobs have such brilliant names
Cob In Hood, Cob Only Knows, Cobsmopolitan, Cobswallop, The Cobmander — and so many more. If you glance at the cob entries in a show schedule you’ll probably find yourself smiling. But what is the...
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Jayne Ross: We found ourselves wondering what to do *H&H VIP*
From the moment you arrived at Royal Windsor, you could feel that there was a different atmosphere this year. There was huge warmth towards the royal family and, with the timetable changes, you...
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Just two home international test matches left on British polo calendar
Cowdray Park has lost its popular home international test match due to lack of sponsorship. Cowdray usually hosts an annual test match in May, but this year’s event has been cancelled. The game,...
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From jockey to wheelchair tennis star: ‘I knew I couldn’t feel my legs’
With 50 point-to-point winners and 14 under Rules to her name, Sarah Gaisford was beginning to think about starting a new career when a fall at Exeter Racecourse left her paralysed from the chest down....
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Philippa Humphreys’ husband: ‘She knew the risks… and accepted them...
The husband of Philippa Humphreys, the event rider who died in a fall at Jersey Fresh last Saturday (14 May), has said she knew the risks of eventing and “accepted them unconditionally”. Peter Humpheys...
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Choosing the right feed for an ex-racehorse turned eventer with the Saracen...
Advertisement FeatureMarketing executive Sian Barton dreams of eventing at intermediate level with her 11-year-old Kama Night, and thanks to winning the Saracen Horse Feeds/Horse & Hound Ex...
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Dale Atkinson: ‘Hack judges can’t be charitable and no to bling’ *H&H VIP*
Judging Royal Windsor’s amateur classes was both a pleasure and a privilege. As judges, we may be assessing top competitors of the future and, as the cob and hack championships proved, amateurs at the...
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Tamarillo’s clone to stand at stud this year
Tomatillo, clone of the great event horse Tamarillo, is to stand at stud this year with a stud fee of £800. H&H revealed Tomatillo’s existence in the magazine in September 2013. The cloning of the...
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Jockey goes to the rodeo and 8 other tweets that made us look twice this week
Enjoy some of our favourite updates from Twitter and Instagram during the past seven days. From an avid Leicester City fan to a rather exciting dressage test, it all happened on social media this week....
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‘This is devastating news’: international dressage cancelled at Hickstead
Hickstead has cancelled its international dressage competition in July. The West Sussex venue was set to hold the British leg of the FEI Nations’ Cup alongside CDIO3* and CDI2* classes on 28-31 July....
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Harry Meade: The beauty of the Event Rider Masters *H&H VIP*
The beauty of the Event Rider Masters is that the sport was no different — there are no new rules or scoring system — but eventing’s usual format was packaged for TV viewing purposes. This meant a...
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Rider escapes with cuts and bruises after swan attacks horse
The riders were attacked by an angry swan (stock picture)A rider who was attacked by a swan while out hacking has sworn not to pass the pond concerned in future. Carolyn Bentley and her horse Badger...
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7 dreamy dressage horses for sale this week
On the hunt for your next dressage star? Take a look at just a few of these dressage horses for sale on the Horse & Hound website this week. 1. ‘Willing to learn’ Height: 16.1hh Age: eight Gender:...
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£11k compensation for rider hit by car
A rider who was injured when she and her horse were involved in a collision with a car has successfully claimed more than £11,000 compensation. The woman, who does not want to be named, settled for an...
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Pre-cross-country dance sessions — and other things you didn’t know about Ben...
Fresh off the back of his double clear at Badminton, where he finished 32nd with Mulrys Error, Julie Harding finds out a bit more about the 28-year-old eventer who beat cancer to return to competition...
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Meet Horse & Hound’s new showing blogger: Lucy Eddis
I’m Lucy Eddis, a 17-year-old from Essex, at full boarding school two hours from home where I’m studying four A-levels; English, Latin, French and classical civilisation. Ten years ago I started...
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Champion point-to-point owner hands top prize to jockey at Stratford
Northgeorge. Image by Dave MullanyNorthgeorge (pictured, above) was crowned the Subaru restricted point-to-point series winner at Stratford’s Foxhunters meeting yesterday (Friday 20 May). The...
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Grand prix showjumper recovering after colic surgery
Jay Halim’s top horse Bart VI has been sidelined for the rest of the summer following colic surgery. The Wiltshire-based showjumper partnered the 10-year-old gelding to victory in the grand prix at the...
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