Horse & Hound

THIS week, we celebrate those horses who are still going strong in their twilight years, be they storming round Burghley inside the optimum like 19-year-old Classic Moet (p22), or giving leisure riders the time of their life (feature, p30), or enjoyi

William Fox-Pitt’s five-star winner, owned by the Fox-Pitt Eventing Partnership, has died aged 20. His 2011 included third at Chatsworth and titles at Tattersalls, Blenheim eight- and nine-year-olds and Pau CCI5*. The 2017 Grand National winner is ba

An embryo bred by Pennie Wallace, that will be a full sibling to Ros Canter’s 2022 Badminton runner-up and World Championships ride Lordships Graffalo, sold to the US via the Sovereign Auction House for £21,500. Patrick Kehoe and Philomena Crampton’s

Five-star eventer Tom Jackson married his fiancée Sabrina Pryer on 3 October. Tom, who was second at Burghley on Capels Hollow Drift, said: “What a way to round off the year.” Showjumping world champions Henrik von Eckermann and King Edward won the V

To Germany, where a 50cm tall, 35kg Shetland may be, his owner hopes, the world’s smallest pony. His name’s Pumuckel and he has, according to his owner, some “airs and graces”. A Shetland? Airs and graces? Surely not, we hear you cry... To a show whe

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CHARLIE MACKESY’S heartwarming The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse has been adapted for the small screen and will debut on the BBC this Christmas. The illustrated international bestseller, published in 2019, tells the story of an unlikely friend

“MOLLY is the easiest horse in the world, as long as she can go everywhere fast as that’s her favourite thing - even walking to the field has to be at 100 miles an hour. “She doesn’t like much fuss. She’d prefer to be in the field covered in mud than

ELISABETH RICHARDSON DipECVAA MRCVS graduated as a vet from the Royal Veterinary College and worked in equine general practice before completing four years of veterinary speciality training at the University of Cambridge. She passed exams to become a

THE basic social group of horses living under natural conditions is the natal band, which is basically a gang of mares and fillies, usually with a dominant mare in charge. In such situations, most mares wean their foals at about nine months of age. S

HUMAN safety while a horse is sedated for or recovering from an epidural should not be underestimated. This is because of the potential hazards posed to the personnel involved. It is easy to relax around a sedated horse, assuming they will not move.

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• Good year-round turnout is essential to keep joints moving - along with stabling for a few hours each day to feed and if the weather is foul. “My boxes will be full of snoring by mid afternoon,” says Sarah Hirst of Woody Riding Centre. • Herd life

WHEN Hannah Watson (pictured, right; white bib) suffered stirrup failure on Hector midway round the Cotswold open and eventually pinged off - complete with stirrup - over fence 21, one might have expected her teammates in Gin For A Spin to leave her

THERE was a new twist to the annual freestyle challenge, which in the past featured invited top riders competing against each other. This year, the professional rider was paired with an invited prelim rider who also rode a freestyle test. It demonstr

KELLY ARTZ rode Kailaani to a 73.92% medium 75 qualifier win at Vale View EC, Leics. The pair continue to impress after moving to the UK last year from California, where the 10-year-old Johnson mare was bred by US team rider Leslie Morse. “Kai is the

AVAH HEATH, 11, scored a 75% silver section win in a competitive novice 38 qualifier at Hunters Equestrian, Glos, with Koningshoek-Jackpot (Jack), the 14.2hh stallion she teamed up with in August. Avah also headed the prelim 15 silver section with fi

A TEST of ups and downs resulted in an elementary 44 win at Foxes RS, Cheshire, for Steph Blundell and her “gentle giant” Croft That’s A Fact (pictured above). “He was a bit of a monkey,” said Steph of the showjumping-bred gelding she has owned for e

“HE’S been a long-term project,” laughed Emma De Launay, whose 14-year-old home-bred gelding Jet Stream O headed the PSG qualifier at Dressage at Hascombe, West Sussex. “He’s big and sensitive, can be clumsy and has a short concentration span. Finall

JASMINE PERCIVAL collected Blue Chip qualification at her first affiliated show, after winning the Bliss of London pony sapphire winter championship qualifier with Maylands Toyboy at Ponderosa EC, Newport. Jasmine has had the 14-year-old blue and whi

HENRIK VON ECKERMANN and the brilliantly talented 12-year-old gelding King Edward (pictured) triumphed in the Longines FEI World Cup qualifier in Verona, Italy, after a seven-strong jump-off. Taking second with the only other double clear was Gerfrie

“I’M excited about this one,” confirmed Eleri Wyn Jenkins, who took the overall ridden supreme at NPS Area 29’s winter show held at Pencoed College in Wales with her four-year-old Welsh section B stallion Phylberns Pop Sox (pictured, below left). The