Horse & Hound

IF the buzz and feeling from the first day of Cheltenham last week is an indicator of the sporting year ahead we are in for an awesome 2023 of horse sport. As Marcus Armytage (report, p50) and Kim Bailey (opinion, p16) help us relive the week that wa

Edited by Alex Robinson alexandra.robinson@futurenet.com @alexrob_journo_ OPINION I WRITE this column as the wind is howling and the rain lashing, after just recovering from the recent snow. It is hard to visualise emerging for the forthcoming show s

FINDING the next Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) centreline horse or pony might seem like mission impossible, and many showing “newbies” are deterred because they feel they don't have the right contacts and aren't therefore “in the know” – but is this

WHILE most of us treat our horses like athletes, we don't always view ourselves as such. Yet you can maximise your output on the yard and in the saddle by wearing the right kit. Whether you're mucking out several stables or riding a handful of horses

Croome & West Warwickshire, Shelfield Park, Warks NEW recruit Runwiththetide made a winning start on her yard debut for trainer Kelly Morgan, and franked her name as one to watch for future. The six-year-old Presenting daughter, formerly trained by D

DUKE OF BUCCLEUCH'S 25 February Edited by Catherine Austen catherine.austen@futurenet.com @cfausten123 Duke of Buccleuch's Makerstoun, Kelso EVERY now and again, it's important, I think, to do something that scares us a little. It sharpens us up, get

AT the hunt breakfast at the end of the season, it has become customary for the masters here to hand out hunt buttons to those who they feel deserve them through their support of the hunt. I wear the hunt buttons of the pack where I grew up, the Sout