It’s a sad fact that many horses and ponies are given up or abandoned every week, as owners struggle to cope with the current economic climate and there are currently many horses for sale.
Sara Tuppen from the Horse Refuge in Wittersham Kent, knows all about looking after horses when money is scarce, having to rely [...]
European eventing champion Tina Cook has won the British Equestrian Writers’ Association personality of the year award.
Cook, a double 2008 Olympic bronze medalist, landed her first European individual title in Fontainebleau two months ago.
And she was also part of Great Britain’s European gold medal-winning team in France alongside William Fox-Pitt, Oliver Townend and Nicola Wilson.
Cook’s [...]
The BBC is to extend its coverage of the London International Horse Show at Olympia to provide live coverage of the dressage.
The FEI World Cup Grand Prix Freestyle to Music will be available through the red button and internet services on Wednesday evening, December 16. The decision was taken after the BBC had outstanding viewing [...]
If you’ve owned a horse, or known anyone who has, you will know how high-maintenance horses can be. But did you also know they can be a huge liability? To secure their investment and protect the public at large, horse owners should start by purchasing insurance.
I spent a good deal of time around horses growing up, [...]
How stone bruises develop
Stone bruises generally are the product of your horse’s environment. Traveling on hard, rocky ground can batter your horse’s soles, especially if he’s used to more manicured conditions. But a hard knock against a solid object – a fence rail or a tree root, for instance – can have the same effect.
So [...]
Autumn on Exmoor is stunning. The beech hedges gleam bronze while the moor turns chestnut, amber and taupe. The annual gathering of the wild Exmoor ponies adds to the atmosphere as farmers round them up during an event that is more Wild West than West Country.
The gathering helps maintain the health of these amazing animals, [...]
Bran mash was traditional feed used to “clear a horse’s gut” but it is also often given as a treat or when the weather is cold to give the horse a warm meal and to try to help introduce more water into the diet. It is generally made from bran,epsom salts and boiling water.
Contrary to [...]
The British Horse Society (BHS) strongly advises horse owners and those contemplating having a horse on loan or by lease, never to do so without a written agreement.
Loaning or leasing a horse often appears to be an attractive solution, both for the owner who may not have enough time to look after the horse but [...]
The International Equestrian Federation’s (FEI) own vice-president Sven Holmberg has damned its approval of a new list of medications which allows the controlled used of the anti-inflammatory phenylbutazone (“bute”), banned 20 years ago.
Despite impassioned pleas by the major equestrian nations, the FEI General Assembly voted in favour of its new “progressive list” by 53 votes [...]
A disease has broken out in Cumbria which can be fatal for horses.
The disease – known as Atypical Equine Myositis/Myoglobinuria – has claimed the life of at least one horse and four others have had to undergo aggressive treatment.
Vet Neil Frame, from Frame, Swift and Partners in Penrith, said: “It is very worrying but we [...]
