Horse & Hound

Published by TI Media Limited Every week Horse & Hound brings horse lovers up-to-date with the latest news and event reports and provides expert equestrian advice on subjects including training and horse care, the latest equine products and feed. The weekly features inform and entertain inspiring readers to go out and ride to improve their horsemanship in every discipline from eventing to show jumping, dressage to showing, polo and hunting. It is also the must read for anyone wanting to buy or sell a horse.

Happy New Year

Blood rules: what they say and do they work? • H&H investigates the FEI blood rules; what they are, why they are in place and how stakeholders feel they are working

HORSES IN THE NEWS

Rules

The lasting legacy of the ‘breathtaking’ Olympics • The 2024 Games show there is room for horse sports to rise higher and attract more audiences

PEOPLE IN THE NEWS

Six-figure fund boost for British horse sport • The investment increase has been confirmed for the LA28 Olympic cycle

Stud owner channels ‘hate’ of waste into a win for his horses and business • Making better choices for horses can benefit them and the environment – and be more financially viable

GOOD WEEK BAD WEEK

Tell MPs how fireworks affect you

LETTERS

H&H FROM THE ARCHIVES

Festive quiz answers

Horse & Hound

‘Riding schools are our lifeline’ • Pammy Hutton on battling nerves and fighting for riding schools

Mark Todd • As this giant of the equestrian world signs off from his training career, he tells Kate Johnson about his simple love of horses, his switch from eventing to racing – and the humiliation of the branch incident

Equine specialist coach • Richard Mosley on the rewards of giving young people with learning difficulties a sense of purpose, through his passion for horses – and his Olympic best man

Happy Valentines • The dual riding horse and side-saddle contender has swagger and a heart of gold, finds Alex Robinson

Rider Phoebe Price

‘You have to have a knack to ride horses’ • Steve Smith Eccles relates how he went from pit ponies to racing Lester Piggott, laughing at his Champion Hurdle rivals, and the inimitable See You Then

Spine-tingling brilliance

Are we breeding for health… or wealth? • Horses have evolved successfully over many millennia by natural selection. Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher MRCVS considers whether human intervention, selectively breeding for specific criteria, is causing long-term damage

A multispecies problem

New in the ring • Start the year with these great new picks for horse and rider

12 to watch in 2025 • Which rising stars will make their breakthrough this season? H&H holds the crystal ball

Simply the best • Use your resolutions to become the owner your horse wants you to be. Rebecca Philpot considers seven simple, straightforward ways

From the horse's mouth • Horses’ mouths are a hot topic in the dressage world, with unflattering photos spurring passionate debate online. But what do we actually want to see when schooling our horses? Lauren Williamson asks the experts

? What is blue tongue?

? How much foam?

Go globetrotting • The H&H team shares first-hand experiences of their unforgettable riding holidays – from Arctic and volcanic adventures to galloping alongside giraffes – to whet your appetite for your own trip of a lifetime

A common thread • Intrepid explorer Eliza Bell tastes different horsemanship practices around the world, riding with Krygyz shepherds, Pyrenean farmers and Argentinean gauchos, and finds that pride in the horse underpins them all

Starting them off right • Young people can benefit greatly from hunting....