Seven-year-old Chloe Phillips was riding her pony Harry on a lane when a bus overtook “really fast”. Chloe was being led by her mother, Abigail Taylor-Ashmole, and both were wearing high-vis clothing. Harry spooked and Chloe was shaken. When she got back to her yard she decided she wanted to make a video to try…
Do you think that you know horses very well? The quiz below is designed just for you. The quiz has 20 multiple choice questions with general information about horses and questions that will make the difference in how well do you know them. The horse has served men well in various roles — in war,…
Equine charity Brooke is inviting people to turn their daily dog walk into the chance to help vulnerable working horses and donkeys. TV vet Dr. Scott Miller, the star of More4’s Vet On The Hill, has leaned his support to the Dog Walk Challenge, which is encouraging people to walk 10,000 steps every day for…
Armada is one of the cross-country horses in history and she was put down at the age of 20. Owned by Paul and Diana Ridgeon and ridden first by Andrew Nicholson and then by Oliver Townend, the chestnut Spanish sport horse completed 16 CCI4* (now CCI5*) events, taking second place at Badminton in 2014 with…
Road collision has been the case of hundreds of thousands of people’s death and the story below is also a road accident who took the life of a rider. The family of the woman who died as a result of a road collision with a loose horse has paid tribute to a “generous, kind and…
Very frequently, drivers tend to ignore driving slow in places where there are a lot of animals, hence, a group of hundreds of riders decided to take steps towards this issue. They are set to take to roads across the country this weekend aiming to educate drivers on passing horses safely. It has been confirmed…
A 10-year-old little girl who scored 93.8% in a British Dressage (BD) rider skills test is aiming for team selection in the future. Ten-year-old Abigail Gray from Aberdeenshire received the score in the BD youth D squad rider skills test on her 14-year-old Welsh section C gelding Rascal on 19 January. Abigail’s mother Karen said…
The last weekend was followed by bad news of a rider falling at a one-day riding club event and as a consequence, ending up her life. An anonymous female rider was taking part in the Solihull Riding Club one-day event on Saturday (13 July) afternoon when she fell from her horse. West Midlands Ambulance Service…
Two identical twin horses each won a BE100 section at Rackham Horse Trials – with a fifth of a penalty between their scores. Sacha Hourigan rode Caroline Richardson’s Twice As Nice IV (Ernie, pictured above) and Double Act IV (Eric, below) to victory on 16 June, finishing on her dressage scores of 28.8 and 29…
A volunteering teenager of Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) named James Wiseman explains how this experience has saved him. At the 50th anniversary of the organization, Wiseman presented a report on the benefits of volunteering. In investigations funded by Sport England, the RDA looked into who its 18,000 “vital” volunteers are, and how they…