Horse & Hound has partnered with digital archive specialists Archive Digital to make decades of the magazine’s back catalogue available to subscribe to online. Issues from the magazine’s launch in 1884, until September 2012, are available to read at The Magazine Archive with a subscription to this archive. Current Horse & Hound magazine subscribers can […]
Beryl and Monty. Donkeys brought joy and comfort to an 89-year-old lady living with dementia, on her first outing since the pandemic. Carol Stone brought her mother, Beryl, a life-long donkey lover, and carer Maxine to The Donkey Sanctuary in Ivybridge. Beryl, who has dementia, no longer speaks, so Carol hoped spending time in the presence of the […]
A rider who suffered a spinal stroke aged 13 – whose pony also suffered spinal damage in a freak accident – is sharing her story to raise awareness, and help others. Liane Chard told H&H her daughter Summer was a happy, healthy teenager, who lived for riding her pony Cindy, when she woke to find […]
HWM3JM REG AKEHURST RACE HORSE TRAINER 19 April 1996Reg Akehurst, the former jump jockey and dual-purpose trainer has died, aged 94. Mr Akehurst was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1929. He spent 12 years as a jump jockey, and during this time rode 99 winners. After retiring from race-riding in 1962, he took out his training licence from his first base, Tunworth Down […]
Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher and her 26-year-old Connemara Smokin Gun reclaimed the senior-plus ridden pony title at Royal Windsor Horse Show.A horse and rider who have a combined age of 90 years old reigned at the 2024 Royal Windsor Horse Show for the second year in a row. Equine vet Rebecca Hamilton-Fletcher and her 26-year-old Connemara Smokin Gun (Gunner) reclaimed the senior-plus ridden pony title they also won in 2023. Gunner, an Irish-bred Connemara, was […]
Totilas, pictured with Edward Gal. How many famous black horses do you know? Tall, dark and handsome – there’s something so irresistible about a black horse. From the Lloyds Friesians galloping across our screens to equine superstars such as Classic Moet and Black Caviar, black horses are blessed with presence and panache. Such is our captivation with black horses that they […]
