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Clipping a worried horse: what the experts change first
Advice published by Your Horse on 6 October 2026 on introducing clippers to a nervous or first-time horse, including why one specialist would rather not tie them up at all.
Journal
Journal
Notes on short-form film, posting properly, and what actually travels.
Welfare /
Liverpool wants a dung sample from your healthy horse
A funded study is recruiting owners and keepers in England to help work out how antibiotic resistance should be monitored in horses. Registration is open.
Welfare /
Scotland publishes new equine welfare guidance - and daily turnout is in it
Scottish Ministers have issued fresh guidance on keeping horses well. Ridden work does not count towards a horse's daily free movement.
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Acorns: the autumn field check worth doing today
Acorns fall between September and early November in the UK, and oak leaves and branches are toxic too. Here is what the risk looks like and what to do about it.
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Police want witnesses after a horse and rider were hit by a car near Alton
A collision on Well Lane, Bentworth, on Friday 25 September 2026. Hampshire and Isle of Wight Constabulary are asking for footage.
Costs /
Winter forage: what the 2026 harvest means for your hay bill
Dengie's Dr Katie Williams sets out where hay supply stands after a second dry summer, and what owners can do now rather than in January.
Welfare /
A foal who could not stand: what the vet-and-farrier route actually involves
A premature filly with severe front-limb deformities is now sound enough to run in the field. The case is a useful lesson in early assessment, joined-up care and honest prognoses.
Eventing /
Cross-country last, and no drop score: two lessons from the Asian Games
Thailand took team gold and Alex Hua Tian kept his individual title in Tokyo. The bits worth borrowing are the schedule change and the maths of a three-rider team.
Welfare /
Three things to watch before you open the stable door
An equine ethologist's framework for reading what a horse is telling you - and why treating body language as a conversation, not a display, keeps handlers safer.
Grassroots /
Endurance without the membership fee: what a day ticket buys you
Three levels, two minimum speeds and a trial route into graded rides. What a hacking owner needs to know before entering.
Dates and deadlines /
An evening slot at Your Horse Live: the timings that decide whether it works for you
Harlow's Big Night Out runs in the Main Arena on Saturday 7 November 2026. The published times tell you more about whether to book than the billing does.
Welfare /
Posture is not cosmetic: what a dropped back is costing your horse
A therapist's checklist for spotting poor posture, plus three exercises with real measurements you can set out in the school this week.
Costs /
One in nine used trailer checks throws up a problem
New figures from The Equipment Register suggest 11% of checks on second-hand horseboxes and trailers in 2026 flagged theft, outstanding finance or another financial interest. A few minutes before you pay is the cheapest insurance there is.
Welfare /
A new prescribed option for high insulin: what it does and does not replace
A licensed treatment aimed at insulin dysregulation reaches British veterinary practices in September 2026. It is for horses where diet, management and exercise have already been tried.
Grassroots /
When the problem is not the horse: two exercises for riders who think they are not good enough
Your Horse published advice on 14 September 2026 from NLP trainer Tracey Cole on self-doubt in the saddle. Both exercises cost nothing and neither needs the horse.
Welfare /
Strip grazing: the back fence you may not need
Feeding advice published on 14 September 2026 sets out how to ration grass with electric fencing — and points to research suggesting a second fence line adds work without adding benefit.
Welfare /
Back from colic surgery, one step at a time
Luke 140 won a four-star at Tryon after abdominal surgery in the offseason. The route back went through smaller runs first, and that is the bit worth copying.
Grassroots /
A BE80 title, and the youth pathway behind it
Pippa Tierney took the 2026 BE80 under-18 youth title at Chillington Hall. The more useful part for most families is how a rider gets into that class in the first place.
Dates and deadlines /
Ballaghmor Class retires sound at 19 — and the tour starts in November
Oliver Townend's four-time five-star winner was retired in front of the Burghley crowd on 6 September. His next public outing is Your Horse Live, 6–8 November, at Stoneleigh Park.
Eventing /
Clear round, 16.8 time faults, no apology
Jack Pinkney finished Burghley's cross-country on Saturday 5 September 2026 with a clear jumping round and time penalties. The plan was to get the horse home. It is a plan worth borrowing.
Eventing /
A lost boot at Burghley, and what it cost
One horse went home from the final inspection after a boot came off in the water. The reason is worth five minutes with your own overreach boots.
Eventing /
What Burghley's top ten tells you about the last phase and the old horse
Gemma Stevens won the 2026 Defender Burghley on Chilli Knight. Behind her, two ordinary lessons for owners: how to ride a showjumping round you are dreading, and how to judge when a veteran has had enough.
Eventing /
He went back to 90cm at eight. At 12 he jumped round Burghley
Jack Pinkney's first five-star came on a horse that arrived anxious and had to be started again from the bottom. There is a lesson in that for anyone stuck.
Eventing /
Three seconds under, and a lead at Burghley
Gemma Stevens goes into Sunday's final phase in front on 29.6. The rider who led after dressage lost her place to the clock, not the fences.
Eventing /
Burghley 2026 is running: what happens when, and what you can actually watch
All 48 horses presented on Wednesday were accepted, so the competition goes ahead in full. Here is the running order of the week and the decisions worth making before Thursday morning.
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Burghley week: the times that matter, and the £25 that renews itself
Cross-country runs on the Saturday morning. The official stream costs £25 and rolls over annually — worth checking before you pay twice.
Welfare /
A vet group admits pain scoring isn't routine. That's a question you can ask
CVS Equine has started a project to make pain assessment consistent across its equine hospitals, after its own survey found clinicians were doing it differently. Useful to know if your horse is ever admitted.
Eventing /
Five cross-country paces, and why the fastest horse is rarely the quickest
A coaching framework from the late Caroline Moore, broken down for anyone schooling at 80, 90 or Pony Club level. The useful part is not speed. It is being able to change pace when you ask.
Welfare /
The horsebox floor check almost nobody schedules
A national trade body has restated its flooring guidance after a horse was fatally injured when a lorry floor failed. The rot that causes it hides under the matting you never lift.