Horsey Talk

Mary McCormack

She found a profound love of horses at the age of 7 after riding for the first time. More than a decade later, she has turned that love into a career. She has just opened her own equestrian facility, City View Equestrian in Chili..........

Giles and the New Messiah

How a nervy and jumpy character qualified for the Badminton Grassroots Regional Final. Giles was bought from Beeston market in Cheshire for £1500 by his doting and loving owner Melanie Seller..........

Nick White

World Horse Welfare has been working together with Hertfordshire Constabulary to successfully reduce injury to horses, their officers, and cut their equine-related costs by thousands of pounds.........

Nicola Battersby & Beau

A wonderful, unbelievable story of one woman's fight against all the odds to save her horse from a disease, which is normally fatal........

Burma's Lady

In a true tale as dramatic as any movie, this horse was rescued from the brink of slaughter, survived a near fatal foaling, and was reunited though Facebook with the young woman who had owned her and thought she was lost to her forever........

Joanne Smales

Bailey, an eight-year-old, 16.3hh Thoroughbred, always struggled to maintain his weight and condition. His owner, Joanne Smales, tried everything to help Bailey’s condition. Some things helped a little but the results were never long lasting........

Enos Mafokate

Enos Mafokate, founder of the Soweto Equestrian Foundation, who has just made his first trip to London to speak at World Horse Welfare's annual conference about the immense opportunity equestrian sport can provide for young people.........

Anna Twinney

The key to do anything you want will also be to be the best you can be in that area. You have to stand out. You have to know your topic. You have to know your subject matter. You have to be dedicated and committed and be the best you can be.......

Debra Meaden

When I was 11, I used to help out with the pony rides up and down Minehead seafront in Somerset. I loved horses and couldn't afford one of my own, so it was my way of getting near them.......

Reckless

This horse was a pack horse during the Korean war. During the battle for a location called Outpost Vegas, this mare made 51 trips up and down the hill, on the way up she carried ammunition, and on the way down she carried wounded soldiers......

Summer Marks

Summer Marks glides into the training pen atop her quarter horse, Riley, with a grace that seems effortless. She rides without a saddle or bridle - only a very loose neck rope - but Riley responds to her with barely a word........

Erin Bolster

In a cloud of dust, the 25-year-old wrangler likely saved a boy’s life while demonstrating that skill, quick-thinking and guts sometimes are the best weapons against a head-on charging grizzly.......

Olivia Adams & Equiscan

Meet Olivia. Ex-Policewoman now an Endurance rider. Livvy began riding at the age of four on a Naval Base and continued to do so until she moved to Bristol when she joined the Police Force......

Shino.

He was near death due to severe dehydration and debility. He had been suffering from diarrhea for the last three days. This was partly due to his diet of un-boiled cow’s milk and husk and improper diagnosis by a traditional healer......

Ricky Webb.

Rider killed by Hurricane Irene while feeding his horses. If you saw Ricky Webb, chances are he was riding his gray mustang Diamond, enjoying retirement beneath a white cowboy hat. .......

Sophia Mangalee.

Despite being one of the last to physically come across the finish line after nine days amid the vast wilderness of the Mongolian steppe, things could have been far worse for Sophia Mangalee. .......

Mark Bishop.

'Cowboys & Aliens' Where the horses come from. Bishop was the head horse handler for the recent Hollywood blockbuster "Cowboys and Aliens." Working on these movies, Bishop said he's constantly impressed at what the horses are capable of .......

Beverly English.

I pass by a tall grey gelding pulling a single carriage with no one in it. He seems tired and worn, no life in his eyes. They appear to be headed back to the barn. Even the driver looks tired. It is 100.4 in the sun now, 98.2 in the shade....

Pamela A. Rickenbach

All told, there are 30 draft horses living at Blue Star. They all would have been put down if not for Blue Star, the state’s sole rescue and rehab haven for veteran workhorses in need of a second career......

Phoebe

Phoebe, the first all-white thoroughbred born in Illinois, soon will be traveling to Hollywood to be one of five horses playing the part of Silver in a remake of “The Lone Ranger.” The movie, will star Armand Hammer as the Lone Ranger and Johnny Depp as Tonto.......

Anita Jackson

Two "miracle stories" helped shape her life, Anita Jackson said. After dealing with a serious stomach ailment that traditional medicine couldn't cure, she saw a chiropractor. Within 15 minutes after an adjustment, she said, her symptoms were gone.......

Becky and Jim McKeith

It began in the mid 1990s. Becky had always wanted a horse. She made a promise to her husband: no miniature horses. Today, the couple raises, breeds and shows miniature horses, including several foals or weanlings born in April and May.......

Joe Loveridge

When he was a jockey, life was simple. All Joe Loveridge had to worry about was keeping his weight down, getting the rides and not killing himself. Now he's a trainer, things are a million times worse. He's got no end of problems......

Sally Russo

She works seven days a week from 7 in the morning to 7 in the evening, caring for her four horses, tending up to six boarders, teaching lessons, mucking stalls, feeding, grooming and fussing over her precious charges.But don't tell Sally Russo she works hard.......

Wang Zhenshan

Wang provides the rare Przewalski horses to the United Kingdom and Germany.Wang is a specialist in the horses' reproduction in the Wild Horse Research and Reproduction Center of Jimsar in the Changji Hui autonomous prefecture........

Jenna Pratt

Jenna suffers from epidermolitic hyperkeratosis. She is unable to sweat and her skin is susceptible to tearing. But she loves riding horses. Jenna Pratt, 10, of Brattleboro, Vermont has come a long way since she started horseback riding a little over a year ago.

Connie Toepel

She couldn’t remember a time when she didn’t love horses. “My parents said those were the first words I said,” Toepel recalled. “I have a vivid memory of when I was 5 years old and going up to the television set. The circus was on, and the horses were going around the arena.........

Allison Lemon

If you want your kid to stay out of trouble, buy him a pony, says rider and medical school student. Allison Lemon said her horse was key to her academic success. "We are so in sync," she said. "You don't get that with many horses......."

Buck Brannaman

Perhaps the most prominent advocate of what is known as natural horsemanship, Brannaman likes to say that though he’s hired to help with a person’s horse problems, he ends up dealing with a horse’s people problems........

Nial Robinson

The School teacher will spend his summer holidays taking water to horses before they die of thirst. To rodeo fans, he’s one of the all-time bull-riding greats. To the kids in his science classes, he’s D-Rob. And to 38,000 wild horses roaming Nevada, he’s a lifesaver.

Mark Pitman

Mark Pitman, great raconteur he is too, reminiscing about his Gold Cup victory and his National second as a jockey. He was also assistant to mom, Jenny, when winning the Grand National with Royal Athlete........

Karen Bourdon

Karen's NHS for animals venture in Oxfordshire. She explains how she takes horses from the likes of Richard Hannon, Paul Cole and others, when vets have given up on them. She works with complimentary treatment as well as conventional treatment.......

Claude Desmarais

Working together. Old technology and new technology. Draft horses bringing fibre optics to remote locations. For over three decades Claude Desmarais has been laying line with draft horses........

Cusack

Deb Johnson rarely gets on to Facebook. A couple weeks ago when she “just messing around,” she noticed a friend had made numerous posts about horses in “kill pens” at an auction house in Washington.......

Valerie Lewis and Paul Harding

Rich, luscious, a compliment to any coffee table. And says dressage legend, Domini Morgan, "Every aspect of this wonderfully presented book is excellent." Suddenly horsey books have taken a leap into a new dimension.......

Sam Twiston-Davies

Isabel Tompsett chatting to Sam Twiston-Davies.
Watch out for the month-old foal in the background.......

Kennis Fairfax

He is one of only a handful of African American judges in the United States. He spent his summers on the family farm in Oklahoma. Today he is a school teacher. But, at heart, he's still a cowboy......

Woodlander Farouche

Woodlander Farouche performance potential first shone through as a two year old in the BEF Futurity series, she scored a Higher First premium and then went on to claim Overall BEF Futurity 2008 Dressage Champion at the Futurity final later that same year..... ...........

Duane Van Dyke

When Duane Van Dyke gets ready to hitch up a pair for pulling and plowing, all the horses head to the barn. They line up like spectators at a show, watching the action and hoping they'll be next.. ...........

Sue Armstrong

Sue is the current President of the BAHVS (British Association of Homeopathic Veterinary Surgeons) and an international lecturer on homeopathy and laser therapy in horses. ...........

Lucinda Broad

Thoroughbred ex-racehorse, Revolution, has demonstrated his wide ranging talent in the sport of Eventing and Dressage, as well as becoming a successful sire of potential event horses of the future.........

Ritt Chitwood

A mustang captured in the Pacific Northwest and a young Tennessee man paralyzed in a car accident came together through the efforts of a south Alabama veterinarian, the determination of the student's mother and — both women said — divine intervention....

Jim Goddard and Rosie Jones

Kelly and Monty’s chief roadie and demo rider set up Intelligent Horsemanship yard in East Sussex. “Intelligent Horsemanship is all about working together to find what is best for the horse, so a collaboration seemed to be the logical way to go”.......

Bettina Eistel

What is even more compelling than the fact that she can brush her horse with her feet, is that she competes, very well, at the Paralympics in dressage. Bettina didn’t just overcome her disability, she walloped it..........

Kacey Cramer

Kacey was only 14 when she began restricting her food intake. “Restricting my food was a way of punishing myself and reinforcing a self-hatred that stemmed originally from my parents' divorce.”.................

Allyssia Bryant

Fifteen-year-old Allyssia Bryant mucks out her horses’ stalls, feeds them, grooms them and teaches them to move as one with her........

Lisa Holder

"They were standing in a field, no food, a frozen water trough. They were just hanging their heads, like they had given up"..........

Grace Walker

Grace Walker was only 14 years old when she won the individual silver medal at the Pony European Championships, and the group gold......

Isabel Tompsett

Do you have to be slightly crazy to be a jump jockey?
Listen to what Isabel Tompsett has to say

Glenda Smith

Every horse has a story. Glenda Smith leans on the wood post fence and surveys the herd grazing on the parched pasture, rattling off each sad tale. Equestrian Inc is a 15-acre rural swath of paradise on the outskirts of very suburban Carrollwood Village.

Darryl Breslin

From living in a hostel in Manchester to riding with some of the the best in the world in Newmarket, Suffolk, Darryl Breslin's life has undergone a massive change in just a few months. "I want to go all the way, I want to be a winning jockey.

Harriet Brown

Harriet Brown is General Manager at Hobgoblins Stud, East Sussex, a family owned breeding enterprise. Harriet talks about her love of horses, her career and her work at the Stud.

Linda Parelli

She is busy travelling in Italy and Portugal. But Linda Parelli takes five minutes from her busy schedule to answer questions about their trip to the UK for the huge Parelli Celebration event in April 2011.

Alan Daly

A jockey to set the house on fire. On March 18 2009, however, he retired at the tender age of 35 with a spectacular flying Frankie Dettori leap after winning his last race at Lingfield racecourse. What is he doing now? He is a fireman at Cobham Fire Station in Surrey.

The Equissage Team

2010 was a very exciting year for the Equissage Team. Here we catch up with Ellen Whitaker, Maria Eilberg, Lee Pearson and Piggy French to find out about their proudest moments and reveal what 2011 has in store for them.

Polly Thompson

Horses and Heartbeats shows the pluses and minuses of horse ownership.
The engaging characters, the subtle yet effective introduction of horse management skills.

Sue Wylde

Where would we be without the Sue Wylde’s of this horsey world? They are the foundation upon which we all depend. They make the wheels go round.

Thea Maxfield

Thea suffered a broken neck known as a ‘hangman’s fracture’ after an horrific fall from her horse, but is back in the saddle thanks to revolutionary technology –pioneered in Formula One RACING CARS.

Sheila Barker

Time and Preparation is what South-East regional coordinator Sheila Barker put her teams' success down to when they claimed the KBIS JRN Team Championship title at Weston Park International Horse Trials.

Lucy Harrold

The Unluckiest – Or is he the Luckiest ? – Horse in the World. The vet said, Put him down. He survived.

Jeanine Preece

It was a dream come true for Jeanine Preece from Bristol when her husband Lee gave her a beautiful bay Thoroughbred gelding as a surprise Christmas present......

John Bartelous

The countdown begins. From now until the end of the year hundreds of thousands, maybe even millions of horses all around the world will be clipped, re-clipped and clipped again...

Jill & Jules Walker

The next Totilas. Owners talk for the first time about their plans for the future. He is Baron de Ley. A Westphalian stallion. Five-years-old. 16.2 and still growing.......

South East Para Riders

Mention Para riders and most people will know the name of the most prolific Paralympian, Lee Pearson, but there are many more who have won medals and titles......

Amy Starkey

Like all little girls, Amy Starkey was mad about horses. Except she wasn’t interested in riding them. She was interested in betting on them..........

Mark Updike

90 days to make them rideable. A Princeton man is hoping his participation in a national mustang training challenge will help bring new attention to an underappreciated sector of the equine industry.....

Barbara Halpern

She's living a child's horsey fantasy - at 61-years-old.
As a child, Barbara Halpern would ride three or four buses from her native Providence, to take a riding lesson....

Bernice Ende

Bernice Ende could have made the 1,200-mile trip in any number of ways. She could have flown. She could have driven. She even could have taken the train. But instead Ende opted to ride her horse.....

Minette Rice Edwards

For the majority of equestrians, riding means little more than surviving on a horse. Understanding the "art" of riding can open up a world for both you and your horse.....

Susi Sadler

Susi Sadler is one of just a handful of British riders joining the epic race across the bleak Mongolian Steppe.....

Cherry Michell

You can all now breathe a sigh of relief. She did it. The Chairman of The Pony Club, Cherry Michell completed the Horses4 Heroes sponsored ride......

David Funnell

How to say, Goodbye.
In the old days it was straightforward and, maybe, crude and unthinking. Certainly, there was little emotion about it. A call to the nearest Hunt or to the local knackerman..

Zana Cousins and Karl Greenwood

Want to try something different from show-jumping ? Become a stunt rider.Learn how to ride bare-back, joust, make your horse rear up on his back legs.

Tony Green

He's never had a riding lesson. He's never sat on, let alone ridden a horse. Yet today, he is one of the top Club-level carriage drivers in the whole of the South East.

Natalie Dawson

Natalie Dawson describes why she took up dressage last year and why she is determined to succeed in spite of all the setbacks

Kit Knotts

Researchers in Texas have achieved a cloning first with the successful delivery of a foal using egg cells, called oocytes, from a live mare.

Paula Clements

It all started on a Monday evening with just 12 people in the front-room of her home in Lingfield, Surrey.

Liz Mitten Ryan

We are offering a new therapy that heals the therapist, the patient, and the animals assisting in the healing.

Sallie Anne Lent

No. Polo is not for Toffs. No. You don’t have to drink champagne, speak Spanish and wear expensive boots.....

Lynne Reardon

Lynn Reardon is the founder and executive director of LoneStar Outreach to Place Ex-Racers (LOPE Texas), a nonprofit racehorse placement agency near Austin.

Polly, the broodmare with a Parrot Mouth

It was Easter 2009 when I first met Polly, a 7 year old thoroughbred broodmare with a genetic dental disorder commonly known as Parrot Mouth.

Janet Hein

By profession an animal control officer for the Alabama Department of Public Health. On her own time, though, she devotes her waking hours to nurturing horses, along with dogs, at the farm where she resides.

Charlie - saved by an angel.

Horses are also sold every Tuesday at OLEX. What most people are not aware of, is that nearly all the horses that are brought to OLEX are bought by horse dealers, or kill buyers, who purchase them for slaughter.

Kaye Glendenning-Jones

Two things run in the veins of Kaye Glendenning-Jones - jewellery craftsmanship and horses. Luckily, earlier this year she found a way to combine both.

Dr Madeleine Campbell

She first saw him through a dissecting microscope. He was just one-fifth the size of a pin-head. She delivered him when he was born.

Gabriella Atkinson

Behind a new multi-million pound equestrian training centre in the south east is tiny, dynamic, action-packed Canadian businesswoman, Gabriella Atkinson.

Denise Dent

Is she the longest travelling weekend rider in the world? Over the last 18 months, she has travelled over 250000 miles to ride her horse, Charles Chequers Blue.

Barbara Wigley

They call her, Mrs Golden Horseshoe.
They also say you need lots of endurance to keep up with her.

Ross Algar

From the age of four, Ross Algar wanted to ride. At 19-years-old he wanted to join the army. Having spent, as he says “12 glorious years” in the Army, he then wanted to become an instructor and an author.

Rebecca Slough

Rebecca Slough has recently launched her own brand, Equitility, to design and manufacture jump and training banners for everyone from the amateur enthusiast to riding clubs and even professional coaches.

Calico Colt

The two leggeds walked toward him. He wanted to jump up and dash away but he could not. Over the next few days he grew too tired to move at all.

Rupert Isaacson

Rupert Isaacson believes riding has transformed his autistic son. Now he wants others to benefit from his experience.

Focus

Focus, a 6-year-old TB, was badly injured in a storm. He had a gaping hole in his chest, measuring a foot long and a foot wide, which continued through to his abdomen. Everyone rallied round to help him survive.

Alida Stander

Alida Stander has just started riding again.
She describes the aches and pains - and absolute joy of riding her Percheron, Big Chester

Anna Twinney - Ledger

Anna Twinney tells the unforgettable story of Ledger, a two-year-old chestnut colt. How he was struck by lightning. How she cradled his head in her arms. And how she communicated with him “on the other side"

Sara Ross

The Horse Refuge at Wittersham, Kent isn’t just a five star horse rescue and re-homing centre, it is also backed by no end of famous five –star show business stars and personalities.

Christy Sheidy

Another Chance 4 Horses - Horse rescue network saves hundreds of horses from slaughter in one year

Alison Remmen

Read the wonderful, inspiring story of Ali and her Ashdown Forest Group of Riding for the Disabled

Susan Pohlman

A horse needs Susan Pohlman's help.
Opening a metal pasture gate, Susan Pohlman walks across uneven, frozen mud toward a chestnut horse lying on its side, limbs taut.......

Anna Twinney - Remsky

Remsky could no longer leave the pasture without getting extremely upset, his entire body would shake, he could no longer be tied and he would pull back as though he had just seen a ghost!

Anna Twinney - Bouie

Bouie was a very talented, beautiful, four-year-old, grey, Thoroughbred racehorse. Trouble was half-way through a race he would always slow down and whinny ......

Troy

Donna Howman tells us the story of Troy, who came into her life when her husband, Mark, asked her, “Do you want a honeymoon or do you want Troy?”

Martin Diggle - Author

“I remember always liking horses. I would always run out and give the horse a carrot..”
Today, he is a best-selling equestrian author.

Hazel Reed - Author and Publisher

She has helped literally thousands of people all over the world pass their BHS Exams. Now she talks - about how she first started riding ....

Sam Penn - An Olympic hopeful

"Horses are my life. They always have been. Literally from the moment I wake up until the moment I fall asleep....

Pembridge Symphony - A Cleveland Bay

Pure-bred Cleveland Bay mare, Pembridge Symphony, is a rare breed in more ways than one.

Claire McCaffery-Clarke

BHS Development Officer for London and the South East, Claire McCaffery-Clarke is prepared to tackle anything.

Ian Adams-Lane

Ian Adams-Lane owes his business success to the fact that for 25-years he was walking around with a broken neck.

Mark Thompson - Levade Systems

Today Levade Systems is one of the leading manufacturers of wooden stables, ancilliary and garden buildings in the South-East

Linda Parelli - on Dressage

AS Linda Parelli canters effortlessly around on her beloved horse Remmer, spectators look on, keen to find out more.

Charlotte Adams-Lane

Charlotte is one of the top three elite double-harness scurry drivers in the country. Thanks to Princess Michael

Tina Cook

“All part of the day’s work,” says Tina Cook, daughter of the famous four times champion jockey and trainer, Josh Gifford,

Tracey Elliot-Reep

From Mexico to Canada. Tracey's 3,000 mile hack.

Charlotte Packham

Horsey girl, Charlotte Packham, has decided to have another go at winning the title, the most prestigious beauty pagent in the country.

Tamsin Pickeral

Tamsin talks about her life and horses as well as her latest book, Budget Horse and Pony Care

Dane Rawlins

Nobody can deny that he has done more than anyone to turn the once staid, boring, middle-aged world of dressage, into one of the most popular, fastest-growing sports in the country.

Met Riding Club - Caroline & Hannah

Both are in the Metropolitan Police Service. Both are police constables in the Territorial Support Group, which is responsible for policing and controlling public demonstrations.

Dick Francis

When champion jockey Dick Francis turned his hand from horses to writing bestselling thrillers, he enlisted the help of his family – and now his son Felix is co-author.

Christine Yeoman

Ten years ago Christine Yeoman was told she had multiple sclerosis. It changed her life completely. She decided to take up Endurance riding.

Lord Oaksey

The leading amateur rider of his era. A jump jockey with over 200 winners to his name. Everyone’s favourite loser of the Grand National. And all round thoroughly good egg.

Marlene Davey

"Whatever people say, it is an emotional business. You do it for love. Sometimes it’s thrilling." Marlene Davey is one of the leading pony breeders and producers in the country.

Margaret and Colin Green

Colin and Margaret Green have been breeding Cleveland Bays for over 30-years. This is their personal story

Ron and Debbie Thomas

They have produced and supplied over 70 winners – Lead rein, Hunter, Show and Intermediate - at both the Horse of the Year Show and the Royal International Horse Show ..............

Rae Turner

Meet Rae Turner. She’s the model being featured in the new British Horse Society road safety poster.

Claire and Luke Tomlinson

The former No 1 British female polo player, 65, and her son, 32, captain of the England polo team

Carl Hester

The Olympic rider and winner of 44 national dressage titles encouarges everyone to get back on that horse.

Lee Pearson

A day in the life of one of Britain’s most talented dressage riders? From the Weakest Link to the star studded Butterfly Ball there is never a dull moment in sight.

Anne Wilson & Susan McBane

Talk to Anne Wilson and Susan McBane about the standard of riding today, the approach, the style and the effect on the horse and, in some cases, it practically reduces them to tears......

Julianne Aston & Minty

In 1993 Julianne Aston, finally decided she had had enough of being refused entry to competitions with Minty, a 40- year-old veteran Irish Draught cross just because of his age.......

Sylvia Loch

Sylvia Loch talks to Horseytalk.net about her childhood with ponies, her time in Portugal, her writing career as well as her hopes and ambitions for the art of dressage.

Isabell Werth

Isabell Werth has the unique honour of having represented Germany at four Olympic Games, and won team and individual medals at each.

Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum

As the first female jumper to be ranked world number one (2005), Meredith Michaels-Beerbaum is a reference for women jumpers everywhere.

Rodrigo Pessoa

Brazilian, Olympic jumping champion, considered to be one of the most remarkable riders of his generation.

Zara Phillips

After a very successful career in the Young Riders, she has more than lived up to expectations

Pippa Funnell

Pippa, the first woman to ever be ranked number-one in eventing and the first rider to have won the 2003 Rolex Grand Slam of Eventing

Heather Hoffman

Heather works as BHS Ireland's 'Off Road Horse Riding Development Officer'.

Helen Kerry

Road safety officer's wife talk about having two famous horses...

Andrew Gould

Andrew Gould first hit the headlines as a young rider team medallist, then followed this early success with multiple national titles as his horses progresses. Today he is possibly better known as Katie Price’s dressage trainer.

David Kerry

There is probably no greater advocate of high visibility clothing for horses and riders in the country than David Kerry.

Katie Price

Our Katie talks to The Times about life, horses, being a surgically-enhanced glamour model, horses, falling in love with washed-up pop singer, Peter Andre, horses, Harvey, her son, horses ...

Becky Sampson

Becky Sampson and Bertie’s Quest are going for a hack. Not just an ordinary hack. They are planning to ride all the way from London to Tokyo.

Lucy Thompson

Before every event she would lay her riding clothes out neatly, in the same order and sing at the top of her voice powerful motivational songs while she got dressed.

Michael Peace

He talks about his Think Equus philosophy, his non-horsey background and why he is happy to be known as the man down the road who can fix horses.

Molly the Pony, & Riley the Mare.

Horses can and do survive on three legs. Most will survive amputation surgery.

Andrew Reilly

A Reilly good saddler. The serious saddler, who is always making people laugh, has just designed and produced his own brand new, unique - Patents pending -
Omniflex saddle.

Avril Roberts

She used to keep her pony in the garage behind the family Daimler. Now she is devoted to finding the dream horse for riders all over the South East.

Mark Wallinger

Meet the man behind the monumental white horse sculpture poised to grace the Kentish skyline.

Cholla

Meet Cholla. The horse that paints.

Bruce Logan

“I would like to teach the world to ride horses the way horses want to be ridden...”

Anna Twinney

Reiki - the most popular healing art in the world, says Anna Twinney.

Rupert Isaacson

The horse that saved my son: Little Rowan's life was devastated by autism - but he found hope in the most unlikely and inspiring way

Jane Kendal

She's worked so long and so hard to help so many people in the horsey world - Meet the non-stop Jane Kendall

Danielle Hay

Eventer. Bare-foot ski-ing champion. Air hostess. Disneyland horse handler. Soldier. Advanced diver. Bare-foot farrier....... Meet Danielle Hay.

Julie Broyart

Julie Broyart is from Pondaurat in the Gironde in France.

Leonard White

A living legend, Actor. Director. Producer. The unknown genius of British television drama who says he owes it all to horses.

Roland Clarke

The Eventing writer whose life was one major event after another.

Bobby Craig

Meet the farrier to the Queen. She also gave him toffees.

Simon Vieweg

Everyone is unique. But there are not many people in the world as unique as Simon Vieweg.

Louise Bonsall

From WAG to Horse Lover. Louise Bonsall, wife of footballer, Michael Owen, tells how she is now devoted to rescuing horses

Verity

I first started riding when I was three-years-old. My mother had a horse and I used to go with her to the stables......

Jousting - Geoff Funnell

Geoff Funnell decided to ride because he wanted to take up jousting.......

Pauline Grant - Sussex Horse Rescue Trust

Pauline, who was born in Cuckfield, West Sussex, couldn’t have grown up in a more horsey environment..

Jack & Fiona McOuat

He is Jack, an 18-year-old Welsh Section C, and probably the most adaptable and versatile pony in the world.....

Linda Smith

Hi. I'm Linda Smith. I started Something Different.

Michelle Cogger

Hi. I’m Michelle. I helped design Metal Mickey.

Gay Biddlecombe

I used to ride and keep my own horses (as well as a couple of donkeys!) but then I injured my back......

Oliver Townsend

Oliver Townend has just won the most valuable eventing prize ever.

Anthony Knott

Anthony Knott has just won his first race for – Wait for it – 28 years. A dairy farmer and jockey, his momentous triumph came at Wincanton.

Sam Thomas

Sam Thomas, number-one jockey at Paul Nicholls stable, has just taken over from Ruby Walsh .......

Debra Meaden

She is no longer just a Dragon. She is now a horsey supporter of inner-city riding ....
www.hoof-in-town.com

Jeff Newnham

In 20 - 30 years time most horses will be going barefoot. Who says so? A farrier .......

Joanna Price

If there is one outstanding theme running through Joanna Price's life, it is horse welfare
sussexhorserescuetrust.org.uk ..........

George Mikell

As both a serious dramatic actor and famous international film star, George Mikell has appeared alongside most Hollywood legends .......www.georgemikell.co.uk