This charming Highland pony is just the second gelding in the history of the championship to claim the breed spoils at the Royal Highland. Bethan Simons speaks to those who know him best

No horse to look after, a multi-generational community, great exercise and it costs peanuts. Tessa Waugh extols the joy of hunting with the “jelly dogs”

Unfairly maligned as a sneaky troublemaker, the quicksilver ferret is a characterful, curious and highly intelligent creature–with fascinating regal and cultural trappings to boot, writes Octavia Pollock

THINGS ARE very quiet here at the moment. It’s weird - I am used to a life overfull of things to do. For the first time in 20 years I have no building project on the go, and general maintenance, fenci

For horse lovers everywhere, these five properties boast facilities–from stables to solariums–that are the stuff of equestrian dreams

Land Rover’s beloved, rattly old workhorse has gained a chic cachet in recent years–particularly when modified to suit all sorts of purposes, even transporting our guest editor’s honey harvest, finds Charles Rangeley-Wilson