Pantomime producer

The dressage star on a special pair of socks, a niche hidden talent and the value of confidence

One of the week’s big winners reaps an extra-special reward, another’s faith in their mount pays dividends, and a family’s breeding programme comes to the fore

Alice Cosgrove, clerk of the course at Market Rasen, on British weather, being a raceday conductor, and her 19-year-old “grizzly bear” cob

Horses have a way of teaching people lessons they never expected to learn. When Suzi Lewis-Barned first met Ned she thought that she and her daughter would be the ones guiding and training him. Instead, he became their greatest teacher, not only about riding, but about life itself

POSTERS for a touring circus blossomed in shop windows, and on any vacant stretch of boarding. Some were pasted on top of other posters, from many seasons ago. They were a snowstorm of colour to catch

Dr Andy Dell on the all-conquering mare that inspired the genetic programme that has played a major part in reviving the Cleveland Bay and other rare breeds