Ditching bad behaviour

Is following a routine the be all and end all when keeping horses and do owners really need to bust a gut to ride and feed at the same time every 10am day? Catherine Welton finds out from a variety of experts

As thoughts begin to turn gradually towards the hunting season, spare a thought for your kit. Is it still in the state it was left in back in March? Never fear, Octavia Pollock has plenty of advice on how to get it in tip-top shape

Robert Blane on the value of the B test, a late foray into point-to-pointing and how endurance teaches key life skills

Why does training slip? Why do the behaviours we thought were good become intermittent and then they fade into a distant memory? This can happen for a number of reasons – the technique we thought we h

Every May, myriad owners saddle up their heavy horses and head to Heavy Horse Camp, where they learn training techniques from coach extraordinaire Emma Green, the self-styled ‘Shire Queen’. She reveals some of her favourite exercises here

Gridwork can be the key to honing a horse’s jumping skills, provided the pitfalls are ironed out, says showjumper Olli Fletcher