A plan to attract more hackers to the Shropshire Hills leads a local endurance rider to complete more than 600 miles in the saddle as part of the Pathfinder Project. Charlotte Cooper finds out what it’s all about

With goodwill at fever pitch and community spirit at an all-time high, it’s not hunting that gets in the way of Christmas, but perhaps the other way around, as Tessa Waugh writes

H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen shares a somewhat predictable remedy for all of your Christmas woes

Tessa Waugh focuses on the positives – and the useful effects of “liver-shaking” – at the start of the new year, banishing covetous thoughts of a friend’s life in the southern hemisphere

Horse welfare is as critical as ever as we enjoy Christmas jollity. Howard Newitt MRCVS explains how racehorses are cared for during the festive racing period

Tessa Waugh is gearing up for the annual hunt carol service, where a novel band of three hunting tenors are set to surprise, and to prove to her parents their “feckless teenager” can cook a Christmas lunch