EDITOR’S LETTER
WELCOME TO THIS bumper issue of Your Horse, which is accompanied by a FREE Safety Guide that is chock-a-block full of advice and gear to help protect you and your equine best friend. Additionally, our super-popular #Hack1000Miles campaign relaunches for the 2024/25 season, and anyone signing up stands a chance of winning some fantastic prizes, including a Wintec saddle and an Equisafety hat camera (page 10). Even if you only do a few miles over the next 12 months, it still makes perfect sense to join, not least because it is so simple to sign up to our Digital Leaderboard to see how far you have already gone — plus you can chart your progress on the Tracker Card, which is also FREE with this issue. Our private #Hack Facebook group boasts thousands of members who are always there to offer encouragement to newcomers. Additionally, the Your Horse editorial team loves to see your pictures and read your stories of those adventures in the great outdoors. Just be sure to tag your posts with #Hack1000Miles.
Thanks to reader research we know that the average age of a Your Horse reader is 44, but many are also in their 50s, 60s and 70s. This means that at any one time many of our subscribers are grappling with the effects of menopause, or its precursor, perimenopause (the period of transition), or if they aren’t then it is probably just around the corner. With a raft of issues to deal with that may include anxiety, poor sleep, mood swings, loss of focus and weight gain, it is no wonder that equestrians, who need a certain amount of bravery and drive just to be able to climb into that saddle every time, can
