Professor Moira Lafferty on helping riders be their best, holding up a flight at Heathrow and travelling the world

Those who had less rapid eye movement sleep gave up more easily on a monitored learning task than others

Competition nerves take on a whole new character when it’s not you in the saddle, but your child. Eleanor Jones finds out how parents suffer for the sake of their offspring’s sport

BEHAVIOUR — RICHARD MAXWELL answers …

COMPETITION NERVES — TRACEY COLE answers…

Research has found that nosebands are not too tight but that horses’ signs of stress increase with competition level