Your Horse

Your Horse inspires its readers to enjoy every second in the saddle. Written by a team of passionate equestrian experts, Your Horse magazine helps you improve your riding, care for your horses and stay up to date on the latest gear. We also encourage you to try new and exciting adventures! Our three main areas of content are: Riding advice: From the best riders and trainers in the world Horse care advice: Expert tips and advice on all aspects of horse care Buying Advice: Helping you spend your money with confidence Your Horse magazine: share our passion for horses.

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HORSE talk • Here's what you need to know about this month

PACKING A HACKING PUNCH • The most distinctive of Britain's native heavy horses, and rarer than the Great Panda, Suffolk Punches are earning a new reputation as riding horses. Charlotte Cooper speaks to a Suffolk fan who loves to hack these ultimate workhorses

Winning shots • Every month Your Horse's #Hack1000Miles challengers are in line to win some fantastic prizes. The riders whose pictures are featured here win either a girth or stirrup straps from #Hack sponsor Wintec

HACK 1000 MILES • Our #Hack1000Miles challengers have been busy this month…

GILLIAN TUSTING • Tusting's head of brand

SEND a selfie • Send in your pics!

Your horse's TRAINING • Expert advice for riders of all levels

Circles VERSUS CORNERS NEW SERIES • Circles and corners feature large in every dressage test, but that is where the similarities end. In the first part of a new series with dressage star Gareth Hughes, the European team gold medallist explains to Aimi Clark how to pull off the perfect round shape and nail a brilliant 90-degree turn every time

EASY-PEASY polework NEW SERIES • Even the simplest polework exercises can boost control and supercharge self-belief, as Bethany Stone discovers at the Wimpy Weekender Confidence Riding Camp while watching coach Kathryn Pickering

GET SET FOR full throttle PART THREE • Moving through the gears feels very different for anyone learning to ride side-saddle. Here, trainer Phoebe Ling tells Helen Milbank how newbies should up the pace in style

Fix it… Get set for GRIDS • Gridwork can be the key to honing a horse's jumping skills, provided the pitfalls are ironed out, says showjumper Olli Fletcher

LET'S GET heavy! • 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

Your horse's CARE • Helping you to keep a happy, healthy horse

Routine MATTERS • 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 day? Catherine Welton finds out from a variety of experts

‘Within a week or so Rumba's box-walking had stopped’

Neck and neck • Problems with a horse's neck are all too easy to miss, but they can lead to poor performance or behavioural issues, according to vet Isabelle Goodey

SMALL ACTIVATIONS FOR big results PART TWO • Whether a horse is young, retired, in rehab, or in work, he will benefit from the activation of his thoracic sling, pelvic stabilisers and multifidus and abdominal muscles. In the second part of her series, veterinary physiotherapist Cherelle Hopgood demonstrates how small movements achieve big results

Custom CARE • It's horses for courses when it comes to feeding seniors — every one is different and so every regime needs to be honed to cater for individual needs, as Nicola Jarvis, head vet at Redwings Horse Sanctuary, and two owners explain

Redwings' Nicola...