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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

THE LONG RIDE TO SUSTAINABILITY • The horse world, including those riders who love to hack, is still years behind other sports in the sustainability stakes. Charlotte Cooper finds out how equestrians can change their ways and make a difference

GREAT GREEN TIPS FROM YOUR HORSE READERS

Hacking tales with a happy ending • Every month Your Horse’s #Hack1000Miles challengers are in line to win some fantastic prizes. The riders whose stories are featured here win either a girth or stirrup straps from #Hack sponsor Wintec

Our #Hack1000Miles challengers have been busy this month…

YOUR HORSE MAGAZINE meets CAROLINE BRIDGE • The victor of the 2025 Race Across the World tells Julie Harding about her passion for eventing, her growth in confidence thanks to the BBC series and leaving behind the label of ‘housewife’

‘HACKING HAS ALWAYS FORMED AN IMPORTANT PART OF MY EVERYDAY TRAINING’

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ON THE right line PART TWO • Every horse and rider proceeds down the centre line at least twice in a dressage test and they will change the rein multiple times, and yet these movements are rarely the focus of training at home. Gareth Hughes tells Aimi Clark how to execute them with aplomb

CONTROLLED AND confident PART TWO • Turns and straightness are the name of the game with these polework exercises performed at the Wimpy Weekender camp. Bethany Stone went along to watch and learn

TAMING THAT tension NEW SERIES • Tap into a new, more confident you, as well as a cooler mount, and get every ridden session off to a winning start. Dressage trainer Jess Carr tells Helen Milbank how it’s done

Fix it… HALF the battle • The half halt has several benefits, including refocusing the horse’s attention onto the rider’s aids, as British National Dressage Champion Lewis Carrier explains

UNRAVELLING A HORSE'S true self • Every horse has a unique personality and recognising and understanding this can inform care, improve wellbeing, guide training and strengthen bonds, finds Kim Wilson

The fault in our stars signals • Horses have 12 pairs of cranial nerves that control their senses, movement and vital automatic functions. Vet Lucinda Ticehurst reveals what can go wrong with this communication superhighway

LET'S PROMOTE Strength & flexibility PART THREE • Building muscle is best achieved through small, consistent exercises targeted at the muscle groups that are required for ridden work. These can so often be weaker than wished, says veterinary physiotherapist Cherelle Hopgood

A smile ONLY A MOTHER COULD LOVE • EOTRH is a painful, progressive dental disease that affects horses’ incisors and canine teeth. Often age-related, early diagnosis now enables better monitoring, more timely intervention and improved comfort for equine sufferers, says vet Emma Cassidy

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SICK TO THE stomach? • In the first of a new series of Fit not Fat, vet Jess Weigh and Dr Katie Williams explain how the horse’s...