SHOW competitors can be fickle but every now and again an event is run so well that all you hear is laughter, cheers and a unanimous...

THE first of the big eastern state royals, the “Ekka”, as Brisbane is affectionately known, heralds the start of the new show year. It...

THE Carriage Driving Ashes – a collaboration between the UK and Australia, with identical competitions held over identical courses in NSW...

HORSES travel by air as easily as humans these days, and are possibly better cared for. Back in the dark ages, they may have merely...

ENDURANCE riding is strictly policed and unlike young racehorses whose career so often begins at age two, horses must be older than four...

THE Australian Young Rider team won the Trans-Tasman Young Rider Challenge borrowed horse competition held at the Waratah Showjumping...

AT the end of two days listening to senate hearings investigating the impact of regional bank closures in Western Australia all I wanted...

THE dressage championships at Boneo Park last weekend proved a successful and emotional show for para equestrian Dianne Barnes who won...

IT’S said you never forget your first kiss, or your first love. For horse people it’s their first pony. Even if the person is world...

WITH the show season fast approaching, the Equestrian NSW Junior Horse Show and clinic provided a chance for the show kids to polish up...

NARACOORTE Hunt and Pony Club took on the big job of hosting Pony Club South Australia’s south-east zone championships. Riders from...

BEHIND every rider, from the smallest pony club member to the elite competitor at the Olympics, is a person following with a box full of...

JACK Ruckwood, one of the pioneers of Appaloosa breeding in Australia, has died at age 87. He was a driving force and founding member in...

THEY might not cost as much on the open market as the Olympic dressage horses or Melbourne Cup champions but hairy little pony club...

ONE of the longest – and some say toughest – endurance rides in the country was revived this year as a one-off event to mark 100 years of...

WHILE other sports have their seasons, with some resting in summer, and others hibernating in winter, dressage seems to sail serenely...

THE Royal Darwin Show rolls around when the lower states are cold and grey and horses are only starting preparations for the spring run...

Book review MR SMITH TO YOU by Kerry Taylor is described as a novel based on the true story of Australian jockey Bill Smith – a life...

SIMONE Pearce and No Limit took the silver medal in the five-year-old final at the FEI Dressage World Breeding Championship for Young...

DEEP in winter is when the hunt clubs gather socially to show off their horses as saddle mounts, working hunters and in hunters’ plates....