Sports horses

Despite one of the worst scenting days, the Taunton Vale provides one of the most welcoming opening meets IF any pack of foxhounds can make a silk purse out of a sow’s ear, it’s the Taunton Vale. Despite one of the worst scenting days I have ever experienced, this pack’s joie de vivre kept the ball rolling from beginning to end. Bright sunshine made for a fine opening meet but scant scent. We were generously entertained at Jordans — just of the A303 roundabout at Ilminster in Somerset — by Christopher and Caroline Speke...

What happened to the horses repatriated during World War I? Historian Dot Broady-Hawkes investigates the ef orts to stabilise the equine population THE figure of 484,000 has been put on the number of British Army horses and mules killed in action or lost through disease during the Great War of 1914-1918. Others were lost during the sea journey across the Atlantic from North America — those animals didn’t even reach England for training. Yet more died during the harsh winter of 1914-15. It took the...

A slim volume reveals the reality of Gill Guest’s grandfather’s time with horses as a driver during World War I. Here she reveals some of its poignant moments AS the centenary of the ending of World War I approaches, by a strange quirk of timing, I inherit the war diary of one J. W. Ward (Driver). Generally known as Wilf, J. W. Ward was my grandfather. His diary is a slim, red, “ruby” notebook. Written in pencil, the front of the book contains dates and an account of what happened in the conventional way...

The quietly confident Richard Jones tells Catherine Austen why, with classy horse power behind him, there’s no better time for four-star glory HOW does a man who has won only two open intermediates in 12 years end up in seventh place at Burghley? It’s a fair question. Few people set out to win every class they enter — eventing isn’t racing; you can give a horse an educational outing without being done under the “non-triers” rule — but most, for their own confidence or ego, their owners or their sponsors, like to snatch a few red rosettes...

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