Stable and Hoof makes personalised gifts for horse owners, to order.

Stable & Hoof makes personalised horse gifts: a portrait generated from your photo in a painted style, your photo printed exactly as it is, and the horse's name set as a print. Each one is made to order on paper, canvas, wood, metal, a mug or a bottle, and nothing sits in a warehouse.

Who runs it

Stable & Hoof is written and run by Craig Fearn. He writes the breed guides, the colour and care pages and the gift guides, with links to sources for the information on the pages: breed heights against the breed societies, rugging advice against the British Horse Society, coat genetics against the UC Davis Veterinary Genetics Laboratory, and the rules on passports and burial against GOV.UK and Defra. You can follow those links to check the original guidance. There's more on Craig's author page, and you can contact Craig at hello@stableandhoof.com.

How a portrait is made

You upload one clear photo of your horse and choose a style: oil, watercolour, charcoal, pop art or impressionist. Your photo is regenerated in that style, so check the markings, ears and shape against the original before you approve it. You see a free, watermarked preview of your own horse, and nothing is printed until you choose it. The artwork you approve is the one that's printed, without the watermark, by our print partner Gelato, and sent to a UK address with standard delivery included, usually within 4 to 9 working days.

How a photo print and a name print are checked

If you'd like the photo kept exactly as it is, the photo print grades your photo against every size before you choose, so you can see which sizes it will hold up at and how each shape crops it. The name print needs no photo at all: you type the horse's name, with the breed, yard or year if you like, and watch the layout change as you type, so what you see is what's printed.

Choosing the piece before ordering

Start with what you can get hold of. A clear photograph gives you a choice between keeping the photo unchanged and trying a portrait style. Without a photograph, the name print puts the horse's name first, with a breed, yard or year beneath it if you want them. You can leave those extra lines out. Check the spelling with someone who knows the horse, especially a registered name that differs from the name used on the yard.

The format matters too. A paper print needs a frame of its own; a framed print or canvas is a different finished object. Use the size and frame choices on the product page, where the price changes with your selection. The example pictures help show the shape, but measure the space where the gift will hang before choosing a large piece.

What we won't do

We won't print a portrait you haven't approved, and we won't use your photo for anything except your order: uploads that aren't bought are deleted after 30 days. We won't invent a fact for a guide, print a figure we couldn't source, or write a review on anyone's behalf. And if an order arrives damaged or wrong, we reprint or refund it at our cost.

Portrait of my horse · Their name as a print · Delivery and returns