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The partnership
After racing.

Around seven thousand Thoroughbreds leave British racing each year. The first proper count of what happens next found a population larger, younger and more ordinary than the sport's arguments suggest.
The partnership
At what age should a horse be retired?

There is no set retirement age for a horse, and the rulebooks that regulate age set a minimum to compete rather than a maximum.
Choosing your horse
Choosing your horse

Breed does not decide everything, but it decides enough. What each one was bred to do, how big it gets, and what it costs to keep.
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Craig Fearn

I run Stable and Hoof, a UK studio that prints personalised horse gifts to order. Every product on the site is made when someone places an order; nothing is warehoused. The brand exists because horse owners alr…
Dreaming of horses
Dreaming of horses

The questions that come before a horse does: what one costs to buy and to keep, how hands and heights work, and quite how many breeds there are to choose between.
Choosing your horse
Dun or buckskin: what is the difference?

They look alike and they are not the same thing: dun and buckskin come from two different genes.
Pick the occasion, or pick the budget.
Equestrian Christmas gifts

A guide to buying for the rider in your life, and to the one date that decides whether it arrives. The gifts that land are the ones that name the horse rather than gesturing at horses as a theme. Because everyt…
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Equestrian Gifting Calendar 2026

This page is the 2026 equestrian gifting calendar: every gift-worthy date of the year for the horse lover in your life, with the order-by date beside each one, so a personalised present arrives in time rather t…
Gift guides, by the person you are buying for.
Equestrian gifts, personalised with the horse's own name

The best equestrian gifts are personalised with the horse's own name: because "equestrian" covers every level of horse involvement (horse owners, riders, grooms, yard staff, leisure riders, competition riders, …
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Andalusian horse owners

Spain's baroque horse: thick mane, arched neck, the breed that built the classical riding hall.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Appaloosa owners

No two Appaloosas look the same, the spotted breed of the Pacific Northwest.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Arabian horse owners

A millennium of selective breeding: refinement, fine bone, the foundation of every modern light-horse breed.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for black horse owners

True black is one of the rarest coat colours in the horse, and one of the most striking things you can put on a wall.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Cleveland Bay owners

England's oldest established breed, and one of the rarest in the world.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Cob owners

The family horse for half the country, cobs do the school-master job for a generation.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Connemara pony owners

Ireland's native pony: limestone-bred, often grey, often the family's eventer.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Friesian horse owners

Pure black, abundant feathering, long mane: the dramatic Dutch breed.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Haflinger owners

Chestnut with flaxen mane, Tyrolean origin, the family pony with a 30-year working life.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Hanoverian owners

The branded H, the German register that has produced Olympic medallists for two centuries.
Gift guides, by the person you are buying for.
Gifts for horse lovers who don't have a horse of their own

Not every horse lover has a horse of their own. Riding-school regulars, share riders, retired riders and the friend who talks constantly about someone else's horse all get the same generic gift: the stock-photo…
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Hunter owners

Bone, substance, day in deep going: the British hunter is a type that survives.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Irish Sport Horse owners

Tough, kind, brilliant over a fence: the working amateur's eventing horse.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for KWPN owners

Stamboek, Keur, Ster, Elite: the Dutch sport horse studbook with the predicate ladder.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for New Forest pony owners

Hampshire-born, semi-feral, the British family's native pony.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Paint Horse owners

Tobiano, overo, tovero: every Paint Horse is visually unique by genetic design.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Quarter Horse owners

America's working stock horse: sprint speed, cow sense, the dominant breed of the global horse register.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Shetland pony owners

The smallest British native pony with the biggest personality on the yard.
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Shire horse owners

A tonne of horse with a kind eye and a feathered leg, the Shire is conservation in motion.
Gift guides, by the person you are buying for.
Gifts for the rider: lessons, shows and yard mornings

The best gifts for horse riders are personalised pieces that fit the riding life: a yard-kitchen mug, a tack-room print, or a portrait canvas of the partnership horse. Riders care about the horse, but the gift …
Choosing your horse
Gifts for Thoroughbred owners

Bay, chestnut, off-the-track: the British Thoroughbred has a second career after the racecourse.