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31. Choosing your horse

    Gifts for Warmblood owners

    Hanoverian, KWPN, Trakehner, Holsteiner: the European sport horse register family.

32. Choosing your horse

    Gifts for Welsh pony owners

    Four Welsh sections, four different ponies: the breed family that runs British Pony Club.

33. More guides and references

    Guides.

    Long-form notes on keeping and knowing horses, sourced from the governing bodies rather than from received wisdom.

34. Gift guides, by the person you are buying for.

    Horse gifts for women, named for her own horse

    Most horse owners in the UK are women, and most horse gifts for women (and most equestrian gifts for women) miss in the same way: they treat "loves horses" as a personality trait to decorate rather than a relat…

35. Dreaming of horses

    Horse height converter

    Hands to centimetres, centimetres to hands, and feet either way. Type it however you say it out loud.

36. Pick the occasion, or pick the budget.

    Horse memorial gifts

    Losing a horse leaves a particular kind of grief. Years of yard mornings, the sound of hooves on the concrete, the bond no one outside the stable quite understands: gone in a day. There's rarely a card that fit…

37. Choosing your horse

    Horse name generator

    Stable names and show names, generated from the habits British yards actually use. Press it as often as you like.

38. More guides and references

    Horse questions, answered.

    Straight answers to the horse and equestrian questions we get asked most: no fluff, nothing invented, just the basics done properly.

39. Pick the occasion, or pick the budget.

    Horse racing gifts

    For the owner, the syndicate member or the racing family: the horse itself, the colours it runs in, or its name set properly. Made to order in the UK.

40. The partnership

    Horse years in human years.

    Every converter gives a different answer, and the harder problem is the number you type into it.

41. The daily round

    How do you muck out a stable?

    Mucking out means clearing droppings and wet, soiled bedding from a stable and keeping clean, dry bedding down.

42. The daily round

    How do you pick out a horse's hoof?

    Picking out a hoof means using a hoof pick to clear stones, mud, and dirt from the sole and frog.

43. The partnership

    How long do horses live?

    Horses typically live around 25 to 30 years, sometimes longer with good care, with ponies often outliving full-sized horses.

44. Dreaming of horses

    How much does a horse cost?

    The purchase price of a horse is usually the smallest part of the true cost of ownership.

45. The partnership

    National Hunt racing, and what the horses actually jump.

    The hurdle height everybody quotes is the height of the panel, not the height of the jump. The regulator's own specification says so.

46. Pick the occasion, or pick the budget.

    Personalised horse gifts

    Three ways to put a particular horse on something: their name, their portrait, or your own photograph. Made to order in the UK.

47. Gifts for horse lovers who don't have a horse of their own

    Personalised vs generic horse gifts: why the name changes everything

    Two mugs. Same ceramic, same size, same wraparound print quality. One has a horse on it. The other has Willow on it: a bay Irish Sport Horse, kept at Hartwell. One gets used until it chips and then replaced wit…

48. Choosing your horse

    Piebald or skewbald: what is the difference?

    Piebald is black and white. Skewbald is white with any other colour: brown, red, bay or chestnut.

49. The partnership

    Point-to-point, and the jumps season.

    The amateur end of British jump racing, and the only racing in this country legally tethered to hunting.

50. The daily round

    The daily round

    The parts nobody photographs: feed, rugs, the muck heap, and four hooves that need doing whatever the weather is.

51. The daily round

    The horse rug guide.

    When a horse needs a rug, what the weights actually mean, and why two reputable sources will give you different answers for the same horse on the same day.

52. The partnership

    The partnership

    What the work turns into: the disciplines you might take up, and the length of the road you are on together.

53. Luxury horse gifts: the framed portrait canvas

    Turn a horse photo into a painting: how it works

    You can turn a photo of your horse into a painting in about three steps: no artist to brief, no weeks of waiting, no four-figure commission. Upload one photo, choose from five painted styles generated from it, …

54. Dreaming of horses

    What are the main horse breeds?

    There are hundreds of horse breeds worldwide, but most fall into three broad groups: hot-bloods, cold-bloods, and warmbloods, alongside a wide range of ponies.

55. The daily round

    What are the types of horse rugs?

    Horse rugs fall into a few main types (turnout, stable, cooler, and fly) each suited to a different job.

56. The daily round

    What do horses eat?

    Horses are built to eat forage first (grass, hay or haylage) with hard feed added only as needed.

57. The partnership

    What do you do with a horse passport when the horse dies?

    The passport must be returned to the organisation that issued it within 30 days of the horse's death.

58. The partnership

    What do you do with a horse when it passes away?

    What you may do with a horse after death depends on which UK nation you are in, and burial is not permitted everywhere.

59. The partnership

    What do you say when someone loses a horse?

    Use the horse's name, say one specific thing you remember about them, and resist the urge to look for a silver lining.

60. Choosing your horse

    What is a bay horse?

    A reddish-brown body with black mane, tail, lower legs and ear rims. The black is the interesting part.