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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Choosing your horse
What is a blagdon horse?
Blagdon is the British name for the pattern known elsewhere as sabino: irregular splashes of white, often roaned at the edges.
- Choosing your horse
What is a chestnut horse?
A red horse with no black hair anywhere on it, from pale gold to dark liver, with a mane and tail the same colour as the body or paler.
- Choosing your horse
What is a coloured horse?
"Coloured" is the British word for a horse marked in white and one other colour, and it has a registry definition behind it.
- The daily round
What is a gelding?
A gelding is a castrated male horse: the calmer, more even-tempered choice many owners prefer for everyday riding.
- Choosing your horse
What is a grey horse?
A horse born bay, black or chestnut that whitens over the years because of a single dominant gene. In Britain, a white-looking horse is a grey.
- Choosing your horse
What is a palomino horse?
A gold coat with a white or pale cream mane and tail. It's a colour, not a breed, made by one copy of the cream gene on a chestnut horse.
- Choosing your horse
What is a roan horse?
White hairs mixed through a coloured body, with the head, lower legs, mane and tail left solid. Unlike grey, it doesn't whiten with age.
- Choosing your horse
What is a wall-eyed horse?
A wall-eyed horse is one with an excessively pale eye, or with two eyes of different colours.
- The partnership
What is dressage?
Dressage is a discipline where a horse and rider perform a set sequence of precise movements, judged on accuracy and harmony, not speed.
- The partnership
What is showjumping?
Showjumping is a discipline where horse and rider jump a course of fences as cleanly and quickly as possible.
- Gifts for horse owners
What to get a horse owner who has everything
The short answer to what to get a horse owner who has everything: stop buying for the horse, and buy for the owner. They already own every brush, rug, head collar and hoof pick going: most of it bought twice. W…
- Choosing your horse
Why do some horses have blue eyes?
Blue eyes in horses come from the genes that place pigment, and there is more than one route to them.
- The partnership
Will a single horse get lonely?
Yes, and it is not only a question of kindness: appropriate company is one of the five welfare needs an owner must meet in law.
- Product or collection
Birthday gifts for horse owners
A birthday gift for a horse owner has one rule: it has to recognise the horse, not only the rider. The horse is the centre of their day, from turnout and mucking out to the early yard run before work, and a hig…
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Cross Country
A bold eventing horse and rider soaring over a solid log-and-brush fence, turf flying, dynamic watercolour in green and chestnut.
- Product or collection
Custom horse portrait from your photo
Your horse, made from your photo. See the free watermarked preview before you pay.
- Product or collection
Dawn Meet
A traditional country gathering of riders in soft silhouette on a frosty morning before a wooded estate, atmospheric watercolour in slate and gold.
- Product or collection
Dressage
An elegant dressage horse and rider in collected extension as a clean silhouette, minimal mid-century graphic in charcoal and gold.
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Foal in Spring
A leggy foal standing close to its dam in a buttercup spring paddock, tender bright watercolour in green and buttercup.
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Gifts for horse dads
"Horse dad" means two different people: the father who owns and rides the horse himself, and the one whose partner or daughter rides while he pays the livery, drives the trailer and accepts that the field is wh…
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Gifts for horse owners
The best gift for a horse owner is one about their own horse: a portrait made from a photo, the photo printed as it is, or a print or mug with the horse's name, breed and yard. It works for a pony owner just th…
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Gifts for stable managers and yard owners
Stable managers and yard owners are the people every horse owner relies on, and the people who have already seen every novelty horse-themed gift on the market. The brief is consistent across the occasions you m…
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Horse breeds, types and coat colours
There are hundreds of horse breeds worldwide, in three broad groups plus ponies. These 21 guides cover the breeds British owners ask about, two horse types and one coat colour.
- Product or collection
Horse gifts
Most horse gifts show a horse. These show their horse: a portrait made from your photo, your photo printed as you took it, or the name set in type. Every one is made to order.
- Product or collection
Horse mugs
Your horse’s name, its photograph or a portrait on an 11oz ceramic mug, or one of sixteen horse artworks. Every mug is made to order.
- Product or collection
Horse Prints and Equestrian Wall Art
Horse prints from sixteen original artworks, printed to order on 250gsm archival paper from £15.99 for A4, and on canvas, metal, wood and framed formats. The Grey Hunter is a charcoal-and-graphite study of a da…
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Horses in Mist
Two horses standing quietly in a frost-touched field at dawn, breath clouding, delicate atmospheric watercolour in pearl and gold.