Hacking

Vital access route opened for riders

The Worplesdon and District Bridleways Association is celebrating a new permissive horse ride, which was previously inaccessible in winter

Popular riding route saved

Locals have prevented the loss of a route commonly used by people out riding with the help of BHS access officers

How to get the most out of your hacking

If you don’t have access to an all-weather school, and your fields are too wet to exercise your horses in the winter, find out how to get the most out of your hacking

Campaign to increase riders' access

Riders sign petition for increased off-road hacking routes due to fears over safety

Horse's death prompts new crossing to improve road safety

A new road crossing is to be built for horses following a fatal collision in June 2014

Should riders pick up their horses' manure?

In a recent poll of more than 3,000 UK residents, 97% thought that riders should pick up their horses’ droppings from the road

Motorist drives off after hitting two ponies

Police are appealing for witnesses after a hit-and-run incident involving two ponies in Somerset

No horses allowed in new country park

Horses have been banned from the park in Nottinghamshire which will open in July

Grandmother's hacking death an 'accident'

A judge has ruled that a rider who suffered head injuries in a fall out hacking died as a result of an accident

Teacher dies in riding accident

A rider who suffered massive brain injuries falling off while trying to remount has had her life support machine switched off.

H&H investigates riders using head cameras

In this week’s issue H&H looks at why more riders are wearing head cameras to protect themselves on the road

Improve your hacking: setting up a toll ride

Find out how you and your fellow liveries could club together to set up some form of toll ride arrangement with a neighbouring farmer

Horse killed in New Forest crash

A rider is lucky to escape with her life after being hit by a truck in the New Forest

Riders' safety threatened by cycling boom

Two horrific accidents involving horses being spooked by cycling races has led to calls for the sport’s governing body to improve safety

Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty open to West Country riders

Horse riders in Devon and Cornwall can now enjoy hacking in an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty on the Tamar Trails

Rider in coma after falling from her horse out hacking

Colleagues say it is "touch and go" for Jessica Gill, who is a reporter for a local riding magazine

Riders urged to make sure local routes are recorded

Do you have riding routes in your area that don’t appear on the Ordnance Survey map?

Riders urged to check hooves to help ash disease fight

Defra has asked riders, walkers and dog owners to take “simple bio-security measures” after visiting woodland to help halt the spread of dieback disease in Britain’s 80 million ash trees

Farewell to... rider, owner and instructor Jean Rodgerson

Rider, owner and instructor Jean Rodgerson suffered head injuries after falling from one of her horses

Dangers of self-closing gates to horses and riders highlighted

The British Horse Society has conducted a trial to look at the dangers of self-closing gates to horses and riders