A most sensible mare’s outstanding restoration, a ‘secretive industry’, and different issues the pony global is speaking about

1. A most sensible eventer who recovered from a major damage

4-star mare Hollywood Dancer has made a outstanding restoration from a major damage and shall be installed foal this 12 months. “Holly” used to be out on grass livery following a small damage remaining spring when she suffered a freak coincidence within the box. Rider Dani Evans believes “one thing had long gone alongside her ribcage and aspect”, inflicting a laceration and pierced lung. “We needed to come to a decision [on whether to put her down] and it wasn’t simple status in a muddy box on most sensible of a hill,” mentioned Dani. Holly’s proprietor Ann Butler mentioned to Dani to apply the vets’ steering, and even supposing it used to be transparent the then 11-year-old mare’s ridden profession used to be over, the vets felt she may well be stored. “She’s neatly now and having a pleasing lifestyles so it utterly proves it used to be the appropriate choice, nevertheless it used to be a protracted gradual procedure,” mentioned Dani.

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2. Calls to prohibit reside export from the United States to Mexico for slaughter

Hundreds of wholesome American horses are being “butchered in a secretive, inhumane industry”, welfare campaigners say, because it emerges that just about 18,000 had been despatched from the United States to Mexico for slaughter remaining 12 months. US Division of Agriculture figures display that during 2023, “kill patrons” transported 17,997 horses from Arizona, New Mexico and Texas to slaughterhouses south of the border. Welfare organisation Animal Wellness Motion is asking on the United States Congress to prohibit reside export to Mexico or Canada for slaughter for intake. “Now not this kind of horses used to be raised for slaughter,” a spokesman for Animal Wellness Motion mentioned. “They had been, for essentially the most section, raised for excitement, display, paintings, or racing and opportunistically accumulated and redirected to Mexico for slaughter.”

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3. A manor area with stables – and a ballroom

May you image your self dwelling in a manor area? Grade II*-listed Alltyrodyn Corridor in Clettwr valley, south Wales, is in the marketplace for £2.35m. The dual trainer area and stables date again to 1840, and the valuables is about in 30 acres of grounds, with a walled lawn and Georgian tub area. Quite a lot of the valuables’s authentic options stay, together with an authentic window and an oak fireside within the front corridor, concept up to now again to round 1600, and rooms come with a proper eating room, drawing room, cosy and pantry, plus a ballroom.

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Since becoming a member of H&H in 2018, Becky has lined a huge vary of equestrian information together with welfare issues, veterinary research, FEI Tribunal hearings and street protection campaigns. She has additionally interviewed most sensible riders together with Scott Brash, John Whitaker and Ian Stark, to call only a few. Becky’s reporting has taken her to Canada for Spruce Meadows and France for Pau five-star, in addition to the Royal Highland and Blair Citadel World Horse Trials nearer to house. She used to be additionally a key a part of the faraway reporting staff for the Tokyo Olympics and the Europeans.