The Horse & Hound Podcast

Our 122nd weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast features an interview with Joe Stockdale, a member of the bronze medal-winning team at the showjumping World Championships in Herning in August. He talks all about that incredibly exciting competition. We then hear from our news team who discuss how the economic situation is affecting the horse world, road safety and maternity leave for riders....

Our 121st weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast is the final episode in our summer of sport series and includes reviews of the Eventing World Championships at Pratoni del Vivaro in Italy, Blenheim Horse Trials and the National Dressage Championships at Somerford Park, including clips of rider interviews from all three events. We hope you will enjoy listening. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/p...

Our 120th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast is based around the forthcoming Eventing World Championships. To start with, H&H’s Pippa Roome chats to five-star event rider Jeanette Brakewell, who had her first World Championship experience with the great Over To You in 1998 at the venue, which is also being used for this year’s championships; Pratoni del Vivaro in Italy. Pippa is then join...

Our 119th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast is dedicated to reviewing all the action at Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. H&H’s Pippa Roome is joined by her fellow H&H Burghley reporters Lucy Elder and Martha Terry to chat about the top 10 on the leaderboard, hear from some of the riders and share some of our favourite interviews from across the week. We hope you will enjoy listening. Ho...

Welcome to the fifth and final episode of our daily podcast updates from Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, brought to you in association with Baileys Performance Balancer. H&H’s regular podcast host Pippa Roome is joined by her fellow H&H Burghley reporters Gemma Redrup, Lucy Elder and Martha Terry to talk about the exciting final showjumping phase and review the team’s predictions from earlier in...

Welcome to the fourth episode of our daily podcast updates from Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, brought to you in association with Baileys Performance Balancer. H&H’s regular podcast host Pippa Roome is joined by her fellow H&H Burghley reporters Gemma Redrup, Lucy Elder and Martha Terry to talk about an action-packed day of cross-country, and what’s in store tomorrow, including predictions for...

Welcome to the third episode of our daily podcast updates from Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, brought to you in association with Baileys Performance Balancer. H&H’s regular podcast host Pippa Roome is joined by her fellow H&H Burghley reporters Gemma Redrup, Lucy Elder and Martha Terry to talk about the second day of dressage action, Friday’s Burghley Young Event Horse classes, and what’s in st...

Our 118th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast starts off by looking back at Blair Castle Horse Trials. H&H’s Pippa Roome is joined by H&H colleague Becky Murray, who was up at the event in Scotland, to review all of the action. Pippa is then joined by H&H’s showing editor Alex Robinson to hear all about what happened at last week’s BSPS Championships and to find out more about who the big...

Welcome to the second episode of our daily podcast updates from Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, brought to you in association with Baileys Performance Balancer. H&H’s regular podcast host Pippa Roome is joined by H&H’s other Burghley reporters Gemma Redrup, Lucy Elder and Martha Terry to talk about the first day of dressage action, as well as their predictions ahead of Friday’s dressage action....

Welcome to the first episode of our daily podcast updates from Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials, brought to you in association with Baileys Performance Balancer. H&H’s regular podcast host Pippa Roome is joined by H&H’s fellow Burghley reporters Gemma Redrup and Lucy Elder to talk about the first horse inspection, early insights on the cross-country track and predictions for the competition. We ho...

Our 117th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast features an interview with five-time Burghley winner, Andrew Nicholson. H&H’s Pippa Roome asks him a bout his experiences at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials over the years – from an inauspicious debut, to scaling the heights to win three in a row with Avebury. Pippa is then joined by some of her H&H colleagues to find out who they are tipp...

Our 116th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast features our review of Ecco FEI World Championships, including all the showjumping and para dressage action, as well as the dressage freestyle (check out last week’s episode for the rest of the dressage medals). H&H’s showjumping editor Jennifer Donald catches up with our Herning showjumping reporter H&H’s news editor Eleanor Jones, while H&H’s...

Our 115th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast features our full review of the team competition at the World Dressage Championships, where the British team won a brilliant silver medal and Lottie Fry won an incredible individual gold in the grand prix special aboard Glamourdale. As this podcast was recorded prior to the freestyle, we will review that in full on next week‘s episode. H&H’s Po...

Our 114th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast features our full review of the Longines Royal International Horse Show. H&H’s showing editor Alex Robinson kicks things off by picking out her highlights of the week. Then our showjumping reporters from the event, Jennifer Donald and Eleanor Jones will chat about all the jumping action, including young British star Harry Charles’ second place...

Our 113th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by ClipMyHorse. TV, includes H&H’s Polly Bryan catching-up with British team rider Lottie Fry as H&H’s in-house experts look ahead to the Herning World Championships and preview British chances. Then our podcast host, H&H’s Pippa Roome, chats to H&H’s hunting editor Catherine Austen to review the Festival of Hunting at Peterborough....

Our 112th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by Bucas, is the first in our new 10-week series focusing on the best equestrian sport this summer. H&H’s Jennifer Donald kicks off by catching up with Hickstead Derby winner Shane Breen about how it feels to have finally won the prestigious class on home ground. Our regular podcast host, H&H’s Pippa Roome, then looks ahead to Hickst...

In our 111th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by NAF Five Star Superflex, H&H’s Polly Bryan talks to top British international dressage rider Gareth Hughes. He reflects on what makes a successful championship team and his own career. We’ll be reviewing all of the dressage action from the CDI, CPEDI and premier league at Hartpury and H&H’s Pippa Roome then catches up with H&H’...

In our 110th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by British Horse Feeds, H&H’s Pippa Roome talks to new under-25 national eventing champion Greta Mason after she won the title at Bramham last month. She talks about her experience at the event with her partner of 10 years, Cooley For Sure, plus she gives us some insight into her background and current set-up. H&H’s Jennifer Donal...

In our 109th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, H&H’s Alex Robinson talks to expert show cob finder Val Sheehan about how he got started in showing, what makes a great cob, his special horses and where he finds the superstars. H&H’s Jennifer Donald and Eleanor Jones look back at Hickstead Derby highlights, then our regular host Pippa Roome catches up with the H&H news team on the general...

In our 108th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by Amerigo and their UK distributor Zebra, H&H’s Polly Bryan talks to successful British dressage rider Michael Eilberg about his return to international competition and his exciting string of horses. H&H’s Gemma Redrup and Lucy Elder catch up on the highs and lows from Luhmühlen, then this week’s host Alex Robinson catches up wit...

In our 107th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, H&H’s Jennifer Donald talks to top showjumper Trevor Breen. He talks about his memories of the iconic Hickstead Derby and particularly his success there with Adventure De Kannan. H&H’s Pippa Roome is then joined by her colleague Gemma Redrup to chat about all things Bramham and Pippa then catches up with the H&H team to discuss an awards sc...

In our 106th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, currently supported by Equipe and their UK distributor Zebra, H&H’s Pippa Roome talks to top British event rider Ros Canter. She talks about Lordships Graffalo, the 10-year-old horse on which she recently finished second at Badminton, and more. Pippa then catches up with the H&H team to discuss a new cash injection for eventing, gene editin...

In our 105th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, H&H’s Alex Robinson talks to rising star of the showing world, Alice Homer. She talks about her successful week at the Royal Windsor Horse Show and more. H&H’s Pippa Roome and the H&H team then discuss concussion rehabilitation, long distance transport of horses to slaughter and a new petition to ban sky lanterns. Finally, we’ll hear from t...

In our 104th weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by NAF, H&H’s Polly Bryan talks to super-groom Alan Davies, who works for dressage royalty Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin. On this week’s episode he reminisces about Valero’s retirement ceremony and more. H&H’s Pippa Roome and the H&H team then discuss making decisions on vet treatment of horses, a boost of government money to...

In our 103rd weekly episode of The Horse & Hound Podcast, supported by NAF Five Star Superflex, H&H’s Pippa Roome talks to newly crowned Badminton winner Laura Collett. She talks us through her incredible week. The H&H team then take a look back at Royal Windsor Horse Show and the H&H news team discuss recommendations for the 2024 Olympics, plus research into spinal injuries. Finally, we’ll hear f...