One foal shows her scope and 7 other great bits of horsey social media this week

Enjoy some of our favourite updates from equestrian social media channels during the past week. From some a police officer giving racing a go to a Shetland living the dream, we saw it all on social media.

Equestrian social media posts of the week

We quite fancy a life like ‘Stumpy’s’

How cute

Nothing to see here, just a copper on an equisizer…

Cheeky

Badminton winner Paulank Brockagh and her foal chill out in the sun

Little and large

Oh how we would live to be riding in the sun like Marcus Ehning here in Madrid

But our favourite social media post this week is…

It looks like this one-and-a-half-day-old filly knows what her career will be

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Gemma Redrup

H&H features, racing and point-to-point editor

Gemma is an experienced journalist, having been part of the H&H team since 2014, who is passionate about all equestrian sports, including racing and point-to-pointing. She has enjoyed riding out for top trainers Nicky Henderson and Charlie Appleby and took part in a charity Flat race at in August 2018. Gemma’s reporting talents have taken her to numerous five-star events around Britain and Europe, as well as European championships.