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The Horse & Hound Podcast 53: Alice Oppenheimer | Teaching horses to stand while being hosed | News round-up

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    • In our 53rd weekly episode of the first series of The Horse & Hound Podcast, dressage rider Alice Oppenheimer talks to H&H dressage editor Polly Bryan about breeding versus buying horses and more. Moving on to the week’s top news stories, H&H editor Pippa Roome is joined by Horse & Hound news editor Eleanor Jones and senior news writer Lucy Elder to discuss why Covid restrictions are causing problems for competitors wanting to travel internationally, making strides for diversity in equestrianism and why older lorry drivers need to check the small print on their licences. We also welcome back Jason Webb, who specialises in starting young horses and retraining those with problems, who will be giving advice on training horses to stand still while being hosed. We hope you will find it useful.

    Episode 53 of The Horse & Hound Podcast, our popular audio service available exclusively every Thursday morning for our H&H Plus subscribers is now live.

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    In episode 53, dressage rider Alice Oppenheimer (pictured) talks to H&H dressage editor Polly Bryan about breeding versus buying horses and more

    “You have to be able to adapt and learn to ride the horses that you’ve bred — it is a slightly different way of riding being able to adjust to what they are as opposed to picking to horses to suit you” – Alice Oppenheimer on breeding horses versus buying

    Moving on to the week’s top news stories, Horse & Hound editor Pippa Roome is joined by news editor Eleanor Jones and senior news writer Lucy Elder to discuss why Covid restrictions are causing problems for competitors wanting to travel internationally, making strides for diversity in equestrianism, and why older lorry drivers need to check the small print on their licences.

    “Riders can’t have been in a place that is on Germany’s areas of virius of variants concern list, which includes the UK, in the past 10 days” – Lucy Elder on riders facing challenges to travelling to Germany for Luhmühlen for the first European CCI5* of 2021

    In this week’s advice section, we welcome back Jason Webb, who specialises in starting young horses and retraining those with problems, who will be giving advice on training horses to stand still while being hosed.

    “Sometimes it’s the simple things that can create so much frustration and yet so many people tolerate this and there really is a simple answer to solving this problem” – Jason Webb

    We hope you will enjoy our latest episode and would love to hear your feedback, so please do send your thoughts to pippa.roome@futurenet.com

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    Gemma Redrup
    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.
    Gemma Redrup