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Fancy a beach ride, but feel nervous riding in open spaces? This expert advice will help build your confidence so you can enjoy it

Charlie Hutton’s 3 simple no-stirrups exercises for building balance in the saddle

Expert tips to help you ride your horse on the roads with confidence

7 expert tips on training your show hunter to thrill and delight the ride judge

Set your horse or pony up for in-hand showing success by mastering these 8 key skills

Can you change your horse’s behaviour and emotional state? Try operant conditioning as a training skill

Build your horse’s confidence with this expert’s guide to classical conditioning

Why is my horse over-reacting? Become a better trainer by understanding how horses learn

*Exclusive* Build your confidence in handling horses on the ground, whether you’re a rider or the vital helping hand

*Exclusive* 3 simple mounted exercises to improve your strength and balance in the saddle from a five-star event rider and top coach

*Exclusive* Is now the time for the barefoot trimming industry to be regulated?

*Exclusive* Are uniformly loose nosebands the answer to horse sport’s image problems, or ‘the beginning of the end’?

*Exclusive* Are horses any more traceable since the shocking ‘Horses – Making a Killing’ TV documentary... and what else needs to be done?

*Exclusive* Are the blood rules in FEI horse sport working – and how can we move forward?

*Exclusive* Showing our love of horses – what we can all do to help secure equestrian sport’s future

*Exclusive* Why we are seeing blue tongues in dressage arenas – and what needs to be done about it

*Exclusive* The history of hyperflexion in dressage training – and how the sport can move away from it

*Exclusive* The double bridle debate – the facts, the opinions... and the politics

*Exclusive* How horse abuse is penalised in sport – and the challenges of bringing a case before the FEI Tribunal

‘A horse needs to feel like a conquering king’: why Matt Sampson’s showjumpers want to perform for him

Meet Matt Sampson’s string: find out how he spots an equine star and which top horse spends three months a year out in the field

‘To win on one you’ve known from a foal adds to the whole value’ – the thrill of competing home-bred elite horses

*Exclusive* Daily learning, diligence and why you need to jump on grass – inside the mindset of a top-flight showjumper

*Exclusive* ‘If I could build a horse, it would be him’: Yasmin Ingham on the ingredients of a perfect eventer

*Exclusive* ‘I only ride her two or three times a week’: the work routine that propelled hot dressage mare to Olympic final

*Exclusive* ‘The more time you “waste”, the better your relationship’: how less is more for Olympic ‘mare of all mares’

*Exclusive* Which of Ros Canter’s five-star aces is she tipping for next season – and her new dream for the future

*Exclusive* ‘Walter was telling me he thought it was a good idea!’: Ros Canter reflects on winning her first Burghley title

*Exclusive* ‘I can’t believe I’ve actually done that’ – four months on, Ros Canter is folding washing when her Olympic gold sinks in