''Horse & Hound'' is the oldest

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weekly magazine of the United Kingdom. Its first edition was published in 1884. The magazine contains

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industry news, reports from equestrian events, veterinary advice about caring for horses, and horses for sale. Fox hunting has always been an important topic for the magazine, as are the sports of

eventing Eventing (also known as three day eventing or horse trials) is an equestrian event where a single horse and rider combine and compete against other competitors across the three disciplines of dressage, cross-country, and show jumping. This ...

, dressage, show jumping, horse racing, showing, carriage driving and endurance riding. The magazine includes commentaries from top riders and trainers including event rider

William Fox-Pitt William Speed Lane Fox-Pitt (born 2 January 1969) is an English equestrian who competes in eventing. His career highlights include winning three Olympic medals in the team event, with silver in 2004 and 2012, and bronze in 2008. At the W ...

, top eventing trainer

Captain Mark Phillips Captain Mark Anthony Peter Phillips (born 22 September 1948) is an English Olympic gold medal-winning horseman for Great Britain and the first husband of Anne, Princess Royal, with whom he has two children. He remains a leading figure in Britis ...

, top show jumper William Funnell and Olympic dressage rider and trainer

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, among others. Among the major annual equestrian events reported by ''Horse & Hound'' are

Badminton Horse Trials The Badminton Horse Trials is a five-day event, one of only six annual Concours Complet International (CCI) Five Star events as classified by the Fédération Équestre Internationale (FEI). It takes place in April or May each year in the p ...

, Burghley Horse Trials, The

Horse of the Year Show The Horse of the Year Show - also known as HOYS (pronounced /hois/)- was founded to be a culmination of the British equestrian events year. The Show was the idea of Captain Tony Collings and was realised by the then Chairman of BSJA (now British ...

and the

Olympia London International Horse Show Olympia London International Horse Show is one of the UK's biggest equestrian competitions, held at Olympia, London. It is best known for its showjumping, however it also has competitions in horse showing, driving, mounted games, dog agility and m ...

. The magazine is published by

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. The latest copy reaches shops every Thursday, while press day is Monday.

Sister publications

''Horse & Hound'' is one of a number of specialist publications produced by Future Publishing. In the past ''Horse & Hound'' had two sister equestrian publications, '' ''Eventing'''' magazine and ''HORSE'' magazine. ''Eventing'' was incorporated into ''Horse & Hound'' in 2015 and ''HORSE'' was sold to MyTimeMedia in spring 2013.

''Horse & Hound'' online

''Horse & Hound''s online edition ''Horse & Hound'' online
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In popular culture

''Horse & Hound'' was shown and mentioned in the 1999 film ''Notting Hill''.

Hugh Grant Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor. He established himself early in his career as both a charming, and vulnerable romantic lead and has since transitioned into a dramatic character actor. Among his numerous a ...

's character claims to be a journalist from the magazine at a

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, and later at a news conference. In the 1995 film '' Circle of Friends'', Celia Westward is shown reading ''Horse & Hound''. 2020’s “Dream Horse” has Jan Vokes played by Toni Collette look at Equestrian magazines before picking up a copy of “Horse & Hound” and browsing its contents before an advert for Directory of The Turf catches her eye with “Everything you need to know about Thoroughbred Racing & Breeding in 1 book.” She subsequently tears out the advert.

References

External links

''Horse & Hound'' website
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