The October issue of Your Horse is on sale today! This month is packed full of expert advice, training tips, horse care essentials and the lowdown into the latest equestrian products.

Find out what’s inside…

Features you’ll enjoy…

  • Meet double amputee Diana Man who is vying for a place at the Paris Paralympics 16 years after meningitis almost claimed her life
  • #Hack1000Miles: The families who hack together, and how it boosts their bonds
  • Work/ Horse Balance: Bridget Sidlovsky, the key accounts manager with a challenging KWPN gelding
  • Take Five with author Lauren St John

In Your Horse’s Training…

  • Restore your confidence the Western way and find out how this style of riding can help you regain your mojo
  • Schooling Solutions: Kim Ratcliffe guides an amateur dressage rider through the steps needed to achieve a flying change
  • Achieve straightness by improving impulsion and connection
  • Showjumper Pippa Allen helps a veteran rider sit more securely on her enthusiastic cob
  • How to instil good manners at all times, from standing at the mounting block to overcoming napping
  • Blitzing Bad Behaviour: How to address your horse’s aversion to clippers

In Your Horse’s Care…

  • Find out how you can slash your monthly outgoings with a little creativity
  • We explore the evolution that has made our four-legged partners so prone to injury
  • How the practise of equine craniosacral therapy can help horses to heal
  • #FitNotFat: How feeding a balancer can keep waistlines in check and boost essential nutrient intake

In Ask The Experts…

  • Confidence with NLP practitioner Emily Catford: Banish showjumping nerves; how to restore self-belief; what exactly is mental toughness?; remain committed to riding goals
  • Insurance with KBIS’ equine team manager Mike King: Insuring for the right level of competition; do I need to be insured to help a friend?; insurance and vettings; weighing up a horse’s value
  • Herbs and plants with founder of Aloeride Han van de Braak: Creating an equine herb garden; are wild berries harmful?
  • Feeding with nutritionist Katie Grimwood: How to wean a foal; what are oatfeed and wheatfeed?; when to start feeding this year’s hay; improving hoof quality

Competitions to enter…

  • Win a Mackey Keadeen Plus turnout rug worth £107.95
  • Win an autumn hoof care kit from Absorbine worth over £50
  • Win a 15kg Horslyx Respiratory Balancer bundles worth £75
  • Win a Starlight Stables Gang pack worth £80

Your Horse’s Winter Rug Guide 2023…

  • Turnout rugs to meet every equine’s needs
  • Banish the chills and wrap up warm with our pick of cosy stable rugs
  • Save pennies and boost warmth by investing in a rug liner or complete rugging system
  • The dilemma of over-rugging and when it can cause welfare issues

Inside the Rug and Clipping Supplement…

  • The rugs with clever darted neck domes that help to keep manes healthy from Masta
  • The rug that can turn a wet horse dry in double quick time by DriRug
  • Heiniger’s clipper that features two speeds and a unique patented pressure display
  • Bucas’s sustainable approach to rugs
  • Le Mieux’s rug collection that suits all equines in every weather situation imaginable
  • Keeping equine wearers comfortable in and out, as well as looking chic with Premier Equine’s range of rugs
  • The clippers and trimmers that will make any horse a head-turner

Where to buy your copy…