Gourmet riding holidays: Riding, cooking (and eating!) in Northern Italy

Join us on our brand new ‘riding and cookery’ week, where you will be collecting herbs and mushrooms and other produce on horseback, then using them later to try out some local recipes.
Daily rides out and lessons based at authentic family guest house. Riding with Fruits of the Forest Cookery course: an insight into Italian [...]

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Sponsored ride in Egypt

The Riding Company have teamed up with horse charity The Brooke, to organise a sponsored ride in Egypt this November to help badly treated horses. In fact, it was in Egypt that The Brooke’s founder, Dorothy Brooke, started the charity in 1930. She was horrified to see hundreds of emaciated horses on its streets, so [...]

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Anyone fancy designing equestrian coin for the Olympics?

The public have been asked to help design a new 50 pence coin to represent equestrianism at the 2012 Olympic Games.
It’ll be one of 29 that Britain’s coin maker plans to print to celebrate the many sports involved in the London Olympics and Paralympics.
Winners will receive £1,000 and a special gold coin with their very [...]

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Photo competition at The Riding Company

Ever fancied yourself as a bit of a photographer?
Well here’s your chance with The Riding Company’s latest photo competition.
Send us in your 3 best photos from any riding holiday or trip, for your chance to win a whole host of lovely prizes!
All you need to do is write a few sentences on ‘the best 3 [...]

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Visit the pyramids by horseback

Our latest holiday at The Riding Company allows you to experience the breathtaking Pyramids of Giza on horseback.
Head off on a desert adventure across the Sahara, sleeping in colourful Bedouin tents along the way.
Visit ancient monuments far from the crowds, resting and overnighting in the shade of an idyllic Oasis. Visit Bedoin villages and pass [...]

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Pony saved from frozen pond

A pony was rescued by firemen in Devon last week, after it fell into a frozen pond.
Firefighters used a winch and strop to get the pony out of the pond. Luckily the pony was not harmed.

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British jockey becomes first woman to ride 100 winners in a year

British Jockey Hayley Turner rode into the record books, becoming the first British woman to ride 100 winners in a year.
Hayley, who is 25-years-old, won as she came aboard 7-1 shot Mullitovermaurice in a claiming race at Wolverhampton on 30 December, 2008.

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