Product & Book Reviews

“The Man Behind the Mike: Mike Tucker; The Voice of  Equestrianism”  Jane  Wallace 2018 Quiller  £20-00 pp304 Hardback  ISBN   9781892684 Mike Tucker’s voice over the loudspeaker always made me concentrate, if I was socializing at the horse of the Year Show (HOYS) or perhaps competing at a County Show then that voice would envitably...

Noel Mullins’ new book, ‘The Dublin Horse Show’, with its  800 action packed images takes the reader on a pictorial journey through the famous show. It has taken more than 10 years for Mullins to take thousands of photos of the annual shop window of the Irish Horse, and to narrow them down to the...

  Quiller Publishing Ltd (29 Aug. 2017) Hardcover: 192 pages ISBN-10: 1846892449 From the very moment you pick up Adrian’s book, you know exactly that it has been written by an utmost enthusiast of our cause. The title indeed is a good give away in itself! However it is the way that the book has...

In summary, and for all the right reasons this book made me angry. Not because it wasn’t a good read, it was, but because it took a new Irish writer to provide a narrative for the current disconnect between town and country in England! Why is this something that English authors have apparently shied away...

Ron Black with Jean Walton and Jean Gidman, Edited By Wendy Fraser. Approx 70000 words, soft back at A5. Black and white with some colour illustrations. Price £25 inc p and p. Available from Gone2Ground books or e mail cumbrian-lad@hotmail.co.uk In 1920, Richard Clapham quite rightly wrote on the subject of fell hunting….”If you go...

Most people involved with horses have heard the phrase, “You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink”. Everyone who has taken their horse out for a day’s hunting and tried to get him to drink away from home, knows the problem all to well – horses can be difficult! We...

This is a challenging review to write as I am not a fan of wearing gloves – it may be psychological but I have always felt that you cannot get all the feedback you need from the reins through gloves. That said they are compulsory for some events involving turnout so when I have to...

What if you have muscular calves with wide feet and therefore do not fit in regular sized boots? Worse still, through past experience I have learned new long boots are painful to wear initially and give me constant cold feet. So I researched the market and looked at everything from quality rubber boots to bespoke...

Ron Black is a Cumbrian whose ancestors can be traced back several hundred years and have been immersed in the local hunting culture for as long. Over the last few years he has been extremely prolific in producing a superb series of small books tracing the history of hunting in his native Cumbria. These books...

2nd Edition by Jackie Drakeford ISBN 978-1-84689-109-0  R.R.P. £14.99 There are times in the hunting year that the weather conspires to make the day unsafe for hounds or horses and on such days there is nothing better than spending a day working with dogs and ferrets. In this excellent review Dan Murphy looks at an...