Product & Book Reviews

Dog food is simply amazing! I gave my senior dog, a 17 year old, the food both as a treat, mixer and as a meal. Within 5 days there was a noticeable increase in vitality, comfort in walking as the severity of the arthritis in his hips seemed to lessen and his overall demeanour improved....

Lady of the Chase – The Life and hunting Diaries of Daphne Moore  by Alistair Jackson  Illustrations Copyright Michael O’ReillyHardback  pp209 Published by Merlin Unwin 2018 price £25-00 ISBN 978-1-910723-76-0 I well remember talking to Daphne about her Diaries, a welcome foil to the more formal writings of her reports. Somewhere she could release her...

One Man’s Search for the Tribal Horse Games of Asia and Africa Horse Games  Bob Thompson Hardback 288pp ISBN 978-1-91072375-3 Price £20-0 Growing up playing ‘mounted games’ revolved around the Prince Phillip Cup and various regional competitions run by the Pony Club. With such names as ‘tent pegging’ – involving putting a garden cane through...

“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...