Summer racing in North America and across the northern hemisphere carries its own rhythm of stakes days and sales results, but underneath the meets at Saratoga and Del Mar, and across the water at the tracks of the United Kingdom, this summer has offered a more useful read on where the sport actually stands: on welfare technology, on the stability of its regulatory bodies, and on a public whose trust shows no sign of returning easily, on either side of the Atlantic.

Long before they ever sit on a real horse, a generation of riders meets the animal through a screen. Some games get the horse right. Most don't. The industry has barely noticed either way.

Equestrian sport treats the award ceremony as the safe, celebratory close to a competition day. Survey and physiological data say otherwise. Riders rate themselves as most nervous during the test and warm-up, but their horses are reported as most tense during the lap of honour. Kicks were named as the leading cause of ceremony injuries to both riders and horses, though at different rates: 36.5% of rider injury cases versus 58.5% of horse injury cases.

When Saudi Equine Tech appointed a veterinarian as its new Chief Executive Officer, it was a deliberate signal. Dr. Hanin Alhomoud brings clinical expertise, executive experience, and a clear vision for what comes next: moving the platform from digitisation toward intelligence.

Horse & Industry meets the fine art photographer who has refined the art of sculpting horses from shadow.

This article addresses the shifting paradigm in modern equestrianism regarding unwanted horse behaviours, traditionally labelled as “naughtiness”, “evasion”, or “disobedience”. These labels place the source of the problem in the horse, and they have shaped practice accordingly, as the conventional response to a horse deemed naughty or difficult has usually been correction, restraint, or escalating pressure.

Horse & Industry sat down with Orchid Bertelsen — strategist, adult amateur, and the voice behind Back in the Saddle — to talk about the segment paying for everything, why trainer culture is losing its grip, and what equestrian brands are up against.

When a rider publicly disputes a safety decision made by officials who were doing exactly what the sport requires of them, and the governing body responsible for that sport responds with silence, the question stops being about one incident and starts being about what eventing has quietly decided accountability means — and whether it applies to everyone, or only to some.

When Galopin Des Champs crossed the line at Cheltenham in March 2023, he became the latest in a line of French-bred horses to win the Gold Cup, but few anticipated he would do it again twelve months later, or that his victories would come to represent something larger than individual excellence. Bred in France, trained in Ireland, and winning in Britain, he is the clearest emblem of a shift that has been building for the better part of a decade. The French Thoroughbred is no longer a dark horse