After such a wonderful week of celebrating 130 years of caring for working horses, we have some dreadfully sad news to share. One of our visitor's favourites and all round big softie, Zulu, died in the night a few days…
With busy lives, it can be hard to find time to volunteer. Here at The Horse Trust, we are always so grateful when people go above and beyond to raise money for us. Meet Susan Smith, a volunteer who is…
The team here at The Horse Trust recently took part in a horse training day kindly lead by Dr Andrew McLean and our newest arrival, Brave, joined in the session. Andrew holds a PhD in horse training psychology and regularly…
High Wycombe-based SEBO, the vacuum cleaner specialist, supported The Horse Trust’s successful Horse, Hounds & Heroes event by donating a SEBO E1 Pet vacuum cleaner. Amy Twomey (pictured) was the lucky winner who walked away a proud owner of a…
SEIB Burghley Sponsored Ride - Sunday 4th September 2016 A unique one-off chance to ride along the famous four-star Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials Cross Country Course on the final day of the world class international three day event. An…
As a home of rest which specialises in providing respite and retirement to working horses, we understand that every horse that arrives to us has their own following of people that love and care about them. This may be fans,…
The Team at The Horse Trust would like to send a massive thank you to Justin and the Sebo UK Ltd team, who donated a SEBO AIRBELT E for our prize draw for our Horses, Hounds and Heroes event on…
The Horse Trust has been caring for the twilight years of military working horses since the Boer War, after 130 years, losing these amazing boys and girls at the end of their lives of service never gets any easier. It…
Ashford Stables kindly supplied their high quality professional stables to house our rescue residents Star and Teddy whilst at Royal Windsor Horse Show this year. They seemed to enjoy the luxury accommodation and it made our stand look that extra…
We know so many of you were following the progress of beautiful Lochnagar after his severe mystery head injury. We had thought that after Royal Windsor Show Lochnagar might be coming home as he'd been showing signs of improvement. Very…
It has been a deeply challenging couple of weeks for everyone here at The Horse Trust and for our friends and colleagues in the military. Just as Royal Windsor Show was getting underway, celebrating HM The Queen's 90th birthday and…
Here at The Horse Trust’s Home of Rest for Horses we receive many applications for work experience or volunteering – and we try our best to accommodate as many of these requests as we can. For health and safety reasons…
Lochnagar has been in the wars this week; he’s managed somehow to sustain some pretty nasty injuries to his face. We are not sure of the cause of his accident, but he managed to give us a pretty big scare…
In March 2016, a selection of students from Hartpury College organised a charity demo with Badminton winner and Rio 2016 shortlist rider Paul Tapner in aid of The Horse Trust and Cancer Research UK. Hartpury Equine is one of the…
The Horse Trust would like you to meet our newest resident. He is very different to all our other residents… apparently he doesn’t need expensive stables or even food… because he is a mannequin! This handy horse will be invaluable…
Get yourself down to Hartpury College on Tuesday 15th March! The students at Hartpury have organised a charity demo, an evening with Paul Tapner, Badminton winner and Rio 2016 shortlist rider, in aid of The Horse Trust and Cancer Research…
At the end of February 2016 we said goodbye to a Horse Trust legend, Snodgrass, formerly of Greater Manchester Police. At The Horse Trust, we have the honour of specialising in giving a dignified retirement to our country's equine civil…
On Thursday 4th February 2016, we opened our doors to the public for the first time this year. We were overwhelmed with the warm welcome we received from our visitors and the horses couldn’t wait to see you all again,…
Handsome Harlequin of the Met Police suddenly became very ill in January. After trying everything we could, we had to make the decision to say goodbye. Harly was an all-round superstar and had already survived the emergency removal or a…
Well January certainly was blue for us, but in a positive way as we reached 14k likes on our Facebook page. Thank you to all our supporters who have encouraged people to like our page. Social media presents an opportunity…
Our 2015 roundup Click here to play our 2015 roundup video. It includes some great rescue transformations and of course the birth/first wobbly steps of our first ever foal born here at the Trust. We had to say goodbye to…
As a Home of Rest for retired equine civil servants we have more than our fair share of goodbyes. It is our duty and our privilege to care for these wonderful horses in their twilight years and also to know…
Our gentle giant Warwick had been doing well in hospital and looked all set to come home in time for Christmas but tragically his fever spiked and he had a massive bleed from his lung. The vets and nurses did…
Sevvy our hilarious, grubby, utter genius of a former Blues and Royals Trumpet Horse, Sevastopol, had to be put to sleep in December 2015. This is one of the hardest of these posts to write, there's just too much to…
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