Category: Women and horses

  • The Cadogan Riding School: Horace Smith and the Queen

    The Cadogan Riding School: Horace Smith and the Queen

    Horace Smith, who ran the Cadogan Riding School, taught Princess Elizabeth and Princess Margaret to ride. If you want to skip straight on to that bit, click here: Horace Smith and the Queen *** You would struggle to see a horse in central London today, but in the early decades of the 20th century, things…

  • Holidays on horseback

    Holidays on horseback

    Welcome to another guest blog by Janet Rising. This originally appeared on my old website and blog, but I wanted to give it a new lease of life over here. *** When I was twelve, my friend Elizabeth and I went on a riding holiday. The brochure from the centre singled out for my experience…

  • The National School of Equitation

    Every now and then I like to write about riding schools: principally I think because it’s where the bulk of my equine experience lies, and I’m fascinated by what the riding school means to other people, and what the riding schools themselves were like. With this particular riding school, I found a story I wasn’t…

  • Jackie Hance: a remarkable child rider

    Jackie Hance: a remarkable child rider

    If you’d been a member of the horse world, or even a casual reader of a provincial newspaper in the inter-war years, you would have been hard put to avoid the name of Jackie Hance. But fame fades, and when I was looking through School for Horse and Rider recently, which was written by Jackie’s…