BAD WEEK

BILLS

Researchers have found that wild equids in North America will dig wells up to six feet deep, benefiting not only themselves, but also countless other animals, plants and trees. Could they not do that in the field, we wonder? Might benefit whoever pays the water bill, perhaps...

HAND SIGNALS

A rider who politely asked a van driver to slow down as he approached her horse thanked him with a raised hand and a smile – only to receive a scowl and a rather different hand gesture in return. Not sure that one’s in the Highway Code, mate…

BRAKES

Overheard at a showjumping event, a rather breathless rider evaluating her round. “Some days I have brakes and some days I don’t,” she puffed, leaving her listeners in absolutely no doubt as to which sort of day this one had been…