Do you regularly buy any equestrian magazines?

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Just curious.

In the very dim and distant past I used to buy Your Horse (before it became obsessed with parelli and all that) and H&H, then it dwindled to just H&H and now I never buy any.
 
I've also pretty much given up on horsey magsazines. They just seem to be all gloss and no content, with pages and pages of ads, which are often more enjoyable to read than the articles. ;) :p

I will pick up a free copy of Welsh Rider if it's in the local Wynnstay when I'm buying feed.
 
Ive got a subscription with your horse and most mths i buy horse and rider.
But they do seem to keep having same stuff in all the time like atm its...how to survive winter,what to feed your horse this winter & how to keep motivated this winter wtc.same as last year & the year before that lol.
Also like how to jump the perfect/fastest clear round/jump off.
and there not exactly cheap mags either.
 
I used to buy them all of the time, until I realised I had no interest in most of the content :p

They are also really expensive if you buy quite a few regularly. I need the money for more important things :p
 
I have bought most of them over the years but after 12 months all the articles have gone full cycle:rolleyes:

Can't remember the last time I bought one - usually get a freebie at Burghley or somewhere - do occaisonally buy H&H the week before a big event like Burghley to see the deatials of the course - as others have said the rest of the content is of little or no interest.:o
 
My grandmother used to send me out Horse and Rider when I lived in Sri Lanka. Fine when I was 8-11 but I do feel patronised when I read it now!

I also used to get ye olde Horse and Pony magazine in the good old days before it went pink and sparkly.

I only buy H&H when it is the hunting special, or coming up/reports from Badders, Burghley etc.

They all seem very similar month after month and theres only so many "Reviews of the best fly sprays" I can read before wanting to down gallons of the stuff and die in a corner. :)

Actually, that said when I'm abroad I do pick up a horsey mag or two, I have a collection of German and Austrian ones mainly! I like seeing how different countries manage their horses, and it sort of helps my German!
 
Tinkerbee said:
They all seem very similar month after month and theres only so many "Reviews of the best fly sprays" I can read before wanting to down gallons of the stuff and die in a corner. :)

Actually, that said when I'm abroad I do pick up a horsey mag or two, I have a collection of German and Austrian ones mainly! I like seeing how different countries manage their horses, and it sort of helps my German!
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The first statement made me laugh, and the second I completely agree with - I have been known to stagger (with difficulty) through Italian horse magazines from a cultural contrast perspective. Much more interesting than being patronised by the British magazines.
 
You don't need to keep buying them, just fish out the appropriate month from last year. Every October you get the same clipping article, how many times I must have read that now!
I don't buy them anymore unless there's something I specifically wanna read or there's a good freebie!
Do like H&H though, with the latest news etc it's more relevant. Thinking of asking for a subscription for Xmas.
 
JFTD said:
The first statement made me laugh, and the second I completely agree with - I have been known to stagger (with difficulty) through Italian horse magazines from a cultural contrast perspective. Much more interesting than being patronised by the British magazines.
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Maybe the british ones have upped their game but in my latest austrian (I think) one there was a really in depth/scientific article on common hoof problems, even in English it would have been way over my head!

Also, I really hate the ordinary riders lessons with the pros articles, they bore me to tears. Maybe if I had a horse with the exact same "issue" it would be relevant but I really cannot stand them!
 
I subscribe to Western Horse UK - specialist but a great mag. All the others just don't interest me and are full of product placements pretending to be reviews. And as other posters have said, same content all the time.

Just to add, I also subscribe to AQH Journal and that has serious articles - why are UK magazine articles so dumbed down?
 
Interestingly, I was about to cancel my H & R subscription for all the reasons mentioned above, and then it did u its game. There's been quite a lot of interesting articles recently that do seem to go into greater depth. Agree though - sick to the back teeth of rug reviews, fly sprays, how to cope with winter, best jods type stuff.
 
I have a subscription to Your Horse and have occasionally bought Horse and Rider and Horse etc. I have found that the articles seem to be repeated, though and as I keep all the old issues, I don't think there's much point in carrying on now! If I was efficient, I would sort them all (huge piles!) into date order and file them so I could find relevant things - but I'm not ;)

Also, I agree with the comments about them being a bit patronising, but as a 'beginner' I found the easy-to-read style helpful. Now I'm an expert (hahaha :p) I would like things a little more detailed/technical.

I think I have just talked myself into saving myself £30 odd a year!

eta: I found it interesting to look at the horse for sale ads when I was looking
 
Totally agree- get H&H and Eventing, as like to follow news and event reports etc, and the opinion cols, but the monthly mags I gave up on ages ago. The frequent product reviews just seem a way to keep advertisers happy rather than readership - maybe I am being a cynic, but have you ever seen a product with a bad review? And agree, articles seem to be recycled at least annually.
 
Thinking further, the BHS magazine is quite good. There is always at least one article that is well worth reading (usually more), and as I get it free as a side-effect of my BHS membership it feels like a freebie.
 
Many years ago now I used to buy the whole lot. I would devour any horse magazine I could lay my hands on. But that was when I only had the one horse! (Had a bit more time to read them, and a bit more money to spend on them!) Like others above, I gradually found that they got a bit repetitive, but the main reason for no longer buying them was to save money - we now don't buy any magazines or newspapers at all (it's all out there on t'Interweb anyway). The only mags I now get are membership ones - from BHS and Endurance GB, or the occasional freebie picked up at the local tack shop.
 
I get British Horse with my BHS membership and read most of each issue.

I don't buy any of the magazines regularly, but I occasionally buy H&R or Your Horse, if i take a fancy to one of the articles. But they do tend to be quite samey and don't really have anything very original to say. I have got lots of back issues (between DH and I there are lots) and i occasionally pull one out and have a read.

I don't tend to buy H&H but I read it if there is a copy at the yard or wherever. I worked in a pub that used to get it so I was a regular reader then and there was a big stack of H&H in the room we stayed in on our wedding night too!

I picked up Horse magazine at Burghley this year and quite enjoyed that having only bought it once before. So I might get it again sometime.

Generally i think you pay a lot of meny for not much content, even compared to womens magazines.......
 
My feed merchant ( Cornwall Farmers ) sometimes dishes out a mag called equi-ads , which although has loads of advertising , it also has some quite good features , and it's free , don't think it's particularly local ads but is quite interesting
 
I subscribe to H&H - I enjoy reading the reports and news. Have subscribed for years now, and have a very good deal.

Last year I was persuaded to subscribe to Eventing, but found the reports were re-hashed ones that I had already read in H&H. I would have continued the subscription but at the end of the period they put their prices up quite considerably and I didn't think I was getting value for money as there wasn't a lot of substance in it.

Horse/Your Horse/Horse and Rider - I used to get all of these before I had my own horse and devour every article; I feel they're very much aimed at the novice horse-owner and think most of their articles are irrelevant to me. Also, as others have said, they do tend to repeat their articles on a regular basis.
 
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