We would very much welcome your participation in this magazine. We cannot guarantee when or if your articles will appear but will do our best to include as many as possible. Photographs would be greatly appreciated, a selection if possible and if sent by post will be returned to you.

All work published this year will be entered for our "Writer of the Year" competition and our panel of professional writers will decide the winner in May 1999. The work will will be assessed on content, style and good clear English.

The prize to the winner will be £100 GBP ($160 USD) or Field Galleries vouchers to the value of £150 GBP ($240 USD). The winner's article will be republished in full with background details and photograph!

Sp please get your thinking and creative "caps" on and we would be delighted to receive text from you on any of the following (500 - 750 words maximum please):

• A special breed of horse about which you care passionately, and why?

• A riding holiday which you have enjoyed.

• An equestrian event which you have attended which will always live in your mind.

• An equestrian event or competition in which you participated with all its attendent triumphs or "disasters" (humour appreciated!)

• A profile of a favourite horse - famous or otherwise.

• Book reviews - fiction or non-fiction. Any equine related book you have read and enjoyed in the last two years we would like to hear about! Please include details of the publisher, price etc. If there is any equine book in your "library" that you may have had for years but cannot imagine ever being without...please let us know aboutit!

• Do you work with horses? If so why not write about your job and what it involves (and hopefully why you wouldn't want to change it for anything else).

• If you have another subject area which you would be interested in writing about then please get in touch with us.

So if you wish to see your work published in this magazine and have the chance to win this prize, please contact us.

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