Nicola Jane Swinney is the hunting editor of Horse & Hound.

A former newspaper journalist, she is the author of several equestrian titles, including the best-selling Spirit of the Horse, and is a regular contributor to other publications, both here and in the USA.

Bob Langrish, MBE, is one of the world’s leading equestrian photographers. After forty-six years of specialization in this field, he has built a library of more than 750,000 pictures.

Bob works for top equestrian magazines in some twenty countries around the world, and has provided illustrations for more than 150 books.