The Equine Warehouse is not kidding. A warehouse - unsurprisingly - stuffed to the rafters with all things equine, it is the ideal place to come to find pretty much all you need in the way of horse-related goods. They're a feed specialist, according to the information they gave me, but they also have all manner of ropes, tack, blankets, restraints, books, toys and riding clothes, the latter certainly for not as much as you might expect. A good thornproof tweed riding jacket was about £40, which, notwithstanding it being off-the-peg, is very good. A little lacking in choice of men's jodhpurs perhaps, but not disappointingly so.
I happen to enjoy sniffing around horse shops purely for the fun of it, but for those who have contact with horses in real life rather than cartoon format I'd heartily recommend the Equine Warehouse -it's a lot less pricey than some of the more boutiquey tack shops around and without that whiff of Armani and regret coming from the owner who never made it as a prize show-jumper. It was also demonstrably lacking in gymkhana-girls, which was a relief to a normal boy like me whose senses are not artificially enhanced with a cocktail of private education, privilege and pushy parenting. Truly it is the everyman's equine emporium. read more