Horses and hands do not sound like words that should go together because everyone knows horses in fact don't have hands. Then why do these words go hand and hand (pun intended)? Well it is how horses ...

Sixteen years ago, when I was newly married, I would set my weekday alarm for an ungodly hour in the morning, cross London yawning, and by about 6.30am be trotting around Hyde Park on an enormous dark ...