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  "publishedAt": "2026-02-09T10:32:15.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.horseandhound.co.uk",
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  "textContent": "2RA6KHW A group of horse riders out on a summer evening for hack by a ripening cornfield against a dark sky\n\n**Pammy Hutton shares her thoughts on the true value of horses and riding in the modern world**\n\n“There’s nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse.” Often attributed to Winston Churchill or former US president Ronald Reagan, this truism is in fact from Sir John Lubbock’s book The Use of Life, published in 1894. Lubbock was a liberal politician and banker, a contemporary of Charles […]",
  "title": "We shouldn’t take riding horses for granted and we should tell others why we love it, says Pammy Hutton"
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