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  "path": "/plus/opinion/miserable-winter-for-horse-owners-916199",
  "publishedAt": "2026-02-11T17:27:39.000Z",
  "site": "https://www.horseandhound.co.uk",
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  "textContent": "Mud, winter fieldsThere’s a book in the Little House on the Prairie series called The Long Winter, and I sympathise. To be fair, Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Long Winter was seven months of pretty much non-stop blizzards, near starvation and burning hay for warmth, so maybe I shouldn’t be moaning about seven weeks of rain – but it […]",
  "title": "It’s as if January said ‘hold my beer’ – has this been the most miserable winter yet?"
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