{"id":209063,"date":"2025-10-18T15:11:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209063\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T15:11:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T15:11:07","slug":"horses-and-runners-compete-in-quantock-hills-challenge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/209063\/","title":{"rendered":"Horses and runners compete in Quantock Hills challenge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The sprawling course covered open upland moorland, deep wooded valleys and forestry, with a climb of 1,000 metres.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr Dolphin said the turnout was &#8220;fantastic,&#8221; with double the number of attendees <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ZW3btnOT-es?si=bel6ICt3TQCd7fNR\" class=\"ssrcss-f6h2dj-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">than when the first Somerset event was run in 2023., external<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Once the runners are away, the field separates out quite nicely over the glorious hills,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Mr King, who is a psychotherapist, said the money raised would help his therapy work.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We work in the outdoors, in the woods as well, and these are young people who who find it really difficult to engage in traditional therapy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It has amazing effects, horses are wonderful animals for children to work with and they just find that affinity and bond with them,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The sprawling course covered open upland moorland, deep wooded valleys and forestry, with a climb of 1,000 metres.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":209064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[3004,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-209063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-racing","tag-racing","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}