‘I don’t really believe it was me’
“BADMINTON was always an event which inspired me more than any other, and nearly all of my horses seemed to be able to pull out that extra spark when they were there,” remembers Lucinda. “Badminton had an almost mystical effect on me, and that was before I had experienced such great highs as well as lows there.
“It is still the ultimate event, the one everyone dreams of winning but never thinks it will happen to them. Now, when I come back, it feels quite different, as though those six wins happened to someone else. I don’t really believe it was me.”
1973 – BE FAIR
LUCINDA was only 19 when she won Badminton for the first time, on the family-owned Be Fair, a chestnut gelding with a mind of his own, bought for her when she was 15 to compete in Pony Club and junior events. He was the result of an unplanned
