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    Tamarillo

    Dec 31, 2020 5 minutes

    TAMARILLO

    Bay gelding, 16.2hh, 1992-2015, by Tarnik out of Mellita (Master Spiritus)

    Bred by the Hon Finn and Mary Guinness; owned by Mary Guinness

    Mary says: “Mellita was so amazing – copybook beautiful. I hunted her and Diana Burgess evented her for a period. And Lucinda Green actually won an event on her, too. Her dam, Darya, was an Arab.”

    “HE was an absolute showman, but in no way was he arrogant; a show prince who wanted to look lovely, but needed your approval and reassurance. He felt he was important, but not superior,” says William Fox-Pitt.

    Anyone who took even a passing interest in eventing in the first decade of this century knows which horse he is talking about – the quixotic, charming Tamarillo, whose unmistakable dished face revealed his Arab blood.

    Together they

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