Sandra Murphy
NELSON MANDELA WROTE: “After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.” Although he was referring to his own taxing journey through life, he could just as easily have been citing Sandra Murphy’s. The Lincolnshire-based black businesswoman has spent half a century negotiating one metaphorical mountain only to find another looming large on the horizon. When she was the only black competitive rider at competitions, and endured prejudice, for example. When she invented innovative products and fought for (and continues to fight for) their acceptance in the industry. When she battled multiple myeloma. When she caught Covid.
So what makes Sandra Murphy as tenacious as a canny tiger? So tough, in fact, that while undergoing a stem cell transplant in hospital, she took an exam for her masters degree in equine nutrition, sticking a hand-written sign on her door stating: ‘‘Exam in
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