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    YOUR HORSE MAGAZINE meets Sarah Bullimore

    Mar 03, 2022 5 minutes
    PHOTOS: LIBBY LAW PHOTOGRAPHY

    NINE YEARS AGO Sarah Bullimore received a phone call informing her that she had been named as a reserve for the British eventing team heading for the Malmö Europeans. The euphoria that she was considered good enough to be given a senior Union Flag was tempered by the thought that she might never get to see the coastline of this southern Swedish metropolis, or the high-rise backdrop to the cross-country course that is sited between the city and the sea. As it turned out, that lastminute call to action never came.

    This exact scenario played out the next year, and so on for a seemingly endless near-decade of faint hope followed by crushing disappointment (barring one year when she didn’t make the reserve list, as well as in 2015, but that’s another story).

    “I thought last year that if I’m not picked outright this time, it’s

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