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‘We are still a nation of horse lovers’

HORSES have been central to Rupert de Mauley’s life for more than six decades, from the VWH branch of the Pony Club and showing the ponies his mother bred through a spell as an amateur jockey—he even found rides in Singapore when working there as an investment banker—to his present ceremonial role as Master of the Horse and his involvement with equine charities. He married a former event rider, Lucinda, and they share as a gentlemanly and much-treasured hack the 20-year-old Oslo ( pictured), formerly a five-star winner with William Fox-Pitt.

Lord de Mauley has remained as

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