When did your passion for horses begin?
I come from a non-equestrian background, and apart from having three donkeys on a smallholding, my parents knew nothing about horses. Members of the local riding school would file past my house every Saturday morning and I would wish that was me. Mum and dad always had an excuse which meant that I couldn't go riding. I was “too small”, or “too young”. However, at a friend's fifth birthday party I had a go on a pony, and I didn't fall off, and so my parents had
