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I WAS filled with emotions when I drove in the gate at Badminton. It’s such a special venue, an amazing event to be part of, to have ridden at over the years and to have been lucky enough to have won.
To win is what dreams are made of. Vanir Kamira is a very special little mare, a real fighter, and it means a lot to have won it on a horse who is all about the crosscountry. I’ve competed here seven times in total, it’s either gone very well, or very badly! I’ve walked home quite a few times after falling off, I’ve been first, second and fourth… It’s all great memories, and you learn so much even from the times things haven’t gone so well. As a rider, it makes you hungry to get back here.
My first Badminton was long-format. I was 21 and it was really wet – I was one of the last to go just before they took out a few jumps. I had a great Irish horse called Flintlock, we’d grown up together on the hunting field and he just chugged on through. What a sweet horse. I have a big picture in our house of us jumping into The Lake. It was a
