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IF H Rider Haggard and Walt Disney had worked together, they would certainly have created Diana Grissell MFH, the gamine and indestructible master of the East Sussex and Romney Marsh (ESRM), who has stepped down this season.
Universally known as “Di”, her racing and hunting story belongs on the big screen. In a world where the average length of a mastership is three – or even two – years, Di has lasted for 30. Those 30 seasons have been old-fashioned ones – seasons with barely a hunting day missed, seasons of field mastering every week and clearing the country in between, seasons of riding two lots before the hunting day and finishing up a yard of racehorses afterwards.
As her
