YOUR HORSE MAGAZINE meets INTERVIEW
AS A CHILD Caroline Debisi Ogunshola loved Saddle Club. She sat transfixed in front of the TV as the stories involving Lisa, Carole and Stevie played out, as the girls rescued horses, took tumbles, climbed back on board, improved their technique through lessons, won rosettes in competitions and even, once, battled with snakes. It was an unexpected fascination as not a single member of Caroline's family was remotely interested in equines. They never discussed horses. They never contemplated lessons. They had never encountered a horse while on a holiday. They hadn't ever got close enough to stroke one. They had never once put their foot in a stirrup and climbed into a saddle.
“I had lived in Welling [in the London Borough of Bexley] since I was three, but once I started watching Saddle Club I wanted that to be my life,” says Caroline.
Despite debilitating shyness, she waved goodbye to her mother, Fola, and strolled into the nearby riding school alone when the time came for her first
