PULLING over at a service station in the Netherlands on the way to a European Eventing Championship at Luhmühlen with her teammate William Fox-Pitt, Mary King got the horses off the lorry to walk and graze.
“There was a lane out of the back of the lorry park where we found a lovely field full of grass,” the Olympian remembers. “Both horses lay down and rolled simultaneously and then had a few mouthfuls of grass before getting up. I was so tempted to take a photo and send it to chef d’equipe Yogi Breisner but thought he might not appreciate seeing two of his European Championship team horses lying in a Dutch field!”
“Each horse has a graze, feed, water
