THEY may call her Angel, but Heartbreaker Star Quality was not a match made in heaven for Libby Seed in the early days. Libby was handed the mare as a sales livery when the mare was a six-year-old, and “didn’t get on with her at all”.
“I used to ride for Carolyn Bates, eventing her stallion Philanderer,” says Libby, 26. “I would have seen Angel in the field as a youngster, but I never picked her out. Carolyn had her sold as a six-year-old, but the day she was due to leave, she cut her eye in the stable and got a virus. They thought she might go blind. So Carolyn sent her to me to sell.”
The eye duly resolved, although it’s now a different colour and slightly cloudy, but that wasn’t Libby’s main issue with Angel.
“She used to run out at all the showjumps, walk was not an option ever, and she squealed and screeched constantly,” Libby says. “She jumped like a showjumper, so my parents said we
