madeleine45
None of those for me. I was horse mad and helping at a riding school at weekends, so it was all the riding magazines etc etc., and am old enough to remember my first great trip to I think it was white city in those days. The british team were Pat Smythe, Col Llewellyn, Harvey Smith and cant remember the other name. Used to save up to go to the great shows and my best memory was the puissance, which I loved. On this occasion I had managed to get a seat absolutely opposite the highest jump. The final was between one of the italian Dinzeo brothers who was in the italian army and rode in uniform, who was on a huge horse, aptly named The Rock, about 18 hands and the other was only just a horse, and it was Tommy Wade on Dundrum in emerald green for Ireland. Dont know how he managed to do the horse equivalent of the fosbury flop but he wriggled over the top and won. So my reading was more Black Beauty and as many pony club magazines as I could get
The puissance is going to be on BBC red button Thursday 9pm-10.15...[just read it on facebook...]
