Of Warm Hands and Heavy Hearts
A horse’s ability to adapt with an open heart is truly extraordinary. If we’re lucky, they teach us how
10th November 2016
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A horse’s ability to adapt with an open heart is truly extraordinary. If we’re lucky, they teach us how
You know when you are looking for a new horse and you’ve got a picture in your mind of what he looks like? And then sometimes you find a horse that doesn’t look anything like that picture, but it’s a nice horse, so you buy him anyway? That is where I was at the beginning of this year.
‘I called the owner and before I could even make the offer he excitedly told me that a certain South African bookmaker had just called 10 minutes earlier to make an offer of R5m’
It’s clear that eight incidents of crop excesses is unacceptable for a sport keen to maintain a good public image, and the time appears to have arrived for a review of the crop rules for work riders on the Highveld
