PRODUCER SIMON REYNOLDS
"I FIRST met 'Teddy' on the way home from the bar, slightly inebriated, at the British Show Horse Association [BSHA] National Championships in 2017. I'd been celebrating a win on Harriet Richardson's maxi cob Colourprint and she was excited to show us a three-year-old cob she'd bought from Reid Finlay as a two-year-old.
"It was 11.30pm and there were no lights in the stables. Harriet shone her phone torch onto a slightly camera-shy Teddy. He shot to the back of the stable.
"He's nice isn't he, Simon?' Harriet said. I burst out laughing and said, 'Well, it's a long road from here, let's see!' To be quite truthful, I couldn't see a thing!
"The next day, he won the in-hand cob class and from then he had my attention. He was backed by Harriet, helped by Emily Steane, then joined me in January 2018.
This story is from the January 18, 2024 edition of Horse & Hound.
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