RIDER COMMANDANT GEOFF CURRAN
"PEOPLE always say to me 'You must be very brave, but there are far braver people I'm just very well mounted. Bishops Quarter has all the scope and he'll never say no. He can be strong in the early rounds of a puissance, but when the wall gets bigger, he focuses, and it never feels like you're jumping that high - although adrenaline certainly helps!
"We bought him as an event horse, but he was tense in the dressage. We got him up to the old three-star [now four-star] but after a tendon injury, we rerouted him and he was used at the army Equitation School for a couple of years before he went jumping.
"He didn't have the temperament to do grands prix because he's a bit aggressive, so his first puissance was Dublin 2019 - I shouldn't have done it because I'd broken a few ribs three weeks before, so we'll forget that one! But that December in Liverpool he just had the wall down in the last round, but it was big, 2.21m. Then we knew we had a very good horse for the job.
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