Looking ahead to the 2021 season, Katy has her carefully selected string of athletic working hunters ready to hit the circuit. While her natural gift for scouting out show ring talent can’t be denied, she is quick to credit her mentors for steering her in the right direction.
“Good workers are hard to find,” explains Katy, 35, as we chat remotely one morning in between Katy’s yard jobs and dropping her four-year-old son Freddie at school. “They need a decent brain, be able to jump 1.25m with ease, give an amazing ride, move and have fabulous conformation with no lumps or bumps; it’s almost impossible.”
Katy, who runs her schooling and training business as well as her own horses from her 26-acre set-up in rural Warwickshire, started her working hunter journey on ponies before making the jump on to horses when she was 17 while working for Louise and Robert Bell.
“I had a really bad fall across country when I was a teenager; my pony fell and got stuck under a fence and I went underneath him,” she remembers.
This story is from the January 07, 2021 edition of Horse & Hound.
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