Olivia is on course for glory... thanks to dad’s wooden horse
A TEENAGE would-be jockey has galloped to victory in her first race – after practising on a wooden horse named Troy.
Paul and Maxine Tubb, from Chandler’s Ford, Hampshire, could not afford to buy their daughter Olivia, 13, a pony.
So university admissions officer Paul built her the practice horse using wood and screws and costing £30.
Thanks to the training it provided Olivia, pictured on the contraption in her bedroom, rode to triumph in a Pony Club six-furlong race at Cheltenham a few weeks ago.
Now she has one ambition. “I’d love to be a professional jockey,” she says.