Horse & Hound

NEW PARTNERSHI­P TRIUMPHS

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LILY RYDER and Glendeloug­h III (Sheldon) scored an emotional win at Moreton, three months after Lily lost her “pony of a lifetime”, Dartans Blackberry, to a heart attack.

“I had so many plans for Blackberry, including going to Badminton for the Mitsubishi Motors Cup,” explained Lily.

But Lily’s cousin, Beth Puzio, who had just started university, offered her the ride on her own horse, Sheldon. This was a first run for the new partnershi­p and they added just a fraction of a time-fault to their dressage score of 25 in BE90 section K.

“Before Moreton, my only experience of riding him across country was a schooling session with Sam Griffiths,” said Lily. “He told me that Sheldon was so clever that, provided I kept him in the right gear, he would jump anything. He was right.”

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