We recently spent a day at multi-medalled British event rider Tina Cook’s yard — check out these pictures and make sure you buy Horse & Hound magazine this week (8 March 2018) to read the full feature, plus much more eventing in our 15-page special
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Tina riding Paddy’s Poem on the gallops at her brother Nick Gifford’s racing yard, which is near to her own yard
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Tina and Paddy’s Poem cool down after work
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Tina washes off Paddy’s Poem at her brother’s yard before heading over to her own to begin work with her event horses
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Tina and team: (left to right) new head girl Helen Baggs, Star Witness, Tina, Billy The Red, part-time helper Jade Clarke and Rachel Tolley (Tina’s former head girl who currently works for her part-time)
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Grooms Rachel and Jade help tack up European team gold medallist Billy The Red
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Time for a few minutes’ chat with the chickens
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The horses’ work is recorded in a diary each day
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The grooms coming home from a hack
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Tina works Billy The Red in her outdoor school
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Tina and Billy The Red. She rides six or so horses each day herself and is hands-on with helping on the yard and tacking up
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Billy The Red enjoys a jump during his session in the outdoor school
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Tina turns out four-star horses Star Witness and Billy The Red
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