What you didn’t know about… Cabral
Natasha Baker tells H&H about her chilled Paralympic double gold medal-winning partner.
Fact file
Stable name: JP
Age: 11
Height: 16.2hh
Breed: Polish warmblood
Sire: Bujak
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Discipline: para dressage
Owner: Christian Landolt, Phil & Lorraine Baker & Dorothy Alder
Rider: Natasha Baker
Best result: double gold at the 2012 London Paralympic Games
Five things you didn’t know…
1 JP was originally bought by Christian Landolt as an eventer, but wasn’t bold enough across country.
2 He loves his food and is always thinking of his tummy. He even eats bananas whole as he’s too impatient for Natasha to peel them.
3 He hates his ears being touched, especially if he needs fly spray applying.
4 His secret weapon is his Cyclo-ssage rug — Natasha always puts it on before she rides him.
5 In the stable he is named after Pope John Paul II, as he is from Poland as well.
To read the full interview with Natasha Baker about Cabral see 13 December issue of H&H
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A graduate of Exeter University, Amy joined our news team from Redpin Publishing in 2008 as news writer. She was promoted to deputy news editor in May 2013 and became news editor in April 2015. She left Horse & Hound in March 2016 to take up an editorial position in Dubai.