Owner-rider Lucinda Fredericks tells H&H about the little mare with the heart of a lion.
Fact file
Name: Headley Britannia
Stable name: Brit
Age: 19 (but don’t tell her)
Height: 15.3hh on her tiptoes
Sire: Jumbo
Dam: Alans Bambi
Discipline: eventing
Owners: Lucinda and Clayton Fredericks
Rider: Lucinda Fredericks
Groom: Emily (Emz) Young-Jamieson
Top results: the only mare to win Kentucky, Burghley and Badminton
Five things you didn’t know…
1 Two of Brit’s foals were born in the same year that she and their sire (Jaguar Mail) competed at the Beijing Olympics.
2 She was bred by Mike and Betty Hounsell – Lucinda Fredericks also rode Brit’s full-brother Headley Kingdom for his owner. “He was like a Rolls-Royce, whereas Brit is my Mini,” explains Lucinda.
3 Brit is not keen on water and had been eliminated in events prior to coming to Lucinda.
4 Brit likes to be first on the walker and to be ridden. If not, she pulls faces.
5 Lucinda has dislocated my thumb twice riding Brit, once when she was going cross-country and she banged it back into place on Brit’s neck while galloping round — ouch!
To read the full interview with Lucinda Fredericks about Headley Britannia see the 16 February issue of H&H
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