‘I treasure every moment’: Classic Moet’s groom on tending the no-fuss veteran star

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Jonelle Price's groom Kerryn Edmans and Classic Moet at the Burghley trot-up
Jonelle Price's groom Kerryn Edmans and Classic Moet at the Burghley trot-up
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Jonelle Price’s groom Kerryn Edmans is “treasuring every moment” as she prepares her charge, Classic Moet, for their third attempt at the Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials. The mare, known at home as Molly, is 19 years old, and Kerryn admits that “you always wonder if this is her last big event”.

“It’s phenomenal that she’s 19 and going into her second five-star horse trials of the year,” says Kerryn of the 2018 Badminton winner. “It’s so special to see, and you just want her to come home safe and sound. But I trust the two of them – Jonelle and Molly – combined. They are just a force of nature.”

Martha Terry
Martha Terry
Features editor

Martha is an experienced journalist who is mad-keen on horses and dogs. Her reporting CV includes the Paris Olympics, European championships, Aachen World Equestrian Festival and World Cup finals. After growing up with assorted liver and white springer spaniels, she enjoyed 14 years with two rescue dogs. Now, her constant companion is Fidget, an extremely energetic and habitually muddy black and white springer. Martha has written on topics as diverse as a top horse’s clone to the best GPS trackers for dogs, as well as equestrian and rural matters for Country Life, The Field, The Times, The Spectator and The Telegraph alongside Horse & Hound.