From a cotton farm to the Olympic Games: meet Milky Way, the home-bred mare at Paris 2024

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Hilary Scott and Milky Way in the Olympic showjumping team qualifier
Star relations: Milky Way, the home-bred mare whose dam is called Galaxie and brother is Constellation.
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Australian rider Hilary Scott had already recorded a milestone achievement just in making her Olympic showjumping debut, regardless of the result. She is riding the home-bred Milky Way, a 17-year-old grey mare by Clearway x Jalisco B, at Paris 2024.

“It’s extremely special to bring a home-bred to the Olympics,” says Hilary, 36, of the mare who is now owned by Alice Cameron. “I never even dreamed of bringing one we actually bred, it’s been a big effort from everyone. It takes a lot of people to make it happen.

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.