The horse who took a rising British star from Pony Club to Badminton: ‘He was so honest with a kid bobbling around on him’

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Tom Jackson and Waltham Fiddlers Find competing at Blenheim in 2017
Tom Jackson and Waltham Fiddlers Find competing at Blenheim in 2017.
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It sounds like the dream of every Pony Club rider – to ride at your first Badminton Horse Trials on your very first horse. But occasionally, that dream does come true: it did for Tom Jackson and Waltham Fiddlers Find.

“Wes or Wesley, as we call him at home, was my first horse coming off ponies,” explains Tom in an interview on episode 78 of The Horse & Hound Podcast.

Pippa Roome
Pippa Roome
Magazine editor and eventing editor

Pippa is a true eventing geek and has been H&H’s eventing editor since 2005. She has first-hand experience of competing up to British Eventing intermediate and international CCI2*-L level, and has worked in the industry on a top event yard. Pippa enjoys nothing more than immersing herself in the sport at the highest level, reporting from the five-stars and international championships, including the Olympics.