A week after wonderful Royal Windsor, I’m still buzzing. Whatever else happens in my showing career, winning the Tattersalls Retraining of Racehorses championship on Barbers Shop (pictured), the last horse bred by the Queen Mother and owned by Her Majesty The Queen, will be hard to top.
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