All our horses have finally arrived home safe and sound from the Spanish Sunshine Tour, which the coronavirus brought to a hasty conclusion two weeks earlier than planned.
We had 19 horses with us, including my wife Pippa’s Burghley winner MGH Grafton Street, whom she wanted to have a bit of jumping practice before Kentucky – another casualty of the pandemic.
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