Horse of the Year Show blog: when fairy tales DO come true

We don’t believe in fairy tales any more. No Father Christmas, no Tooth Fairy, no Easter Bunny. We’re grown-ups, we know how the world works and we know it’s not fair.

But sometimes fairy tales can come true… In the showing world, there are probably at least two people today who have had their faith restored.

Then in the mountain and moorland working hunter ponies — with some cracking natives forward, many of them much garlanded — a debutant pair from the smallest section blew the rest out of the water to claim reserve to the classy Fairlies Red Flare. Olivia Grant and Pontsarn Sidan went round David Cole’s course like a dose of salts. They won a lot of hearts with their gutsy performance and thoroughly deserved their placing.

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