Alan Davies the supergroom alternatives a horse he needs he may have ridden

Think your Christmas stocking contained a journey at the horse of your goals… We discover out which superstars of yesteryear this supergroom would really like to check out

Alan Davies has flown all over the world taking good care of a few of Britain’s best dressage horses, operating for Carl Hester and Charlotte Dujardin. It could be tough to assume you should ever best the good Valegro, however there’s one horse of eventing royalty Alan would gladly welcome for Christmas.

“It might must be my youth heroine Lucinda Inexperienced’s Regal Realm. I take into account seeing him within the 10-minute field at Badminton and he used to be simply probably the most unbelievable horse. He used to be a wry little thoroughbred and used to be slightly quirky – Lucinda needed to in point of fact paintings round his quirks to get the most productive out of him. She needed to do her dressage in a leaping saddle as a result of he didn’t like a dressage saddle and such things as that. However he used to be an absolute celebrity and he jumped for pleasure for Lucinda,” recollects Alan.

Regal Realm and Lucinda on the 1984 LA Olympics

Lucinda met Regal Realm in Fontainebleau, the place the previous Australian inventory horse used to be a reserve horse for tournament rider Merv Bennett on the exchange Olympics tournament in 1980. From right here he returned house with Lucinda and simply two years later, they had been topped global champions. In 1983, they gained Badminton and gained double silver on the Eu Championships, and the next yr they had been a part of the silver medal-winning staff on the LA Olympics.

“I take into account at Badminton he tripped on his overreach boots and after that, Lucinda didn’t use overreach boots on the large competitions. I’ve were given this factor about overreach boots now – Charlotte likes to make use of boots on her horses to offer protection to them and I’ll at all times say, ‘Lucinda used overreach boots on Regal Realm and he tripped!’ and Charlotte will roll her eyes as though to mention, ‘Right here we cross once more!’” says Alan Davies with amusing.

“As soon as, I used to be using the lorry again from Aachen and Lucinda have been there commentating. There used to be an issue along with her flight, so I stopped up giving her a boost and we talked all of the means house about Regal Realm and her different Badminton winners – we had probably the most wonderful conversations.”

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