RIDER PROFILES

Lynn freely admits to have been riding for too long and took up the sport because her ‘parents did not want me to work with horses’, demonstrating early her notorious winning determination and hard work.  If she hadn’t chosen that path, Lynn would probably have ended up working in PR!

Going to the shows and doing well is her driving force nowadays, enabling her to get through the winter, cold and rain!  An average day begins at 6am when all the horses are fed, before she moves on to wading through paperwork and e-mails and then exercising anything from 3-7 horses a day.  It’s a demanding schedule which often leaves little, if any time, for lunch, particularly as she also has to fit in clipping, trimming and selling horses.

Baileys Horse Feeds is something she ‘couldn’t live without’ and we will also have great pleasure in continuing to feed whatever Champion she creates, continuing the association we have had with her for the past 20 odd years.  However, when asked what horse she would choose if she could pick from any in the world, reckons, in typical Lynn confidence, that she may already have one – a middle weight by Dimaggio (a dressage sire) out of GS Is Wiley Trout, so she could so some Eventing too!

It hasn’t all been plain sailing, with her most embarrassing moment being taking the wrong horse to Royal Windsor.  But ever one to learn from her mistakes, reckons the best advice for any aspiring riders is to watch the professionals and ask for help when you need it – or just invite them over to dinner, as she’d always ask Richard Davidson, seeing as how he is ‘always good for a laugh’!