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Castaway
1 appearance
Show jumper who first succeeded at age 15 in a novice competition and joined the British team in 1958.
On the island
Eight records
The keepsakes
The book
In conversation
Presenter asks
0:08As a youngster, what did you want to be?
As a youngster, I I seemed to run wild a bit, you know... I don't think I'd any real ambitions.
Presenter asks
0:59What job did you take out when you left school?
Uh when I left school I started um... In the building trade, I did a little bit of plumbing of some bricklaying... Fair lot of digger driving... and went through the building trade in general.
Presenter asks
1:15What was your first success as a show jumper?
First success in in open competition... was uh equal first in a a novice competition at Nelson, which is just over the border in Lancashire.
Presenter asks
1:53Do you think [riding] lessons would have helped you?
Well, riding lessons you would have been riding somebody else's style, whereas when you're self taught and and riding you're riding your own style.
Joyce Cary
The luxury
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Presenter asks
2:49Now the Mexican Olympics were a disappointment. Do you think the altitude affected the horses?
I think it was a lot of things attributed to the uh downfall of the British team in in Mexico... I think the horse that l let us down on the day, it wasn't uh... Nobody's fault, you know, it was one of those things it'd been asked the limits two days before... and often when your horse you ask a horse a limit... It it goes stale for three weeks or a month afterwards, which which had happened to this horse...
Presenter asks
3:59How much is the horse and how much the rider? Can you give a portion or percentage?
Well, you've got to work... Together you've got to get both your minds together and and and physically together. I should say sixty, seventy percent the rider and thirty, forty percent their horse. But a good horse a good horse'll uh make up for a lot.
“As a youngster, I I seemed to run wild a bit, you know... I don't think I'd any real ambitions.”
“Well, riding lessons you would have been riding somebody else's style, whereas when you're self taught and and riding you're riding your own style.”
“I've never gone in and ridden around as disappointingly in in my life as what I wrote that.”
“When you're riding in front of a a crowd with uh with betting or a tort on, the crowd's electric. The slightest movement and and they're there with you.”