IT’S 30 years since my grandmother’s horse, Dawn Run, won the Gold Cup two years after her Champion Hurdle success. Although I was very young during the Dawn Run era, I do remember being allowed out of biology class in school, in order to watch the race. It didn’t do me any harm, and I am very proud to carry on my family’s racing tradition now through my research into equine genetics with Plusvital (formerly Equinome).
As a young child, one of my earliest memories is of standing on a hillside watching my grandmother, Charmian Hill, galloping off into the distance in a point-to-point. I remember visiting her in hospital soon after – she must have come to grief in the race. It didn’t ever seem to stop her though and I remember her disgust when her licence wasn’t renewed at the age of 62!
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