Island Life Magazine Ltd December 2011/January 2012 | Page 94

EQUESTRIAN

Bob looks right
guy for the
Grand National
Chris Guy admits he learned about
horse racing the hard way. When he
first became interested in the sport
of kings, he gambled far too much
and his own princely ambitions soon
turned sour.
Then when he decided he wanted to
become a part-owner of a race horse,
his dreams of success were dashed
when his four-legged friend had to be
pensioned off.
But Chris is a determined type,
and since then he and his wife Jenny
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have continued their pursuit of race
horse ownership with a great deal
of success. So much so in fact, that
Chris is quietly confident that in the
not-too-distant future he could be
watching his pride and joy ‘Buffalo
Bob’ running in the world famous
Grand National at Aintree.
Buffalo Bob is a great grandson of
former Derby winner Roberto, ridden
by the legendary Lester Piggott. ‘Bob’
is at the stables of Kim Bailey near
Cheltenham, and has already shown