Island Life Magazine Ltd October/November 2017 | Page 40

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Interview
Jumping
for Joy!
Island attracts equestrian elite
The countdown has begun to the launch of a prestigious new horse trials
event on the Isle of Wight next summer. The British Eventing trials, to
be staged at English Heritage’s picture-perfect former Royal residence,
Osborne, are expected to bring across the Solent an array of top riders
and horses – plus, it’s hoped, a boost in tourism and revenue - for what is
hoped could become a big annual event on the UK’s equestrian calendar.
So how did this all come about?
Jackie McCarrick caught up with the brain behind the event - veteran
horsewoman Diana Bown - to find out.
Picture by Fiona Scott Maxwell
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