Find out more about this inspirational combination who competed in Bicton four-star – the horse people had given up on plus the rider who is fighting an ongoing battle following a fall in 2017
Emily Mustow Credit: Peter Nixon A combination have defied the odds to not only compete at Bicton Horse Trials , supported by Chedington, last week, but to also jump clear around the CCI4*-S cross-country track .
Twenty-one-year-old Emily Mustow shares with us her rollercoaster story, along with that of her Bicton ride, Annie Finch’s Prime Time II…
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Read the full report from Bicton in the 17 June issue of Horse & Hound magazine
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