Jeff Osborne in action. “I’ve done an awful lot in my lifetime,” says Jeff Osborne. “And everything I’ve been involved in, is fast.”
The founder of Osborne Refrigerators, a name known throughout the equestrian world, has done it all, within horse sport as well as outside it. But as he enters his 90th year, it’s the scurry driving that continues to inspire him to compete – and succeed – week after week.
“It’s you and the ponies,” he says. “Nobody else’s views on it matter at all; if you make a mistake, you made a mistake. It’s all about the rapport between you and your ponies, and when I started, that was – and still is – the adrenaline.”
Jeff founded Osborne Refrigerators 65 years ago, and it’s going strong, as one of only a few companies still manufacturing fridges in the country. But as well as working hard, he’s played hard along the way too; his interests as well as – or before – horses include skiing all over the world, motorbike racing and flying in an air display team.
“I took my pilot’s licence a long time ago,” he says. “We had a display team called the Red Sparrows – the aeroplanes weren’t red, they were white, actually, but the name seemed appropriate. I once flew the Red Arrows commentator back and it was the first time he’d ever got home before his team.”
Then there was the motorbike racing, which came about as the sport used to be on the television on a Saturday afternoon and “I wanted to qualify and get on the television”.
And did he? “Oh yes,” he says. But then his children got him into horses instead.
“I started when I was 35, because they said, ‘You make Mummy go skiing and Mummy doesn’t like skiing; she likes riding and we like riding, why don’t you ride?’ So I did,” he explains.
“I got placed second, in my first year, in the hunters at the Royal International , and got hooked,” he adds. “I sold my aeroplanes and spent my time riding and showing hunters.”
Jeff showjumped as well as the showing; his ambition was always to jump in the International Arena at Hickstead.
“After I did that, I realised it was too much time and effort,” he says. “You really have to be semi-professional to do it, so I took up showing. I think I won most of what you can win showing, then was introduced to scurry driving.”
This was more than 40 years ago, and he hasn’t stopped yet.
Since being “hooked” 40 years ago, the lure of scurry driving at Royal International has never abated. Credit: Trevor Meeks
“Because I’ve always been involved in things that are fast; cars, bikes, aeroplanes and boats, I just thoroughly enjoy it,” he says. “I carry on doing it. I can’t beat my wife – I’ve taught her too well, I think! – but I’ve always said how nice it would be to come down the centre line at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) when I’m 90 and drop dead halfway down.
“That would be nice, wouldn’t it – what a lovely way to go.”
“More mishaps with ponies than motorbikes,” says Jeff Osborne
Jeff has had his share of injuries during his time racing between the cones, but it has never put him off.
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