Our colleague at Equnews.fr, Auriane Tournay, interviewed World no. 1 Scott Brash at the World Cup show in Bordeaux recently. Read about what he had to say about his new, young horses and what he thinks about Di Lampard becoming the new Chef d'équipe for the British Show Jumping team. Do you have some news on Ursula and Bon Ami ? Ursula was coming back into work, I took her to a 3 star show in Birmingham but unfortunately she jumped a fence and she stumbled very badly after and she injured somewhere completely different from the last time. So she has a further six months off, she’s not even in work just now. So I think you’ll not see her back in top shows until next winter. Bon Ami is coming back into work in two weeks time so I would think he will be back competing in two months. You have a lot of young horse, can you tell us about them ? I’m very lucky to have some wonderful young horses right now. It’s very important to me to prepare young horses for the future. Hello M’Lady, I’ve had her a long time now but she just turned 9, she's a fantastic horse. I also have Hello Guv’Nor, he just turned ten but he’s quite an inexperienced horse, he feels a really good horse for the future. Hello M’Lord is an 8 year old stallion, we bought him last year and he jumped his first international show with me in Bordeaux and he felt really good. My new horse, called Hello Forever is a 9 year old gelding, he’s a really nice horse, I have high hopes for him in the future. We heard that you bought half of some very young horses from Picobello horses, can you tell us about that ? Yes, I bought a foal, Kiss Gwindoline’s, that was Hello M’Lady’s foal, by Kannan actually. It’s a lovely foal. And we bought a 3 years old, Mabella, who’s a full sister to Hello M’Lady and she looks like a nice jumper. We bought them two last year. They are way down the line future prospects. What do you think of Di Lampard becoming the Chef d'équipe ? I think it’s good, Di has been second in line from Rob Hoekstra so she understands everything to do with the job, she’s been a top rider herself. She has jumped world championships, european championships, she’s done everything. She’s very, very knowledgeable and she’s very good on the training side. She has taught a lot of young riders and she knows a lot of them so that’s good for the future of our sport. And I think she’s going do a really good job. We heard you were moving to south England can you tell us about that ? I’ve been building a new yard, we bought a yard down south and I’ve been building an indoor and outdoor school and I should be moving in there by end of the month hopefully. It’s very near Hickstead, ten minutes actually so it’s gonna make life lot easier for me. Before I lived in Peebles, Scotland so now instead of ten hours to the crossing, I only have two. That’s gonna be a good benefit to us and to my horses. And I’ll probably take in a couple of students to train, that wants to go the same kind of show as I do. Training is something I like doing, so it’s going be a good opportunity. Often your horses change name, as Picobello Gwindoline is now called Hello M’Lady, whose decision is that and why ? That’s my owner decision, they always put « Hello » at the beginning of the name. And they like calling their horses by the name they have chosen. Often there is an apostrophe like in Guv’Nor or M’Lady, I think it’s just a way of telling it. It’s shorter and easier so better. [gallery type="slideshow" ids="71902,71903,71904,71905,71906"] Photos ©Equnews.fr Text edited by Lori Crowley - Equnews.com
