Emily O’Neill said ‘blood, sweat and tears’ went into breaking and training Da Vinci for the event
Emily O’Neill, aged 16, and her rescue horse Da Vinci, pictured at the Dublin Horse Show. Photo: Tom Honan for The Irish Times.
The qualifying process was “very competitive”, with only a small number of ponies making it through to the horse show, she said. She and Da Vinci were “up against ponies bred to do this”. Menopause and HRT: ‘I never had a hot flush. I was just losing myself. By 47 or 48 the weight had really come on’ Da Vinci, a bay-coloured gelding with white socks, was then aged four and was “quite nervous and a little bit feral”, she said, adding that he would turn his back to her in the stable at her parents’ yard.
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