We had the excitement of the BBC on the yard last week – one of their sports presenters, Mike Bushell, tries out ‘unusual’ sports and he decided to give polocrosse a try! On Wednesday morning, we had an unusually high number of people ‘dropping in’ who just happened to ‘be passing by’! The things people will do to get on TV…
It was a really fun morning and Mike was great even though he hadn’t ridden much before. We gave him a lovely mare called Imperiosa to ride, who belongs to Sophie Harding, one of our liveries. She was on her best behaviour – almost too good as she decided that walking really was the best and only option. The only way to get her to trot was if I run up her backside on Diesel! We all sat watching ‘Breakfast News’ on Saturday morning with baited breath but it was all over in a matter of a couple of minutes! Of course, they cut out all my intelligent comments about the sport and the horsemanship involved, but I guess you can’t argue with over a million people being introduced to the wonderful world of polocrosse! Penny was just glad that they cut the bit of her interview when she said the best thing about the sport was the fact she found a husband through it… Perhaps we should try marketing it through the Lonely Hearts columns!
It’s definitely all guns blazing as far as promoting polocrosse goes as we are demonstrating the sport in the Main Arena at Your Horse Live next weekend. So this week will probably see some frantic clipping of horses and scrubbing of whites to look presentable. We are also taking Diesel as part of the Breeds Display to promote the Australian Stock Horse in the UK, so I am sure he is looking forward to showing off in front of the crowds… I’ll let you know how it all goes, hopefully he won’t make to big a fool out of me!
