Horse & Hound

Bundles of joy

Isabella Bruce decided to breed because: “Dressage is my passion and it is my dream to have my own top-level dressage horse without the extortionate price tag.”

Fabio Lo Coco (Franklin x FG Dusautoir x Deniro) was born in May.

“One of my favourite memories of the birth is my sister milking my mare after two bottles of prosecco as my foal was slow latching on,” she says. “I bought Forestbrook Fig’s mother, Burgate Bramble, for almost nothing as an unhandled part-bred New Forest, who had run on the open New Forest,” says Emma Clitherow.

“After she was injured hunting, I put

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