Horse & Hound

Cognac

IT'S clear that Margaret Morris, joint-master of the South Notts, relishes a challenge and she had one in her Blankney field master days before the ban.

“We had a huge ditch and someone said, ‘She's not going to jump that.’ Well, that's a red rag to me! But we did it, no problem,” she says.

The horse that “never said no” to the biggest ditch had an inauspicious start. An “old-fashioned thoroughbred”, Cognac came out of training – “not fast

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