Hunting Personality of the Month
Amy Brown
Amy Brown, Hunting | Photos courtesy www.traffordphotos.com
For Berwickshire's Amy Brown, March 2009 will certainly be a month to remember: on Saturday 28th March, Amy rides in her first ever point-to-point at Friarshaugh, near Kelso.
Amy started working with horses as groom with point-to-point owner and trainer Doreen Calder of Marigold. Three years later she was amicably lured across the road to Blackhouse where she has since been hunt groom to Berwickshire joint-master Richard Swan, and his wife Gina, a vet.
She loves the variety of work, and slips effortlessly from one role to the next: exercising the hunt horses, and turning them out to perfection on hunting days; helping with the puppy show, and with summer hound exercise. Amy rides two days per week to hounds, and acted as a stand in whipper-in for part of one season.
Amy's a great person, and an integral part of her local community. The local pony club would be much worse off without her teaching at the annual rallies, and at pony club camp. She’s a dab-hand with 'difficult’ horses, has 'sorted out' many a tricky rascal, and loves bringing on youngsters.
Amy says: “I love our landscape so much, and when I'm hunting I feel so much part of it all - that’s a great thing to me.”
Berwickshire would be a much poorer place without Amy: fingers crossed for her on the 28th...
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