“I would love to have another like him. If only cloning wouldn’t break the bank!” A BRAVE horse is a boon, tackling big fences “without any concern or fear”, but a courageous one, Alice Bowden notes perceptively, will “confront something difficult despite any concern or fear”. Spike is definitely the latter.
“Lorries are fine, but he is very spooky,” the director of the Hunting Office admits. “A stray leaf, a butterfly getting up or a sneeze from my terrier are all too much, but he is brimming with courage and has a fantastic brain.”
Spike was found in Ireland at Cahirmee Horse Fair and came to Alice at the Middleton aged five, in 2004. The pair returned to Ireland and he “looked after me, navigating across the banks, drains and…
