“THEY always say that as you get older, you become less brave and you think more. But as I've gotten older, I've become more brave,” explains Kirsty Aird, 34, who now has a 15-strong team from her base just south of Dundee.
Perhaps it was inevitable that she would develop confidence and competence over a fence: Kirsty's late father, James Aird, was a showjumper and worker rider, and he ran a busy yard alongside her mother, Trudy, who continues to be a key player for Team Aird.
“Dad was always anti-showing, but an old friend of his, Duncan Stevenson, got him into working hunters,” Kirsty says. “Then he had a really good one, Westinghouse, who won a lot, including at Dublin, and it went from there.”
The 143cm working hunter…
