“I REMEMBER on the last day of the World Championships, on my last horse who was probably the best water jumper in the world. He went about six feet in the air over the water, and I thought to myself, ‘That'll do.’”
It would most definitely do – that round on Alwin Schockemöhle's Donald Rex, in 1970, secured David his place as Britain's first showjumping world champion, in the days when the final four riders still swapped mounts on the last day. But, as David adds: “After that, we said, ‘Right, we're going to the Great Yorkshire on Tuesday,’ and it was another day at the office. But some days are better than others.”
Those better days included, for this legend of our sport whose career lasted over 30 years and turned him and his horses into household names, five Olympics, including two individual medals. They included a team and three individual European golds, plus world team and individual gold. Not to mention six national championship titles, six King George V Gold Cup wins, on six different horses, and
