A MATEUR event rider Grace Cooper, 25, has overcome more than most en route to completing her first CCI4*. Grace was the typical pony-mad child before she tried polo at university. Despite a successful start, Grace sustained a head injury that caused a bleed on her brain while playing. The ordeal brought her polo career to a halt, but it relit her childhood ambition to be an eventer.
“I’d always had an appreciation for eventing and after my injury I thought it would be the right time to have a go,” says Grace,
