David\u2019s first love was sailing: \u201cI was doing a lot of sailing, then when I left school I started working at my parents\u2019 equestrian centre, and decided I had to do one sport seriously. I thought I had a better chance with eventing.\u201d<\/p>\n
David\u2019s first Advanced eventing star was Unprovoked Vengeance and together they won the three star at Gawler 3DE in 1996. David\u2019s next star was Willowbank Jack. David has a reputation for taking very, very rough diamonds on board and polishing them with success. So it was with Jack:<\/p>\n
\u201cI bought Jack from a girl who was having a bit of a problem riding him\u2026 Jack really motored along \u2013 he also stood on his back legs a few time when I went down to try him, but I forgot about that when I got off him and I made an offer.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen I got him home, three times we galloped down the middle of the road, leaping and carrying on, through an inter-section. I thought \u2018what have I got here?\u2019 but we got through that. It wasn\u2019t overly difficult getting him through that stage, just a bit scary at times. He\u2019s not quite all there up-top.\u201d<\/p>\n
Willowbank Jack and David represented Australia at the 2002 WEG in Jerez where they were 11th<\/sup>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" David\u2019s first love was sailing: \u201cI was doing a lot of sailing, then when I left school I started working at my parents\u2019 equestrian centre, and decided I had to do one sport seriously. I thought I had a better chance with eventing.\u201d David\u2019s first Advanced eventing star was Unprovoked Vengeance and together they won […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":18065,"parent":14165,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"nf_dc_page":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-18064","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18064","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18064"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18067,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/18064\/revisions\/18067"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/14165"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.horsemagazine.com\/thm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}