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Gillian Birrell

Gillian Birrell

EquiTeam member and podcast host; Finance Director at Eton Bridge Partners Ltd

Jul 21, 2026

5:39
absolutely i think um i think it's absolutely right that we we wanted to acknowledge the the particularly the loss of carry from our community and but yes you're absolutely right because we've had some incredibly fabulous times with our our horses and Jill, you and Frank have been having quite a journey of ups and downs and everything in between, haven't you?
6:04
Yeah, so we went to Scottish Tamps and I was really excited to be there, warmed up, felt fine started my test and he went openly halfway through the middle of the test so the judge quite rightly dinged the bell and said did you know your horse is lame and at that point you're like yes so and he's never you know i've had him two and a half years now he has never been lame um so i was a bit kind of unsure and thought we'll see what happens took him a hack the next day he was fine and then um and then he went lame again so i know um the vet that i'm with had had a talk recently about knowing your pony and knowing the support people around you so a massive thank you to Hugh at Lochleven who i messaged to say that advice i'm totally taken on board and so we had a lameness workout we had a conversation about, you know, his exercise, his fitness and everything, and actually probably really took that advice on board of, you know, who's in your community and who knows your horse.
7:12
So Frank had, he had a lameness workup, he had the chiropractor, He had some really knowledgeable friends at our yard who had a bit of a look at him.
7:28
And now is getting back into work.
7:32
So hopefully we've moved on from that.
7:34
I think that's quite an important bit.
7:36
When

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21:29
So it's helping to put that fun

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