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When the ploughing matches started in September Dad used to ban show jumping so he could have the horsebox. However it did give the ponies a couple of months rest until November.
Dad was stood at the ringside watching me when he noticed Ted Edgar was standing next to him. We knew Ted & Liz vaguely through Jackie McNaught who was an old school friend of Mums and Jackies Daughter Leslie rode for the Edgars. Ted was there to watch his daughter Marie who was in the ring after me. Ted nodded to Dad when I had finished and Dad took the opportunity to comment that we hadn't been on the show circuit becasue he had been doing ploughing matches with the horses. Dad then told Ted that he remembered him as a kid at the Kenilworth ploughing matchbecause Ted was there with his Dad Tom Edgar. Ted commented that he remembered someone else ploughing and was very interested to find out it was Dad.
Ted watched Marie jump and then asked Dad if he fancied a cup of tea and a chat about what matches he had been doing. After that if we disappeared at the start of the indoor season Ted would always ask Dad if we had been doing ploughing matches? On one occasion when we arrived at the NAC dad had disappeared almost as soon as we had arrived, so a friend Larry Davies who had come with us, asked where Dad was. Mum casually commented that he was probably having a cup of tea with Ted. Larry looked at Mum and said WHO? Ted Edgar she replied. Never! He commented. Mum pointed towards the canteen, go and look for yourself. I shall never forget the look on Larry's face when he looked and then came back to us mumbling that he could hardly believe it.
Pam Davies, Larry's daughter had a similar experience at the Royal Show in 1988. We had showed the Clydesdales in hand and Clyde was being awkward to load. We had all just noticed that Nick Skelton was running across the horsebox area as fast as he could to come and help us. Clyde went up the ramp as he got closer and Mum shouted, Thank you very much Nick, but you weren't fast enough, he put his hand up in acknowledgement and went back to his horsebox laughing.
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