She is the only female to have ridden at both Badminton Horse Trials and over the Grand National course at Aintree.
She rode a horse called Bold King's Hussar, bred by her grandfather and finished fourteenth.
[2] She gave up competitive riding in 2000,[1] but has since ridden in charity races at the Cheltenham Festival.
In recent years she had been one of the lead presenters for National Hunt Racing coverage.
She has also presented two series of equestrian interest show Horse Tails on Animal Planet.