Award season is upon us, and we aren’t speaking simply concerning the movie and TV crimson carpets. The equestrian world can be honouring its personal.

British equestrian journal Horse & Hound – sure, the one which Hugh Grant claimed to jot down for within the film Notting Hill – lately held its 2023 awards ceremony at Dallas Burston Polo Membership in Warwickshire on November 22. Whereas there have been the standard suspects in sport in attendance, we applauded the presentation of the Lifetime Achievement Award to Terry Pendry, the stud groom to the late Queen Elizabeth II.

Terry using out with The Queen. (Historical past & Lives of the British Royals Fb photograph)

Pendry, who retired this yr, was employed on the Royal stables from 1994 till the Queen’s demise in 2022, however he grew to become a logo of British solemnity and dignity when he stood on the Lengthy Stroll at Windsor Citadel, alongside the Fell pony Carltonlima Emma throughout the Queen’s funeral. Emma, you may recall, was named Horse of a Lifetime by public votes ultimately yr’s Horse & Hound Awards.

Of his years working and using with the horse-loving monarch, Pendry informed H&H, “She was probably the most superb girl, she served with such grace and dignity. We miss her so very a lot. However we’ve to show the pages of historical past. Her Majesty and the late Duke of Edinburgh had lengthy and fulfilled lives. They’re at relaxation now in St George’s Chapel. I’m there often, and I let her know each week how Emma [the late Queen’s last favourite riding horse] is getting on and the way the outdated racehorses are doing.”

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