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Biography: sport, Autobiography: sport, Prose: non-fiction
A no-holds-barred story of what it takes to reach the top and stay there, in the world's most dangerous sport - three day eventing.
Mary King s success in the world of eventing (now officially classed as the most dangerous sport in the world) has been hard won. Her first pony was the ancient 'cast off' from the local vicar's children - and success with this pony gave her an iron will to succeed. And succeed she has.
To support herself in the early days she had a variety of unglamorous jobs (this included butcher delivery rounds and cleaning out toilets in the local campsite). Her talent was apparent from very early on and she first competed at Badminton in 1985, had her first win there on King William in 1992 and her second on Star Appeal in 2000. Just when everything seemed to be going well she suffered a terrible fall in 2001 and broke her neck but she was back competing at the very top level the following year.
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