Bryony Frost: ‘The Grand National has lived in my family since I opened my eyes’
“You’ve got to go in there all guns blazing,” says Bryony Frost, outlining her approach to next week’s Grand National, confounding any chauvinists who thought this young woman might prefer quietly popping round at the back for her first attempt at the famous race. “You can’t say, ‘We’re just trying to get round.’ That’s not my job, my job is to fill my horse with confidence, fill my team with confidence and keep kicking.”
The 22-year-old Frost brought a similarly attacking attitude to a schooling session here, where she cleared six Grand National-style fences on her mount for next week’s race, Milansbar. The horse has never been to Aintree, so she wanted to know how he would react to the different look of spruce-covered obstacles and since this was only the second time she had sat on him, she wanted to find out how he will cope with meeting a fence on a bad stride.
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