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Feature ARTICLE<br />
Feature - ARTICLE<br />
GREAT<br />
BRITISH<br />
BROODMARES<br />
‘Lilly Corinne’<br />
As we go to press the Young Horse<br />
Eventing World Championships are<br />
about to begin and one of the few<br />
<strong>British</strong> bred representatives will be<br />
Sarah Bullimore riding her homebred<br />
Corouet. We caught up with Sarah<br />
as she was on her way to France, to<br />
find out more about her wonderful<br />
mare Lilly Corinne, whose son Corouet<br />
would be following in her footsteps by<br />
heading to Lion D’Angers.<br />
Sarah bought Lilly as a green 4 year<br />
old in Holland. She had gone away for<br />
a weekend in France, and as it was<br />
constantly raining, she found herself<br />
looking at horses for sale on the<br />
internet. From the same yard as she<br />
had purchased her 4 star campaigner<br />
Reve de Rouet, Sarah saw advertised<br />
a lovely little mare, who was loose<br />
jumping with her knees round her ears.<br />
So she emailed the seller and asked<br />
what he was like in comparison to<br />
Reve du Rouet, and on hearing of the<br />
similarities, Lilly was heading for the<br />
UK.<br />
With her early talent evident Sarah<br />
put in an entry for a Burghley Young<br />
Event Horse qualifier and as she didn’t<br />
even have a name for her yet, she was<br />
entered as “unknown” and only just<br />
missed her BYEH qualification. She<br />
completed her 4 year old season by<br />
qualifying for what was then known as<br />
the PAVO Young Horse Championship<br />
and went on to win the Final finishing<br />
on her dressage score.<br />
Sarah says that from the start Lilly<br />
always had the movement, but never<br />
gave you the feel over a fence to say<br />
she was a future 4 star horse. However<br />
she loved to run and jump and kept<br />
improving. It took a few years for to<br />
become the reliable cross country<br />
machine she eventually was, but when<br />
she got to 4 star level she was quick,<br />
and always gave 150%. In Sarah’s words<br />
- A gelding might give you everything<br />
he has, a mare will give you that little<br />
bit more.<br />
Sarah acknowledges that breeding is<br />
such a lottery but when you have<br />
Lily Corinne showing off her<br />
paces at Luhmuhlen in 2017.<br />
a mare as special as Lilly it made sense<br />
to try and so 6 foals have been bred<br />
from Lilly by embryo transfer. Tragically<br />
Lilly suffered a career ending injury at<br />
Chatsworth this year, but having proven<br />
herself both in sport and as a producer,<br />
Lilly is all set for her second career as a<br />
full time broodmare.<br />
Flying round Waregem in the Nation’s Cup<br />
Sarah said choosing stallions for Lilly<br />
has actually been quite hard. Everyone<br />
advertises stallions as a mare improver,<br />
but how can they improve on a mare<br />
like Lilly. Sarah and husband Brett<br />
know from using different stallions that<br />
Lilly really she puts her stamp on all of<br />
them with super fronts and her great<br />
work ethic.<br />
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