Jayne Ross

The showing supremo on sitting quietly and checking your horse’s mood, her sporting bloodlines, Frankie Dettori’s style and why jacket colour is key

- Frankie Dettori

JAYNE is one of the greatest show horse producers of all time. She won her first championship at Horse of the Year Show (HOYS) in 1966 with the show pony Cusop Pirouette and has since won the HOYS supreme accolade seven times, most recently in 2019 with the heavyweight hunter Twinshock Warrior.

I WISH I’d known when I was 16 that I’d still be doing this job at 63. I’ve been showing for a long, long time but I wouldn’t change it for the world. I do sometimes wonder how I still manage the early mornings, the late drives home and the quick turnarounds. If you’d have told me back then that this would be my life now, I wouldn’t have believed you, but it does just go to show what a wonderful time I’ve had.