This Page (Top to Bottom): Eddie on Granard Lad, 1966; Eddie
and Wendy at Hickstead. Photo © Horse Source; BankStrike in Munich.
Photo © Lothar Glitz; Spotlight at the Harxberg Derby. Photo © Lothar
Glitz; Assorted pics of Eddie over the years.
Opposite Page (Top to Bottom): Boomerang and Eddie in Aachen,
1977; Boomerang as Horse of the Year 1976 - 1977.
to learn how to produce a horse called Morning Light. At that time the
good young horses prop- Championships were divided men and women."
erly, and what was sup- Eddie gets a bit nostalgic and continues, "Morn-
posed to be 6 months ing Light started to stop for Iris so in June of
turned into 6 years." 1970, I got the ride on the horse. My first com-
"I started 'riding' petition on it was at a little show in County Kil-
with her but my first dare at 4'6" and I won, pretty exciting for me at
job there was to carry that time. Iris left me on the horse that year for
10 ton of bagged oats off the the Dublin Horse show the first week of July, he
truck, up the stairs and drop it in the loft. was my introduction into the bigger competition."
When I finally got horses to ride, they were not "I found myself riding on the Irish Team
the great ones but the young tough ones. Iris rode in the Nations Cup that first week, it all hap-
the good ones and in the 1969 Dublin show she pened very quickly. In June riding young
won the Ladies European Championships on
Above spread (Left to right): Eddie and Simona; Kerrygold(Pele), 1972; Kerrygold again;
Carroll's El Paso; Carroll's Boomerang; Eddie on Kerrygold with Harvey Smith.
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