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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-06T09:15:58.000Z",
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  "textContent": "Tom Strawson with his Badminton Horse Trials ride Public Address, plus dogs Tigga and Taffie.\n\n**From a lifelong passion for hunting to an unconventional return to eventing, the Badminton first-timer reflects on the lessons that have shaped him, his unexpected ambitions – and the cheap retrained racehorse now thriving at five-star, in this exclusive interview for _H &H_ subscribers**\n\n“I’m not sure I should really be referred to as an event rider,” says Mars Badminton Horse Trials first-timer Tom Strawson, as he names two ambitions in life as hunting a pack of hounds and winning the Melton Hunt Club Ride. It’s an unusual statement for a Badminton first-timer to make, but then Tom is an […]",
  "title": "‘Hunting has given me a no-nonsense approach’: the amateur and trail-hunting fanatic taking on his first Badminton on a cheap ex-racehorse"
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