Nick Townsend speaks to a handler who has enjoyed success in and out of the saddle
It was, by any estimation, a “surreal” moment in Jamie Snowden’s 44 years, and quite possibly a defining one too when on a March evening in 2002 he was summoned from guardroom duty to the Commandant’s office at Sandhurst where he was undergoing officer training.

“I thought I’d done something incredibly wrong,” he recalls. “I put my heels together and saluted. But the commandant said: ‘Snowden, you can ride horses, can’t you?’ The character who had participated in Pony Club events and ridden in point-to-points ...