Daniel Fowler-Prime on teamwork, wowing crowds and reuniting families, as told to Kate Johnson
In simple terms, horseboarding is a horse, a rider and an off-road skateboarder racing around a twisting, turning course in the fastest time possible. It’s highly skilled. People call it extreme but I think hunting and eventing are extreme — that’s real danger.
My background is in shows, trick riding, jousting, and working with horses in film and television; I worked on Game of Thrones, getting the horses ready for dragon battles. I was a keen skater, surfer and snowboarder, too. It was only a matter of time before I put the two together, founding Horseboarding UK. We held our first competition in 2008 and based on that we came up with 13 rules to manage the sport. Now we have two books of rules.
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Freelance journalist
Born in Australia and bought up in the Midlands, Kate has ridden since childhood. After completing her degree and living abroad for several years, she became an award-winning BBC radio producer and Channel 4 documentary producer after which she became a freelance journalist, contributing to the Daily Mail, The Times, The Telegraph and others. She also collaborated with top jumps trainer Nicky Henderson OBE, to write his best-selling memoir, Nicky Henderson: My Life in 12 Horses. She owns currently cares for retrained National Hunt racehorse, Stop the Show.
