At Home with Caroline Powell
“Re-wind” laughs Caroline Powell as we started this interview at her home near Newmarket in England in 2023.
Caroline does ‘re-wind’ as she tells Ruth Gregory about the young New Zealand rider who ‘packed two big bags and was off’, arriving in the UK aged 17 and ‘living on virtually nothing’ until her last £40 paid for a train fare to Scotland.
More recently Caroline and her partner Greg have spent time settling into their new property at Newmarket and building up a new team of horses, including the ‘special’ mare Greenacres Special Cavalier who finished fifth at her first CCI5* at Pau in 2022 and has just taken the big win at Badminton in 2024.