![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was a Royal Marine so she spent much of her childhood abroad, with spells at school in the UK. Ginny, whose maiden name was Holgate and first married name was Leng, was born in Malta, in 1955. But the polished performances came after an arduous climb to the top. Fellow eventers admired her, spectators adored her and no pony-mad youngster’s bedroom was complete without posters of Priceless, Night Cap and Master Craftsman on the walls. “I’d had a tough time but, thankfully, everything suddenly clicked.” “We hit a real purple patch in the 1980s,” she recalls. ![]() During an astonishing decade, she dominated the international scene – claiming multiple Olympic, World and European Championship medals alongside a Badminton hat-trick and five Burghley wins. Yet Ginny delivered not just style, but substance. FEW have ridden across country with the panache of Ginny Elliot, the petite eventer whose distinctive purple colours blazed a trail around the sport’s toughest tracks. ![]()
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