A young girl sits astride her pony, white breeches tucked into polished black riding boots, her eyes fixed on the jumps ahead. At her side, her mother watches intently, feeding and fussing over the horse before her daughter takes to the arena.
But this is no ordinary mother-and-daughter moment. The young rider is Mia Tindall, 12, granddaughter of Princess Anne, pictured at the Blenheim Palace International Horse Trials at the weekend with her mother, Olympic medallist Zara Tindall.
It is an image the late Queen Elizabeth II would surely have cherished – a glimpse of her own lifelong passion for horses being passed
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