Yvonne Sampson

So riding horses, if you don't, you know, it's not practice makes perfect.

It's perfect practice makes perfect.

So if you don't do it correctly through the week, you're going to get what you deserve on the weekend.

And I think that's sort of where it's come from.

Yeah.

My grandfather was a racehorse trainer, so he'd give me the slow thoroughbreds and I'd turn them into like pony club horses or show jumpers or dressage horses.

And I ended up going a little bit more into dressage.

I was on the Australian Young Riders Dressage Squad.

Then we'd come down here and train with the Olympic coach, Clemens Dirks, who was this really mean-spirited German guy.

Yeah.

He'd sit there and pop Valium and just like say mean things.

Sounds like a character in a film.

And it actually says a lot of it.

It's the best.

And, you know, it says a lot about the kind of men I respond to now.

I'm like, got it, got it, you know, that sort of feedback.

Uh, and so, yeah, I was really lucky to, to have horses in my life and we've still got, um, some race horses now.

Um, yeah, which is, which is great, but that's, I think that discipline and that repetitive stuff, that's probably how I've sort of approached, um, my career as well.

And, um, and I think growing up, going through school, I was always the one that would have to sit beside the naughty boy.

And we call them naughty boys.