“An incredibly special week, as on Monday together with Monty, Dr David Marlin and Dr Veronica Fowler, I visited the Queen at Windsor Castle. We spent over an hour with Her Majesty (that’s how you’re to address HM at first, then you charge it to Ma’am to rhyme with ‘Arm’) in her sitting room – talking horses naturally!

Our friend Terry Pendry, her wonderful stud groom, was also with us and showed us some of the grounds later. The Corgis were great. Some of them are actually ‘Dorgies’ now (crossed with Dachunds). There’s even one called Monty!

I’ve inherited being a royal supporter through my dad, I suppose. He was always so proud that he served his apprenticeship ‘at the King’s stables’. That was because his father, a private soldier in World War One wrote to the Prince of Wales explaining his son wanted to be a jockey. The Prince of Wales promptly organised with his trainer to find him a job at his stables in Newmarket.

The Rodbaston Show went really well with Monty starting with a nappy mare and a cow phobic horse. Monty was able to show the inadvertent damage that had been done to the mare by lunging and gave the owner a good road forward after the mare went very nicely on the night.

The cow phobic horse went down very well with the audience but even more popular was the cow that came along. The audience were very amused by the cow every time she went ‘Moooooo’- but then, what did they think she was going to say?!

This was the night of my Banksy unveiling (quite literally as it turned out). When Monty first met Banksy quite frankly he didn’t seem too impressed. However, I watched him closely as Rosie showed off all that they have worked on together in just two and a half weeks and I noticed a change come over his face. I can only explain it as a bit like Simon Cowell when he first heard Susan Boyle sing.

We’re not taking Banksy to Myserscough as I think it’s a bit of a long distance at this stage, but we’ll be taking him on the rest of the tour and I think he’ll be a new poster boy for just what can be achieved with a nice young horse if you get your work right. I’m sure we’ll be making a programme for Horse & Country about him before too long! Do come and say hello if you come to one of the demonstrations. See details of the remaining demonstrations at my website by clicking on the link below.”