Alpinista’s groom Annabel Willis has paid an emotional farewell to the Arc heroine after she left training to begin a new career as a broodmare.
For the last four years Willis and the superstar grey mare became inseparable so when the time came for the six-time Group 1 winner to leave Sir Mark Prescott’s Newmarket yard for owner Kirsten Rausing’s Lanwades Stud it was a huge wrench.
“Ours was a very close relationship because I rode her every day and looked after her every day,” said Willis.
