Chips with everything as Barrels roll happily on

Name Barrels of Courage partnership
Spokesman Stephen Spencer-Jones
Age 53
Horse Loose Chips
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One barrel would generally be sufficient for a good time but with eight it's guaranteed. The octet who form the Barrels of Courage partnership have ties that bind them as surely as hoops of steel, and with a horse such as Loose Chips on their side their collective cup forever runneth over.

"He's been so much fun to own, we've been tremendously lucky," says Stephen Spencer-Jones, a trading director in the UK for brewing giant Heineken, whose eighth-part of the 11-year-old is shared with his wife Sarah.