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Harriet Tucker: 'I couldn't go on. I'm not ashamed and I got through it'
The amateur jockey talks about overcoming addiction and returning to the saddle
When Harriet Tucker won the 2018 St James's Place Foxhunter Chase at Cheltenham on the Paul Nicholls-trained Pacha Du Polder she touched the top of the amateur riding tree.
After the race, the effervescent Tucker revealed her shoulder had dislocated, compromising her ability to ride a finish, but not to win. It was a well-timed effort given to that point she had ridden just eight point-to-point winners and none under rules.
If she was walking on water the sea beneath her feet soon opened up. An operation on the shoulder was successful and ten months after Cheltenham she rode two point-to-point winners.
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