It's all about giving the horses what they need, the 39-year-old says, whether it's splashing around in the waves or pottering around in paddocks with their mates.
Perhaps as an old man I will take great comfort in pottering around in a lab and gently talking to students in the summer evening and will accept suffering with insouciance.
We moved in caravan formation and at the speed of camels, taking two days to drive the 250 miles from London to the west coast of Wales, pottering along in a pair of Morris Travellers.