[dropcap style=”font-size: 70px; color: #052b51; font-family: ‘Droid Serif’, Arial, sans-serif;”] M [/dropcap] ost young riders who drive through the gates of Sunny Park want to be the next Derby winner. They want to jump the big heights and they want to win. Ben Maher recently did an interview for Land Rover where he explained how riders need to excel under pressure. Ben Maher is an Olympic gold medalist, the European champion and currently the world’s top ranked showjumper.

Ben Maher is also under the age of 35. He is a fabulous showjumper and actually visited South Africa last year (October 2012) and competed in the SA Derby on a borrowed horse. In the video below Ben shares is training practices and his opinions on what makes a great showjumper. It’s an inside look at what goes on behind the scenes and how Ben Maher goes about excelling under pressure: