A novice rider who spent the first lockdown at a South African horseback safari centre had ridden 25 horses and was jumping 1m by the time he reached home — and is now continuing his showjumping career. Saúl Castro Gómez and Susannah Shelley left their home in the UAE on 13 March last year, for a holiday at Horizon Horseback, in the Waterberg Biosphere Reserve. “Then the world changed,” Saúl told H&H. “We flew to South Africa, and it was the week we were there that everything changed. We left for a week and ended up staying for four months.”