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Hi, just thought I'd tell you...I used to work with your Grandfather - the Legend that was - Boggy Whelan!!!! God I was scared of that man!!! Haha! I worked with him for nearly 2 years at the Stud Farm in Epsom, Lavendou Stud in Chalk Lane.... it was 1986 - 88! I was only 16, my first ever job...I loved it! He was amazing with the horses - I was in awe of him he was so  natural & could calm the most highly strung of horses! Nothing fazed him!!! He never really spoke to me - he was far to busy with his horses to speak to a mere stable girl, but I had the utmost respect for him, every once in a while, if you crept up on him, you'd hear him talking to the horses so gently.....an amazing but stern man.