Margaret Runcie
Pony breeder (1925–2022)
Margaret Runcie born Margaret Mary Power (19 October 1925 – 23 December 2022) was a Scottish-based pony breeder who won 18 Gold Medals at the Royal Highland Show.
Life
Runcie was born in Hatfield in Hertfordshire in 1925. She was known as "Midge" because of her size when she was a child. Her middle-class parents allowed her to use a trap pulled by "Buddy" the donkey. Her mother got her riding their donkey by the age of three and she later joined the Enfield Chace Pony Club.
Her early education was shaped by the second world war as she left school to look after hounds before she joined the Wrens. It was not until the end of 1946 that she left the naval service. She went to Reading University to study Dairy Animal Science.
She worked for the National Agricultural Advisory Service until her application for a scholarship was successful. She met her husband Ken Runcie on board the Queen Mary as she sailed to New York to take a master's degree at Columbia University.
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