F EATURE CHANELLE MCCOY
journey. “Ultimately we want to do lots more clinical studies and get it as a prescription drug at a much higher dose as well as retaining the food supplement. We are also delighted that Pureis is now accessible on the high street as it’s stocked by Holland & Barret and Boots. Pureis customers have been telling us how the products help to ease joint pain, how their sleep has improved, how it has increased calmness – it’s really great to hear that it’s helping people.” With children, a husband, home schooling and her new business taking off, there was rarely a dull day for the McCoy family. “Look, we are so blessed where we live. We are in the countryside, we have a bit of land, and we’ve got the ponies and horses so there’s lots to do. AP loved it. He isn’t the biggest social butterfly anyway and has only really ventured to the golf course since.” Like for many, the change in pace has been tricky to adjust to as we have been forced to take a pause. Chanelle had her concerns for AP and filling his time as the yard was quiet. But the phrase ‘boys and their toys’ springs to mind as he headed to the local Plant Hire to hire a digger to fill his void. “I am really impressed with what a good digger driver he is! He has totally refined our gallop. He was out and gone in the morning and didn’t come back until the evening. I was thinking great, he is mentally going to get through lockdown with him and his digger!” Chanelle and AP have two children, Eve aged 13 and Archie aged seven, who were housebound and adopted two different approaches to home-schooling. “With the home-schooling, Eve is good as she’s old enough to just want to get on and do it. She loves her showjumping, she’s got herself to the top of the Gold league for 13.2hh ponies, which ranks her number one in that category in the country, so she had her ponies to keep her entertained.” Eve’s showjumping has taken off over the past few months, and she looks set to follow in her father’s footsteps to the very top in the equestrian world. “It is all she wants in her career, to be a professional showjumper. She read Nick Skelton’s book and said to I became a dragon investor on Ireland’s series of Dragon’s Den and it surprised a few people!
me, ‘You know mummy, if I make the Olympics when I am 18, I can get 12 Olympics in during my life because Nick rode at the Olympics until he was 60 so I have it worked out.’ I am so delighted that she doesn’t want to be a jockey. That would have been my worst nightmare. I would never want to stop her or get in the way of what she wants but when you go for 18 years and watch the injuries that your husband has had and the hospital visits and you just think I don’t want to do this all again. I don’t want my child to go through this. So I am delighted she is in to the showjumping. I mean, whether she will continue to have the talent, let’s wait and see!” With a dad with a nickname ‘Champ’ and a mumwith a business rationale like Chanelle’s, it wouldn’t surprise many that Eve has the determination to go all the way. “AP isn’t tough on her but he certainly keeps her very level. It is funny watching the dynamic between them because he is very economical with his praise. If she has a pole down, I am like ‘You are amazing Eve, I just think you’re the best’ and he says ‘Well she’s not, because she didn’t win. You did okay Eve, but why do you think you had that pole?’ He says you’re only amazing when you either do your very personal best or you win.” However, when the praise does come, it makes it much more worthwhile. “She really tries to impress him and obviously recently when she won, then he was like you are amazing, you are top of the league so she was delighted, she’s been waiting for it for a long time!” While Eve was able to dive into school work, and spend time with her ponies, Archie found it a little harder to fall in love with lockdown life. “Archie is seven and had no interest in home-schooling. It was
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