Tim Hyde Jr

Timmy Hyde was still a teenager when turning his first profit on a hunter. Even then, Demi O'Byrne--his partner in many a horse since--had an incidental role, their respective fathers being good pals. "I only had the horse two weeks before I sold him," Hyde recalls wryly. "I suppose I was 17 or 18. I'd been out hunting with Demi one day, and we came back in and his father said to me, 'Would you buy a horse, Tim?' I knew, in the back of my mind, there was going...