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Press loans have an obvious limitation: a glove that arrives on Tuesday and ships back on Friday has not been rained on, has not had its velcro closure work through a thousand open-and-shut cycles, and has not had its armour tested for positional drift over a Scottish winter sitting in a drawer. Three years and six thousand miles of mixed British riding gives a different kind of picture, and it is not entirely flattering.