Along Came Freddie

After such a sparkly but confidence-boosting start to the show jumping season, Wednesday felt like the next little test for Fred and me. The plan was simple: go out, jump the 80cm , keep things calm and positive, and see where we landed. Fred warmed up in the warm-up arena like a total professional. Granted, we were in there on our own for quite a bit of the time, but riders were coming and going and horses were appearing and disappearing around us – and Fred took it all in h

it's taken me a bit of time this year to get underway due to the weird reactive hypoglycaemia issue discovery. November and December were a wipe out and as the iron kicked in through January and the discovery about sugar/insulin thing, it's taken a while to get my energy levels back up. I jumped in January just at home in the arena not competing and it was SOOOO exciting Fred bucked after every fence and tanked off around the arena. Which meant a few lessons and a few jumps t

Fred and I got back in the dressage ring last Friday after five months out. Yes. Five. And remember… I ride a feral ginger. I could say - hey first one back we went straight in at elementary and won! Qualifying for Trailblazers too - go us! And do the whole social post where I hide the scores with my rosette and omit that I was the only one in my section. It's true but that's not quite how it all went down. We “warmed up” in an ice-cold downpour. Now, since we've been spoilt

Just two days left to go in 2025. What a fantastically successful year for Freddie and I.... We've come so far - qualifying for 3 championships in both dressage and show jumping. We've learnt to jump quickly and turn fast, move like dressage divas And perhaps amongst all my proudest moments this year, have been those where: We got the double win to qualify for arena uk - both team and individual We were 2nd out of 20 riders (beaten only by a ludicrously fast nimble pony lol),