Along Came Freddie

He was a prat, but we've finally done a BD class and we did go in at Elementary! It was 4 degrees and wet. Fred had been in all week and...

This was perhaps the most exciting thing I've done as an adult! It was very strange warming up because, warming up for Dressage/Eventing...

26 Feb I decided to try competing again and as we had BSJA (or BS as it is now) at home, I thought, why not do the Clear Round before it...

Bit of a warm up ahead of the season. Popping around yesterday's Working Hunter Course. 😍

30 January 2023 Freshly clipped and mane all smart - the first time I've gone for the full clip - and he does look super sexy! I was...

30 December We've been in the indoor arena quite a bit through December as temperatures went down to -9 and then after the cold snap, the...

1 December 2022 The beauty about being at Badgworth Arena, is that Jane runs Wednesday Night show jumping, so when I rock up on a...

22 November 2022 I'm always so grateful to the fact that there is now a show jumping course up pretty much ALL the time in my own 'home'...

12 November 2022 I'll be totally honest. I was NOT expecting 3rd out of 6. I decided to give Elementary another go, and this time, all I...

24 October 2022 We haven't competed now since June. But we've been working hard on our flat work at home and enjoying 6 mile solo hacks...

17 October 2022 So, since Jayne encouraged me to try the Elementary we've been working on our flatwork. I'm loving that Fred now manages...

Fred and I have been hacking and exploring and going for 6 mile solo hacks. Our flat work is going well and we're jumping 80cm again in...

20th August 2022 So whilst life has definitely given us a shake and I have had a bumpy week with Fred when I tried to school, there are...

9 August Having been diagnosed with stage 3 cancer my beautiful boy Nelson who'd made a massive recovery on steroids succumbed to bloody...

After much deliberation, I decided to make the move to Badgworth. Having discussed it with Millie, we decided that winter turnout was...

4 June 2022 I was soooo excited about doing the Area 12 Horse Trials this year. The course looked fair, I know we're easily capable of...

28 May 2022 I realised after the BE event that I may have got just a bit too serious about life. So I wanted to go back to 'fun'. I don't...

15 May 2022 British Eventing has become crazy expensive, so I purchased a Pay-As-You-Go ticket for Fred and I this year. I wasn't ready...

24 April 2022 Having gone XC schooling on the 16th April with Karen, Kate & Dave and Amanda, I decided to enter the BE event at Mendip on...

2 April 2022 After the rather disastrous show jumping competition in November after we lost mum, I lost my mojo a bit. I had a good...