Along Came Freddie

4-5 April 2025 19 years after I was meant to be at Arena UK with Dream for the BSJA (as it was in those days) 90 Amateur Champs, I...

16 February 2025 Around this time last year Fred did dressage and came home with a double win - he had won both Novice classes. It was a...

9 February 2025 It’s been 7 months since we did our last dressage competition! and that is the longest I’ve gone without competing Fred....

6 July After the debacle that was Hartpury and the disappointment of not really feeling like I'd done a championships road trip this...

23rd April He is the dancing queen, ginge and sweet (?), almost thir-r-teen Yeah there's more syllables in 17, than 13  and "sweet" would...

9 March This isn't an actual photo of the BD Quest competition on 9 March. It's one of Brian's from another competition I've done at...

30 Sept and the first of the Winter League BD Quest competitions. The day was hot and humid, making for quite lethargic ponies.... And I...

Super proud of my BE-E-EAU-TIFUL Freddie. He gives me so much, all of the time and today was no different. Finishing on 4 faults (4...

30 July was a busy day for BKRC, we had a BD Quest team at Badgworth and 3 show jumping teams at KSEC. This was our first (and my first)...

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...

21 August 2021 Two years ago I went with my team to do the dressage at the SWWRC champs at Hartpury. It was our first 'big' show together...

24 July 2021 Fred was an absolute angel. He warmed up beautifully, doing some shoulder in and some smart transitions and even doing a...

5 June 2021 If you're reading this blog you probably know that a very long time ago - back in in October 2016 - still day-dreaming of...

17 August 2019 It's amazing how far we've come. Although our test left quite a lot to be desired, we miraculously scored 62.88% so higher...

13 July 2019 - Area 12 Show Jumping Qualifier at KSEC It's been some time since I represented my riding club and even longer still since...