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

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),

25 May Horse and rider gracefully clear the second fence with impressive form indoors. What a good boy Fred - 2nd in the ponies and 2nd...

27 April With the excitement of Arena UK's SJ Championships still in my head, I decided I couldn't wait a whole year for the next one. I...

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...

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...

We've had a busy month on the non-horsey front since our triple competition month in March. I had hoped to the do the Dressage at home on...

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...