Along Came Freddie

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...

15 December 2024 Since Brent Knoll RC were running Adults Only SJ at Badgworth, I decided to take Freddie in to the 70 and 80cm for a...

4 November After catching covid at the end of July - which left me exhausted, experiencing a really slow recovery - and Freddie's blip...

23 March You know those posts that start - wow, I haven't taken my lovely pony out for 6 months and they came home with a win?... Yeah...

Don't know what to say!..... It was amazing!! Planning for the weekend It was so exciting to be planning my first "Away-stay" competition...

Turns out, I'm doing so many competitions these days that I completely forgot to post one! Having qualified for Hartpury, it seemed like...

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...

20 November KSEC Area 12 jumping - I signed up to the team jumping in the weeks after we lost mum. I felt it would make us 'keep the...

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...

15 August 2021 Fred and I were due to jump at KSEC Area 12 SJ qualifier for BKRC on 31 July. Unfortunately I had my Pfizer 2nd jab and...

27 September 2020 We headed back to Badgworth, this time competitively, doing at 75cm warm up and our first ever 80cm round in...

It's been a busy month and I should have been blogging - poor Fred but work, Christmas and family visits took hold! Fred and I have...

11 August 2019 What a way to finish an amazing week! After Fred astounded me in the XC and on the beach, we went to the BKRC Summer Show...

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...

19 January 2019 It wasn't our most, er, rhythmical round! We lost the Fred-brain in the warm-up when another horse ran into the back of...

7 October 2018 Novice team jumping - 2nd place After a bit of practice at home building our jumping steadily and sanely up to 70cm...

​25 November 2017 - BKRC team show jumping. ​ It's been a busy weekend. Both boys did me proud in my jump lesson with Jayne on Saturday,...