Kelly Logan

After a bit of a setback in our training following the tumble and rib damage incident back in April, I’m delighted to say we got through the second round of Trailblazers Dressage and qualified for the finals in August again. However, I think the words “got through” are perhaps a very apt description of what happened…. Having had the hottest week on record as a run up to the show meant Fred had another impromptu week off, and so our preparation for the ‘big day’ was even more behind...

A win yesterday for Freddie on 69.31% in the Elementary 1, finishing almost 5% up on the next competitor - go Fred! We also scored 66.72% in Elementary 2 — although as the only combination in the class, I’m not sure that really counts as a “win”!?! After Freddie decided to go completely feral at the start of the dressage season in January (including an Elementary test that will absolutely NEVER be seeing the light of day), yesterday he chose to show up… mostly. The warm up was definitely...

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 to get the brain...