It’s no secret I’m a big fan of making eventers out of ex-race horses, and currently I have 2. I’m an even bigger fan of the Racing Post website because you can look up horses’ breeding, and race history for free. Having a little dig about to find some more info on Mr Jack Fry [...]

Thanks to my sponsors Equestrian Vision for providing the prize, and Equine Adverts for hosting the competition you can win Badminton 2008 on DVD. All you have to do is click here to enter and answer the competition question… Who has won Badminton 6 times, on 6 different horses?… Good luck!

He may not look much at the moment, but he’s going to be fab!
Jack Fry is a 12 year old tb ex-Point to Pointer who we aquired after he fractured his leg. He had a very fine spiral hairline fracture which meant the poor chap had to spend several months boxed in a huge [...]

In an atttempt to keep costs down I asked my instructor Steven Way if there was a way I could have a XC schooling lesson for less. So…………. 6 mucked out boxes, and 2 hacked out eventers later I had earned myself a XC schooling lesson with him at Boomerang for just £10!
I took Soap [...]

I had a great SJ lesson today with Liz Peerless. She set up an exercise (see image below) Intially it was just 3 trot poles between each jump stand, which then built to canter poles, and eventually 2 uprights each with a canter pole in front.

The aim is to (on the left rein) come round [...]