Mattingley has to be one of my favourite events, and it seems we never fail to have a lovely day there whatever the result. I had late times with a big gap between dressage and SJ in which to walk the XC so at midday we set off from home. Soap warmed up really nicely [...]

Well this week just gets better and better! Frances from Hoplands Equestrian Centre got back in touch after I initially emailed her at the start of the year to offer me sponsorship in the form of free use of all the facilities at Hoplands until 2010! Eeeeeeke! excited is an understatement! It seems she has [...]

Despite the crazy winds and horizontal rain on Sunday I took Soap to some local dressage at Larkhill. Most of our warm up was done with both of us overbent trying to shelter from the weather! Soap did a very sweet test, and I noticed a huge improvement in the rhythm and balance of his [...]

Word of my blog has been spreading, and it seems even a few top eventers have read the odd GHE post! Completely out of the blue Joanna from Robert Stevens Eventing got in touch to offer me a free SJ lesson with Robert himself! After reading a few of my event reports they thought that [...]

Unfortunately I can’t make it to Badminton this year but thanks to their wonderful website I can listen to Badminton FM and currently am tuned into the dressage commentry coverage. The repartee between Carl Hester, and Pammy Hutton is hillarious, they are not at all competitive! Tomorrow I have planned my day around spending [...]