I try my hardest to dispel the myth that all ex-racers are crazy, mad flighty, un-rideable, scatty loons, but look what I’m up against!

It’s been lovely warm sunny weather for the last 3 days and today the drop in temperature, and a slight wind was enough excuse for some high jinks in the field. If [...]

In between my lessons I always try to ‘do my homework’ and work on what we have been achieving in our lessons back at home. I am taking both boys for a lesson this weekend so in preparation I have upped their schooling this week so they are ready to strut their stuff on Sunday. Soap is [...]

As well as collecting all things dark green I also like to pick up the odd horsey book. I snoop around car boot sales, charity shops, and junk shops looking for vintage equestrian publications. I love reading old fashioned books on training and competing because they hold some real training gems, and also some very [...]

It’s my personal mission to colour coordinate as much of my riding gear as possible, at first it just happened by accident but now it has turned into a small obsession! I find myself scouting the high street, eBay, and various catalogues for dark green items to add to my collection so imagine my excitement when I [...]

Soap and I made the short 20min drive to do some local dressage yesterday and entered Prelim 7 and 10. This month I am trying to do as much dressage and sjing as poss so that when we enter another BE event in Sept we will have made some progress in the coloured pole department [...]