2019 started in a challenging light for me, and I am thankful I am able to draw on the positives and try my best to ignore the negatives… and with a bit of patience, from my sabbatical in the doldrums, I can now see light at the end of the…
So this past week has been a massive turning point… and I owe a lot of that to the great team behind me, and a few sprinkles of fairy dust here and there. I had a very interesting meeting with some very knowledgeable folks on Friday, and they got me…
I’ve been pondering on an end of season round up… I suppose the New Year is as good a time as any to be thankful for an awesome though challenging year. Having made the decision not to enter events until the winter had dried up, it was then incredibly frustrating…
So I am a very lucky girl to be involved in a company that provides such top quality products. No longer just a Rug brand, though this is still their lynchpin, they have multiple other brands under their umbrella! Leatherwork, boots, numnahs… I have been lucky enough to have done…
Can you believe it is nearly the end of May, and the season only just seems to be getting going…!!! May Update… with a lot of excitement and positive vibes… Fiona has, along with most of the Eventing Nation, had a very frustrating start to the 2018 season… as we…
Gosh, I had such an interesting day yesterday, opened my eyes to the nitty gritty of the ‘Horse Feed’ world! I was invited down to the Professional Riders Day as one of the Spillers Supported Riders. We had a tour of their incredible Mill, and had a run through of…
Back to it in style! Now myself and the horses have had our holidays, it’s time to crack on like we mean it! So this weekend Sally and I both started with dressage tests and Showjumping! It certainly helps things along when we have 3 wins and a 3rd!!! Pete…
I can definitely say I have two 3* horses in the yard- it has been a wonderful 3 days at Chatsworth, with a few highs and a low or two!! #putyourbuttinthebest @spaldinginternationalsaddlery @weatherbeeta.uk #flyingwithoutwings What I can say, is that horses like Smokie are not ‘one in a million’ horses,…
Whoever said working with horses provided the full rollercoaster of emotions wasn’t wrong! Having taken Smokie to Richmond for a fun run, he banged a knee on a fence, which left us a little vulnerable for our Chatsworth prep!! My wonderful back up team- my guys in the yard for…
I’d like to say, this is a special occasion… Evie very definitely earnt gold star of the day!! Her behaviour was infallible, and was the only one on the box unfazed by the new judges huts at @thecollegeec!!! ? A couple of mistakes, but a very solid score of 31…
I have ridden horses all my life, and our base is now Vale View Equestrian in Leicestershire, with facilities that are out of this world for producing my lovely horses, and the results are shining through right across the board, showing my horses are settled, happy, and able to work every aspect of their competition needs! Read more...
