Welcome
Horses have always been a major part of my life, and I know they always will be. As a child I competed across all disciplines – showing, showjumping, dressage and eventing, the focus only fixing on dressage when my parents bought a very special pony that excelled in the dressage arena. He was a 13.2hh with show pony breeding yet he looked like a mini warmblood. With him I won everything I entered, competed in the talent spotting finals, took him to the BYRDS winter training weekends and six months later was a member of the British Team at the European U21’s Championships, our team placing fourth. He was such a brilliant pony….if only he could have grown! He is now happily retired at home with my parents.
The following year I rode a new pony at the European Championships gaining a team bronze medal. It was such a fantastic sense of achievement as both ponies were home produced and had been brought on from scratch. Well and truly hooked on dressage, I loaned a horse for Junior Teams and went on to compete at the Europeans in Denmark. He was not your typical dressage horse – a wonderful Irish Draught cross thoroughbred, who always gave 110%. Sadly we parted with him as he didn’t have the ability to progress to the higher levels and I went to Germany to train with Christilot Boylen and Udo Lange. I learnt an amazing amount there, a new way of riding and training and gained an incredible amount of experience working young and advanced horses.
I returned home and went to University to study photography and unable to afford a top class horse to compete on I began teaching and competing for my clients. Freelance photography seemed to be the flexible career I needed to
allow teaching, riding and ‘work’ to be combined.
It was when teaching a client that I came across Pasoa. She was a really difficult young horse, blessed with an abundance of raw talent that felt unlike anything I had ever sat on. She had such power and scope of movement. I definitely wanted to buy her but unfortunately couldn’t afford her. However, she was destined to be mine!! A year later I was in Holland trying to find a horse to buy for myself and had just found a lovely mare when Pasoa’s owner rang and offered her to me for £2500. Initially she was an exceptionally difficult ride that spent all of her time on two legs – but we have an incredible relationship that has transformed her from a difficult and argumentative 5yr old to an international star that turns heads wherever she goes.
I have owned her since 2002 and have trained and produced her myself. In 2012 she competed for GB on two Nations Cup teams in Rotterdam and Aachen, was shortlisted for the Olympic Games and ended up performing as the test rider at the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 she is aimed at the GB team for the European Championships in Herning, Denmark in August. Needless to say........I am now competing and producing horses full time - with a 20 box yard near Newmarket housing future international stars, some for sale and some I'm lucky enough to train and compete and a busy teaching diary.
The following year I rode a new pony at the European Championships gaining a team bronze medal. It was such a fantastic sense of achievement as both ponies were home produced and had been brought on from scratch. Well and truly hooked on dressage, I loaned a horse for Junior Teams and went on to compete at the Europeans in Denmark. He was not your typical dressage horse – a wonderful Irish Draught cross thoroughbred, who always gave 110%. Sadly we parted with him as he didn’t have the ability to progress to the higher levels and I went to Germany to train with Christilot Boylen and Udo Lange. I learnt an amazing amount there, a new way of riding and training and gained an incredible amount of experience working young and advanced horses.
I returned home and went to University to study photography and unable to afford a top class horse to compete on I began teaching and competing for my clients. Freelance photography seemed to be the flexible career I needed to
allow teaching, riding and ‘work’ to be combined.
It was when teaching a client that I came across Pasoa. She was a really difficult young horse, blessed with an abundance of raw talent that felt unlike anything I had ever sat on. She had such power and scope of movement. I definitely wanted to buy her but unfortunately couldn’t afford her. However, she was destined to be mine!! A year later I was in Holland trying to find a horse to buy for myself and had just found a lovely mare when Pasoa’s owner rang and offered her to me for £2500. Initially she was an exceptionally difficult ride that spent all of her time on two legs – but we have an incredible relationship that has transformed her from a difficult and argumentative 5yr old to an international star that turns heads wherever she goes.
I have owned her since 2002 and have trained and produced her myself. In 2012 she competed for GB on two Nations Cup teams in Rotterdam and Aachen, was shortlisted for the Olympic Games and ended up performing as the test rider at the London 2012 Olympics. In 2013 she is aimed at the GB team for the European Championships in Herning, Denmark in August. Needless to say........I am now competing and producing horses full time - with a 20 box yard near Newmarket housing future international stars, some for sale and some I'm lucky enough to train and compete and a busy teaching diary.