Well it was a long wait at Jardy today as the show jumping didn’t start until 4.00pm local time this afternoon. Both horses trotted up well this morning and felt very bright when I took them for a hack after the trot up. They didn’t seem to be feeling an ill effects from the previous [...]

The boys were very good today and with the rain out here it made the ground good, if anything it could have taken a little more rain! The course asked a good few technical questions so if your horse did not want to hold his line there was plenty of opportunity for a run out. [...]

Well it’s been a busy day doing dressage here. In short Hipp is lying in 10th place and Coco in 4th place after the dressage – rather annoyingly Clayton fills the top three places with his horses. Never mind. I am disappointed not to be doing a four star test as I feel I would [...]

The sun has been shining today at Jardy which has been a very pleasant change from the weather we’ve had at home over the last month.

I’m still finding it hard to ‘get over’ the cancellation of Badminton, having now had a day to reflect. With only two horses to ride it has really begun to sink [...]

Well we’ve safely arrived in France for Jardy. It feels like we are right in the centre of Paris. As I turned off to enter the event I could see the Eiffel Tower ‘head on’ in the distance. Very exciting for me as I’ve never seen the Eiffel Tower!

Anyway back to all things horses, we [...]

Just when I thought life couldn’t get any more bonkers I had a knock at the door at just before 6am this morning and a very nice chap arrived to do a random drug test of me!

I have known for a while I was on the Australian drug testing list – all very standard procedure [...]

Well it’s been an eventful day, this morning we learnt Badminton has been cancelled and I’m gutted.

Gutted for owners, horses, the team here and myself! Two years running now I’ve not been able to go – last year I was one away from going on the wait list with a fit and sound horse and [...]

Sadly we learned this morning that Withington is indeed off this weekend. So Jenny, Eleanore and I did some quick reorganising and took a lorry load to the gallops. Hipp and Coco had a stretch and school at home.

I always back off the horses in the last ten days before their competition to ensure they [...]

I’ve been at Hunters today for some dressage match practice with Hipp, Coco and Ricky. I was thankful for their indoor school to warm up in as it continued to rain and rain.

Ricky tried very hard and I was pleased with how he went. He has come on a lot in the last six months [...]

As if it wasn’t wet enough already I managed to get a ducking today! I took Hipp and Coco cross country schooling in readiness for Badminton and managed to get tipped off jumping in to the water!

No harm done and got me very clear on what I need to do and how I need to [...]