Hi, As I mentioned in my last post, Bluey and I were asked to take part in a discipline parade at Newbury Racecourse’s Goodwood Charity Day. The idea, dreamt up by third year students at the Royal Agricultural College, was to demonstrate the different uses that horses, in particular ex-racehorses, can be put to.
Hi, Sorry that its been a while since I last posted, I’ve been rather busy with academic work and getting Bluey ready for the first ride of the season.
The Christmas holidays have come and gone, and I am back at Ciren for the final term of my second year. Eleven weeks of assignments and exams to get through and it will be time for our course study tour to Kentucky, followed by a 5-month work placement, which I am undertaking at Ffos Las [...]
Time goes so fast, we are now a month into term, meaning that there are only six weeks left until the Christmas holidays!
Good morning! Yes, it’s morning, and it’s good! …But what about those snap crackle pop aches you have from riding/ vaulting/ training yesterday? All day? Ugh, just bring me the coffee!! Many of us hard working equestrian athletes know what it feels like to peel ourselves out of bed in the morning and be a [...]
With the endurance season coming to an end, most riders will either be planning their equestrian winter, or turning their horse away for the cold, dark months ahead. For horses that have been competing over long distances since the spring with intense training schedules and competitive rides reaching 160km having a month or two off [...]