Biography
I have grown up on my Dad's training yard in Worcestershire and probably started riding when I was about four or five although Dad always used to pick me up on to the horse he was riding as a toddler and hand me the reins! I did all the normal kind of things on ponies - pony club, hunting, riding club one day events - a bit of everything really.
It started getting a bit more intense when I was 11 and found a pony that was very talented for show jumping. I loved the two years spent on 138's and did all the national qualifiers as well as the Home Pony Teams on Mr. Checkmate, and also had a great time on 148's. I qualified one for the Junior Foxhunter at HOYS and got just four faults and had another good JA that I rode in all the bigger classes. This taught me a lot about distances and not to be scared of big fences! I was talent spotted for the very first Start Programme through World Class while still on ponies and got all set for a career in show jumping. While on the Programme I spent nearly a year at Tim Stockdale's as a working student and had two visits to Hauke Luther in Germany.
I returned home and hoped to build up a bit of a string but there were always dressage horses coming in for schooling rather than jumpers and it just made more sense for me to concentrate my efforts and earn a living that way. I first competed in dressage in 2007 and won my first National Title in the Advanced Medium Championships on Janeiro in 2008 when my sister Maria won the National Champion title! I joined the World Class development squad at the start of 2009 and won the Advanced Medium Open National Championships on Woodlander Dornroeschen (Rosie). I have some really nice horses competing from Medium to Intermediare I. My most advanced horse was at Grand Prix level by the end of 2009, so I will compete in my first Grand Prix in 2010!