Yet more rain overnight! Having walked the obstacles about a million times yesterday and doing an England Team course walk my legs are pretty tired. Jasper however wasn't and flew round the marathon to score reasonable times in the obstacles, we even had the fastest time in our class in one of them. He isn't yet a 'marathon machine' but he is improving and thats whats important. The best bit about today though is that we came 2nd making us Reserve Junior National Champion! We also won the Bes...
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After torrential rain (we really haven't been lucky with the weather this season!) overnight the arenas were very heavy going today. The trot up was fine this morning and we were first to go, Jasper looked wonderful and did his best to drag me off somewhere while I ran him up. He then did a fantastic test to score his best ever; 52! Very proud of him! This was immeadiatly followed by the cones where we got a brilliant double clear! The course was tight and technical and we had the best score ...
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Today we are setting off to the Junior National Champtionships at Henbury Hall, Macclesfield. As it is the bank holiday weekend we were keen to avoid the ridiculous traffic that we encountered last year that made what should have been a 4 hour journey take 9 hours. We set off bright and early this morning having spent a week preparing for this event. Jasper loaded like a star and off we went. All was fine until we hit the M6 when a worrying red light appeared on the dash board of our Land Rov...
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My write up on Horse Quenchers facebook page can be found here. Their facebook page is fantastic and full of handy hints and tips. See if you recognise a face on their current Cover photo ;)
Blue Chip have also just put my write up on their website which is always worth a visit for all the latest news. My article can be found here.
As alway check out my In The News page for our latest press cuttings.

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Very pleased to say that I have been confirmed to study a Masters in Geology at the University of Southampton after my fantastic A* in Geology whooooooop!

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Had the most amazing time! Very glad to be home, though you wouldn't recognise me I'm so brown! Going to miss my friends so much now we are all going our seperate ways for uni. Holiday of a lifetime and moments I will always remember.

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After a few days recovering from Austria and reliving every amazing moment I am off to Spain for my Post A levels holiday with my friends. Check out this weeks H&H for a write up of Austria, see if you can spot my name mentioned. See you in a weeks time!
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Todays crossing was far rougher than on the way out there. However we are now pros at being 'commercial drivers' and knew exactly what we were doing in the Route Masters lounge. We also got through Border patrol which was hilarious as the window was level with the roof of the lorry. 90 min later we were back on English soil and on the right (I mean left!) side of the road. After dumping Jasper (who is galloping round the field with Kiwi) at Julie and Anns and flinging some stuff in the back ...
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Another 10 hours driving today and we are now at Calais parked up for the night ready to get a ferry home tomorrow morning. Ann and I went for our final ride around the farm scaring all their horses (you would think they had never seen another horse before!). We've also been playing with the kittens and cuddling their very friendly foal. Everyone else is leaving in the middle of the night but we are going to get a few hours shut eye before we leave.
 
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We were all up at the crack of dawn (again) this morning to collapse the tents (again) and we were all loaded up to go in less than 40 minutes. Jasper and Kiwi went straight in because they're pros at the whole travelling thing now ;)
After 12 hours we were back at Frankfurt where Ann and I decided to go out for a ride to stretch the ponies legs and got lost in the village we were riding through. Jasper took no notice of the freight trains that passed us as he saw plenty at Anns house. Tomorro...
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If I though we had had our fair share of the bad weather I was sadly wrong as todays weather has been every bit as bad as yesterdays. Having walked the course the organisers have decided the ground was being ruined after the first two classes and gave us just 15 min to relearn it. This didn't bother me and Jasper stormed round to almost make the advanced time but unfortunetly we had a few balls down due to the back end of the carriage sliding out on a few corners. It was very frustrating but ...
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Today is the Cones event of the ICKD competition and I am very proud to say they won Team Gold! Big congratulations as well to Ann who drove a fabulous double clear to take Individual Silver as well! The sun shone all morning but dark clouds were gathering ready for the FEI Marathon. I was almost last to go at about 4pm and it was chucking it down. Soaked to the skin and freezing cold we got round, navigating the complicated Section E (which had 17 compulsory flags!) to drive a neat, clean ro...
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This morning the heavens have opened for our Dressage Day. Jasper was a star today and did a lovely test to score 58 which is a result I was hoping for. Unfortunetly hi didn't rein back in the test, I'm not sure why as he tried to go backwards but the carriage wouldn't move. I can only assume it was stuck in a rut or something because he was really trying but we got rubbish scores for that movement which has cost us some penalties. We are currently in 11th place which I am really pleased with...
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Today was the ICKD dressage where Team GB has enjoyed enormous sucess with every member up on the podium! Big congratulations to Ann who drove a fabulous test with Kiwi and is currently lying in 2nd place.
Its all a bit nerve wracking for the FEI as we haven't even started yet but it will be all systems go tomorrow and hopefully the lovely weather will continue!

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