As some of you may know I am the host of a podcast called Equestrian Pulse. It was the product of Andrea (Sand Arena Ballerina/ Rider Nutrition) and cohosted by myself and some other awesome fellow equestrian bloggers Heather (Timid Rider), and later Natalie (Inside Track Eventing). We have been going a couple of years …
If you follow me on social media you have already been bombarded with lots of cross country spam from last Sunday so sorry about that as here is even more! Gracie totally exceeded my expectations of her when we went to Club Hippique de Pibrac to do our first cross country lesson and our first …
Hi everyone sorry for the disappearing act. I’ll give you a little catch up of what has been going on. So I won’t go into the nitty gritty but I started working full time as a Care Assistant in a care home in November. I quit at the end of December after making myself a …
If you have been following me for a while you might have noticed that I took a bit of a hiatus from blogging. That was because I had surgery and wasn’t doing much at all. However I get a bit of a crisis of confidence every now and again and question why anyone would want …
I shared with you a few months ago that I did an in hand clinic with a natural horsemanship trainer. It made me realise how much training Gracie needed on the ground. Luckily for me since I have moved stables I now share a paddock with a very good friend of mine that I have …
It’s always a big decision to move stables and it wasn’t one that I made lightly. Gracie was born at my old stables and I bought her off of the yard owner. I always felt that she kind of got extra special treatment there which was lovely but as time went on I just felt …
This brings me pure joy that I can work with small equestrian companies that I absolutely love. If you have followed me for a while you will know that I LOVE doing online dressage with E-Riders. I have been doing it since September 2019 when I started with Mya and since then have competed on …
I wanted to share my experience of the first ever clinic I did with Gracie. Nadia had come to my stables before and done a similar clinic. My friend had watched it and was absolutely blown away by Nadia and her methods. I was finding Gracie hard to manage in hand a lot of the …
Hello! It’s been a while hasn’t it?! The reason I haven’t blogged much is that I had an operation on my abdomen at the end of April, which ended up being a bigger op than expected and Gracie has been turned away since the beginning of April. So there was not a lot to write …
Now as someone who has recently bought a young horse but has never had a young horse before . I have learnt so much in a very short space of time. The realities of owning a young horse can be far more difficult than you expect. Your expectations may need to be altered somewhat. Young …