What’s your goal? A friend asked me this earlier this year. I think my answer was something along the lines of keep the body count at zero and don’t get arrested. The truth was it takes your friends to know you and to know when you have lost your mojo not just your car keys.Continue reading "We’ll Be Counting Stars"
Prep & Perform – Dressage Test Training
One of the things we have been enjoying lately are test riding training clinic combining a thirty minute lesson with a coach followed by fifteen minutes with a Dressage Ireland judge to ride through a test and recieve written feedback. Recently, Barbara and I qualified for the British Dressage area festivals and she and IContinue reading "Prep & Perform – Dressage Test Training"
When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!
Yesterday a dressage judge hit me in the feels. For once, not due to a bad score in what my friend Christa calls “the rectangle of judgement” 😂🐴 Nope instead because they saw through everything else and understood what my horse means to me. We were in a test riding clinic and did a warmContinue reading "When a dressage judge hits you in the feels!"
A Day On Cheer Squad Duty
Yesterday I had the most lovely show day without even sitting on a horse! 😅🐴 Lynn bossing it with her own orange unicorn Freddie I was off being a corporate girl with work in the UK most of this last week so I opted out of competing on Saturday as I’d be too rusty. SometimesContinue reading "A Day On Cheer Squad Duty"
I Don’t Have Blue Hair
Recently, I saw a video on TikTok that changed the chemistry in my brain.Given the amount of frivolous content I watch on there, mainly as a head breakfrom reality, I wasn't expecting to have an epiphany. The video explained an experience where the user was targeted verbally by arandom person on public transport who wasContinue reading "I Don’t Have Blue Hair"
BWRT & Me – I’m not changing, I’m changing back.
Once upon a time Once upon a time there was a girl who believed she could be anything and do anything she wanted. This was in spite of many of her dreams being very much out of reach. It was in spite of not having the background to make it easy. It was in spiteContinue reading "BWRT & Me – I’m not changing, I’m changing back."
WSI Give Green Light to Emerald Dressage
WSI award Pompidou AF Stallion approval at the Stage 3 inspection at Coilog EC in October 2023. Photo by Sabine Smit foalforsale.com Hanging out with Pompidou AF at the WSI Stallion Inspections One of the things I have been asked about most recently has been the fabulous Emerald Dressage Stallion Pompidou AF (Desperado x FlorencioContinue reading "WSI Give Green Light to Emerald Dressage "
Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?
This piece is one I chose to write for Equitas. I believe its a phenomena that affects many women. When we experience symptoms that affect our ability to enjoy our sport or to have a quality of life we are often written off as emotional / over sensitive / anxious / hormonal. Often this assumptionContinue reading "Is Your Vagina Getting in the Way of your Diagnosis?"
“A tale of two Sammys”
I headed up to Coilog this morning and left the horses at home in the field (rather nice of me I thought instead of them standing in the box ) while I helped out with the running of the show. Id planned to pop back and pick the horses up. I got a text fromContinue reading "“A tale of two Sammys”"
Photoshoot with Equieire
Well, Saturday was a little bit different!! My friends and I took part in an amazing photoshoot with local Irish Equestrian business Equieire I cannot WAIT to see the photos by the fabulous Caroline from Ascent Media. Sammy was in his element posing with everyone where as Oisin and I changed dressage for showjumping forContinue reading "Photoshoot with Equieire"
Equestrian Reality 