Lodestar Eventing

Our first ODE is approaching more rapidly than I am ready for, so with a nice long Easter weekend requiring to be filled, I hired the cross country and gallops at Crow Wood in Lancashire. This is a fantastic facility right next to the M65. It has a 1 mile all-weather gallops with optional steeplechase [...]

Winter is a time for sorting out my schooling. At the yard at 6, on a horse by 6.30, off by 7.30 before clambering onto another one. Home just before 8.30, breakfast, coffee, shower and at work by 9.30. Colleagues occasionally look at their watches and make smart comments about what time they were in. [...]