I live up in the hills in Saddleworth near Greater Manchester where often the weather can be challenging! However we have wonderful scenery and it’s great for getting horses fit.
I have a small DIY livery yard on my husband’s farm where I have an arena equipped with poles and jumps. I often hold clinics midweek and at weekends.
My aim is to provide sessions that are fun for both horse and rider, build confidence and trust whilst gaining improvement and always working on a suitable level that we agree on. Working as a team we focus on what is important to you so that you achieve it.
Wether you want to be confident hacking out by yourself or in a group or gain a great mindset to help you in competition, your needs and aims are just as important to me.
Travelling to your yard is also possible as are private, shared or group sessions.
My real journey began, I worked as a Dental Technician (my mum wouldn’t let me work with horses straight from school) to pay for his stabling and spent the next 5 years training him – what a bond we had, he eventually learnt to trust me and I could hack him out. He was the best jumper ever after he’d figured out how to canter. Vicky Tibbott helped me a lot with his training and she was so patient with our endless uncontrollable cavorting around the arena on Riding Club lessons. I also started helping others on the yard with their horses and ponies and this made me realise that I wanted to teach.
Sadly, Charlie developed pedalostitis and there wasn’t any real treatment then for it so broken-hearted I gave up my job as a Dental Technician and went to live in Broadstairs, Kent to train for my BHSAI at a private boarding school with their own stables. I gained my PTT and then went to work for Roseanne Rhodes (now Liversidge) an event rider and BHSI in Dover. Being a working pupil in those days really was slave labour. However, I learned real horsemanship with high standards and although Roseanne was a hard taskmaster, she taught me well.
After gaining my BHSAI I returned home and had various jobs working for British Airways and North West Auto Trader before deciding to go freelance and teach for a living whilst training for my Intermediate (BHSII). In the early days I did anything horse-related to earn money, travelled miles to teach to gain experience in riding schools such as Croft Riding Centre at Warrington and Longfield EC in Todmorden. I taught at Pony Clubs, Riding Clubs, schooled horses for people, hacked out for Peter Farrelly and groomed and clipped every hour I could.