OUR team has had a great start to the Winter Equestrian Festival season, I have a very exciting string of horses and great staff. The majority of my horses are eight and nine-year-olds, and I have planned to compete most of them in the early weeks of the circuit so that they can jump in the Grand Prix classes before they get too big during the five-star weeks.

All of my horses have been jumping very well so far. CHS Inception (pictured above) jumped in the Suncast 1.50m on Sunday and was fantastic. Ninparo jumped in the Grand Prix qualifier in both weeks one and two and my two mares Carlotta 168 and iDream have had great rounds coming up in the 1.40-1.45m classes.