I am a BHS Senior Coach in Complete Horsemanship (the new name for the BHSII qualification), and am on the Register of BHS Accredited Professionals. I am currently coaching riders from grassroots through to Prix St George level.

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Having occasionally ridden ponies as a child, I started riding seriously in 2005, taught and mentored by Eve Pool BHSI, who remains my strongest equestrian influence to this day. Early in my riding career I was fortunate to be able to learn on a wide variety of horses, including breaking in and training youngstock, schooling 'difficult' horses requiring retraining, and learning higher-level skills on a variety of schoolmasters. This gave me a fantastic insight into not only what an experienced horse should feel like to ride, but also how to train a horse through the levels in a structured system.

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With all-round experience including breaking and bringing on youngstock, classically-influenced dressage training, eventing, polo, and retraining difficult / badly started horses (see Approach for more details), I enjoy coaching all standards of riders across the Olympic disciplines and helping with problem solving for riders who are finding their horses difficult to work with.

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I have been privileged to train with Lucinda Green MBE, Mary King MBE, Stephen Hadley and Lucy Wiegersma, and continue to seek out opportunities for further professional development from the likes of Arthur Kottas, Gareth Hughes, and Sophie Wells OBE. I am training for the BHSI exams at Ingestre Stables with Tim Downes FBHS, Andrew Bennie FBHS, and Rob Lovatt FBHS.