You know that the season is about to start when eventers head to Ballarat to brush up on their skills for a training day before putting them into practise on the Friends of Ballarat Hickstead course
Following testing to the BE Standard, the MIM Clip will be used alongside the Frangible Pin on British Eventing cross country courses for the first time in 2016
It's a family affair at the Pakenham Pony Club Horse Trials with the Jeffrees (Sam and mum Wendy) leading two of the Open classes and the Slocombe girls doing well in the Pony Club classes
Possibly the smallest horse we saw on the CCI4* circuit in 2015 was the 15.1hh Perfick Miss Amber ridden by Abigail Walters so we had to find out more about this ‘pocket rocket’
Oliver Townend, the leading British rider in 2015, is coming into this season with a string of very nice horses - we meet one of them, Cooley Master Class at Oliver's yard in Shropshire