My name is Emily Attwood, I am 12 years old. My ... - British Dressage

We decide to move Flintoff up to affiliated Novice because he was always achieving well in his
prelims. After doing some novice tests we realised that our scores were not dropping and we
were getting 65% to 67% constantly. However unfortunately we realised that Flintoff was
reaching his ceiling and that I had such high expectations for myself that Flintoff was not capable
of taking me as high as I wanted to go.
October 2011 we decide to look for
an FEI pony that could hopefully take
me further . After the space of two
weeks we found a nice 14.2hh
Dutch FEI pony that would be
perfect and what we were looking
for.
It was quite a difficult transition
from my steady Newforest pony to
a Dutch Warmblood. I am determined to succeed
with Benthli because dressage is my passion. After 4 weeks of
having Benthli we went out and qualified for the 1 st round of the Dengie Winter League
open dressage 2011/2012. I have now had Benthli nine months, our journey is proving to be very
exciting. We have qualified for the Sheepgate Under 25’s Elementary in August and Pet Plan
Area Festival Elementary in September.
I train several times a week with Sophie Barker, I have been training with Sophie for 12 months
now we have great fun my lessons are amazing and once a month I train with various B.Y.R.D.S
trainers. We work really hard, my ponies and dressage is my life. I know that I will never stop with
my dressage because after trying lots of other horse riding disciplines I found that I was a
dressage rider. I love riding and I ride my ponies every night after school and also on a weekend.
I don’t mind that my life is all about ponies because that is just the way I like it.