The Balanced Rider

08/09/2026

Absolutely love working with Emma Thomas Eventing and Stixxy 💛 being part of their support team at Defender Burghley Horse Trials each year is a privilege 😀😀😀

TOP 15 AT 5* ⭐️🚀
ICARUS owned by Becca Velarde Coach Arthur & puts a great effort in all three phases Defender Burghley Horse Trials to finish 14th 🤩
What a little horse, with so much still to come 🤞❤️
A huge huge thank you to everyone involved in helping us get here, not the easiest road this year, but it was so so worth it 🙏🏻
Huge thanks to Tom Ryan for managing both of us perfectly this week, and having Stixxy looking and feeling fantastic 🤛🏼 Special thanks to .sd for holding the fort at home and being a great extra pair of hands on Saturday 🙏🏻
A massive thank you to team Stixxy Sam Offord Annabelle Galt Tom Phillips for keeping him feeling primed both at home and away 💪
A very heartfelt thank you to team Emma Equestrian Marketing Becca Velarde Coach Arthur Maddy VT Amelia Steane Sarah Charnley Kate Hayward-Smith for being such fantastic supporters this week, and making it such a fun time 🥰
A massive thank you to NT Sport Horses Kylie Roddy & Ian Woodhead for all of the coaching, mentoring and self belief manufacturing, I could not get there without you 🙏🏻✨
Special mention to The Balanced Rider for keeping strapped together this week with a minor injury 🩹💙
A final thank you to my amazing little mad genius for taking me further than my wildest dreams, and we’re not done yet 🚀
Fuelled by SPILLERS 💚

08/09/2026

It’s rare for a 5* eventer to arrive at a competition without a few aches and pains. And that’s my job as show-physio at Defender Burghley Horse Trials - to help the riders, grooms and officials be at their best during 4-days of the best equestrian sport of the year 😀

08/09/2026

Huge congratulations to Minder at Defender Burghley Horse Trials 🤩🇨🇭🇨🇭🇨🇭

1st after the dressage and finishing 5th overall- with the fabulous Toblerone; at 19yrs the oldest horse on course 😀

02/09/2026

All set-up and super start to a busy week of physio at Defender Burghley Horse Trials 😀

11/06/2026

Yeah! New magazine article.

Thank you to British Horse Society magazine and Bilton for asking me to contribute to Lauren’s super article on rider fitness with an Exercise Corner: my favourite horse rider home exercises. Thank you even more to Emma Bailey for modelling the exercises for me 💛💚

04/06/2026

Physio can be fun especially when you’re supervised by Harry the Skeleton 🫣🤣

22/05/2026

Physio Al Fresco

The last patient on the final evening of Royal Windsor Horse Show

The carriage drivers tend to create little villages in the lorry field, not just out of lorries from the same nation but overlapping with neighbouring nations who compete together regularly.

This lorry had been the living quarters for the German 🇩🇪 carriage drivers, dormitory for the 🇩🇪 ladies, and temporary physio clinic for several nations.

On Sunday evening it was all packed up like a 3D jigsaw/ Tetris; ready for leaving in the middle of the night - meaning al fresco physio on a gorgeous evening.

Thank you to everyone for your awesome hospitality

22/05/2026

The Back in Action The Mobiliser System was in high demand with Clare Howard the official show physio at Royal Windsor Horse Show in the medical centre.

It’s a fabulous piece of equipment, that I wouldn’t be without as part of my physio kit. Great to finish a physio session, or a stand alone treatment that can be used several times a day.

I even sent one of the doctors home with it, as he’d hurt his back at the end of the last day - he’s already feeling better.