When I first saw Molly with a view to buying her she was very scared and troubled. She would barely let you stroke her face and her ears were a definate "no touch" area!

The first time I sat on her was in Lincolnshire at a cross country schooling place. As soon as I was in the saddle she reared up and if someone wasn't holding her head she would have gone over backwards!

I brought her back home to birmingham in August 2003. She competed in a couple of Showjumping shows coming 5th in one. She also did her first mini One Day Event in which she finished 12th. I had her vetted in September 2003 and she failed on her back and lameness in canter.

Lena offered to have her back but I declined and brought her - much to Lena's amazement! I could see through her problems and see the future star she would become - I could not let her go back to Lincolnshire where Lena would keep her in a field doing nothing - it was a waste!

In October I took her cross country schooling around the college cross country course and Molly had an accident over one of the fences. She misjudged the fence - not helping by the uneven ground - and hit the fence hard making us sumersault over the fence. Molly landed on her side and luckily not on me, she did roll over my leg which caused cuts and bruises but amazingly didn't break anything. Molly was fine - just a little stiff the next couple of days.

November and December just consisted of a few dressage competitions and showjumping at college - Molly was not very good at dressage - she is too nervous and gets wound up over nothing far too easily!