BRITISH DRESSAGE REPORT
“I am really pleased with my win at the Regionals but I’m not going to get
carried away with a bit of success” Lewis Carrier
year now as an apprentice under Haddon
Training. I started riding at the age of
seven and I will be 18 in April this year.
Diego is my first horse after a succession
of ponies. Diego is a rising seven-yearold Dutch Warmblood by Spielberg x
Welt Hit II.
I learned my dressage with Mrs Diana
Fisher (Woolcroft Saddlery). Diana
found Diego for me at Dan Greenwood’s
yard as a freshly castrated four year old
and put in six months of hard work
with Diego while I finished my GCSEs.
Diego was a very lively young horse and
managed to jump out of the stallion
paddock at Diana’s yard and always
keeps me on my toes at all times.
I have carried on producing Diego
myself since moving to the Eilbergs,
under the watchful eye of Michael in
particular. I ride or lunge Diego six days
a week and he goes on the horse walker
on his rest day. I get to ride some of the
April 2015 • Issue 19 • Everything Horse UK
Image: Tom and
Joradina Gemma,
photo by Kevin
Sparrow
amazing horses at the yard but I wouldn’t
swap Diego for any of them, apart from
maybe Farouche!
I’ve got to thank Michael again for
warming me up at the Regionals; for
the training that he has given me since
I have been at his yard and to Maya
Goldberg for her immovable plaits!’’
11