Stephen

Stephen show jumped to Grade B and rode in Horse Trials to advanced levels before fully concentrating on Dressage in the late 70's. During the 1980s and 1990s, he competed successfully both Nationally and Internationally.

In 1988, he was reserve for the Seoul Olympics with Becket.

Over the last couple of decades his career as an F.E.I. Official International Judge has taken him around the globe judging all major competitions including three World Cup Finals, three European Championships, the World Games in Jerez, the World Equestrian Games in Aachen, the Olympic Games in Athens and the Pan American Games in Rio De Janeiro and several World Young Horse Championships. In 2009, he was President of the Ground Jury at the European Championships in Windsor, UK. In 2010, he officiated at the World Equestrian Games in Kentucky USA and in 2012, he was President of the Ground Jury at the London Olympics and was on the ground jury at Rio Olympics 2016 Stephen is heavily involved with the training of future F.E.I. Candidate and International Judges.

Jo

Jo rode on the British Young rider team at the European championships in 1982 in Munich, Germany and 1983 in Ikast, Denmark. She competed Internationally at small tour and Grand Prix Nationally. Jo has won 3 National titles and had many placings at National championships on several different horses and now applies her time to the training of others.

Jo is a list 1(National Grand Prix) judge and a 4* international judge, officiating all over the world. She judged at the Pony European Championships in Ireand in 2104 and Young Riders European Championships in France in 2018.

Jo has been heavily involved in the training and examining of other judges in Uk and was responsible for re-structuring the BD exam system

Jo was the inspiration behind starting these dvds and is the producer and director

Tom

We were lucky enough that Thomas Farnon joined us in the production of the Freestyle dvds.

Thomas is a composer born in Guernsey. Over the past 8 years Thomas has worked frequently with Lorne Balfe, Rupert Gregson Williams and Hans Zimmer and contributed music for films such as: 'The Legend of Tarzan', 'Hacksaw Ridge', 'The Ridiculous 6', 'Wonder Woman', 'Churchill', 'Dough', 'American Hero', Neflix's 'The Crown' and 'Open Season:Scared Silly'. In addition he has written music for video games such as 'Assassins Creed 3', and the 'Skylanders' series.

Recently Thomas has provided the score to Emma Lindley's moving drama "Thin Air", Shaan Shahid's "Zarrar" and is currently working on a Fantasy feature film.

Gareth

We are delighted to announce that Gareth Hughes has joined our team to do training downloads.

Gareth is a well known International Rider and trainer. He is a Nations Cup winner as well as World and European medal winner.

Former coach of the Australian Event team and Swiss Dressage team.

He has over 50 National and International titles and runs Hughes Dressage with his wife Rebecca