by Polly Mountford | Aug 3, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
Learning on the job Before I worked for top riders I had plenty of preconceptions about what top event horses were like – to ride, to look after, to be around. Things like: That by the time they were established at 5* they were all sorted/predictable/reliable That...
by Polly Mountford | May 24, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
Setting up on my own – the dawn of Mountford Sport Horses When I left Andrew Nicholson’s yard to ‘set up on my own’, I was ready for hard graft, excited at the prospect of making my own decisions and was champing at the bit to ride as, when and how I felt was...
by Carrie Eve | May 17, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
Oh it’s good to be back out competing again! 1/3 of the way through 2021 and we’re only now doing event reports but I think we can all say it’s good to be back! Everyone you speak to at a show just always says how nice it is to be back out again, it really has been a...
by Polly Mountford | Apr 4, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
Two Team Mountford happenings this month that show lockdown really has gone on for far too long now. One, I’ve taken to occasional sleeps in the lorry that we bought, ridiculously, in February 2020 and so has hardly left the yard since. It’s obviously a...
by Polly Mountford | Mar 4, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
How have you been since my last check in? If you missed it, you can catch it here! I am looking ahead with full positivity for 2021, let’s jump in. Positive changes T-shirts today – and that’s without having 6 other layers on top, yup, t-shirt weather in...
by Polly Mountford | Feb 5, 2021 | Brand Ambassadors
The January Diary of an Eventer is always going to be weather-heavy. However much you want to avoid talking about this all-British of subjects, it can’t be ignored when you’ve got 11 clipped and stabled horses bouncing out of their skins, ‘trying’ conditions...
