Lovely pictures Luka-pop, both those horses are so beautiful and you look great in your show gear

My reason for losing confidence in jumping was...... I really don't know. I think as I got older I was just a lot more cautious - I wasn't so brave at jumping and I wouldn't gallop about on hacks as I did when I was 14. Things were so bad that I would go at jumps from a trot holding the neck strap!! Ross loved to jump and has a lot of scope. I actually haven't jumped him for 3 years now but he has taken to hacking about quite happily (I have had him 8 years now).

I did regain some confidence and then we had an accident going cross country - we were jumping a ditch which was a little overgrown and he obviously didn't realise how wide it was - landed in the ditch and somersaulted ending up on top of me - I broke my collarbone and Ross was ok - but obviously won't go over ditches anymore. I did find that when we stopped competing and he wasn't jumping so much his jumping improved as he enjoyed it so much more.

I think we will get back into jumping the odd small fence when we are fitter but for now I love nothing more than a quiet hack with my boy.

I'll leave the jumping to you younger/braver ones!!!!!!!!