Welcome to Georgie Spence's next monthly diary installment. Georgie (19) is an eventer and is based near Chippenham, Wiltshire. She is currently on the World Class Start Programme for future potential Olympic British team prospects. She was a member of the gold medal - winning team at the Young Rider Europeans at Blair Castle in 2007 and received an award from British Eventing for being the rider under 21 years of age gaining the most points in 2007. In 2008 she is aiming to compete in her first 4* event.

Georgie writes:
I've had a very busy February with lots of things going on in preparation for the start of the new season. I went to the Jump and Style (JAS) at West Wilts with two of the new horses, Minx and Kiki, and also Trenear and Tom. It is a great way to get them going before we start eventing properly. They all went really well - Kiki finished 10th in the Open to qualify for the final, Trenear came 4th in the Open and Tom won, so quite a successful day!

Georgie has still been finding time to jump baby Ollie at home.

The following Sunday we took eight horses cross-country schooling to Boomerang. Because we only have a four-horse lorry, it meant doing two trips with four horses each time and so was quite a busy day, but they all jumped superbly. The younger horses are becoming very confident, and are jumping pre-novice and novice type fences quite happily now.

We took four horses to the JAS at Hoplands on the 16th and Daisy won the Pre-Novice and the Novice classes and Gull won the Open with a double clear. At Hartpury on the following day, Daisy won again and was second in the Pre-Novice! We also took three of the ‘babies’ (Henry, Sophie and Libby) along and I took them round nice and slowly. We finished with lots of time faults but I couldn’t have been more pleased with them. They are still quite green and were very tired the next day.

The following weekend, at the JAS finals, Daisy had a pole down in the Novice but won the Pre-Novice Championship with a double clear. Gully and Tom had one fence down each in the show jumping and finished 3rd and 5th, so I was very pleased with them all.

Tom competed well last year and Georgie has done lots of preparation for this season.

This month, I have also had quite a few dressage training sessions with Pammy Hutton and the horses seem to have all improved, so, fingers crossed, I will be able to keep the standard up for the whole season!

To find out more about Georgie please visit www.georgiespence.com