Hi from Hannah and Maisy!

A few weekends ago, Maisy and I (and my family) went to Thetford in Norfolk for an endurance ride. We camped over night, which was great fun although we’d left our sleep mats at home.

Gemma did 40km with Kizzee and it was mine and Maisy’s first go at the intermediate distance of 34km. A friend of Mummy’s took me round. We went very, very, fast at 14.14km per hour but is was such good fun!

Gemma passed her ride and is now qualified for the PC National Champs at open level. I also got my first qualifier for the intermediate, but I will still only ride at Novice at the champs because the finals distance is 40km, which Mummy says is too far for me yet.

Then, we had the most exciting weekend ever! We went to stay at Ascot Racecourse, to be part of the Pony Club Charity Ride which ended at the Royal Windsor Horse Show in front of the Queen!!!!!!!!!!!

We practiced the parade loads on Saturday. Maisy was just so naughty, she bucked me off four times! There were loads of other horses so we think she just got too excited. Saturday night we went to the Tattoo and watched the Household Cavalry display. I loved it was so fast and scary.

Sunday, we drove to Smith's Lawn and there some very posh polo ponies playing at Guard's Polo Club. Then the soldiers and their horses came to ride with us through Windsor Great Park. Just as we set off Masiy bucked again but I stayed on!

We had a lovely ride in the woods and down the long ride towards the Castle until we reached the showground. Maisy had been so naughty they put me on a lead rein to go into the arena in case I fell off in front of the Queen, but I wasn’t the only one having problems.

It was scary and noisy in the arena with loads of people clapping and shouting. We had to go into lots of lines and split up from our partners. Mine was Abbie from Vale of Aylesbury PC. She was really kind when Maisy was being naughty.

We raised over £9,000 for for charity and some riders presented the money to the Duke of Edinburgh. It's going to be a weekend I’m never going to forget!

We are off to Wells Next The Sea for a few days at the beach with the ponies next!

(Ed: Check out the August issue of H+P (on sale July 5) for loads of PC ride pix)

Hannah and Maisy's Royal Windsor highlights!