FUELLED by a corner of bacon sandwich and a slurp of coffee, logistics for school pick-up racing through your mind and a work call to squeeze in before your dressage test: welcome to an amateur’s competition day. Just getting to the start line can feel Herculean, an inevitability to that bubbling adrenaline as your start time looms.
“I think we need a bit of the adrenaline, don’t we? It makes us sharper,” says eventer, dressage rider, marketing manager and part-time model Sophie Hall, who is well-versed in balancing her career with the yearning for a good outcome in the ring. “My year-end feedback at work was that I’m like a swan, and I think that being a rider and constantly putting yourself under a lot of pressure has
