Meet dressage newcomers and newly-crowned Petplan Equine novice bronze champions, Victoria Homden and Olly, who is far from your typical dressage horse
Just a mere 48 hours after sitting in a dressage saddle for the very first time, Victoria Homden was crowned the winner of the Petplan Equine novice bronze at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships .
Victoria was riding the six-year-old 14hh stallion Olly, a home-bred Welsh/traditional cob, and this win is their eighth in a row.
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