Sam Roberts is a name probably best known in the showing world, with several large championship titles to her name. However, keen-eyed competitors at the NAF Five Star Winter Dressage Championships will have spotted her riding between the white boards earlier this week (30 June).
Sam finished a very creditable eighth on 71.02% in the Baileys Horse Feeds novice freestyle silver championship aboard her incredibly consistent mountain and moorland show pony, Moelview Prince Consort . But Sam didn’t have the most straightforward of journeys to these championships.
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Read the full report from the Winter Dressage Championships in the 8 July 2021 issue of Horse & Hound magazine, and keep checking back to horseandhound.co.uk for more news and features.
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