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Claudia Studdert and Mister Ed (aka Merrilea Lodge PowWow)!

Claudia began riding when she was about 7 years old, and after many leases, riding camps and lessons, she was lucky enough to be given her first pony Jack (Jack Rabbit) on Christmas Eve (yes – a bit cliché!) with whom she competed across all disciplines. She was also very lucky to begin having lessons with 3 time Olympian Vicki Roycroft at such a young age.

After she grew out of Jack (who she still believes is the best pony in the world) and sold him to his wonderful forever home, she was offered the opportunity to train on a gorgeous Grand Prix dressage horse named Cyrano for quite a while, which was an incredible experience. Unfortunately he was then retired, which is when she moved over to the showjumping world and began training with Vicki again.

After saving up for quite a while, she purchased one of Vicki’s show-jumpers, Ed! Eddy is a 16.2hh WB x TB, and being a pally with a large blaze, is basically the famous “Mister Ed’s” lookalike, also being VERY easy to spot at shows! They started at about 95cm, and have slowly worked up to 1m20 classes, with her sights set on working her way up to Young Rider classes, before the end of 2018…

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