"The highlight of my week has been giving a dressage display with Wurlizer (aka Wizard, a 9 year old by Weltmeyer x Brentano II) to the children of the Wormwood Scrubs Pony Centre in West London. The centre gives disabled and inner city children the opportunity to learn to ride and care for horses and ponies and I was asked to give the display by London Law firm Pemberton Greenish who support the centre.

Richard, whose daughter Ellie keeps her horse with us, very kindly took us up to London and we arrived at 3pm for the 5pm start.

Kate from Pemberton Greenish who was organising the event met us and showed us around the centre before a final briefing on the evening ahead. She also pounced with make up as she said there would be a lot of photos…she wasn’t wrong!

I met more of her colleagues who were helping her with the event and at about 4.30pm Wizard and I had our first photocall, before warming him up in time for the demo.

Once everyone had arrived (200 people including over 100 children), the senior partner at Pemberton Greenish gave a brief introduction, describing what dressage is and also giving an overview of what Wizard and I have won.

Amy, who works alongside me, took over the microphone and Wizard and I ran through all the movements we know with Amy explaining what we were doing. The audience’s favourite tricks were his one time changes and extended trots which drew ripples of appreciation from the crowd.

We then ran through our PSG music test before the Question and Answer session, and thankfully lots of children were forthcoming with questions for me.

It was then time for the aftershow party, where I signed autographs, handed out the party bags - provided by the law firm to the children - and had photos taken with the children.

Both Amy and I thoroughly enjoyed ourselves and the experience and I am fairly sure I will never have another experience like that again. The audience were so appreciative and thankful and it was very humbling. I would not hesitate to do it again.