My dreams were coming true, I had just competed at the Burghley Horse Trials and had a really good team of owners and horses. But on the 6th May 2007 these dreams came to a grinding halt. My life changed in a split second.[Additional content protected for Members only]
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Up Against It is a new column for 2010 where riders who have overcome a wide range of hurdles, whether relating to themselves or their horses, tell their stories.
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Those who know me might think of me as a ‘Glass Half Full’ kind of girl, but the last few years have made me wonder what it’s half full of. So who am I? My name is Jo Williams. I started riding when I was nine years old and living in Hertfordshire. When I was [...]

When I was nine, I was diagnosed with Type 1 Diabetes, inherited genetically from my Dad’s side.
I remember feeling thirsty all the time, extremely tired and very antisocial. My mother, a dentist, fancies herself as a bit of a medic and had already got a very strong suspicion it was diabetes before Christmas, but [...]

When I was 13, I was involved in a motorbike accident which sent me flying 30ft down the road at a fair old rate of knots. Being 13 you don’t think of what the serious consequences could have been, but looking back now I realise I was very lucky – I ended up sat in [...]