I'm from Downpatrick, Co Down and I started riding ponies when I was four-years-old. I went up through Pony Club and then I went to the Horse Sport Ireland Youth Eventing High Performance program. In the process of doing that, I left school and needed a job riding out in the mornings before I did my own horses. I went to Brian Hamilton's in Downpatrick and and built up my interest in racing from there. I really enjoyed the galloping and jumping. After having experience of eventing, going cross country and the show jumping, I thought it helped me with the jumping and schooling of the racehorses.

I represented Ireland at the FEI European Eventing Championships for Juniors and Young Riders. The first year I went with the juniors was 2016 in Montelibretti in Italy. Dressage wasn't my horse's strongest point ,but he was a very good jumper and he jumped double clear. The team just missed out on a medal as we were fourth which was great in my first championship. I went to the young riders' in 2018 to Fontainebleu in France. We were a young rider team, so we were up a level. I was first out in the cross country and, with the heat and everything, my horse got quite tired and fell in the water. I'd have to put a line through that, but it was brilliant to get picked to go. It was and still is competitive to try and get picked for those teams. Going across the water to represent your country is an achievement in itself. One of my top horses got injured and had to retire from the top level and I was kind of only left with a younger mare that I still have today. I just went riding out then and fell in love with it. I wanted to give it a go, for something different, as another string to your bow as they say.