After four months in hospital, Saffron Cresswell was dreading coming home.
She knew the field would be empty.
Before she had the fall that would leave her paralysed at the age of 23, she had 25 horses that she trained and rode in a business she had been running since she was 15 and was a talented eventer on a pathway towards the Olympics.
Eight years earlier her parents had sold their house to buy a yard to support her career, with the family living in two tiny touring caravans for six years before they converted part of a barn into a home.
For years, Cresswell had been up at 5am, riding four ponies before school, then more afterwards - if she even went in. She puts her school attendance at "68% or something ridiculous" because she was "so busy riding".
#home #school #olympics #months
She knew the field would be empty.
Before she had the fall that would leave her paralysed at the age of 23, she had 25 horses that she trained and rode in a business she had been running since she was 15 and was a talented eventer on a pathway towards the Olympics.
Eight years earlier her parents had sold their house to buy a yard to support her career, with the family living in two tiny touring caravans for six years before they converted part of a barn into a home.
For years, Cresswell had been up at 5am, riding four ponies before school, then more afterwards - if she even went in. She puts her school attendance at "68% or something ridiculous" because she was "so busy riding".
#home #school #olympics #months
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