BIOGRAPHY

Alex is a British dressage rider from Bakewell, Derbyshire and has trained with Sonia Baines since she was eight years old. In 2011, when Alex was just eleven years old, she was part of the British Pony squad with Dublin and again in 2012. 2013 was the third year on the squad for Alex with Clare Williams’ pony Der Kleine Lord who she was given the ride on. She was a member of the 2014 Silver Medal winning team at the European Championships in Millstreet Ireland, and was the individual Bronze Medalist.

In 2015, Alex was the third ranked in the FEI Youth Dressage World Rankings, which was an astonishing achievement. When Lordy (Der Klein Lord) moved onto new owners, Alex turned her attention to her horse Uvender V (Uvi), a Krack C gelding. She returned onto Team GBR two years later with Uvi to represent her country at the 2016 Junior European Championships in Oliva Nova, Spain. The following year, she was short listed for the 2017 Junior European Championships and then returned onto the team in 2019, this time as a Young Rider and made the trip to San Giovanni, Italy for the Europeans.

Alongside her career in the youth teams, Alex also completed a Mathematics degree at the University of Sheffield. She graduated in 2022 with a First-Class honours degree. Since then, Alex has made her passion for horses her career and is now riding and coaching full time.

2022 has seen a flying start for Alex who continues Uvender V to much success and has made the transition to U25 GP internationally and Senior Grand Prix nationally. She is also extremely lucky to have the support of a wonderful owner who is allowing her to train and compete a string of home-bred young horses. She has already taken Spartacus UKB to the Winter Championships this year and qualified Bentayga UKB for the 4 year old young horse semi finals. She hopes to continue to compete all of the horses successfully this year and start the competition career of Daenerys UKB.

Alex is very lucky to have a great team around her, especially as her family, who before her rise to the top, had no interest in horses whatsoever so she is very grateful to them.

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