Nicola Jane Stephens
Tinkerbells
Grove Lane
Salisbury
Wiltshire
SP5 2NR

DOB 7^th September 1955

Equine Expert Witness
Equestrian Valuations
Equestrian Consultant

Curriculum Vitae

I have over 40 years experience with horses. There are few areas of equestrianism with which I have not been involved. I have experience in 3 day eventing, Show Jumping, Dressage, Showing, Pony/Riding Clubs, Hunt Racing ,Team Chasing, Hunting.

Experience with Horses

• Former international 3 day event rider (short-listed world championships, long-listed Olympics) Won and placed at numerous international 3 day events including Badminton and Burghley

• Show Jumped to high level at both senior and junior level including being Leading Junior Showjumper.

• Shown at Horse of the Year show on many occasions in many different categories. Winner of the Mountain and moorland championship at Olympia.

• Ridden and placed in both the Melton Hunt Ride and the Golden Button Hunt Ride

• Hunted with 42 packs in England/Ireland

• Ran my own competition/hunter livery yard.

• Have broken in and schooled many hundreds of ponies and horses for all disciplines

• Practising commoner on the New Forest. (Farming of Semi Feral Ponies)

• Has attended all major horse auctions in England and Ireland for the past 30 years as both Buyer and Seller

• Judged at The Horse of the Year Show and at nearly all major county shows.

• Bought and sold horses and ponies all my life and advised many people accordingly.

• Instructed in all disciplines.

• Bred and produced many horses and ponies for all disciplines

• Present council member for the New Forest Pony and Cattle Breed Society

• Past council member of the National Pony Society (6 yrs)

• Present council member of the National Park Authority Equine Forum

• Panel A Judge and ride judge for :-

  • Coloured Horse and Pony Society

  • Ponies UK

  • New Forest Pony Society

• Select panel judge for the grading of the New Forest Pony stallions

• Ran the Fit For The Future welfare program for the World Horse Welfare charity for three years

• BHS riding and road safety exam

• BHSAI

• BHSII (stage 3)

• BHS Safeguarding and Protecting Children course

• Fully Insured.

Currently

• On a daily basis still continuing to break in and train horses and ponies, from 12 hands upwards, specialising in retraining difficult horses and ponies, sometimes with long-standing behavioural problems.

• Advising clients on buying and selling horses and generally supplying equestrian expertise and advise from basic to international level at home and abroad.

• Running small private livery yard

“Outstanding overall knowledge in the equine industry in all aspects”

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