"Quite simply, as soon as Debbie saw Monty she fell in love with him. She has a really good eye for a horse and over the years has picked out our star horses. Debbie had seen Monty on Gill's website and fell in love with him just from the pictures, never suspecting that he would be the best present ever. As Gill's farrier for many years, I know her horses well and Mama Mia, Monty's dam is a superb mare and I have seen all her foals grow up. Monty is the complete package and I mean by this that I take everything into account when I buy a horse, bearing in mind I see horses of the highest quality through my work and my eventing and dressage. I loved how Monty looks, how he moves towards me, I love his breeding, his power comes from behind and the fact that he is by a second generation Sandro Hit stallion -  Monty has the most fantastic temperament and is the most sensible and trusting young horse we have ever owned. He has got the wow factor - it is something special inside him that I cannot put a name to, but I know its there."

I first met Wurly when I was visiting the Jollies family as their hairdresser! Gill knowing that I used to ride as a child asked if I would like to see their latest foal!! I of course jumped at the chance as I had never met a new born foal!! We walked up to the stable door and this little chap jumped up at the door and tried to get as close to us as possible, he reminded me of an over friendly Labrador!! I asked if this was normal of foals? Having not met one before! she just said that he was definitely one on his own!

So 18months went by and with Gill’s help I took up riding again and decided that I would buy my own horse.

One winter’s morning “Wurly was in from the field” and Gill asked me if I would like to see him as she knew I had always been asking after Wurly as I couldn’t get this friendly little guy out of my head, and there he was, this cute little foal had turned into the most gorgeous creature that I had ever seen…


At age 2 I took him away to a Parelli clinic weekend at Christine Worthington’s in Chorley where he had his first “sleepover”. He was there with 5 adult horses and people couldn’t believe his age he behaved impeccably and I put this down to the fact that all Gill’s horses are so well handled from birth and well fed so people just found it hard to believe that he was only 2! He loaded into the trailer first time as he just knows that nothing is going to hurt him and that we, his handlers would never ask him to do anything that would compromise him.

He is 4 now and is really well established in his work. He takes to everything so well, he is so trusting and still really friendly. He is a really intelligent animal and learns things so quickly, Gill adapts the training of the animals to suit their own unique personalities, so things progress quickly with wurly so as to not bore him and he is now long reining and hacking out with her daughter Charlotte to bombproof him on the roads for me!! In the school he walks, trots and canters on both reins with ease and balance. He is about ready now to goto his first competition now

And the love story continues……..