article_snippet: National dressage competitor Tahley Reeve-Smith shares a quiet moment at National dressage competitor Tahley Reeve-Smith stables in Hertfordshire .
article_snippet: a successful rider and trainer who has horses galloping through her veins – national dressage competitor Tahley Reeve-Smith has represented England and is currently being trained by 2012 Olympic Gold medal winner Carl Hester.
article_snippet: And the love of all things equine doesn’t end with her – Tahley’s family
article_snippet: Tahley’s determination to compete is so strong that she has even taken to the saddle with a broken leg.
article_snippet: Since then Tahley and husband John have resurfaced the manege, making the manege perfect in all weathers, increased the number of stables to seven, and installed mirrors and floodlights so a rider can always see how Tahley and husband John look as Tahley and husband John practise.
article_snippet: Tahley, who is also a dressage judge, uses the manege to train novice horses and riders.
article_snippet: Special has taken Tahley to the verge of representing the country again and Tahley will soon be competing in the British Dressage Championships at Hartpury in Gloucestershire, near Carl Hester’s yard.
article_snippet: But however Special is, no horse could top Tahley’s first, a New Forest pony called, again appropriately, Topper.
article_snippet: Tahley rode throughout Tahley childhood and says Tahley used every spare minute Tahley had at school to get homework done so Tahley could spend time with horses.
article_snippet: ’s stables,Tahley says.
article_snippet: Tahley’s father Justin was renting a house near the riding school in Hertford.
article_snippet: A physicist by training, Tahley’s father Justin used to run a company in the metals industry but loved being around horses so much that, in Tahley’s father Justin mid-30s, Tahley’s father Justin retrained to become a farrier, and later became qualified as a fence-builder for showjumping.
article_snippet: all Tahley’s mother life around horses has led Tahley’s mother to become an expert on horse bloodlines, horses potential and breeding, and Tahley’s mother has found future champions for Tahley.
article_snippet: Tahley and John will run a horses’ yard while Tahley continues to compete in dressage and train other riders.