Andrew is now 26 and has been affiliated eventing for about ten years. It started off with pre-novice and the JRN programme culminating in the three day at Tweseldown. He picked up his first points on his 16th birthday and was hooked from that day. Annual trips to Badminton gave Andrew the goal of being the one rider that the Pembrokeshire contingent could root for - a position last held by a distant cousin of his when he was only eight months old.

At the age of sixteen an opportunity arose for him to spend six months in New Zealand and there seemed no comparison to the cold long winter of Pembrokeshire, where rain is an every day occurrence. Andrew had great fun grooming and riding on the show jumping circuit for Clare Murphy, now Wilson. When he returned home for the following season friends and family managed to find a few horses to campaign and the steep learning curve really began!

After several years based at home Andrew had managed to build up a string of about ten horses with the help of Isabel and Dave Scourfield who transported him back and forth to Matt Ryan's for training. At 22 he completed his first CCI*** at Blair Castle on his own two horses. At that point he decided that if he was going to turn Eventing into a career he needed to be where the action was. Selling horses was hard from Pembrokeshire as people wouldn’t travel, and being able to secure owners that could sustain an event horse was even harder. Andrew's parents, Nick and Jen, supported him in renting a yard near Newbury, which consisted of twenty boxes, an indoor school and a cottage. Set up, or so he thought! 

This was a difficult season with well over a hundred rides but hardly any placings. Andrew found that he was spreading himself too thinly - trying to sell, teach, break and compete was too much, but this was what it took to be able to make ends meet. A time of consolidation was what was needed so he took the best six horses and based himself with Gill Watson for a year. This gave him the time necessary to spend on each horse, and for him to receive some training, which had always been a costly affair.

Steve and Ginny Cook supplied Andrew with a groom for which he will be forever grateful. Finances were stretched to the maximum, and this is where Nick Turner came to his rescue, offering him the base, support and backup that he then realised he needed.

Now based at Nick’s, Andrew has ten horses. Ciao Mario, after a troublesome season in 2007, is the horse he hopes to compete at his first CCI**** in 2008. Cudlic Earl, owned and bred by Lucy Williams for whom he has ridden for five years, will be starting his advanced campaign in 2008. Andrew owns another nine year old, Loch Sunnart, who will be aimed at Blenheim as well as a lovely selection of novices coming up behind. Andrew is also lucky to have the best set of owners any rider could wish for, without whom he wouldn’t be where he is now.