The future of Team GB? Watch this 10-year-old jockey and her 11hh pony take on some serious cross-country fences…

While most 10-year-old jockeys are navigating around nursery stakes courses, one plucky young rider and her pint-sized Dartmoor pony are taking on fences some adult riders would baulk at.

Claudia Groves and her 11hh black gelding, Roseashes Trew (Trooper), quickly captured the hearts of the internet when Claudia’s mum Sam shared a video of them jumping around a sizeable cross-country course at Dene Farm in Hampshire over the half term holidays.

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Article written by: Alex Robinson