Ottilie Bardsley

Ottilie is a 22 year old British Dressage rider based at Pinfold Stables, Cheshire, with international dressage riders Sarah Higgins and Sarah Rao, and Olympic eventer Alex Hua Tian.

Ottilie’s Dressage career started in ponies being selected for many internationals on her two ponies Dublin and Kingsley Ciske, with highlights being a 1st at Keysoe CDI, 2016, Advanced Medium Area Champions, and being selected for Pony European Championships, which they unfortunately couldn’t take part in due to injury. 

Ottilie then moved on to Juniors with her horse Darina O. They competed at Lier CDI and Saumur CDI, finishing 2nd with the team in the nations cup. They were shortlisted for the 2017 Junior Europeans, but Ottilie decided to pull out of the race to concentrate on her A levels. After a bad fall off of a young horse in 2017, Ottilie had to take a number of years out due to injury.

Now Ottilie is fully healed, she is throwing herself back into the sport and now has a strong string of horses, her aim is to be competing at Small Tour by the end of the year, with the eventual aim to compete at Grand Prix. Alongside this, she loves modelling professionally with her horses and has worked with many well known brands such as Charles Owen, Ariat and Go Outdoors.