Team Bickleigh On The Road to Beer, Axminster to support a Royal British Legion event commemorating the last day of the Battle of the Somme.

So yesterday Team Bickleigh - Gemma, Doug, Megan, Suzie, Steve, Charlie and Lorraine along with Anoushka, Tony the pony and Bob the cob hit the road and went to Beer near Axminster to support a Royal British Legion event commemorating the last day of the Battle of the Somme.
It was a humbling and moving event, held in candlelight at the memorial in Beer town centre. Dressed in authentic WW1 uniform, the riders and their horses rode, in the dark down through the closed off road to the memorial - they looked like ghosts of the past as they rode out of the darkness into the light.....eerie, thought provoking and akin to being taken back to that time.....
I am so proud of the horses. They were loaded in daylight, driven 2 hours up the motorway to somewhere they had never been to before, unloaded in the dark and asked to ride down dark roads totally unfamiliar to them - without any prior practice.
They never put a hoof wrong and are a credit and testament to the trust they have in their owners.
I felt so honoured to be a part of an amazing team.
Our thanks go to Lisa and Tony for providing amazing transport and getting us there and back safely....not forgetting Milo our newest member of Team Bickleigh! Cannot recommend these guys highly enough.
Onwards and upwards, 2017 is going to be awesome!