Really must update this blog sometime. It is quite a good way of keeping a diary. Interestingly, to start with it felt very personal and I didn't want to share it with anyone, but now I am much further down the 'healing' line, I am  happy to share! I just found this video on my old computer of Alfie at his first western show at Solihull in 2010 (pre accident obviously). He did really well and was so very well behaved. He wasn't THAT great in this particular class (note the pawing like a bull at the gate!! A big sign of disobedience in Western circles) but apart from that and trashing the reversing poles, he was great and I had a lovely day, returning with a 3rd in trail, and a 4th, 5th and 6th place in other classes.
I think he was 5th in this particular class.