Jackie North, Aspiring Para Rider

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Jackie North, Aspiring Para Rider An effort to raise support of my dream of becoming a para rider Hello followers! My life goal is to ride dressage in the paralympics.

At the moment in time I have found myself a mount to start showing on, thanks to a lot of supporting people especially my father, Harry North. This page is my blog of my journey from grass roots and beyond! Most of you know just what I have been through, and my goal is to go out and show the world, that no matter what life throws at you, you CAN get back up and carry on, you CAN keep going, you CAN find a way around your barricades and most importantly you CAN make the most out of your life. So a bit about me, my Name is Jackie North and I am need your help. I would describe myself as being, well, both the most lucky and unlucky person that you could meet. I was born with a rare case of PFFD (Proximal focal femoral deficiency) which basically means that my growth plates in this leg being near on useless but also that (The rare bit) the bones and joints on (In this case) my right leg are hugely deformed. In the past 18 years I have undergone 27 operations to try and fix this, and overall I am 1 inch and a half short still, but without this I would not have a leg from the knee down and now I have undergone my first full knee replacement at age 22. However, because of the shape of the bones causing unusual pressures on the body, it has caused aches and pains further up. Through all of this, horse riding has been the shining light that has kept my spirit alive, every time out of surgery it has been my reason to keep going, my reason to do my physio and get strong again all so that I could get back in the saddle, and now, Cookie has changed my life entirely. He is the reason I get out of bed in the morning, the reason I push through the pain, he is my light in the darkest of times and my strength when I have none. We two together are aiming to break all the odds to get to our dream of para dressage, so together we ask you to support and follow our journey, if you think you can help us, we would be most grateful whether it be a link to a person of knowledge or simply just a like of or on our page, it all helps! Thanking you all in advance,

Jackie and Cookie.

🎉 Apparently, I earned the emerging talent badge this week, recognising me for creating engaging content that sparks an ...
12/10/2026

🎉 Apparently, I earned the emerging talent badge this week, recognising me for creating engaging content that sparks an interest among my fans! Can't help but be a little chuffed 😅🥰

Second ride tonight, completely relaxed 🥰😇😇😇 reigns like washing lines most of the time! 😁😁😁 what a horse she is ❤️‍🔥💖💖 ...
20/09/2026

Second ride tonight, completely relaxed 🥰😇😇😇 reigns like washing lines most of the time! 😁😁😁 what a horse she is ❤️‍🔥💖💖

Well, I have waited 6 years for this! Six years since I lost my dear cookie, and hell it's been a hard time!!

Well, more the last three years, Having a my 36th op, a hip replacement because I didn't have a socket any more, (it was flat as a pancake and dislocating every step!), getting diagnosed with celiacs disease and anemia, and spending 3 years where I haven't been able to get out of bed 95% of the time .....

yeah it's been tough! But maggie along with my partner Ian, have been the light that's guided me through! Long have I awaited the day we would start riding, and boy howdy is she proving herself to be a very special horse!!

Because she is so big and turns 6 next april,
We are taking it super duper slow, short slow hacks this year, But next year is gonna be fun 😁😄😃😆🥰😍🤩🥰🥰🥰🥰

20/09/2026

Miss May enjoys a stud muffin 🥰😍

18/09/2026

Well......yet again, I. AM. SPEECHLESS.......I am a bit gutted, but I never got a vid or photo of me riding my mare for the very first time 🥹🥹🥹

But this video gives you an example of just how chilled miss may was today!!

It was windy, and ari, our older companion (supposed to give maggs a lead!!) Was playing up something special....(we thought he would be a good lead because to ride he used to be good as gold and they are feild mates and ari has a soft spot for maggs.....we were not correct that he would make a good nanny or that he would in fact, behave at all 😅🫣😬)

So maggie took the lead, (very quickly) paying no mind to aris hijinks whatsoever, listening to every command, plodding up the road as if she was 30 and had hacked every day of her life!! We didn't go very far and thought it best to turn back, but we had a few small trot-trots, and every time came back to walk with a 'woah' and an ask on her neck strap!

I could not have asked more from her if she had tried. What a special girly she is!! 😍😍😍🥰🥰🥰🤩🤩🤩☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️☺️

17/09/2026

Another video from tuesday 🥰
Wait for it and sound up 🔊🔊......
another example yet again of how AMAZING this girl is 😍😍😍😍🤩🤩🤩🤩

Eeeeeeekkkkkk! I AM SOOO EXCITED FOR FRIDAY!! 😆😆😆😁😁😁😁

Don't have photos of the work, but so so proud of this one!! We started work now on gently gently backing and building h...
03/05/2026

Don't have photos of the work, but so so proud of this one!! We started work now on gently gently backing and building her up as she has told us she wants to be busy, she really seems to relish the work, the aim is not to do anything but slow hacking and lots of different types of ground work this year but we've started the long reigning which she's getting the hang of and of which we will do lots and lots of, she's been sat on by Anita, and she carried on eating her hay! She takes it all in her stride and is so careful of me as she knows my physical issues, which for a 5 year old, is worth her weight in gold.

Big thanks to Bridget Middlebrough for checking her new saddle today and I am pleased to say with a few tweaks (it has a changable gullet) it should be good to go 🥰

So proud of her this far and super happy to be back in the world I belong, but with a difference, the last 3 years have been hell but taught me well that life isn't supposed to be singularly facsited. Bring it on 💪😎🥰

Hi all, long time no speak ah? I bet, well perhaps you were wondering if I were no more. Well the truth is, I lost my de...
23/03/2026

Hi all, long time no speak ah? I bet, well perhaps you were wondering if I were no more.

Well the truth is, I lost my dear cookie at the end of the first lock down and I have been on some hiatus, I then got told by a stupid junior doctor too big for his boots that if I carried on riding I would lose my leg quickly.....and for whatever reason (it's always been on the cards) this hit me hard at that time, so I looked to give up....but I couldn't quite bring myself to take this down and frankly I didn't know what to say, so I said nothing at all.

In the time I went off, tried all the things I wanted to do but there was always a big horse shaped hole in my heart, and I hit a point where I decided I did not care, I had to have horses in my life - 'better to take a mans leg then break his heart'.

I then started looking, I had never thought I could realistically have a youngster....then along came Maggie, a youngster of all things!
I never thought I could have one, but I had fantasised about raising one from scratch, but we looked at one that happend to come up in conversation one day with someone we'd met, that fell through, and that opened my mind to youngsters, then I found her just outside of glastonbury. I knew there was just something about her, and I had to have her. There was a little spice but also a deep under current of calm.

We have put in a lot of work, gentling and slowly building trust, and on saturday this paid off more than I could imagine. This was her first outing of any kind, apart from in hand walks around a quiet village and boy did she take it all in her stride.

We came away with the most fantastic experience, a few gorgeous photos and one purple frilley, I could not be more proud of my girl and I am so so excited to see where she goes from here!

I'll post the full story of the show in the comments, but, here against all odds, in a way I didn't think possible,

I truly am Back Baby! 😎😎🥳🥳🤩🤩

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