Jackie North, Aspiring Para Rider

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 CA

N 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.

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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