28 December, 2020 12:24 Mollie Summerland and Charly Van Ter Heiden take the under-25 advanced at Aston-le-Walls in August 2020. Credit: Peter Nixon
Over this festive season, we are shining a light on up-and-coming talent across the equestrian disciplines. These are riders you really need to keep an eye out for during the 2021 season.
For Mollie Summerland, 2020 went from an incredible high to a desperate low in just days, when she returned from finishing 10th in her first five-star at Pau Horse Trials to find she had to move from the yard where she had been based.
“I really struggled and didn’t know what to do,” says the 22-year-old. “I don’t have any stables or land at home and the last thing I wanted to let go was my horses because it’s taken me a long time to build my own mini string of three horses I really rate. I wanted to exhaust every option first because to sell any of them would be a real shame.”