Olivia Oakeley Dressage & Fitness

Olivia Oakeley Dressage & Fitness International Dressage rider. Instagram: OliviaOakeleyElias
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Twitter: OakeleyDressage Happy to teach children or adults.

My name is Olivia Oakeley and I am 22 years old. I have competed Nationally and Internationally for Great Britain since the age of 12. I was a Junior European Team Member 2010 and 2011. I also competed in the Young Rider European Team in 2012 and 2013. I am currently on the World Class Potential Start Programme and my ultimate aim is to represent Great Britain at the Olympic Games and win a medal. I have trained my current horse, Donna Summer (Rio) from a just backed 5 year old to Grand Prix. I am UKCC level 2 qualified trainer available for flatwork/dressage lessons around Gloucestershire and Hampshire. First aid qualified. Call/email/PM for details. www.oliviaoakeley.co.uk

A winter of training and can’t wait to see where you’re at in 2027 special one 🤩
23/09/2026

A winter of training and can’t wait to see where you’re at in 2027 special one 🤩

Reflecting back on the weekend just gone, it made me think back over the years and specifically about how when everythin...
14/09/2026

Reflecting back on the weekend just gone, it made me think back over the years and specifically about how when everything can and does go wrong, you’ve got to keep pushing through for however long it takes.

For those of you who don’t know, I was incredibly ‘lucky’ (also a lot of hard work 😆) that my parents bought me a newly backed, young horse, when I was 13yrs old (as a family we couldn’t afford a trained one so mum and dad got Rio for me to teach and learn together) and he went onto take me to 5 European Championship from 2010-2014. With him, I did my first Grand Prix in the January of 2015, my first horse I’d trained from the bottom to the top.

Fast forward 10 years, April 2025, and the best big orange, my second horse I’d trained (thank you Chloe and Caron for starting him!) and competed to Grand Prix.

There were a few horses in between who were knocking on the door for GP and either never competed or were sold or I lost the ride on.

I guess where I’m going with this is, you can feel like you have the world at your finger tips when you’re young and then it can feel like it all disappears. You slog away dreaming of one day competing at the highest level again. The financial burden, the emotional stress, the hours and hours of work to make ends meet, the constant feeling of not being good enough, of trying to be the best person for your horses, your clients, everyone around you.

Then one day, it all feels possible again. Instead of dreaming, you feel like you’re aiming. You have the best team of people around you, people that want you to achieve that dream.

So to anyone reading this who’s struggling with this ‘trotting around a sandpit’ torture we all seem to be unable to live without. Keep going because at some point it’ll be worth it ❤️

14/09/2026

A very, very exciting new arrival has come from Germany whilst I’ve been at Nationals 🤩

If anyone is looking for a top 4yr old mare to add to their string, or equally anyone looking to come on board as an owner (🙊) please send me a message!

Ridden videos coming soon 🤩

Some clips from our Grand Prix 🤩
14/09/2026

Some clips from our Grand Prix 🤩

And just like that, the season is over and thoughts move to winter training ready for next year! I couldn’t have been mo...
14/09/2026

And just like that, the season is over and thoughts move to winter training ready for next year!

I couldn’t have been more proud of these two over the last few days so hold tight for a long one 😆🤣

Caroline Bell’s big Orange superstar exceeded all expectations to finish 6th in both the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Freestyle. If you’d have told me that at the start of the week, I probably would have laughed in disbelief 🙈 to be in a class like that, warming up with people who you admire greatly, is quite something, and then for Otto to just produce what he did was like nothing else. Doing both our first ever Grand Prix Freestyle at the Nationals was quite a place to do it 🤣 - massive thank you to Roland Tong for lending me your music and being the best trainer 🫶🏼

Mine and Rachel Lambert’s amazing brown child was equally as wonderful.. minus day one 😆 he grew in confidence every time he set foot in the arena and by the Adv Med on the final day, he felt like a seasoned professional. Gutting to have a very large mistake at the end of the extended canter but to finish 4th was awesome. And so happy to see Dannie and Lucy take the 1-2 👏🏼

The biggest, most enormous thank you to both boys owners, my amazing parents and Char, who without, this week would have been impossible.

To all my sponsors and the team behind the scenes who make this all happen, thank you. And to everyone who supported, sent messages and cheered us on, you’re all the best 🥰

Thank you to the whole team and sponsors who made Nationals happen, it was a great one!

British Dressage
LeMieux Products
Black Country Saddles Ltd
Sergio Grasso Riding Boots
Equine Products UK Ltd
Amy Stone
Jemma Sayers Performance Horse Therapy
Jack Young
Catherston Stud

📸 by LeMieux Products and 1st Class Images

My absolute best boys 🫶🏼Full update tomorrow when I’ve had some sleep and come down from my cloud. But thank you to eve...
13/09/2026

My absolute best boys 🫶🏼

Full update tomorrow when I’ve had some sleep and come down from my cloud.

But thank you to everyone who made this week so special ❤️

No words for tonight other than Otto, you are the best 🫶🏼 6th in the Grand Prix and through to the freestyle 🥹 3.55 tomo...
12/09/2026

No words for tonight other than Otto, you are the best 🫶🏼

6th in the Grand Prix and through to the freestyle 🥹

3.55 tomorrow for anyone who wants to watch on H&C+.

To everyone who’s helped to get us here, supported us, sent messages, etc. THANK YOU ❤️

📸 LeMieux

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