SEVENHAMPTON endurance rider Janice Cockley-Adams has started the season with two wins in the UK's first two race rides.
An impressive turn of speed saw her head a thrilling gallop for the finish to take the honours in Dorchester's Jubilee Ride, with a winning margin of just one second. The 77km (48 miles) ride was the first race of the 2012 endurance riding season and a perfect sharpener for the UK's first international fixture.
This was the FEI Kings Forest event in Suffolk, where Cockley-Adams was again riding her nine-year-old Arabian mare Serabitibi in the FEI 2 star 120km (75 miles) against a field of 20, including many of the top riders in the country.
"This was Serabitibi's first competition at this distance, so our objective was to secure a completion," she said.
"She rode really strongly and I was delighted with her."
Cockley-Adams' next outing will be at the FEI event in Nottinghamshire on Roxane du Bout du Monde.
Roxane and Janice are shortlisted for the GB team at this year's Endurance World Championships, due to be held in England in August.
