Lucy Lee has been around horses all her life and ridden since she could walk, thanks to her mother Catherine, an avid rider and horse owner herself. Now 30 years old, Worcester-based Lucy was given her first pony when she was 12, an American Miniature Horse called Jones Majestic Reflection of Blue – a name almost as long as the horse was high. Given the stable name of Flexi, Lucy wondered what she was going to do with this tiny mare.

When Flexi was a three-year-old, Lucy decided to ‘have a go’ at breaking her to harness and says: ‘She was brilliant, an ideal first pony to try with. I could do anything with her.’ Flexi is now 21 and still going strong despite developing asthma. Lucy also broke Flexi’s brother Jones Heza Majestic Masterpiece (Maverick) for show driving with much success and has since broken a host of other ponies for a variety of disciplines including jumping.

Lucy currently owns nine ponies, eight of which are driven. Whilst enjoying a successful showing career, Lucy visited Moreton Morrell to watch some indoor driving trials to see what it was all about, before dipping her toe into the competition arena a couple of times to find the ponies thoroughly enjoyed themselves and came on well. This year will be Lucy’s fifth indoor season, and, like the showing, she has enjoyed much success where she came first in the Certius Small Pony Championship in both 2022 and 2023 with Maverick.

In 2023 Lucy tried her hand at outdoor driving trials, competing at the Midlands Carriagedriving’s Anslow One-Day Event with the 34 inch Maverick who is now the same age as Flexi. Maverick can also be driven in a pair and tandem, the latter as wheeler to 17-year-old Jones Impressive Jewel (Ruby). ‘Maverick helps many of the babies,’ says Lucy.

Taking part in her first, and to date only, two-day event at Midlands Carriagedriving’s Onley competition last year was Lucy’s part-bred American Miniature/American Shetland DVM Paso’s Dirty Dancer (Didi), a lovely little coloured mare, where she came third in the Very Small Equines class to the more experienced Freckles, driven by Sally R L Edwards. This was a big move up from competing indoors where Didi was third at the championships in 2025 and Lucy plans more outdoor excursions for this season. A possibility will be an attempt at competing in tandem as she has a young stallion waiting on the side lines, four-year-old coloured DVM Trouty HezNikon (Ikon).

Still helping and supporting Lucy is her mum who sits on the carriage as groom when Lucy is driving pairs but can only be on standby when she’s driving singles. At Onley, Catherine had to follow round on her bike. Asked if her mum drives, Lucy says, ‘She drives a bit but enjoys it more for pleasure.’

All Lucy’s American Miniatures have been imported from the Diva Valley Miniature Horse Farm (DVM Farms) run by Nicole Pearsell although Lucy is considering home-breeding in the future. She also imports all her miniature harnesses, Comfifit. As if she is not busy enough with breaking, producing, showing and competing, Lucy has set up a business creating miniature horse rugs, Champions Choice Miniature Horseware.

From a glance through the ‘Achievements’ page on her Manor Miniatures website it is clear that Lucy has brought home ribbons and sashes by the bucketload from across differing disciplines, proving that her little horses are indeed Small but Mighty.

Bringing the story up to date, Lucy and Didi competed at the 2026 Indoor Driving Trials Championship at Arena UK in the Intermediate Small Pony class. Taking everything in her stride, Didi led the class after Precision & Paces with a margin of 1.5 penalties on 31.0. She followed this up with second in the cones and second in the obstacles to be crowned Reserve Champion.

Lucy is looking forward to competing outdoors again this season where she will hopefully enter the Midlands Carriagedriving’s One-Day events at Anslow.