‘Finding something normal again’: Laura Scott on returning to the saddle and rising through the para dressage ranks

Laura Scott has been one of the standout para dressage riders this season, building momentum eight years on from a life-changing accident which left her with a broken neck and spinal damage at C4/5.

A former point-to-point rider, Laura’s world changed in an instant.

“I couldn’t feel or move anything from my neck down,” she recalls. Two months lying flat in the hospital followed, before an intense period of rehabilitation. “After a lot of physio, I walked out of the hospital, which...