My name is Olivia Moriano and I'm an international dressage rider for Italy. 

From a young age, I followed in my mothers footsteps with having a strong interest, connection and love for horses. My love for dressage began when I got an extremely competitive 13h thoroughbred pony who (at the time) was too much for me as an 8-year-old rider to handle in a jumping arena. From here, I turned to dressage and never looked back.

I won many local championships at Prelim and Novice level, later being selected for the BYRDS Southern team. We came 8th out of 30 compeitiors in our first Southern representation giving me a glimps of success and competitiveness from a young age. 

In 2011 we found my pocket rocket, Master Alexander who was breed and trained in Holland for Dutch trainer, Burt Rutten's daughter. Within a few weeks of owning him, we competed in the BYRDS inter-regional championships and later won many classes together as a young partnership. We competed in many local affiliated competitions from Novice level, becoming the Sparsholt elementary champion to competing at Advanced Medium when I was 15 years old. We got selected to be on GB pony national training in 2012 and 2013 which led to the opportunity to attend GB squad selection at the start of 2014 all when I was 13yo. In 2014, I represent England’s Southern BYRDS team at the Home Internationals at medium level and later that year, we were reserve U25s champions at the Sheepgate championships. 

Due to my dual nationality, I explored the opportunity to represent Italy at pony FEI level. I achieved my two qualifying scores to represent Italy to kick start my international journey. In March 2015, I got chosen to compete in my first CDI at Addington Manor which is an experience I will never forget. 

2015 was sadly my last year as a pony rider due to my age, so the search began for my next ride. In December 2015, I was lucky enough to secure the ride on Worldly Wise who previously represented Great Britain. 

In our first competitive season together, we achieved scores up to 79% at Advanced Medium, qualified for the British Dressage regionals, home internationals for England and attended several internationals for Italy at Junior level. In March 2017, we got selected to represent Italy at Keysoe CDI and made our PSG/Young rider debut coming 3rd at Hickstead Premier League in June. We attended Hickstead CDI in July achieving scores up to 67% all in our first season together. Our results meant we were shortlisted for the European Championships as a Junior combination in 2017. 

Since then, Will and I have had over 16 international starts and were short listed for the europeans again in 2019 and 2020 at Young rider level.

As well as my full-time love for dressage, I studied Economics, Government & Politics and English Literature and Language at A-level and further gained an upper 2:1 Honors degree in Banking and Finance. Whilst I now work in the banking industry alongside producing my young horse up the levels, my ultimate dream is to reach the Italian Olympic Team in the future.

Other passions of mine include high fashion and travelling to different exotic destinations. From attending fashion events to weekend trips to Paris, I am very fortunate to combine all my passions on a regular baisis. I live between Surrey where my horses are based at my family home, and Kensington where I grow my fashion inspiration.

I am very much excited and am looking forward to training my young horse, Neron for the future and to continue riding at PSG level with my horse Will. I am always on the search for an experienced horse that I can gather GP knowledge from along riding Will & Neron.

I am very thankful to all my friends & family and my kind sponsors for your continued support; all what I do would not be possible without you.  This sport has given me so many memorable and wonderful moment to treasure forever and I hope I can continue to make you all proud.