Abi Drodge rides racehorses during the day, but once she’s finished work she still lives life at top speed.

That’s because in her spare time she’s an eventer, a good one too, and if that wasn’t enough she’s also a very keen rugby player.

“I’m a daredevil, I like an adrenaline rush,” laughed the 25-year-old, who works for top National Hunt trainer Nigel Twiston-Davies.

One of her jobs is to ride the horses on the gallops and it goes without saying that horses are obviously a huge part of her life.

But then so is rugby because she is captain of the women’s and girls’ section at Stow-on-the-Wold.

It was re-established at the start of the season and Abi, originally from the New Forest in Hampshire, is one of the new set-up’s driving forces.

“The girls are progressing really quickly,” said Abi, who played the game when she was growing up.

“The numbers at training are growing each week. We’ve got 25 or 26 women and girls, 15 are adults.

“We’ve got a few experienced players and the new players are really taking to it.”

At this stage they are not playing any competitive contact rugby, but that is expected to change soon.

“We’ve already played touch games against Tewkesbury and Hucclecote,” she said.

“The improvement in the girls is crazy, everybody is really positive.

“We may get a few contact games in this season, near the end of February, and the aim is to play in a league next season.”

That could see Abi lining up against Tewkesbury, the club for whom she currently plays in Women’s 2 South West (North).

“I enjoy playing for Tewkesbury, but once Stow start playing league rugby I’ll play for them,” said Abi, who lives just outside Bourton-on-the-Water having moved to the Cotswolds a couple of years ago.

Abi plays fly-half or in the centre and, if pushed, she’ll also play on the wing.

“I don’t really like it on the wing,” she admitted, “you don’t get enough of the ball.

“I played there the other day for Tewkesbury. It was either there or second row – I’m quite tall, 5ft 11in – but I hardly touched the ball, all I did was tackle!”

So what sort of player is Abi?

“I’m quite quick and I’m ruthless,” she said. “A lot of power goes into my tackles and when I’ve got the ball I’m not easy to put down. Because I ride horses I’m naturally quite fit.”

And she’s not short of ambition when it comes to the horses because she wants to compete for Great Britain in eventing at the Olympics.

And she has every reason to be optimistic because she has very high hopes for her horse Pauldarys Bootylicious who she believes has the potential to take her all the way to the top.

Competing at the Olympics, Badminton or Burghley would be a real adrenaline rush, of course, but of all the things she does, what does she consider to be the biggest challenge?

“That’s a good question,” she said. “Probably riding the two-year-old breakers at Nigel Twiston-Davies’.

“They are wild horses, we just jump on the back of them and hang on for dear life!”