49 – Orakei Korako and the Puppies
Tigger’s next ride after our shortened NI outing was 40km at Waitomo. This was always another well supported, well enjoyed course. Kerry rode him, I can’t remember why… perhaps Bill was sick, perhaps I...
Learning Endurance & other stuff
How endurance horse riding took over my life and other things along the way
Tigger’s next ride after our shortened NI outing was 40km at Waitomo. This was always another well supported, well enjoyed course. Kerry rode him, I can’t remember why… perhaps Bill was sick, perhaps I...
It is December so this is Kuratau, 100km. There are always those rides that are on the calendar every year and this one was quickly becoming one of our favourites. It was a new...
Of course, while Lace was getting injured, having sex holidays and babies there were still endurance rides going on. And I still wanted to be riding them. But unlike when George had got injured...
I had my first baby horse, and she was gorgeous! Hands were clearly made for rubbing foals in all those places they couldn’t reach themselves! And it wasn’t long before she was calling out...
My pony was broken, but I get to have a baby Lace! That is the bonus of mares, they have a retirement plan available. There are only so many broken down geldings one needs! ...
After two 80km rides two weeks apart there was a break of six weeks until the next. It was a Ruahine ride which was pretty exciting for us as most of their rides were...
With the Counties club in recession we were definitely missing their early season rides in the Waiuku forest. Waikato doesn’t really have any all-weather tracks, Tokoroa forest was always our first ride but even...
We were on our way south. Kerry had done all the planning and had our schedule sorted. First night was in Palmerston North with Lindy as usual, the ponies must be starting to feel...
Now the plan was to aim for the Nationals in the South Island at Hawarden… but that was a while away yet. A month after the NI Champs was the Waitomo ride at Paemako. ...
Henry had been going well. So Kerry suggested that I might like to ride him in the 160 at the North Island Champs. Then, if he did well, perhaps he could be in line...