39 – 2011/2012 Season Begins
A late start to the season saw us taking the trip up to do 50km at Auckland Woodhill in September. I got a bit lost at one point – can’t remember how – and...
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38 – Tigger’s Novice 80s
We decided it would be really good if we could get Tigger through his two novice 80km before the end of the season, so first up Waimiha, traditionally the end of the season ride....
36 – Tigger’s First Rides and Pukeatua 2* for Lace
Tigger had been improving – there was room! It was time for his first endurance ride at the Leslie Road Putaruru forest. Just 28km, quietly, trying to keep him civil, surviving! We set off...
37 – Back to Kuratau for the Nationals 2011
Three weeks after Pukeatua, Waikato had a ride at a new course in Opotiki. It was very unfortunate that the weather gods had it in for them and the course needed major changes as...
35 – North Island Champs Kuratau
As I mentioned Lace had not really appreciated being on holiday. So I brought her back into work mid December. The truck was going to the New Year’s Kohuratahi ride so we went along...
34 – Getting Home – Lois and Tigger
We were on our way home from Kentucky. Fly to Chicago, fly to San Francisco, then five hours until the flight home to New Zealand. Richard and Kerry’s daughter was planning to drive to...
33 – The World Equestrian Games 2010!
Conan & Becky (our friendly barn show-jumpers) generously gave our horses their ride to the equestrian park – so nice of them! Here we were… at the world famous Kentucky Horse Park! There was...
32 – More Kentucky stuff
We had only been in Kentucky a few days when Nicki got a call from her daughter, they live in Christchurch and the first earthquake had just happened. Dad was not answering the phone!...
31 – Kentucky!!!
The horses left three days before us. They had two days quarantine in LA then flew to Chicago and from there to Lexington by truck, that was probably the hardest part for them. We...
30 – Keeping Fit Over Winter & Stuff
It was now official, I was on the team! There were 12 weeks until the horses were flying to Kentucky. This was a week earlier than originally planned as Air New Zealand were changing...
