Author: Jenny

Taupo Equestrian Centre. It was winter. It was cold.  The forecast was disgusting.  We had 120km to ride and needed to do a good time and crew fantastically.  The weather the day before at...

With the North Island Champs Lace had clocked up her 3000 qualified kilometres. Good news – the High Performance Squad had been reviewed in February and I was on the A squad!   The team...

So the pressure was building.  Not only were we trying to do a good time, and trying to be super-efficient at crewing but we also got a notice to “the WEG focus squad” –...

Seven weeks after the 120 we went to a new course at Owhango being run by Waimiha.  Although we were entered in the 80 I withdrew Lace after the first loop.  It was a...

In order to fulfil the World Equestrian Games criteria to be eligible to enter I needed one more two star.  After that would come the much harder task of fulfilling New Zealand’s selection criteria,...

The first ride of the season was Counties again, but not until the middle of September.  Lace had been in work a couple of months by then so we started with a 60km.  She...

Five years and a couple of months since George and I won our gold medal at the Master’s Games, Lace and I were about to tackle our first 160km ride at Whareama.   It was...

Okoroire was always a lovely course.  It’s almost an up-down reverse ride, the tops of the ‘hills’ being hay paddocks separated by large gulleys, but also the more normal flat-ish valleys  between hills.   The...