19 – Endurance at Horse of the Year 2008
In spite of my spectacular failure at the Horse of the Year Show last year (2007), it was such a fantastic ride and experience that I still wanted to go back this year. Maybe...
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18 –A new Saddle in a hurry
The next ride was 41km at Taumarunui’s new base at Aria sports grounds. Lace’s back had come up in a blister after the North Island Champs 100km so I was training her in a...
17 – Timing and Riding at the North Island champs
The test run of my new timing computer programme at AWEC had gone fairly well, I’m sure there must have been things to adjust and change, but I don’t remember specifically. Our club were...
16 – 2007-2008 Season underway
My friend, Richard, was on the Endurance NZ board at this time, so that meant he knew everything that was going on. So when he told me that I should send an email to...
Tom Quilty 2019 – part 2
The alarm had been set for 10:30. Horses were to be saddled and ready to start warming up by 11:15. Ride start 12:00 or 00:00:00, midnight. I had been planning to have breakfast when...
Tom Quilty 2019 – part 1
My Quilty story actually starts back on December 13, 2016. It was my parents wedding anniversary and we’d all been out for dinner, driving home I sort of noticed a shadow at the top...
15 – Season End
But first a bit more for Horse of the Year… Getting back to the show grounds from the middle of Havelock North was a bit of a nightmare. They had organised horse transporters –...
14 – Horse of the Year 2007
Kerry and Emma were in Argentina, we were off to Horse of the Year in Hastings. I think Emma was riding the same day or perhaps the day after we were! Portia, Lace and...
13 – Lace to the Rescue
Emma was hoping to qualify to represent New Zealand in the World Junior Endurance Champs in Argentina. The only problem was that she had one more 120km qualifying ride to do and her horse...
12 – Stepping up the Distance Once Again
Once more Lace and I were stepping up to more distance… 100km at our first Championship event!
