Category: Getting Started in Endurance

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...

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!...

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...

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...

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,...