Polo players get sea legs to help working horses
Some of England’s come about professional person polo players are swapping pony ability for homo ability inwards the world’s reveal 1 sea endurance race, The Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge.
The straight beneficiaries volition survive horses, donkeys, mules, as well as their owners inwards developing countries through The Brooke, the world’s largest international equine welfare organization.
The Atlantic Polo Team is currently rowing its agency across the Atlantic sea inwards assist of the Brooke’s worldwide programs. The charity is based inwards London, England, simply its North American constituent is at the Kentucky Horse Park inwards Lexington.
Horses are of class unopen to the hearts of these polo players. Their 3000-mile journey, which is 1 of the toughest races on public (more people bring been into infinite or climbed Everest than bring rowed the Atlantic) began inwards the Canary Islands on Dec 4, as well as volition halt inwards Antigua sometime inwards January. Their journeying volition back upwardly the Brooke inwards its mission to increase the reveal of working equines it helps from 1.2 1000000 currently to 2 1000000 a yr past times 2016.
Bobby Melville is Captain of the Atlantic Polo Team. He has played for England inwards the European Championships inwards Rome, the World Cup inwards Mexico, as well as England tours to Islamic Republic of Pakistan as well as Zimbabwe.
Henry Brett, some other of the four-member team, is a 38-year-old old Captain of the England Polo Team. He was likewise England’s highest rated polo thespian from a immature age. Henry has won every major tournament inwards England as well as captained the squad at habitation as well as abroad as well as straight off runs a immature Equus caballus computer program inwards Oxfordshire as well as continues to play professionally or as well as so the world.
“We are delighted to survive able to back upwardly the Brooke as well as pleased to encounter the lawsuit the Brooke has on improving the lives of working equines as well as the touching on this has on the families who ain them,” Brett said.
The Brooke, whose president is Camilla, the Duchess of Cornwall, provides veterinarian treatment, grooming as well as pedagogy programs inwards xi countries across Africa, Asia as well as Latin America, where at that spot is the highest population of working equines as well as extreme levels of human poverty.
Richard Britten-Long as well as his son, Nicholas, both avid polo players inwards the UK, are sponsoring The Atlantic Rowing Team inwards association amongst the Brooke, of which Richard is a Trustee. Richard is likewise the vice president of the 3,000-acre Cirencester Polo Club, the virtually historic polo monastic enjoin inwards the UK.
“The enthusiasm as well as spirit shown past times Henry Brett as well as his squad inwards crossing the Atlantic inwards what could good survive some awesome circumstances is matched past times the Brooke’s resolve to achieve out to 2 1000000 working equines as well as salve their suffering. I couldn’t intend of a to a greater extent than appropriate challenge to aid heighten awareness as well as essential funds for the Brooke,” Richard Britten-Long said.
There are 100 1000000 working equines or as well as so the world, suffering some of the virtually punishing working as well as environmental weather condition of whatsoever animate beingness on the planet. In some countries, horses volition deport loads of to a greater extent than than 300 pounds at a time, 10 times a day, without whatsoever nutrient or water.
Henry Brett concluded: “Horses are 80% of the game of polo as well as are the primal to whatsoever polo thespian wanting to compete at a professional person marker as well as brand a living out of the sport. We promise that nosotros tin heighten much to a greater extent than awareness of the function the Brooke does as well as that our challenge volition aid fund futurity projects as well as enable the Brooke to achieve many to a greater extent than working equines or as well as so the world.”
Sixteen teams are taking constituent inwards the 2013 Talisker Whisky Atlantic Challenge, from groups of half dozen downwards to solo rowers.
The Atlantic Polo Team’s progress tin survive followed via Facebook as well as www.atlanticpoloteam.com.
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