NZ endurance team leaves for WEG in France

Susie Latta’s Tkiwa at Karaka awaiting this afternoon’s flight.

New Zealand’s endurance squad heading for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games larn out for French Republic this afternoon.

The riders – Georgia in addition to Andrea Smith (Mangaweka), Alison Higgins (Nelson), Braden Cameron (Wellington) in addition to Susie Latta (Otago), amongst chef d’equipe Tony Parsons (Taupo) – larn out on Wed afternoon, amongst their horses heading out afterward inward the day.

The Smiths are the get-go woman raise in addition to missy combination to stand upward for the sport at an equestrian entitle together, in addition to at 17 years old, Georgia is believed to live the youngest on a national endurance team.

It is the minute fourth dimension Higgins has ridden for New Zealand at a World Equestrian Games.

Palmerston passenger Susie Latta has had the longest trip, amongst her Equus caballus Tkiwa starting the journeying northward on July 28 to caput to the carry base of operations inward Karaka. Latta, from the Nenthorn Valley inward Otago, lives 50km from the nearest store in addition to 100km from “anywhere”.

Susie Latta on the eventide of her divergence from Otago lastly week, amongst supporter Christine Bain, who started the Susie in addition to Tkiwa Supporter’s Club on Facebook, selling t-shirts in addition to other products to assistance fund the WEG trip. A fundraising page is also helping the cause.

One of the biggest challenges for the riders has been to heighten almost $60,000 each, the sum needed to accept their horses to Europe and bring them dwelling family again. Each has organised fund raising activities in addition to sold products to assistance fund their trip.

Six months ago, Susie Latta told her banking enterprise managing director that she wanted to brand the overstep iii endurance riders inward the South Island.

And now, the 44-year-old volition brand her début inward the New Zealand squad at the World Equestrian Games.

“I idea that (making the team) was but agency likewise large a goal,” she says.

“To brand the squad is but out of this globe for me.”

Riding Tkiwa, her home-bred arabian-standardbred cross mare, Latta won the 160km South Island Championships before this year, in addition to were minute inward the lastly WEG alternative race at Taupo.

Joining her equally grooms at the Games is a squad of iii comprising married adult man Logan, Pauline King from Cust, and Helen Graham, from Makikihi.

 

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