Shahzada 400km Endurance Test - SUCCESS

a couple of weeks ago we packed up the gooseneck trailer with three horses and took a drive down to St Alban's in the Hunter Valley of NSW for the Shahzada 400km Endurance Test.
Horses were Pioneer Park Amurra and Kai Hai Sterling Sha;Kieraa for the 400km and Pioneer Park Navarone for the mini marathon of 125km.

Pioneer Park Navarone and Steve on the mini marathon.  Jo Arblaster photo http://www.animalfocus.com.au/

Unfortunatly Wendy and Kieraa took a fall on Boyd's hill on the 5th leg/morning of Day 3 and were eliminated due to lameness.  However Melissa and Amurra went on to be successful in the 400km placing 5th overall and 1st Lightweight.  Comments recorded in Amurra's logbook were very favourable and encouraging for a long term marathon career.
Navarone and Steve were also successful.  The kind of trips we enjoy!



Photo descending THE STEPS leg 7.  Photo courtesy of Kieron Power.



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Qld Endurance Magazine WINTER Edition

I have a couple of spare Qld Endurance magazines left over from our initial print - if you did not get one, or are not a member and would like one please PM me your postal address and will send one out. Hope to have these all in the mail over the weekend.

Chip Chase Sadaqa - passing of a legend

I had not posted in awhile and had intended on posting something on our recent successful ride at the Endurance Festival @ Toorbul. 

However today we recived the sad news that a legend has passed, the mighty Chip Chase Sadaqa. 

We feel very Privileged to have met Sadaqa a number of times and to have had the opportunity to breed to such a wonderful Arabian - the result is our very cherished young stallion Pioneer Park Wings of Sudan (x Agecroft Sahara). 

A photo of Sadaqa taken by Sharon Meyers at the Toft Farm has pride of place in our lounge room. 

Rest in Peace mate.

Website ReVamped!

The website for our farm and training facility has been revamped by freind and artist Nicole Cameron
Am super thrilled with Nic's work and can highly reccomend anyone requiring a new site or wanting an existing site to be refreshed that they speak to Nicole first!

Our site - Pioneer Arabians

Zalman Challenge Ride

Home from our journey to the Toft endurance event, the Zalman Challenge FEI ride.  We left home on Wednesday taking 2 horses for the FEI * ride, seasoned horse Shades of Shagrir and relative newbie Pioneer Park Azaylia.
Arriving Thursday mid-day, Shagrir had a midly swollen leg from a minor surface cut sustained just prior to leaving so the decision was to over-react and treat the leg and therefore with drawing him from entering the ride.
Peter Toft to the rescue - Toft Endurance offered Steve one of their up and coming super stars to ride along with me and Azaylia in the one star event, the Arab cross Appaloose Rupert TE.  Rupert is a well built grey gelding with forward moving attitude.

Friend Nicole Cameron arrived to stay for a few days and help us strap - lovely catching up with Nic and fabulous to have her on hand to assist us...still recovering from her broken shoulder she was a massive help during the weekend.  Thanks Nic!  Mid ride Friday night also seen the arrival of Ashley Ross and Carmel Trevorrow also to assist strap.  Azaylia is sired by Ashley's stallion, Turingal Park Nijinksi who we used to own.  Ash also has a gelding we bred, sired by Shades of Shagrir, so she was interested to see these 2 horses we had brought down.

The ride was great, and we were both successful in completing - Azaylia had terrific recoveries which is really encouraging, I think she's gonig to be every bit as good as her older half brother Navarone and then some.

We were able to bring home something very special - our mare Tractor (aka Agecroft Sahara).  Tractor had been with Toft's to visit Sadaqa with the hope of another special foal; but she had other plans and visited not Sadaqa but Sh'Tann!  Terrific to have her home, she looks fabulous and looking forward to having her PTIF today.

Pioneer Park Azaylia pre-ride