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True stories about the adventures of the Marvel Endurance team, training Arabian horses in the sport of distance riding - QLD, Australia
Cooyar 2017
2018-09-06 21:47
In early 2017 I was bringing along my new horse, Rockstar. My plan was to take him through a couple of 40km rides before entering him in his first 80km as a novice, so following his successf… Read More
Let 2017 Begin!
2018-07-09 04:31
Barely five kilometres in and I was already feeling burning thigh muscles as I realised just how unfit I was! 35km to go Read More
Sparkler 2016
2018-04-26 00:47
Koda was like a horse possessed, completely out of her mind with panic at being out on track alone. She would spot a horse in the distance up the trail and like a bat out of hell she would r… Read More
Run Koda, Run
2018-03-26 22:58
"this time it was a violent shy and then my head and helmet made a huge cracking sound as it met the ground" Read More
Biggenden 2016
2017-12-15 07:41
Our beautiful Biggenden club was putting together its’ second ride of the season, this time a full card of rides including the 80km main event. It had taken a bit of time to dust Rocky… Read More
2017-10-16 03:44
So, it had already started out being rather a traumatic experience in our efforts to attend the 2016 Rockybar ride. My poor dog was hit by one of our cars, and by some miracle was remarkably… Read More
Road To Rockybar – Part 1
2017-09-28 09:25
If it had been a flat we would have been speedily back on the way, but no, this was much much worse. The A-frame of the float was hanging, suspended barely inches of the ground by the chains… Read More
Far Far Away
2017-09-12 05:29
Well, not very far actually. Far-A-Way is only about an hour and a half from home for us so it is one of the closer rides but over Easter weekend of 2016 I was still a bit daunted by the pro… Read More
Work Of The Heart
2017-08-16 12:05
Rarely do rides run with zero problems - our first was when my car decided to crap out the week before it with the track barely marked! Read More
The Rookie
2017-07-27 10:38
Vets were terrifying – what if we vetted out? What if he was lame and I didn’t realise? What if his heart rate wouldn’t come down? What if I tripped over in the trot out an… Read More
2017-07-13 01:45
That road is a 100kp/h section so we tend to tread very carefully along there - what we do not usually have to take into account are people deliberately trying to frighten our horses!  Read More
2017-06-06 11:49
So, before I go getting started on the year 2016, there are a many in-between stories that are deserving of some telling! Lets start with a few from 2015. It was an amazing year as far as ou… Read More
2017-04-05 11:42
The next 80km on our horizon was Kilkivan, to be followed by Nanango for the last of the three-part Blackbutt series of rides for 2015. Jasmine was chasing her last 80km completion. Erin was… Read More
2017-03-13 04:13
After the disaster that was our morning (see last month’s edition if you missed it…) we were finally on the road to the Murrumba Magic 100km. I had an awful feeling that we… Read More
2017-02-05 11:48
I fathomed in the space of a second that he was up to his flanks with both hind legs and a front under the grid - then I was looking for something to knock him out with - I faintly remember… Read More
2017-01-16 10:34
In 2010 my stallion, Siri Mahali was born. At barely a month old, Sizzy suffered an injury which left him incapable of being anything but a paddock ornament and breeding horse. He… Read More
2017-01-01 12:14
Next up on our calendar for the year was one of my favourite tracks – Biggenden. The ride has never been run over the exact same trail, every year is new! What did Sue have in store fo… Read More
2016-12-18 03:47
"Sam, is that a guy or a girl?" Well, he's a tall and handsome New Zealander, with short spiky hair, usually it is fully shaved off! He's started to grow it out now, but I like it that way … Read More
2016-12-04 10:30
I remember a loud cracking sound, and I remember the feeling of my foot bending in a way it shouldn't be expected to. I remember realising what was happening as I fell into the newly dug and… Read More
2016-11-21 22:17
At the start of the year I had been put in contact with a girl who was moving to my town from Toowoomba. She had begun endurance in 2014 and with her new job uprooting her to a new place she… Read More
2016-10-31 10:59
2015; We kicked it off with a visit to our vet who gave me the worst news I could have imagined. Over summer we had reorganised our paddocks and introduced my sister’s new horse, Miste… Read More
2016-10-16 10:20
2014 rolled around and once again I sat on the sidelines for the first half of the year. Aston had pulled a muscle while running around in his paddock like a lunatic over the summer, so he e… Read More
2016-10-05 03:41
In 2013 I went back in time – back to the local Riding for the Disabled group that I had volunteered at when I was a child, only this time I was the instructor. Volunteering for a… Read More
2016-09-28 06:04
I entered and completed my first two 40km rides within the space of a few months. I read everything I could and asked question on top of question of everyone I met, to learn as much as I pos… Read More

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