ride4acure

What a privelege have met today a wonderful man called Steve Sutherland from Tamworth. He generously came out and shod all three of my horses on exceptionally short notice after a full day of shoeing race horses and donated the cost of that which is significant and somewhere in the vicintity of $300.  Not only that- Steve  was absolutely brilliant with my horses and handled them with finesse. I am so indebted to him for helping me out.  And of course in this very small world we live in  it turns out Steve met my daughter Esther at the National Finals rodeo here in Tamworth back in january and also knows my sister Veronica and her partner Lindsay Rosetta. Small world.

I have only got three weeks out of the horses shoes!  This means I’ll be looking for anothe excellent farrier around West Wyalong or if I can stretch it another week to Grong Grong when I stay with the Batchelor family for a couple of days. If anyone knows of a blacksmith who can make shoes for my clydie Billy, please contact me and I’ll send them a pair of  ‘slippers’.

The horses are holding up so well and starting to get ‘road hardened’. This happend to me on the bike trip too, just kept getting fitter and stronger. I’m feeling really good today, feel rested for the first time and ready to rock on with this!

Off to Werris Creek to visit the school tomorrow after lunch a 5-6 hour ride, so will be off at the crack of dawn. Then meeting up with MP Tony Windsor and staying with them tomorrow night at Werris Ck which is very generous of the Windor’s to put me up.

Have been staying last ngiht and tonight with Roma Moss who is an awesome cattle woman here in Tamworth breeding incredible brahman cattle. Roma donated cattle last year to the ride4acure cattle sale and is a legend of a woman.  Donations of cattle are coming in for our sale on August 21, 2010 in Kempsey. Watch this space!Also wanted to mention the wonderful Ben Coxhead from Kootingal who put me and the horses up, fed them the best hay I’ve ever seen in my life! And his fiance Katrina cooked a deliscious dinner for us.  Then the next day caught up with me after the horses and I had had four hours on the road to bring both a beaut fresh chicken salad sandwich to me plus had his water tank on with a big drink for each of my grateful horses!  The photo is from right, Ben, his mate and off sider Alex and Meg, crew and I as I arrived right on sunset at his farm Newhaven Park on Back Kootingal Rd.

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