By Ashley Gaden
Equestrian pioneers are amongst the dressage competitors at this year’s Jupiters Pan Pacific Masters Games.
Liz Vansleve remains active in the equestrian community despite making a comeback in the over 60s division of the competition.
“It’s a flash in the pan,” Liz said.
“I gave it up when I had my eldest daughter but now I’ll try for as long as I can.”
With involvement dating back to the 18th century and spanning across six generations, eldest daughter Danica Vansleve has made the move to Luxemburg to begin training for the 2020 Olympics.
“She’s just bought a horse in Germany and is hoping to find an empathetic yet strict trainer abroad,” Liz said.
“She won’t be ready for Rio but we hope she’ll be ready in 2020.”
Travelling together as a family to compete has contributed to the tightknit community they are heavily involved in.
“You always need an extra set of hands,” Liz said.
“I usually breed them, they work them and then I borrow them again.”
But it’s the evident rich history of equestrian that runs deep through the family and unites them.
“Thunderbolt used to stop by my great grandmothers place on the way through and he had a history of thieving quality thoroughbreds and I sometimes wonder if the blood lines got mixed up,” Liz said.
The new system was born here and filagra this is not anything that we would like to see. Caverta although better in some elements but not important for us.
