Southern Crosse Endurance Inc

Sharing with you the joys, the laughs and tears, the success and pitfalls of endurance horse riding - at its very best and most fun!
with thanks to our sponsors

Anyone can do endurance riding

Anyone can do endurance riding

Southern Crosse Endurance - who we are.



Southern Crosse Endurance Incoorporated is a volunteer group, established in 2009 by Tony Thorneycroft. Our mission statement provides some detail of our aims and objectives. Below is a list of members of the committee and their statements on what SCEI means to them.
We, SCEI, set up this group to allow a coordinated team of keen riders and endurance enthusiasts to help promote the sport, help one another to set up rides in their local area, source funding and sponsorships for riders, and enable the sport of endurance to grow in Victoria. Our main objective is to provide information to all that are interested and opportunity to experience our wonderful sport and all its facets, from strapping, helping at a ride, learning about sports physiology and medicine, to your first ride, be it 5km or 160km we are here to help you learn and have fun.
Through this BLOG we hope to allow you (the horse riding public) to enquire, join in our fun, enjoy our stories and come along to a ride.

MEMBERS:
Tony Thorneycroft (Camton Arabians):

Camille Dowling (Camton Arabians):

Marcia and Sandy Horton of Sandine Arabian and Performance Stud:

Greg May (Nimbook Arabs):

Kelly Jol: 
Kelly Jol started endurance riding as as a junior, in the mid 90's.  She qualified three horses, and then had a large break from the sport.  In 2006 she began bringing her purebred Arabian stallion Scrupulous along to rides.  Major achievements include a Friday club at the 2009 400km Shahzada, and a 160km buckle at Toongabbie in 2010, also many completions along the way!
Zameel Arabians

Kelly enjoys experiencing all the different types of countryside found across the many rides on offer, and spending time with her horse and extended endurance family.  

Georgie Parish (Nimbook Arabs):
Georgie has had a love of horses all her life spending years at pony club and later eventing.After a break from horses to spend time with her kids.Georgie became interested in Endurance riding after attending the 2004 Tom Quilty where she strapped for a friend. Georgie has become a super strapper for her partner Greg May and his horse Silver request aka George. Georgie had a young horse Nimbook Zephyr aka Boof that she is about to competing on.
Tamara Atkinson:
Tamara Atkinson and Suktet Farm Dammaareef at 2009 Tom Quilty


Rachael Saunders: Rachael started endurance in 2004, with a young 5y.o arab x - the now well known Big Charles has yielded Rachael many successes, taught  many lessons, shared many km's of good going terrain, rain, hail and shine, pitch black and glaring sun. A recent 160km buckle for Rachael and Charles, topped off their relationship, after a disasterous attempt and only vet out in 6years at the Tom Quilty Gold Cup 09.

 With an ever growing passion for this sport, Rachael now brings up 2 youngsters, one a QH into his first 42km ride and the other just started under saddle a Quarab, to take the reins somewhat, as Big Charles enters a new level of his career, hoping to attempt the Shazada 400km ride 2010.
Rachael also a veterinarian with additional qualifications in equine sports physiology shares with all members of SCEI a desire to encourage people to this amazing sport and learn more from their horse than they ever imagined, whilst providing the uppermost in health and welfare to these amazing animals, our friends.


Vanessa Smith and Ward Stribley:

Jarrod and Sharon Robinson (Pye Park):
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