Tuesday, July 12, 2022

Rachel Brown and Houdini earn their second Tom Quilty buckle

Tenterfieldstar.com.au - Full Story

By Ellen Dunger
Updated July 11 2022

Swapping a saddle for a horse proved to be one of the best deals Tenterfield's Rachel Brown ever made with now two Tom Quilty championship buckles to her name.

Brown and her little Arabian, Houdini, finished the 160 kilometre national championship event at Tooraweenah on Saturday, three years after earning their first when Queensland hosted the event...

Houdini, affectionately known as Harry, is Brown's second endurance horse.

She started the sport on her stockhorse before ending up with Harry after advertising an old saddle for sale.

"The lady who bought the saddle, she wanted the saddle but couldn't afford to pay me for it until she sold her horse," Brown said.

"But no one wanted to look at the horse because it was an Arab," she said...

Read more here:
https://www.tenterfieldstar.com.au/story/7816815/swapping-a-saddle-for-a-horse-turns-into-two-quilty-buckles/?cs=1640

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