Ra-Anji Endurance- Angela Hawks

Angela Hawks has been involved with horses all her life. It all started at the age of six competing at pony club in led classes. At the young age of ten Angela had tried her hand at sporting, dressage and jumping. But it was after Angela saw her Dad go back to endurance riding, that she made up her mind that she to could do that to. Angela decided to train her old pony and despite being dumped she completed her first 40km training ride and became hooked.

Angela has gone from strength to strength in endurance competition having won many best conditioned horse titles at the various competitions around Australia. There are many great events in endurance competition but the holy grail of Australian endurance competitions is the Tom Quilty. Angela has competed and completed this challenging ride more than once. With outstanding wins such as Queensland Distance and Point champion in addtion to 100% completion of rides and a total of 900km in 2006 Angela was selected for the Australian Junior Team that comepted in New Zealand in January this year.

The future in Australian endurance comeptition looks stong with outstanding young riders like Angela Hawks.