Recently we showed you a video of riding at the beach which featured Alycia Burton riding her horse Classic Goldrush bareback and brideless. However Alycia doesn’t just ride without saddle and bridle at the beach, she and Goldrush can jump 1.70m like that too! Alycia is a full time horse trainer who specialises in free riding but also events and is based in Auckland, New Zealand
Classic Goldrush, a palomino paint bred by family friends and purchased by Alycia when he was seven years old, is her top horse but many of her horses are OTTB’s or horses that have been declared dangerous or unsafe that she has rehabilitated, Standing at 15.2hh and now 10 years old, he has a HUGE jump which Alycia easily and naturally sits on. In 2014 Alycia and Goldrush will be aiming for the Guiness World Record hight in free jumping which, as she says, is "Extreme riding, with a touch of madness"
If you wonder why the Kiwis have some of the best and most 'stickable' eventing riders in the world, maybe this is one of their training secrets!
