ABOUT
SHANE
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|  The
Family:
Shane has two sisters and one brother, all older than
Shane. All the Rose kids rode from very young and went to Pony Club.
From
L to R, Dave, Brandy, Jen, Ally,
Chance, and Shane (At Forest Hills Pony
Club grounds, 1983).
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|  First
Ponies:
Mickey Mouse, 8hh shetland.
When
Shane could walk, trot, canter and jump Mickey over a
cavalletti (no mean feat, as Mickey's preferred
activity was to eat) he then got a real pony and joined Pony Club.
Shane's first blue ribbon was on Tinker, a 12hh mare.
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| Duffy's
Forest is in the heart of the Ku-ring-gai Chase, so ponies
where used to ride to friends houses to watch TV and to
get to the shops to get ice creams and lollies. Shane
and freinds were known to terrorised the rangers and pleasure
riders in the National Park. |
|  Pony
Club:
I joined Pony Club when I was about 5 and stayed
with it through to my A certificate. I took part in
everything, from mounted games to showjumping and
eventing.
I totally recommend Pony Club. I had so much fun and
made so many friends there.
l support the movement where I can and am a member
of their paid instructors' Panel.
Peace Matinee (sporter extraordinaire turned
Advanced Eventer)
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| One
of my more exciting experiences was to be selected
to the State Eventing Camp with Reggie (Peace Matinee)
where Wayne Roycroft was the instructor.
I must admit that I only began to enjoy dressage after
this experience.
After
School:
I finished with school at 16 ("school and I didn't
get on"). I played with the Warringah Rats' junior
rep teams for several years and was not sure whether
I should play rugby or horses after school. After
spending six months in the UK playing horses. I decided
to stick with horses. I still play "Touch"
and Golf has quite an attraction!
Major
Influences:
When I was about 8, I was fortunate enough to
"hang around" horse greats such as Heath
Harris (Horse trainer extraordinaire) and Tony
Jablonski (Film World) who were living next door,
working on the film The Light Horsemen. With them
I was introduced to Endurance and stunt riding, both
very useful skills for Eventing!
On
leaving school, I spent 6 months with Peter Taylor
(NZ, chef d'equippe to the Canadian Eventing team
1996), six months in the UK with Jane Thelwall
(now Wallace). Jane is best remembered for winning
Burleigh and Bramham (twice) with King's Jester. Interestingly,
King's Jester only passed on last year, 2001, at age
23.
While
in England, I went with Denis Pigott (Australian team
Bronze medallist, Montreal)and his wife, Vicki, to
watch the World Equestrian Games. They left after
the Eventing and I stayed on to help Tony Jablonski
in the support team strapping for the bronze medallist
of the Australian Endurance Team at Stockholm.
We can learn a lot about getting horses fit from
endurance riders.
Survival
after school:
On my return to Australia, I spent six months
with Denis Pigott riding horses and helping
around the property before moving home to study
Horse Management full time at the Sydney Institute
of Technology. When not at college I supported myself
as an assistant to a builder-handyman, boarded horses,
mowed lawns, washed dishes and (in my free time) rode
Peace Matinee (Reggie) and Satchmo. |
|  My
first real trial was to get a green horse. I took
nearly a year before I felt his dressage was good
enough for me to venture out eventing. However, my
$600 purchase, Dudley Serious eventually got
it right and in 1995 we represented Australia at the
Trans Tasman competition in New Zealand.
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|  The
move to Berry:
In 1993, after 20 years in Duffys Forest, the
family moved to Berry. I helped them relocate the
family nursery and then concentrated on setting up
an eventing yard. Last year, with the help of my Dad,
I built my own home on the family property, moving
in for Easter 2001.
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| Representation:
In 1994, when I was 21, I realised my first goal,
representing Australia in the Young Rider Trans Tasman
competition with Mr Joe Cool. He won both the NZ Young
Rider One & Three Day championships and our team
won the Young Rider Trans Taman trophy for the first
and, so far, only time.
In
1996 I was selected on the squad to the Atlanta games
and went to the States with Mr Joe Cool. I was selected
#3 and #4 from Australia and had to decide between
Dudley and Joe. As Joe was the most "cool"
and was more reliable, Joe it was. Unfortunately he
went lame over in the States just before the Games
but I was lucky enough to get some teaching jobs and
a commission to set up a cross country course in the
lead up to the Games. |
|  In
1998, I went to Rome with It's A Knockout and
rode at the World Equestrian Games (WEG) as a member
of the Australian team.
This
was a mixture of thrill and disappointment. After
a really sensational dressage test, I had to walk
Josh home about 4 jumps before the end of the course.
He was exhausted. I felt guilty that I had not schooled
him sufficiently but later it turned out he had caught
a bacterial infection which cut off his breathing
when he got to this point. He later completed the
four star at Adelaide with no ill effect.
Josh
and I about to load for the trip to
England and WEG. In
2006, I was selected with All Luck for the World
Equestrian Games in Aachen, Germany.
Unfortunately all did not go to plan and Lucky and I
did not complete the event. We did however have
a successful Burghley CCI**** debut in 2006 and
finished in 3rd place at this prestigious competition. |
| New
ambition:
Representing Australia is no longer enough. Now I
want to be on the team at every major competition
- and while I am there pick up a Gold Medal - or three.
If you believe in yourself, anything is possible!
Right now my sights are on the Olympic Games in 2008
which will be held in Hong Kong. I hope to have
several horses qualified for the Olympic Games,
therefore giving me the best possible chance of
selection.
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