Eurocoast Polocrosse Club’s Farann Mathie has taken home two major awards at the Zone Presentations on Saturday night.
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Mathie won both the best overall female award and the Hal O’Donnell Memorial Award for best horse and rider combination with her horse Rosebrook Shauna.
Her sister-in-law Claire Mathie also won an award, taking home the Mick Blinkinsopp Memorial Trophy for the best number-two in the zone.
Mathie, 23, has now won the Hal O’Donnell Memorial Award two years in a row on two different horses, an achievement she described as “amazing”.
She will now set her sights on a potential World Cup berth in Queensland next year.
“I go to Albury next month, from the 19th to the 22nd, to play in two tournaments,” she said.
“One is called the Silver Stirrup, and the other competition is our World Cup trials.
“My biggest goal is to play in the World Cup team, and I’m very lucky that it has come to me quite soon. If it doesn’t happen for me this time, I just have to keep working for another four years to make it next time.”
The work will be hard if her current training regime is anything to go by. Mathie currently does two-to-2.5 hours of work on her horses everyday, and spends the mornings working on her own fitness.
“I ride my horses every day for a good 20 to 40 minutes fitness wise,” she said.
“I’m very lucky because I have my family at home who look after my horses. In the morning I like to do my own exercise.”
And even with the amount of success that Farann has recently achieved, she tries not to put too much pressure on herself.
“Sometimes you don’t get the awards and the outcome you want, but as long as you know you’ve given it your all, that keeps me and my family happy,” she said.
