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four-star, and it put them in the reserve slot for the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games. “I was very excited to get the chance to be there and to train with the Australian squad and I was especially looking forward to working with Harry Boldt [former German grand prix dressage champion who emigrated to Australia],” says Peter. “When I got the call that Megan Jones’ horse was sick, it was kind of ‘oh poop, now we have to get serious!’ The thing that took a lot of stress off of me at both Rolex and WEG was Amanda Edson, who had volunteered to groom for me. She took amazing care of Henry and turned him out immaculately.”

Helmet-cam and all, Peter and Henry fnished 24th individually at WEG, second highest of the Australians. Peter and Henry ran clear on cross-country with a few time penalties and nailed a double clear show jumping round. Stuart Tinney and Vettori went home with the rosette for eighth, Christopher Burton was 48th, but the Australians didn’t fnish as a team. However, a few things are up in the air for Henry and Peter. Colic surgery set them back, both fnancially and training-wise. Plus there are a few other vital details needing to be worked out.

Finances are a major factor infuencing the future of this duo. Peter came up with the helmet-cam video idea as a fundraiser. Eventing gets hysterically expensive the higher up you go, and Peter hopes to represent Australia at the 2012 London Olympics. When people got hold of the video on the Internet, it became an overnight sensation, for free.

Peter needs to fnance his eventing dream. You can become part of the Run Henny Run Team for only $25 and receive a great DVD of Henny at the 2010 Rolex 3-Day event with footage of the four-star cross-country, cross-country course explanation and show jumping.

“My whole riding philosophy is to figure out how to make it easy for the horse to do what I want it to do, then the horse will make my life really easy,” says Peter, summing up his training philosophy. “The next step is to figure out how to make the horse think it is their idea to do what you want it to do.”

This is what persuades Henny to run and why,

behind the ears. Peter is a consummate horseman.

Henny becomes Henry again for the show jumping with Peter, whose skillful training helped this horse to attain the four-star level at Rolex and fnish second-best among the Australians at the Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games