I first started riding at the station my family used to live at. Most of my days at home involved helping Dad mustering and droving with him during the school holidays when we were in drought. When I was old enough my parents joined me up to the local pony club, which for us was Wee Waa Pony Club. I absolutely loved pony club when I was younger, I especially loved the sporting events and cross country jumping. When I was in year 2 we moved to the Horse Capital of Australia, Scone. My parents then joined my brother, sister and myself to Merriwa Pony Club. Some of my best childhood memories were created doing pony club events and camps. Pony club was definitely an important foundation for my riding, it allowed me to learn lots of different riding disciplines which has helped me out today when riding different horses. In addtion, my experiences in joining and riding at pony club has provided me the opportunity to compete successfully at a state level twice for my zone on my trusty horses, named Silhouette and Scooter!
During my early years my next door neighbours at the time were keen polocrosse players and we ended up becoming very close friends with them. We would go over to their house and practice polocrosse with them and it was through gaining this experience that I started playing polocrosse for my local club, Bunnan. At this stage I was only 9, so I played a pony to begin with. As I got better and bigger I was given a very good mare off them. She helped me improve my game and allowed me to be chosen for the Hunter Valley zone team twice in my sub junior years. When I was in my last year of juniors I was given the opportunity to represent NSW in America. This was one of the best experiences of my life. Our team was very blessed to be housed at some amazing places. We spent most of our time in Colorado where we got to play the American junior, women’s and men’s team they had put together and to top it off we won all our games!
One of the best things about polocrosse is the lifelong friends you make along the way. Some of my best friends are from polocrosse, not only from Australia but from all over the world! Luckily for me, my family are a great support and help work the horses during the week so I can still compete at polocrosse and campdrafts on the weekends.
Well, that’s a little bit about me and my passion for horses and competing in the polocrosse sport. So, if you interested to find out more about Polocrosse and would like to learn more, you can find some more helpful information here: http://www.polocrosse.org.au/
Alane Moore – Polocrosse Enthusiast