She’s riding places
She wants to become a professional rider, open a livery yard and apply physiotherapy to horses. It's her life.
Nothing can tame 13-year-old Nulé Steyn’s passion for horse riding.
She trains three days a week, prepares for exams, keep up with her homework and tends to two horses.“If my parents ever told me they no longer can pay for the stabling and lessons, I will work at the stables to earn my lessons,” Nulé told the News.
“As she gets better and starts training more often, the costs becomes more,” said Nulé’s father Sarel. He is an avid supporter of her dream to become an equestrian physiotherapist and own her own livery yard, and said he never will keep her from opportunities, no matter how hard it becomes.
“I will do anything for my children.”
Nulé missed the Equestrian Springbok team by a mere two seconds last year, but plans to make it this year with her eight-year-old thoroughbred, Regent Gold.
Every spare second she has, she’s at the livery yard tending to her horses.
Tamlyn, Nulé’s six-year-old sister, plans to follow in her sister’s footsteps and already decided she wants to ride Riley, Nulé’s six-year-old Arab pony.
Kirsty van der Merwe, owner and trainer at the Litchfield Livery Yard, said Nulé has a lot of potential.
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