3rd day of our 3-day horse riding trip across Peninsular Malaysia! We selected Terengganu International Endurance Park (T.I.E.P.) as our final destination.
Terengganu International Endurance Park (T.I.E.P.) is my most looking-forward-to track to ride since my endurance competition last year.
Our accomodation is fairly near to T.I.E.P. It took us about 15 min drive to get there. (Look at Suki’s sleepy eyes!)
Good morning horsies!
The girls abandoned me in the car while I was parking. They ran over to welcome the horses instead!
Jaclyn got Princess, I got Jacq and Suki got Langkasari.
Wasted no time, we started off our ride in T.I.E.P. – one of the top 10 endurance tracks in the world!
The initial track that we planned for was 14KM.
Upon completing the 14KM, we didn’t get enough of umh! and requested our guide, Anuar to bring us to another round of 10KM.
In total, we completed 24KM in the track as you can see in the following video.
Upon coming back, horses rest and drink before heading back to the stables.
This is an emotional moment for me.
I took Jacq for my 40km last year. I spent fair amount of time training with him back in Batu Arang last year (average of 3-4 times in a week).
Jacq was sold to another private stable in Terengganu, which means I can’t see him and ride with him as frequent as I used to.
Because of the endurance training, my riding style has changed so much to fit to Jacq. When I was riding Jacq, we feels in-sync with each others’ movement.
Jacq has got a lot more thinner than he used to be. Frankly, I have such an unspokeable heartache to see him again.
As much as I felt reluctant to leave Jacq, but it’s time to move on after petting and feeding Jacq.
I carried a heavy heart to come back to Kuala Lumpur on Friday.
It was as if I farewell to a long time friend.
It was really good seeing you again, Jacq.