{"id":1295,"date":"2016-09-15T10:00:28","date_gmt":"2016-09-15T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/?p=1295"},"modified":"2020-03-11T16:33:30","modified_gmt":"2020-03-11T16:33:30","slug":"rider-profile-hazel-harte","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/rider-profile-hazel-harte\/","title":{"rendered":"Rider Profile: Hazel Harte"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Mackey<\/a>This week\u2019s featured rider is Hazel Harte from the rebel county. It\u2019s hard to believe what this young lady has achieved in a short time, through hard work and dedication. Hazel is one of those unique riders who possess the enviable ability to quietly convert totally \u2018green\u2019 ponies into winners at national level in a short time. A quietly-spoken individual who prefers to do her talking in the ring!!!<\/p>\n

Rider:<\/strong> Hazel Harte
\nAge:<\/strong> 14
\nCounty:<\/strong> Cork\"hazel-harte\"<\/a>
\nCurrent ponies:<\/strong> Tara (148cm Grey), Rosie’s Bay (148cm Grey)
\nFirst pony:<\/strong> Fusspot \/ Slim Sadie (Showjumper)
\nFavourite pony:<\/strong> \u201cTara \u2013 She got me to Dublin! She only started jumping as a 6 year old in May 2015 after we bought her in Tallow Horse fair, and ended up 3rd in the 6\/7 year old class in the RDS July 2016. I love riding her as she always takes me down to fence with confidence.\u201d (Hazel obviously has a great eye for talent in a young pony!)
\nBest advice:<\/strong> \u201cAlways take a chance in a jump off. We are there to win!\u201d
\nThe biggest mistake you have learnt from:<\/strong> \u201cNot learning the jump off course correctly. I had a great clear round but was eliminated as I forgot a new fence that was added.\u201d
\nBest achievement:<\/strong> \u201cI have had two this year – 3rd in the 6\/7 year old 148cm class in Dublin 2016 on Tara, and I also won the Discovery final in Millstreet on Rosie’s Bay.\u201d
\nMost memorable win:<\/strong> \u201cIn 2014 I had a 128cm pony on loan from Wlm O\u2019 Brien called Boolagh Matilda. We had loads of success but the biggest was when we won the Thurles Charity show 128cm 1.0mtr Grand Prix. It was a great thrill.\u201d
\nAmbition:<\/strong> \u201cTo represent Ireland on the Irish pony team.\u201d
\nFavourite horse rider:<\/strong> \u201cBertam Allen, Francis Connors and Paul Beecher.\u201d
\nOther sports:<\/strong>\u00a0\u201cI play Basketball at school\u201d
\nFunniest moment:<\/strong> \u201cWhen I was seven and hunting in Camphire, we came to a drain that was very deep and very wide. After a lot of people fell in, one of the riders said it was too big for my pony. He then \u2018threw\u2019 me across the drain to my mother before sending my little white pony Becky across after me. Becky didn\u2019t make it and when she happily climbed out of the bottom of the drain she wasn\u2019t white anymore! They still joke about the day they \u2018threw both of us across!\u2019<\/p>\n

Thanks, Hazel, for taking the time to share your story with us. We hope you achieve your ambition for the Irish squad and have no doubt you will. It\u2019s great to see someone with this talent of producing ponies time after time and achieving successes such as Dublin and Millstreet as a result of hard work!
\nNo doubt Hazel has a good team in the background supporting her all the way! Remember this name everyone: Hazel Harte – we think you are going to hear it quite a lot!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This week\u2019s featured rider is Hazel Harte from the rebel county. It\u2019s hard to believe what this young lady has achieved in a short time, through hard work and dedication. Hazel is one of those unique riders who possess the enviable ability to quietly convert totally \u2018green\u2019 ponies into winners at national level in a … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":67,"featured_media":1297,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/67"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1295"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2308,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1295\/revisions\/2308"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nutriscience.ie\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}