The Lengths That Ginny Thompson Has Gone For Her 5* Dream

How do you make the biggest decision of your life? When do you know that the moment is exactly right? What happens if you fail?

New Zealand event rider Virginia “Ginny” Thompson has been through that agonizing thought process many times before. At the end of 2017, the now 27-year-old caught a wave that carried her from the small, relaxed pool of New Zealand eventing to the open ocean of the sport in England.

“I always knew that if I wanted to forge a real career in the sport that I loved, I would have to leave New Zealand and come to England. The level of competition in the U.K. is just so much more fierce; you are competing against the very best riders in the world at every event, week in and week out,” she says.

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Article written by: Catherine Austen