“The Ride” started with a naive statement over a Christmas party drink, “I’ll ride my horses (from Kwa Zulu Natal) to Cape Town”. Eighteen months later Joe and I arrived in Grahamstown having retraced the hoof prints of Dick Kings legendary 950 km ride from Durban: 10 days of exhaustion, pain, inspiring adventure, and discovery about ourselves, our horses and our country.
The intervening year and a half had been spent painstakingly developing the bold concept of “The Ride”, the seed of which had popped into my head moments after that fateful comment: to pit myself and whoever would ride with me against the achievements of historic men of action.
A partnership with kindred spirit and maverick film maker Justin Bonello and his production company Cooked in Africa Films means that what started as a madcap idea is now “The Ride”, a television series, with more on the way!
