Christine Bates - Failure wasn't a deterrent it was a speed bump.

Some horses are special from the moment you sit on them. Others take years, a mountain of patience and a few spectacular moments of “well… that didn’t go to plan!” Christine Bates has produced some of Australian eventing’s best horses and she’s got the stories to prove that getting to the top is rarely a straight line. Christine joins Prue and Fi for a cracking chat about growing up in WA, heading east with Basil, producing horses for the highest level and the highs, lows, laughs and heartbreak that come with a life in eventing. There’s plenty about the horses, of course — including what made Adelaide Hill so special and why Christine has some pretty big plans But this conversation goes deeper too. Christine talks honestly about failure, tragedy, risk and the responsibility to make eventing safer, while still protecting the things that make us all completely addicted to it. It’s honest. It’s funny. It’s occasionally brutal. And it’s a brilliant reminder that behind every great horse is a whole lot of work, patience, resilience.