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

<p>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!”</p><p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p>There’s plenty about the horses, of course — including what made Adelaide Hill so special and why Christine has some pretty big plans</p><p>But this conversation goes deeper too.</p><p>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.</p><p>It’s honest. It’s funny. It’s occasionally brutal.</p><p>And it’s a brilliant reminder that behind every great horse is a whole lot of work, patience, resilience.</p>