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It seems, too, that Duncan and Helen are ready to step onto a slower track and they hope some of their friends and clients will be in similar frames of mind, at least as vacationers. “It’s probably like the U.S. was in the 1950s,” says Duncan of the New Zealand lifestyle. “It’s very laid back, beautiful and not much pollution.” They’ll base themselves on 10 acres in the middle of the North Island, near the huge Taupo Lake. They hope to develop some business with people who want to combine their equestrian interests with holidays that will include fishing, boating and other non-horsey activities. Duncan first worked for fellow kiwis Butch and
Lu Thomas when he came to America. Partnerships with Richard Sands, then his former wife, Gry McFarlane, in Windfall Farms, were among the outlets for his considerable horsemanship gifts as a rider, trainer and coach. The 12-year-old Hanoverian stallion Mr. Whoopy, by Contendro, is Duncan’s current claim to fame. He began working with Mr. Whoopy when the horse was 5 and rode him to consistent top 1.6M placings in recent years. Their most successful stretch began with a second place finish in the first HITS $1 million class in New York in 2011 and continued through a third in last year’s Thermal $1 million class. Since then, Duncan and the ever-exuberant stallion accrued enough World Cup points to sit fourth overall in the West Coast league as of the end of last year.
While he and Helen were sad to have Mr. Whoopy go, they were happy he’d have a terrific new home with at the Coulters’ Copernicus Stables in Petaluma. Helen’s resume is even longer than Duncan’s. Competing successfully in her native England and in Ireland, Germany and elsewhere, before moving to the United States in 2000, she earned a name for developing young horses and getting the best out of horses of varying abilities and temperaments.
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