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Born to Run Adventure Racing is a charity dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and repurposing the lives of miniature ponies. Support us, to support them.

Who too often suffer neglect and mistreatment. https://www.borntorunadventureracing.org/

04/01/2026

It’s 2026, Year of the Horse. Time to celebrate the smallest and mightiest.

02/01/2026

Mr Potato, the ultimate athlete showing the world that being shaped like a spud can’t stop you from achieving your dreams!

30/12/2025

Special mention to some of our great competitors including Simon Jopling who ran a pretty huge distance with his two horses Piccolo and Milo. He did 203 km combined distance with these two horses. So impressive to see as he ran each pony individually.

Picollo originally came from us and Milo has been to a lot of our events including the Great Northern Gallop and lots of 5 and 10km events. It's so cool to see horses we know continuing on adventure with new people.

28/12/2025

We loved following Bianca and her horses journey during the virtual challenge! Challenge Hound is the platform we run our event on now and it's so good as it easily lets you post photos and see what everyone else is up to with their horses.

She did an incredible distance of 209. 14 km wining the running category, the junior and the zero to hero for first timers! Her horses look like they are out having a great time as well!

27/12/2025

Happy Holidays everyone to celebrate the festive season we are excited to announce the results of our Born to Run Virtual Challenge!

What an incredible effort from participants across New Zealand and around the world — the dedication, miles covered, and commitment to getting out and active with your equines has been truly inspiring. It also helps us go along way in our mission to get people out and active with their miniatures horses and support equine welfare.

🏆 Running Category Winner:
Bianca Malyon – with an amazing 209.14 km completed! An outstanding achievement and an incredible example of determination and consistency.
She also won the Zero to Hero and best Junior prize a fantastic achievement

🏆 Walking Category Winner:
Erin Carson – covering a fantastic 186.49 km, proving that steady miles and commitment really do add up.

A huge congratulations to our winners and a massive thank you to everyone who took part, shared their journeys, and supported equine welfare through this challenge. You should all be incredibly proud — big steps on little legs, and big hearts behind every kilometre 💙🐴

More posts to come !

Huge thanks to Vetpro and Prydes EasiFeed NZ for their support!

25/12/2025

Merry Christmas from our team of little equines to you!

Wishing you all happy holidays and thanks for all the incredible support, follows, comments, donations and being part of our team for 2025!

We might not have dasher and dancer but se do have the red sisters, Lady Red and Madame Rouge as our token reindeer this year.

Vetpro
Prydes EasiFeed NZ

23/12/2025

Virtual results coming soon....

19/12/2025

It is the second to last day of the challenge, and we are seeing some pretty incredible totals from our amazing competitors!

There are going to be a lot of very fit ponies out there this summer 🐴💪

It is so cool to see so many little ones getting out, staying active, and genuinely enjoying themselves. Go BTR virtual competitors!

09/12/2025

One of our hardest working members of the team certainly does put in the hours, never complains and shows up for overtime every time. Skip the fox terrier telling those ponies where to go

07/12/2025

Okay guys this is a long shot, but our races are now so popular they are selling out months in advance. We'd love to add another one to our calendar. But we need a new venue, can you suggest a location?

This is the criteria it needs to meet.

A safe holding paddock, pens, stockyards or similar to contain 40 x miniature ponies for a few days.
Great trails- these can be forestry tracks, farm tracks, 4wd tracks or the beach but there does need to be enough to make it a multi day event!
Camping facilities- We do catering at our events so there needs to be somewhere to cook, toilets, showers and camping facilities for us and the competitors

We are open to using forestry blocks, farms, shearing quarters or woolsheds or anything similar and we will pay to use them. If you want to promote your farm or just know a great destination you think might work for our races please reach out and let us know. We'd love to explore some new options to let us hold more races each year!

Photo Libby Law Photography - NZL

Edited to add: somewhere in Northland is preferred as we have to get over 30 ponies to the event and once we start driving more than 3 hours it’s makes things logistically a lot tougher

03/12/2025

Don't forget it's not too late to enter our Mini Movement virtual challenge! The platform we use is engaging, interactive and lets you see what everyone else is up around the world!

Help keep our smallest horses happy, healthy and raise money for a good cause. Walk, run, hop or skip just get out and have fun with your horse

You can enter here

https://www.borntorunadventureracing.org/enter-now

Vetpro

28/11/2025

Want to look at cool as Phoebe and little Benji in their Born to Run attire?

Get your pre-order in for some official Born to Run merchandise. All profits go towards our tiny steeds! Plus you get to represent an awesome cause and look good doing it!

Simply email [email protected] for a pre-order form or with any questions The pictured t-shirt is from previous year (not current). Please see pre-order form or our page for latest merchandise designs.

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The Far North
Kerikeri

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https://www.borntorunadventureracing.org/

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