Blog 6. Ben Freeth’s Ride for Hope – Heading down the Omaruru River with our riding party
- Ben Freeth
- Sep 26
- 1 min read
Friday 26 September 2025
I managed to join the other horses at last light yesterday after an eventful day. We are now all camped out in the desert. It is amazing to suddenly join such an amazing group of Namibians. My friend Pat Retzlaff, who rescued about 350 horses off farms in Zimbabwe, sometimes at night, during the land invasions, is also with us. His wonderful wife Mandy wrote a book called “One Hundred and Four Horses” about the horses they then took to Mozambique.
A family forced to run | The horses they had to save | An epic journey to freedom;
The legendary Pat Retzlaff
The picket line at dawn An old marble quarry
In the Omaruru River bed; Basking in the companionship of other horses
The amazing Vesta; Moisture in the air from the Atlantic Ocean, but desert
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