Annie Chambers

There’s a tui in a tree, a gang of chickens on the front lawn and four horses swishing their tails in the yards. Enter Annie Chambers. She strides, she hollers and with a top-of-the-flag-post wave, Annie commands this little part of the world. Tuki Equine is her universe, one hundred acres of Hawke’s Bay flat, rolling and hill country that sits above the Tukituki River. Nestled below Te Mata Peak, the equestrian centre is watched over by Mount Erin and Mount Kahuranaki. The small business was borne from a long love affair with this bit of dirt, a dream and the hard graft of Annie and her daughter, Kirsty Chambers.