In addition to working with husband Mark to run their intensive dairy farm and two run-off properties and looking after their three children, Andrea Shore has added a pony stud into the mix.
She has been a horse enthusiast from a young age and establishing her own stud, Braeburn Park Riding Ponies, on their 290ha Clydevale property in 2010, is a ''life-goal achievement'' and her ''passion''.
''I have always loved young horses, particularly ponies, and enjoyed breaking them, producing them and eventually selling them on to new homes and seeing them continue to be successful,'' Mrs Shore said.
She was first introduced to English riding ponies when she was 12, she said.
''I fell in love with it and was addicted for life.
''For me they are something really, really special and I set out to breed and produce a beautiful and elegant type of pony character, with correct conformation and big moving ponies with natural showring presence.''
She has imported seven top pedigree mares from Australia in the past three years and now has nine mares and a home-bred rising 2-year-old colt, and to date has had four foals with another three due in the spring.
Many of her ponies have done well in top competitions throughout the countryShe bought 2-year-old filly Highcroft Heavenly (Poppy) from a New South Wales stud in 2012.
''As soon as I laid eyes on her I knew she was the one,'' she said.
''She had everything, and more, that I wanted and was definitely a special filly that I had to bring home to the stud.
''I decided to put her in foal to Royalwood Boy Soprano and then imported her in December 2012.''
Since then the horse has competed in the New Zealand National Horse and Pony Show in Hastings in January, the North Island Premier Show in Cambridge in February and the Horse of the Year Show, also in Hastings, in March 2013, being unbeaten in all three shows and winning Supreme Led Pony at the New Zealand National Horse and Pony Show.
''It has been a life goal to win a Horse of the Year title, so I was delighted to finally achieve this with Poppy.''
She has also bought several other successful mares and bred them to top Australian sires before importing them.
''I can access some of Australian's top sires that I am unable to in New Zealand as most sires are not available to AI and therefore I am able to ensure the highest quality with different bloodlines coming through at Braeburn Park.''
She has also recently bought (in partnership with John and Tracy Martin, of Mosgiel) Highcroft Minuet, who will arrive at the stud in April next year after competing at the Sydney Royal Show.
''She has won just about every major award in Australia, including being sashed `Australasia Grand National Champion' in her first year under saddle,'' she said.
One of Mrs Shore's colts, Braeburn Park Oscar de la Renta, which she bred in 2011, won Champion Yearling, Supreme Young Stock and the Supreme All Breeds Exhibit of the Show award at the 2102 Canterbury A and P Show, held in mid-November.
Three weeks later he won the Champion Young Stock class (3-years-and-under) title, the Supreme Led Pony title and the Supreme All Breeds Exhibit title at the South Island Premier Championship Show. He will leave next week for Australia for the 2013-14 show season.
She had been delighted with the success of Oscar and another of her other horses, Willowcroft Diamonds Forever, Mrs Shore said.
Running a stud alongside a dairy farm required some negotiation with her husband to be able to use some of the milking platform for grazing when it was not in use, she said.
''We were probably busy enough prior to starting the stud and now it is certainly busier and a huge juggling act between the dairy farming business, the stud and our children, but we just make it work.
''The dairy farming business has to come first as this is our No 1 business and hopefully our children's future.
''So I have to be extremely organised and ensure that I diary everything out for the month and try and plan out three months in advance, so that everyone knows what has to be done for the month for all our businesses and private lives and then we work together to make it work.
''Mark and I generally make a pretty good team,'' she said.
- Yvonne O'Hara