Snickers riding miles

By Sandra Jephcott

Let’s soar together! Help me raise funds to keep the Flying Doctor flying.

Help keep the Flying Doctor flying! I’m raising funds so the Royal Flying Doctor Service can respond at a moment’s notice for people living, working, and travelling in remote, rural and regional areas in Australia.

Last year alone, the RFDS reached more than 330,000 Australians with 24-hour emergency retrieval and primary health care. That’s one person every two minutes!

The Flying Doctor is always on call to help and save lives, and that’s why I’m asking you to chip in to and help the RFDS to provide the finest care to the furthest corner.

I have personally been a recipient of RFDS excellent medical servicve twice from Surat in Qld to Toowoomba Base Hospital. The events were 12 months apart but it was the same nurse on both flights and she remembered me!

Go on. Please donate now towards my fundraiser, and let’s see how high our tally can fly.

Thank you Alayne Willcocks

Thank you very much for your donation

Timing for more riding miles

I sarted thr fund raising page in Mayb2025 because of my trail ride with Snickers at Easter but I really won't get going with it until June through October when I am doing the Miles getting Snickers fit & doing endurance rides & trail rides. Please follow me & donate what you can afford for tjis amazing mefical service that services rural & regional Australia saving lives & providing essential medical services. Rural & regional areas are the hood howl of Australia

Continuing my riding

I started this page in May as I did a trail ride at Easter but I will continue getting Snickers fit & doing endurance rides & trail rides from June to October 2025 do jerp watching & donate what you can to this great Austrslian service

Start of training Snickers

Geoff Reilly brought myself, 2 dogs and 2 horses from home near Warwick to Geoff's property, 'Lennie Brae', near Condamine. On Monday I rode the horses 25.4km shifting two mobs of sters on to oats. On Tuesday I rode 10.3km mustering two mobs of calves into the yards to draft off the weaners and for me to pregnancy test 170 cows. Today I rode 4.6km puttiing cattle out & cutting out some cows. So far this weeks I have ridden 40.3km for spnsorship. Thank you

self donation

I will aim to roughly ride 100km per week so I will donate $100 a week to RFDS

Tuimeline posted 8/6/25 after first week of training Snickers

Easter -   18km with Beaudesert Trail ride at Killarney
2/6            25.1km shiftimg steers on to oats
3/6           10.3km weaning muster 
4, 5, 6 /6   16.2 km checking weaner mums
7 & 8/6      22,4km putting weaner mums out to better paddocks
I am aiming to do 100km a week but for the first week of June this only adds up to 74km. However, we floated the horses from Warwick to Condamine on Sunday 1/6 so 4 hours in a float is equivalent to 26km making it 100km!

June week2 training Snickers

Have made my weekly donation of $100. Am doing a long ride this afternoo and tomorrow so will update my weekly km pn Sunday morning. The photo was taen yesterday afternoon with some cows and calves, We forgot to take a picture of me taking the weaner mums to  good paddock on the river & putting the weaners out so this is the closest we got!

My impact

So far, my fundraising could help…

Provide a full range of life saving medication such as sedatives, pain relief and antibiotics so the Flying Doctor can be ready for 41 emergency situations.

Send 21 life saving-medical chest to remote communities

Provide one on one counselling to 13 outback Australians during a difficult time

Purchase 8 pieces of equipment that could include ventilators, defibrillators and infusion pumps which are used on board flights

Thank you to my supporters

OUTBACK HERO DONATION

$520

D J Leahy Investments Pty Ltd

A wonderful organisation to support Sandi & you definitely know first hand All the best

OUTBACK HERO DONATION

$211

Heather Atherton

Enjoy the ride Sandi XXX

OUTBACK HERO DONATION

$211

Susie Latimer

Such a great fundraising intuitive Sandi. RFDS is such a worthy cause. Good luck!

$106.12

Sandra Jephcott

$105.73

Annabelle Brayley

Good for you Sandi! Ride well!

$95.90

Sandra Jephcott

I rode Snickers 18km over Easter week-end 2025 with Beaudesert Trail Riding Club on Beirnie Brosnan's property near Killarney

$80.25

Margaret Whip

$54.12

Alayne Willcocks