Riding for the Disabled tutor Ruth Holmes is definitely one for the main chance, like raffling part of a national award she received last weekend to help pay the bills at the cash-strapped branch to which she devotes her time in Hastings.
Along with the certificate and medal she received on Saturday night as part of the New Zealand Riding for the Disabled chair's award for outstanding commitment came a coffee maker.
"But I don't drink coffee," she said back in Hastings this week. "I'm going to raffle it."
Behind the undying commitment - which goes way beyond the 20 hours a week for which she is employed - is the knowledge that, like so many other volunteer-based outfits with overheads, the Hastings RDA could with the money.
"A couple of hundred thousand would be nice," said Ms Holmes, who came to New Zealand from England in 2001 and soon found herself reined-in to help with Riding for Disabled.
"I got bored, so I went and volunteered."
She put her experience with horses as a young girl and with disabled during 20 years in London to work.
With up to 40 riders to work with, it's clear there's a struggle ahead. Hastings RDA needs more horses, it is already down at least one and is "very aware" a few others are getting a bit old.
"It was a total shock and a surprise," she said, describing the moment her name was called at the NZRDA dinner.
She was unaware the award would be presented this year, and had been put up for a separate Coach of the Year Award, one of several on the programme.
"It got very much like the Oscars after a while," she said.
"Y'know, And the winner is ... I'm in very exalted company."
As for the future: "As long as the body holds out."