Loch Leven Park Performance Horses & Ponies

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Loch Leven Park Performance Horses & Ponies

Loch Leven Park is now just a small hobby for us, we are no longer breeding breaking or training. Wanita Watts-Larkins, Shane Larkins,
Wade & Briahna.

About Us:

Loch Leven Park became reality in the early 1990’s with the acquisition of a couple of thoroughbred mares that had produced winners of good group class races. With my husband being a retired jockey this seemed like a good way to keep a hand in the business with out the high physical demands. After a few years and two children our breeding interests changed to coloured horses and pon

ies with the purchase of two piebald Shetland ponies and a lovely part arab pinto. These horses were extremely successful in the show ring with many Champions and Supremes to their names. As my daughter grew and her passion for horses fast becoming an obsession we decided to move into bigger
horses. We soon purchased three medium sized unbroken ponies to break educate and sell on as we had found that genuine kids’ ponies were virtually impossible to buy, or advertised for very large prices. The three ponies Carinya Park Blue Magic, Conway Park Maestro and Bimbadeen Mascot were broken, educated and shown
with huge success before being sold to various points of the continent, Far North Queensland, South Australia and
Tasmania. With my daughter now a teenager, she had become very keen on taking over my Quarter Horse mare. I had bought her and broke her in as I felt I was getting too old for horses with plenty of attitude and thought QH’s were definitely the way to go. She tried the mare but unfortunately she went lame due to a foot abscess and was put out for 12 months. After the 12 month spell the mare was still lame, so we decided to breed a foal out of her. The mare was bred to the very nice Paint stallion "Western Invader" and produced a superb solid chestnut colt. Now with the foal a yearling we decided to give the mare another try and to my absolute astonishment she seemed sound, so here we are 6 months on and my daughter is still riding her with no visible signs of her long running lameness. The colt was gelded and then sold prior to our pending relocation. Due to recently relocating to Victoria from Tasmania, we are now starting from scratch with our stud, we currently only have one palomino QH broodmare who is going to stud in October 2012. We are hoping by the end of 2013 and the start of 2014 we will have our stud back up and running, with the purchase of a few ponies and another QH broodmare.

26/06/2025

Just playing fetch with my horse, nothing to see here 🤣

15/06/2025

So overwhelmingly proud of this horse today in his sand dancing shoes 🥰 Never seen a dressage arena before and hasn’t been bitted in over 3 years yet came away with 🥇 and 🥈 in our two tests! Yes of course loads to work on but for those who know this horse and what he has been through; this was such a proud moment and I am still riding the high 💙💙

14/06/2025

Our young QH gelding Buffy learning how to "park" in a designated spot using only clicking sounds to ask him to step up. This was first session seeing the box and only 10 minutes later doing it all with no halter on, despite the camera lady being a distraction 😆🥰💙

20/05/2025

Happy "gotcha day" to our Lewie. 💙May 20, 2020, we pulled this very sick baby off the truck and could not have predicted what the next 6 months (and some) would look like. To spare you all the details can you believe we are here 5 YEARS later! We love our goofy big pain in the butt 🥰

30/04/2025

Vale Greg Sugars ♥️💚
We are a little late posting as none of us use Facebook very much. All of us here at LLP are deeply saddened by the sudden and shock loss of Greg last weekend.

Always a smiling face and happy go lucky fellow, happy to have a chat whenever he seen us (not always common when you are immediate family of a steward). And speaking of stewards a man who was rarely seen at the receiving end of the rule book, a much admired participant and great person.

Our thoughts and prayers are with Jess and all family and friends, we cannot begin to fathom the heart ache for you all.

Rest easy Mr Sugars, your race nominations are paid ♥️

18/04/2025

Who can guess his blind side from these videos? 🐴🙈
Small circles aren’t his thing but 10/10 for try 💜💜

28/03/2025

The girls would like to know how much supervisors get paid for this type of hard work! 😂🐴🐴 Mind you, one fell asleep on the job while the other took an extended lunch break and came back when the job was done! 🤪

23/02/2025

We have a secret to share… this 3yo filly, our very own piece of Jed ♥️

For the better part of almost 5 months we’ve have hidden this sass queen in our paddock. Every time we look out, it’s like seeing Jed. She is striking, calm, cheeky and loveable all jam packed into one tiny body. She has his looks, temperament and movement to burn. 🔥

And in true Jed style she carried her tiny beginner pilot around totally green broken, on a howling windy day 💨 and didn’t step out of place. We could have sold her 10 times over already even being told to name our price! Sadly (for everyone else) she is NOT and will NOT be available for purchase.

So welcome Lottie and thank you for being just like Jed, we needed you. 💖

14/02/2025

The Dusty & Rayne poster boy back at it again 🤩 Lewie sporting his brand-new cowhide nose band and I am wearing her new t-shirts, although I don't do them as much justice as Lewie does for her halters! If you look closely you can even see her earrings and hair scrunchie too 💙 if you haven't been over to her page you are missing out!

19/01/2025

Our poster boy 💖
As a brand ambassador for Dusty & Rayne it is his job to do her beautiful crafstmanship justice! If you haven't already you need to head on over to the Dusty & Rayne page! From custom halters, keyrings, earrings, cowhide clocks, serving boards and so much more! Her workmanship is second to none, you won't be disappointed. 😍

13/12/2024

What a delight it was to have a Shetland back at home recently! Loch Leven Park Mystery (Kova) here for the beginnings of his breaking. Remember if you have a LLP Shetland to get in touch if you would like to book them in for training! Sorry not open to public, just a promise to our faithful LLP pony owners ♥️

21/09/2024

In honour of our wonderful Jed, 12 months without our little rockstar; here is your reminder to love the horse first and the sport second 💙

📸 Amy Sue Alston Photography, Whitty Photography & Jane Richards 🫶

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Rockhampton, QLD

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http://lochlevenparkhorsesnponies.weebly.com/

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