Kirkbys Stud Stock Horses

13/12/2024

To say she’s class…for me, is an understatement! The more I ride her, the more I appreciate her! Even more importantly, she’s a very kind soul! I’ll also have loads of fun naming her ‘designer’ foals!! Thanks Select Sires for sharing our story, I can’t wait to compete on her!

09/12/2024

Congratulations to Daniel & LEALUKAS BRIGALOW - HSH for winning the ACA Eastern NSW Novice Series for 2024. Brigalow is out of KIRKBYS STUD FLIGHT - HSH and by BONLAC GIGALO - HSH.

LEALUKAS BRIGALOW (by Bonlac Gi**lo) & Daniel Cheers winging their way to the winners circle having sat at the top of the leaderboard for the duration of the ACA Eastern NSW Novice Series. 5 rounds & the win was theirs!

👉 www.selectsires.com.au/stallion/bonlac-gigolo
Lealukas Performance Horses

Photo thanks to Sandi Bennett.
Glen Innes Show Society Campdraft, Guyra Campdraft Club, The Red Range Stock Supplements 'Jewel of the North', Glen Elgin Campdraft Association

06/12/2024

The 50th Annual Dalby Stock Horse Sale commemorated its golden anniversary, and to celebrate, the Kirkbys Stud sponsored a Memory Lane. Kirkbys Stud was proud to support this fantastic event, reflecting on the memories and achievements that have shaped the Dalby Stock Horse Sale since it commenced in 1974.

For me, this sponsorship is especially meaningful, as my parents, Phillip and Sylvia Kirkby, were at the very first Dalby Sale. It was fantastic that Mum was with me this year to celebrate the milestone. Being part of such a significant event is a beautiful way to carry on my parent’s legacy.

The Kirkbys Stud influence throughout the sale's history has seen eight horses top the sale in one of the categories (mare, stallion, gelding), plus Kirkbys Stud horses were the second top price seven times. It’s also interesting to note that Kirkbys Stud stallions or mares were the sire or dam of another eight top-priced horses carrying another prefix.

I'd like to thank the Dalby Australian Stock Horse Sale Committee, the Darling Downs Branch, The Australian Stock Horse Society, Mick Cuskelly, and John Lyons for their support, it was a pleasure to work with everyone to bring the Memory Lane to life.

I look forward to continuing the long-standing tradition of selling Kirkbys Stud horses at Dalby.

Enjoy your ride,
Liz

06/12/2024

What a fabulous and much loved horse Kirkbys Stud Orca must have been. Orca’s maternal granddam, Kirkbys Stud Mercury - IM HSH, was a fabulous family mare who won just about anything she competed in. Thank you for sharing Stockhaven Australian Stock Horses.

01/12/2024

Sometimes things are just meant to be, even if it’s hard! When the Dalby Australian Stock Horse Sale catalogue came out, one mare caught my eye…Kaspers Versace. She’s a consistent performer winning drafts and cutouts, from a mare who’s produced 6 individual draft winners, and by the legendary Acres Destiny. She’s a very exciting addition to the stud. But for Phil McCormack, it was a hard day, selling one of his most favourite mares to scale back the stud and enter the retirement phase from campdrafting. Thank you Phil for the opportunity to own Versace…she’s sort of won the lottery today as she’ll be as much loved with me as she was with you and Gloria!!!

01/12/2024

An exciting addition to the stud with the purchase of Kaspers Versace, an outstanding novice Campdraft mare by Acres Destiny. She’s kind, smooth, quick, and accomplished. Her dam’s produced six campdraft winners and I can’t wait to see Versace’s foals once I breed from her in a couple of years. Thank you to Phillip and Gloria McCormack from Clearchoice Performance Horses for offering such a beautiful and well bred mare, even if you didn’t really want to part with her.

⚜️ LOT 223 ⚜️

KASPERS VERSACE
Price: $45,000
Vendor: PL GF & N McCormack
Buyer: Kirkbys Stud Stock Horses

27/11/2024

09/11/2024

The latest foal has bling and performance…a c**t by One Stylish Pepto and out of Kirkbys Stud Catnap (Cattle Ray x KS Madonna). Catnap is a maternal sister to Kirkbys Stud Elvis, who won the 2020 ABCRA Australian Champion Allround Campdraft Horse in his maiden year and the 2022 Paradise Lagoons Stallion Campdraft.

07/11/2024

Do the yearlings think I’m a lick block to taste test?!?!

16/10/2024

Kirkbys Stud Echo on fire with Zac in the 2009 Chinchilla Ba****ck Cutout!!

14/10/2024

Shout out for historic Dalby Sale info!!

Do you have old catalogues with the sale breakdown written in the back?

I’m missing almost all info for 1975, 1984, 1985, and 1991.

I’m also looking for category breakdowns, specifically:

1977 - Gelding - top price name, top price amount, number sold, average, and gross
1979 - Gelding - average and gross
1980 - Mares/Geldings/Stallions - numbers sold, gross, and average
1986 - Gelding - top price amount and horse name
1987 - Mares/Geldings/Stallions - numbers sold and gross
1987 - Geldings/Stallions - the top price amount and horse name
2005 - Stallion - top price amount

I’d also like more photos from earlier sales from 1975 to the mid-1980s, but happy for photos' from any year.

Any help would be great.

We need your help!

With preparations for our 50th year celebrations underway, we are doing a call out for any sale results from previous years and hoping you might be able to help.

We are looking for any information on the sale results from total lots offered, total numbers sold, gross for each category and top price.

If you would happen to have some of this info for the following years, we would love to hear from you. Either comment below or send to Liz Kirkby Kirkbys Stud Stock Horses.

-1975
-1977
-1979
-1980
-1984
-1985
-1986
-1987
-1991
-2009
-2010

We are also looking for any photos from 1975-2000 📸

If you could send any info in by the 31st of October, that would be greatly appreciated!

17/09/2024

Pretty & talented!!

Hey pretty girl 😍
BND Confetti (Kirkbys Stud Cheers/ Nabinabah Rockafella)
Photography by Sarah Ebbett

16/09/2024

Be it a beast or a ball, we strive to breed athleticism across disciplines. KS Cheers is out of the mare that taught my kids to ride, KS Tonic, who was talented and bomb proof! What a great photo of her granddaughter in BND Confetti.

BND Confetti (Kirkbys Stud Cheers/ Nabinabah Rockafella)

15/09/2024

Congrats Ashley on your second weekend in a row winning blues with Kirkbys Stud horses. What a fabulously consistent weekend with maternal siblings out of a your fave old mare.

Balonne Novice Horse Series Shootout Winner - Kirkbys Stud Graceful
And Highest Aggregate Winner - Woodoaks Superman. Both horses are out of our beautiful old Open Mare Kirkbys Stud Dreams Charity.
Big thanks to the Balonne Campdraft Committees for running this event and St George for hosting the final.

13/09/2024

A big congrats to Ashley!! KS Trinket is by Chevin Ivory and out of the open campdraft mare, Kirkbys Stud Sister (by Warrenbri Omega).

🏆🏅Congratulations to our drafters in the Donrica Stockhorse Stud Restricted Open Draft
1st Ashley Harrison on Kirkbys Stud Trinket
2nd-3rd Jason Birney on Birneys Solitaire
2nd-3rd Kevin Southern on Chisums Bethany
4th Mick Coyne on Daddy Bin Conned
5th-6th Peter Cookson
5th-6th Jack Southern

ETG Commodities highest cutout winner Ashley Harrison on Kirkbys Stud Trinket
⭐️ Judge Curtis Cherry

07/09/2024

Patiently waiting for these three girls to pop…I’ve ordered three fillies!! 🤣
L to R: KS White Rose (in foal to Eagle Hustler), KS Catnap (in foal to One Stylish Pepto), and Coolum Ovation (in foal to KS Counterfeit).