Woolandoon Thoroughbred Retraining and Rehoming

17/03/2025

We’ve had a busy few weeks here getting horses fit and ready for the start of our competition season. Off to Bingara show this weekend with a team of 3, Tickets For Youth (Bobby), Yuruga Lass (Cleo) and Kateru (Tommy).

We also welcomed this beautiful new girl to the team yesterday. Creedy Cat aka Willow has already proved to be beautiful and soft and at only 4 yrs old she has a very exciting future in any discipline. - Watch this space!

16/02/2025

Chocolate coloured ponies are my fav 🫣left to right: Kateru (Tommy), Yuruga Lass (Cleo), and Tickets For Youth (Bobby). Time to get cracking for the 2025 show season/eventing season.

07/02/2025

FULL OF FLAVOUR (Barney)

27/01/2025

SURPRISE!!

Welcome to the Woolandoon team, Kateru AKA Tommy. I told myself no more tall horses, BUT, here we are with this big boy measuring at roughly 17hh 🫣. I cannot thank his trainer Krissie Simpkins enough for AGAIN trusting me to take on one of your babies. Can’t wait to see what he has to offer 😍

19/01/2025

How cute is this cheeky little girl. Born on the 11th, Dottie is definitely keeping us entertained 🫶🏽

Sire: Forest Law and Order (ASH)
Dam: Vivaliscious (TB)

Off to Quirindi this weekend for abit of XC schooling fun with Queen Cleo and some friends, including previous Woolandoon graduate Archie (Boorool Ruler). I wonder if anything exciting will happen? Stay tuned 🫣😉

04/01/2025

‼️SOLD‼️

Full Of Flavour (Barney)
FALVELON x MARMILLION
Barney is a 16hh, 8yr old brown gelding. Retired sound OTT in Jan 2024. In this time Barney has competed at SJ, ODE, and sporting day outings and has done a week PC taking everything in his stride. Barney is Sj up to 1m, competing EvA 80cm and schooling up to 95.

In the right hands I believe Barney will go far with his look at me presence. Dressage is by far his weak point as he has such big movement and struggles to navigate the arena, however he is improving all the time and working out where his legs go. He is a lovely quiet boy with his only vice being that at times he can be girthy. This is a learned behaviour from racing, a simple rouse and he is fine.

Barney does have a small scar on his front near side leg from Tin/wire which he had when I got him, this has healed well and hasn’t caused him any problems. Barney has 3 lovely paces and a super soft snaffle mouth. A very easy doer, currently barefoot. Good to C/W/S/F and clip. Has been ridden by novice riders.

While Barney is lovely and quiet he is still learning therefore not suited to beginners. Sad sale of a genuinely lovely horse, however it is time that he finds his next best friend. Located Inverell, NSW. Looking for $5k
Please pm for further info/photos

12/12/2024

‼️VIEWER DISCRETION ADVISED‼️
12 months.
12 months since all my hopes and dreams came crashing to an instant halt. Not even a week before I was swooning over the fact that Derby who is my dream horse had mastered his canter lead both ways and was already practicing novice dressage moves. To have a horse already working at this level with so little off the track education is truly something special.

12 months today I got the news I didn’t want to hear. “Your horse is on the wrong side of the fence and is bleeding”. When I first saw the injuries I wasn’t sure of the extent of them. A vet visit later determined the cut was down to the bone and the chance of proud flesh and infection developing was at 100% due to the heat. A full leg bandage for a month with everyday changes and 2 lots of proud flesh removed.

Now 12 months on Derby’s leg is fully healed but the road is not clear. It’s being a long 12 months of blood, sweat, tears and frustrations as we take one step forward and 2 steps back in his injury recovery and rehabilitation. Due to the result of the injury he has unfortunately developed a hitch. Consults with vets think with time it should disappear as he gets used to using and strengthening the leg again.

Our future is still full of what ifs, but for now he is a happy, healthy boy and that’s all that matters. Here’s hoping we can kick things in the butt and see improved results and hopefully get back to where we were pre injury in 2025.

24/11/2024

A casual Sunday stroll on big boy Barney. Both boys are enjoying their time in the paddock with the odd ride when i feel like it. Time for Cleo to come back into work and hopefully Derby aswell as it’s been almost 12 months since he injured himself!

10/10/2024

Pony Camp + Jamboree 2024

Bingara as always turned on the weather for a great week and a half of enjoying our four legged friends. This was Barney’s first PC and to say I was impressed would be an understatement. Bob also tagged along and got to spend a few days relaxing at pops before coming back to prepare for the few days of competing. Despite an unfortunate elimination during the PC ODE on Friday, we bounced back and redeemed ourselves on Monday taking out 1st place B grade associate at the jamboree ODE.
Over the last 3 days Bob has proved how versatile thoroughbreds are, showing that they can excel in various disciplines coming away with 1st and 2nd place in the AM5 and A2 jumps, and placing 4th in the flag race and 3rd in the mug race on Tuesday. We also managed to secure ourselves 2nd place in our hack, 3rd in the rider, and 4th in pairs (Bob's preference for doing stuff solo was pretty evident 😂) and 2nd in the B grade 6 bar on Wednesday.
I couldn’t be more proud of both boys and how they are continuing to learn and improve all the time. They are more than happy to be back in their paddocks and relaxing today 🫶🏽🫶🏽

19/08/2024

🎉🐎NSW Pony Club State One Day Event and Combined Training🐎🎉

A beautiful weekend with lovely weather and even better horses. Tickets For Youth (Bobby) carried me around safely to take out NSW reserve champion B Grade Associate in CT and 3rd in the B Grade ODE. Full Of Flavour (Barney) did a beautiful showjump round and a fairly reasonable dressage test to sit us in 8th place but unfortunately the cross country was too overwhelming with everything going out on course and we ended up being eliminated. Big pats and carrots for a brave boy who tried his hardest. Off to Warwick Horse Trials this weekend with Bob in the 95cm and Barney out to try our luck again at 80cm. 🐎❤️

01/08/2024

OTTBS can do ANYTHING!! 🐎🏆

When your $1000 off-track-thoroughbred takes you to the Olympics 🤩

Shenae Lowings and Bold Venture in action at Versailles 🙌

Photo: Australian Olympic Team

01/08/2024

Happy horse birthday to the Woolandoon OTTB team. If you have a former Woolandoon retrainer, post a picture in the comments to celebrate! 🐎🎉

25/07/2024

We’ve been abit quiet lately on here as not much has being happening! We are back into the swing of things now that the second half of the competition season has started up again. Bob has just had his first eventing start back after a bit of break and absolutely aced the 95cm course at Tamworth. Both Bob and Barney will be heading off to State One Day Event and Combined Training at Coonabarabran in a few weeks which I am so excited for! Not only is it such a privilege to ride for my zone at state level, BUT, it is such a privilege to take not 1 but 2 horses that I have trained myself. Barney has fully exceeded my expectations and I am so excited to see him cruise around his first 80cm ODE (not bad for a horse only 7 months off the track with one eventing start at 45cm 😂).

25/07/2024

TINY EMPEROR (Remi)

13/06/2024

CONJOLA PHOENIX (Finn)

13/06/2024

Good boy Remi! 😍 Remi’s second ride back after a 4 month spell and he behaves like this. Not only is Derby about 2 hands taller than him but he is also full of oats and quite pushy. As you can tell Remi isn’t phased and pretty happy to push back if he has to. He is still looking for his new home, a beautiful quiet boy that would be a perfect teens project or future kids pony club horse.

20/05/2024

Cleo! 😍😍
I think I have a handy little mare on my hands. Little miss had her first outing yesterday since retiring and man did she exceed my expectations jumping up to 75cm with a few green rails, as to be expected. Oh, did I forget to mention she only learnt to jump just a week ago! What a freak. I’m sooooo excited to see this mares progress, I think she is going to be a real force to reckon with in probably the very near future 😍🐎