G.C. Natural Horsemanship

G.C. Natural Horsemanship Saddle starting & further training. Wild horse specialists! Extensive obstacle course & trail riding.

We offer the following services:

-Saddle starting
-General training/re-education
-Specific area training or problem solving eg. Float training
-Clinics
-Private training sessions.
-Horses for sale
-Horses sold on behalf of owners

See our website for more information:
www.gcnaturalhorsemanship.com.au

10/01/2026

Update at 5:35pm Saturday.

Evacuated horses are safe at Hanns Horse Transport and another property in Bannockburn where we took 3 yesterday. Our dogs are safe at Hanns also. I’ve had photos and video updates showing them eating dinner and calm. Thank you Hannah and Winston so much!

I (Georgia) am in Geelong with Piper our 8 year old daughter and ninja the cat.

Priscilla is safe not on the property she has been with the horses at Hanns and is now headed to Hayley’s in Bannockburn for the night.

My parents have just left the property to come to Geelong also.

Jimmy is staying on property monitoring and with the remaining 3 horses who are as safe as we can make them in the dirt yards and they have space to move and nothing really to burn close to them. Jimmy will put on the sprinklers on the covered arena if needed which will wet over the yards where those horses are also. He will stay as long as he is safe to stay and will be ready to leave if he needs to.

Thanks again for all the support, offers of help and care.

10/01/2026

Conditions changed and flared up again.

All client horses and most of our personal horses have now been evacuated to Hanns Horse Transport. Huge thanks to Winston for coming with an 8 horse truck! Plus our 2 floats took out an extra 5 horses. They are all now safe here at Hanns

We had to leave 3 horses in dirt yards by the arena and they should be safe- Jimmy is staying with them- Ollie is not handled enough to be loaded, and I couldn’t leave him alone so my two old boys, George and Jinx are with him. They should be ok.

Horses are all safe and calm this morning.
09/01/2026

Horses are all safe and calm this morning.

09/01/2026

Thanks to all the comments and messages of support and offering help. As you can surely understand I didn’t even have time to read any of the comments most of the time while I was actively managing where to put horses and helping evacuate some!
This fire came on so fast. The whole state was on alert but there was nothing directly close to us until it went from started to very very quickly an evacuation emergency. We didn’t have time to act earlier than we did.

I prioritised getting horses in the safest places and then I had to get my child, parents and dogs and cats off the property. Human life comes first. It was not safe to return straight away to try to float out more horses! We did try but then they were all so stressed and it was not possible to catch and load them- again it came back to human safety and Priscilla and her partner and his dad tried but then had to also leave back to Colac as fires were starting there.

Jimmy stayed the whole time and is still there. We did all we could in a very short time frame. Thankfully the wind was on our side and the property/areas where the horses and facilities and house are- are looking safe and should remain safe. Again Jimmy is there monitoring through the night.

The state forest at the back of our property is on fire- our back fenceline and ridge and most likely our back paddocks are burnt.

We had one small spot fire close to the horses but it was put out super fast by the CFA- we thank them immensely!

Other than that there has been no fire/burnt ground close to the horse paddocks- but our neighbors property (no residence) has been badly affected- we hope their cattle moved in the right direction at the right time.

It is raining now. I’m exhausted but I don’t think I can sleep- I’m still on adrenaline and it’s currently nearly 12:30 at night.

Thank you again for the offers of help and support- we do appreciate it but it was simply too fast and unsafe to take up those offers and bring more people into danger.

We thank immensely Hayley and her husband and family for helping evacuate and returning to the property with me on dark to move more horses to the arenas and dirt yards and set up water and hay for them, as well as helping Jimmy put out spot fires at the back paddocks edge of the fire.

We will try to keep updates coming. The main thing is people and animals are safe.

The whole state of Victoria is having a horrible time- be kind and don’t tell people they should have acted sooner- there simply was no time to act sooner.

Goodnight and cross fingers for tomorrow being a safer situation.

09/01/2026

We are back on the property and the fire is not coming back towards us.

We have all horses in the arenas on sand, holding yards and roundyard etc, no horses are in paddocks anymore.

All have water and hay and are calm and safe.

Jimmy is staying on the property for the night and will be checking things all night.

The yellow highlighted circle is our property, the black out line greyed out areas are the impacted areas. Wind is blowi...
09/01/2026

The yellow highlighted circle is our property, the black out line greyed out areas are the impacted areas. Wind is blowing from the south west now, so looking at this it’s past us enough to not come back towards the property. We can just cross fingers and keep checking for updates.

If it is safe to go back there we will but for now we are in Bannockburn with the dogs and cats. Some horses were removed from the property and Jimmy will then be on standby with our float and the other float should we be able to go back and if we need to move more horses. For now we left them as safe as we could.

09/01/2026

just had an update from someone there said it’s gone below and around our place, should be ok but we will keep updates as much as we can.

09/01/2026

Horses are as safe as we could make them. Some on floats some in arenas some in bare paddocks it changed too fast I’m sorry we did all we can just pray now

Spot fire on our place but they got it out fast

we’ve now left property

Conditions today: we had a spitting of rain early this morning and that’s what those dark clouds to the south west are. ...
08/01/2026

Conditions today: we had a spitting of rain early this morning and that’s what those dark clouds to the south west are.

We are monitoring conditions today, all horses will have the day off riding today and we will simply be making sure they are staying hydrated- all have access to shade if they wish to use it.

Currently there are no fires near us, but should that change we will be acting early and we have lots of safe places to put horses eg sand arenas and grazed down paddocks.

Should any clients wish to collect their horses in the event of a fire in the area please just come don’t worry if it seems an overreaction to move them early we understand and are happy for them to go or stay in our care. At this stage this is not necessary as there are no fires near us.

Then it was Zorro and Merlin’s turn for a little road ride. Merlin was Mr Chill as usual! 👏🏻🐴 Zorro for his first time d...
08/01/2026

Then it was Zorro and Merlin’s turn for a little road ride. Merlin was Mr Chill as usual! 👏🏻🐴

Zorro for his first time down the road was also very relaxed, he was forward at the start, up front power walking, but he did settle into it and wasn’t worried by a car passing. 👍

Quiet short road ride for Koda and Spirit this morning- both of their first time out down the road with us. Koda was ver...
08/01/2026

Quiet short road ride for Koda and Spirit this morning- both of their first time out down the road with us.

Koda was very relaxed and slow and not bothered by much at all and happy to plod at the back.

Spirit was quite forward but then did start to relax and slow down a bit but wanted to be up front the whole time. He had a few tiny spooks at birds and cows but overall did ok, needs a lot more of that before he goes home though for sure.

Both horses were not worried by a few cars passing.

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518 Bamganie Road
Meredith, VIC
3333

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+61432352201

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