O’Hanlon Equine

16/10/2025

15/10/2025

11/10/2025

It’s not about a holiday camp for the horse, but it’s damn sure not a prison camp either. They gotta learn to work and travel, but they gotta be able to find peace somewhere too. That’s allowed to be with you. Just my take on it, it doesn’t make me right or others wrong, it’s only about what the horse needs!! Hooroo

23/09/2025

•CATTLE WORKING CLINIC
October 11th & 12th 2025, at our place
O’Hanlon Equine “Ballymore”. Millmerran

•Please check out the details and book on the services page of our website www.ohanlonequine.com

•Expect to work a Mechanical Cow, Drag Dummy (Winnifred Pro), and of course real cattle

•Small classes with a maximum of ten riding spots. Fence sitters welcome too. Book on our website and enjoy one of the best value clinics in the country. Dinner included Saturday night. Free camping and horse yards are available.

•Don’t forget all students that pay full price for a school receive a 20% discount off the full price service fee to OZZY CAT for the 25/26 breeding season. Unless they’ve already set a cheaper FEE FOR LIFE. This discounted price also becomes the first time breeders new FEE FOR LIFE.

17/09/2025

Check out Chris Krieg and this great 3yr old Reined Cowhorse VAUGHN HALEN. He’s just been crowned Reserve Champion at the Reno Snaffle Bit Futurity, he’s also out of BLACK PEARL as is OZZY CAT. His sire STEVIE REY VON is by METALLIC CAT also just as OZZY CAT is. VAUGHN HALEN also won the California Reined Cowhorse Futurity a few weeks ago. Take the international flight, the frozen semen and the currency conversion out of your breeding program. Have a look at the similarities between these two siblings and a quick video of their mother BLACK PEARL (2008 NRCHA Open Futurity World Champion) to see where they get their arse dragging capabilities from in the comments. Call Sean O’Hanlon for breeding contracts and set your FEE FOR LIFE now. Both great horses bred by the great Ward Ranch. I might also add that Chris Krieg has been instrumental in the training of both of these great stallions. Australia really does have world class genetics available at very affordable rates. Great is great.

25/08/2025

It’s not a race everyone. I’ve got some really nice young horses in my care at the moment and keep reminding myself that it’s about longevity, it’s not a sprint. If that’s not your approach then maybe you ain’t no horseman.

Riding is certainly a big part of the breaking in/Starting process but there is no need to be in a rush for this bit to happen.
There is people in the horse industry that are so talented and gifted that they can be riding an unbroken horse in a matter of minutes or hours or maybe days depending on the horse and that is just fine.
However it bewilders me that there are people that want their horse trainer to only have their horse for maybe 3-4 weeks and then expect it to be broken in properly (for the want of a better word). Just because a horse has accepted a professional on its back doesn’t mean for one moment that it should be considered “Broken in”.
There is quite simply no way that MOST horses are ready for the world in the hands of relatively inexperienced people in just a 3-4 week period, these horses still have large holes in their schooling and in time these holes become exposed and then, well we know what happens next. Someone gets the blame (usually the Breaker or the Horse).
IF YOU have a horse that you are preparing to have broken in by a professional and you can’t afford to spend the money or time it takes to have this done well, then please ask yourself why on earth are you in the position of having any unbroken horses. Especially if you’re not experienced enough to take the freshly started horse and progress it.
Short cutting on a horses start is simply setting it up to fail and let’s face it, it’s start is the most important bit. Personally if I didn’t have the ability to start my own horses and I could afford to own unbroken horses I would want my trainer to keep my horse for 12 weeks and to send me home a well started, experienced horse that I would still consider to be green but ready for the world. Horse trainers are people that need time to do a good job, they are not miracle workers. Please don’t set your horses up to fail, they don’t send you “Get well soon Cards”. Whether you spend the time and money before or after the start, you will still spend it somehow. The reason for this post is that I see horses that are the product of this everywhere I go.
Just my take on it 🙂🙂✌️✌️✌️
Best of luck and ride safely.

25/08/2025

Check out the depth of Ozzy Cats breeding. Black Pearl is out of a great Master Remedy mare.

25/08/2025

There’s only a few days left to take advantage of our August early season service fee special. Contact Sean O'Hanlon for details.

17/08/2025

Ozzy Cat fans
CHECK THIS OUT
Vaughn Halen wins the California Reined Cowhorse 2025 open Futurity with Chris Krieg.

Vaughn Halen is also out of BLACK PEARL. He’s by Stevie Rey Von, who is by Metallic Cat, just as Ozzy Cat is.

Check out the resemblance in these two world class horses (below, talk about match steps with a cow), both out of a World Champion mare and both by World Champion sires. Watch out for Vaughn Halen in the future, by all accounts he is something very special, just like Ozzy Cat.
Ozzy Cat carries the best Cowhorse bloodlines to ever come to Australia, bar none.

Dont miss our August breeding fee special. It really is a huge saving. Contact Sean O’Hanlon for details.

10/08/2025

***ATTENTION MARE OWNERS***

We have a great early season service fee discount on offer for the month of August.
A world class horse from a world class family. Contact us through our website or message O’Hanlon Equine directly for details. Don’t miss out as it effects your Ozzy Cat Fee For Life.

08/08/2025

One of the best posts I’ve seen in a gazillion years. For goodness sakes let them find peace.

Overstimulation is screwing up horses and kids… And it’s exhausting and detrimental.

I’ve spent over 15 years helping horses who struggled with focus, presence, relaxation and boundaries issues.
Horses that couldn’t stand still. Couldn’t relax. Couldn’t take direction without getting emotional or checking out.

And what I saw over and over again was the same root problem:
Humans who constantly need to stimulate their horse because THEY (the human) are wanting a reaction.

They think they are building a bond.
What they are really doing is feeding their own emotional need to feel connected.

It’s not leadership. It’s dependency.
And it leaves the horse more anxious, more distracted, and more emotionally unstable than they were to begin with.

Now that I’m a dad to two young kids, I see it happening there, too.

Adults constantly entertaining, distracting, interrupting, over-stimulating.
Not because the kid needs it but because they need it.
They want the laugh. The look. The reaction to make them feel good.

And in doing that, they rob that child of the space to build focus.
To build regulation.
To build actual internal strength.

Same pattern. Different species.

When a horse can’t be still, people say it’s just “who he is.”
When a kid can’t focus, people say it’s just “how they’re wired” or label them with ADD or want to give them pharmaceutical drugs.
But most of the time, that behavior is the byproduct of people that never gave them space to settle.

Both horses and kids are born with the ability to be present.
It’s usually the adult that disrupts it because they’re uncomfortable with silence, stillness, or not getting the constant hits of dopamine to make the adult feel good.

This is a hard truth:
If you constantly need a reaction to feel like you’re doing a good job with your horse or kid, you’re not leading.
You’re taking.

Leadership means knowing when to step in and when to stay out.
It means doing what’s best for the one you’re responsible for even if you don’t get the emotional payoff right away.

Most people overdo it.
Not because it helps… but because it feels good.
And they don’t want to sit with what it feels like when they stop.

But that silence? That stillness?
That’s where peace starts.
That’s where focus builds.
That’s where actual leadership lives.

We don’t need more stimulation.
We need more people willing to lead without needing something in return.

The horses may never thank us for this, but their quality of life will be better.

And for the kids, they may just thank you decades later. Or they may not.

But it’s not about what we get in return, it’s about doing what the horse or child needs regardless of what is or is not in it for us.

It’s not about you, it’s about them.
And when you focus on serving them, you’ll be blessed more than you can imagine in return.

Together We Rise

-Colton Woods