Kirralee Jones- Partnership Performance Horses

02/09/2025

✨ Now Expanding – Training Spots Available ✨

Are you looking to truly understand your horse, build a deep connection, and resolve challenges at the root cause instead of patching over them?

For the first time, after being fully booked since I came back from Europe, I’m opening up limited spaces for horse training and lessons – and I’m excited to welcome Chloe, who has also studied the TRT Method with Tristan Tucker, to join me in sharing this work.

Together, we help horses and riders find balance – mentally, emotionally, and physically – through training that focuses on:
🐴 Groundwork and liberty foundations
🐴 Problem solving at the root cause
🐴 Relationship building and true connection
🐴 Relaxation, softness, and body control
🐴 Integrating groundwork seamlessly to ridden work
🐴 Biomechanics and education for lasting change
🐴 Dressage, Jumping, Obstacles, Trail Riding

This isn’t about quick fixes. It’s about understanding what your horse really needs to become relaxed, confident, and willing - so they want to be part of what we do with them. When the foundation is right, results often come faster than you expect.

Whether you’d like lessons to improve your own partnership or you’re looking for full training, we now have limited openings available.

📍 Based Cooranbong NSW – now open for bookings
📞 Contact Kirralee Jones on 0497 554 055 or message directly to secure your spot.

Let’s create a horse that feels good in body and mind, and a partnership you’ll both love. ✨

27/08/2025

Reach out to Cailin for a free body work session 🤩
She also offered f***l egg counts and magnetic therapy sessions (hofmag) 🙌🏽😍

🌟 Exciting News! 🌟

I’m so excited to share that I am now offering Equine Sports Massage & Bodywork alongside my faecal egg count (FEC) services! 🐴✨

Bodywork is such a powerful tool to support our horses — helping to release muscle tension, improve circulation, aid recovery, encourage relaxation, and enhance overall performance and comfort. Whether your horse is a competition partner, a pleasure mount, or a beloved paddock friend, a massage can make a real difference to their wellbeing. 💆‍♀️🐎

To celebrate this new service, I’m looking for a few case study horses in the Hunter Valley area. These sessions will be FREE of charge — perfect for horses with interesting cases or those who would simply benefit from some bodywork.

If you’d like to put your horse forward, please send me a message or text me directly. Spaces will be limited, so get in quick!

Pm or text 0435801332 to book

Also excited to announce EquiRestore Australia - Hofmag bookings can be made through me! Some amazing science behind the Hofmag.

I can’t wait to expand my services and and support our equine friends even more. 💜

23/06/2025

One year with my beautiful Brumby, Pippa.
From wild heart to soul mate, she’s become my little best friend, with an understanding of each other quite unexplainable.
In her quiet strength, I’ve found healing. In her eyes, a mirror. In her presence, peace.
She’s changed my life in ways I never expected, teaching me so much about myself, how to be a better person for the horses around me, how horses learn and the purest kind of love.
Thank you, Pippa, for every lesson, every moment, every breath of freedom we’ve shared.
I love you more than words could ever hold. 💛 x

18/06/2025

"My horse is just an as***le" 🙄

I came across a post this morning stating some horses are just as***les. Ussually I would just roll my eyes and scroll past, but this morning I didnt, I shared my thoughts on this.

Horses don't have an ego. They don't wake up in the morning and decide they are going to be an as***le today just to upset their owner.
Those horses that people call "as***les" are doing everything they can to protect themselves from fear/ pain or memory of an event or events associated with fear or pain.
Every dissection I attend of a horse that is euthanasied due to behavioural issues/ physical issues, is confirmation that there is always a reason why!

It took me years to be able to understand the subtleties of a horses' communication.
It's not something that was taught when I was going through pony club or out in the competition ring. The catalyst for me was having my heart horse become very unsound.
Only then did I start looking for an alternative way of working with these animals. Only then did I realise my style of riding at the time was the reason for his unsoundness.

I wish the younger version of myself knew then what I know now.
I was the reason for so many behavioural and soundness issues in my horses and I was oblivious at the time.

The more we learn, the more we begin to understand on a deeper level and then the way we work with horses changes too.
Always question things. There is always a reason which runs much deeper than "the horse is an as***le".

It can be compared to people in this way- those who bully are often the ones who have grown up in environments where they have felt insecure themselves. They have memories of feeling not enough.
Whilst horses don't have an ego, they, like us retain memories of past events. Be it a memory from a training session, a float trip, the herd dynamics in the paddock- eg which horse always gives them a hard time and which makes them feel safe.

Memories can influence a horses' behaviour just as much as active pain.

Then there is also the component of breeding.
The term "Trainability" really is open to interpretation.
Many describe a donkey as un- trainable and stubborn, but there is a reason! and it stems back to physical attributes. A donkey has complete lamellae of the nuchael ligament- making them more solid in structure, and reducing their ability for lateral and ventral dorsal bend. This doesnt make the donkey an as***le, this is simply how they are made, its their conformation.

Horses arn't technically designed for riding. We breed according to what WE see as desirable traits, but with his comes other issues.

Take for example a modern day dressage horse. Dressage was once training for strength, soundness and partnership. A good solid partner who was brave, versatile and good on their feet. Ready for the battlefield.

Now compare that to the modern day dressage horses' we see and their big expressive movement. Is it functional?
Would you take this horse to war?
I for one wouldn't.

These horses' are often kept in stables for their safety and don't go trail riding because "they arnt good on their feet".

I hear so often warmbloods being called "dumb bloods".... but... what they really are is a product of what humans have selectively bred. Humans are breeding hypermobility (that "WOW" movement) meaning less tensegrity of ligamental and tendonous attachments. The neural pathways are "slower". Consequently decreasing the horses' ability to "be a horse". We label it as temperament but really it's an adaptation they have in order to adjust to what we think a dressage horse should look and move like.
This problem is across every breed and in every discipline in some way or another.

Poor conformation in itself can cause deregulation of the nervous system.
Arthritis, OCD, soft tissue damage, and malformation are all going to effect a horses' ability to perform even a basic task with ease.

How can people be so sure that "The horse is just an as***le" without being able to see the "whole picture". We don't have xray eyes to be able to see every inch of the horses musckuloskeletal system.
Even veterinary diagnostics can't reach areas such pelvis, and the transverse processes of the lumbar (which are often found to be kissing before the spinous processes of the lumbar) you would have to put the horse through an MRI to assess everything physically whilst alive.

And the harsh reality of it is that not every horse can be rehabilitated. In my opinion there are many worse things in this world than being laid to rest, at least they will finally be free of the pain.

So next time you go to label a horse as dangerous, or difficult ask yourself, are they really? Or does it just fit the narrative you are telling.

Sometimes its easier to label our horses' then admit that we don't have all of the answers.

28/05/2025

🤍She isn’t just a horse - she’s the place my heart calls home🤍
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29/11/2024

2 Day Clinic- The Art of Creating Partnership and Connection

Date: 14th and 15th December
Contact Kirralee- 0497554055 to book your spot

28/11/2024

Most of all, thank you to Pippa. She has taught me so much, and has been the exact challenge I needed. For a long time, I wasn’t sure we’d make it to Equitana (actually up until the week before equitana). Her sensitivity was profound and complex, and I knew it would take time to build trust, confidence, and help her find balance in your body and mind.

The first 50 days were especially challenging, and progress came slowly. She has such a sweet sensitive heart and was extremely protective of herself and wouldn’t allow herself to be vulnurable. I had to be incredibly mindful of her needs, especially when the smaller, fearful responses were more concerning than the big ones. There were many moments when I questioned whether I should continue, having 150 days didn’t change my approach but I wondered if we’d even be walking around the property or exploring new areas, let alone floating, working through obstacles, riding, or stabling.

I knew we had to dig deep — both of us. We had to learn to trust each other, and we did. Through vulnerability, reflection, and admiration of one another, we found our way. What once seemed impossible became our reality. We built a partnership based on understanding, and now, she’s my best friend. The bond we share is something I never anticipated💕

Despite setbacks with physical discomfort and hoof issues leaving us only 20 rides under saddle before equitana, I’m so proud of how far we’ve come. This journey was about honouring where Pippa’s at, not about rushing her or meeting expectations. It’s about the subtleties of our communication….

I am so incredibly proud of you, Pippa. You’ve far exceeded any expectations and most of all I have loved seeing your flourish and gain skills you will have for life. Your kind, gracious heart is truly special, and I am so grateful to have met you.

📸 Full Cream Photography - thankyou for these beautiful photos Full Cream Photography

27/11/2024

17/11/2024

What an incredible experience the Brumby Challenge and Equitana have been! 🌟🫶🏼

💜 1st place Groundwork & Conditioning
💜 1st place Bitless Rider
💜 3rd Overall

I’m so grateful to for all their hard work and dedication, and for the opportunity to be part of this journey. Pippa and I are beyond thankful to have been connected through this experience 🙏🏻

Thank you to Pippa’s amazing sponsors who’ve helped ensure she’s as healthy and happy as possible, supporting her nutrition, hoof care, and bodywork:



Michelle Wein Bodyworker
Aaron Vella Farrier

A huge thank you to my friends and clients who have supported us — we truly appreciate you more than words can express! 💜 And to my family, your unwavering support has meant the world. Mum, for being the listening ear through all the ups and downs, looking after the horses at home while we were away, and always being there when we needed you. Dad, for being my personal groom, driver, and organiser. I couldn’t have done it without you both.

And to my beautiful Pippa. Words cannot explain how much you have changed my life. (Post to come on our experiences together) 💜

🦄Photo from our freestyle together 🦄

17/11/2024

Go Pippa!!!!
3rd Overall
1st Place Groundwork and Conditioning
1st Place Bitless Rider

14/11/2024

Equitana Day 1🦄

Words cannot describe how incredible this journey has been. I truly love you Pippa so incredibly much and I am so proud of you no matter what, but to have been also placed 1st overall in the handling and conditioning class was pretty amazing ❤️🌟

And for Pippa to feel safe to choose to have a lay down melted my heart 💜