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Sound Start Starting/breaking horses with a strong focus on building a solid foundation to support a successful future under saddle.

16/10/2025

Another wet old start to the day … had a huge thunderstorm roll through this morning… if we keep getting rain and sun alternatively the grass will be out of control! (Not complaining 😉)

16/10/2025

Day 1 for Dolly … just working through the basic fundamentals

First day of real work with me for Dee today, I’ll hopefully get some proper photos of him soon. He had a visit from Foc...
29/09/2025

First day of real work with me for Dee today, I’ll hopefully get some proper photos of him soon. He had a visit from Focus Equine, Theropudic Solutions Friday and is feeling much better for it!
If you are a competent rider looking for a new mount keep your eye on this boy.

Due to time constraints, I've made the tough decision to advertise Billie. Unfortunately there is only one of me. Billie...
26/09/2025

Due to time constraints, I've made the tough decision to advertise Billie. Unfortunately there is only one of me. Billie will best be promoted as a HIH and next year a HUS and for me, thats just to tricky with a yearling and 3yo that are both being shown in western classes. (The gear changes would be ridiculous!). Please contact me for further information. She is located in the Yarra Valley Victoria.

Welcome to spring and all it’s challenges 😭😭😭
22/09/2025

Welcome to spring and all it’s challenges 😭😭😭

We are starting to ramp up here with clients horses incoming. I’m now booked up for the next few months! This handsome Q...
19/09/2025

We are starting to ramp up here with clients horses incoming. I’m now booked up for the next few months!
This handsome QH gelding arrived over the weekend, and the weather finally gave me a chance to start some work with him today.
He’s here for sales prep, so I’ll be putting him through his paces, tidying up where needed before he will be advertised. I’ll keep you all updated on his progress and who and what he will be suitable for once I get to know him a bit better!

16/09/2025

Billie has just started to work out if she lowers her top line, she can drive and lengthen!
You need to watch carefully to notice it, but this is a good example of good posture allowing drive from behind, in turn creating reach or length of stride while maintaining cadence.
When a horse lifts its neck line it becomes difficult for it to lift its back and drive with the back end, this ends up creating a short choppy, sewing machine action. Encouraging your horse to lower and lift enables the horse to maintain cadence (rhythm and speed) due to being able to get the back legs under themselves, freeing up the front end to allow for reach. This is, essentially what the good western pleasure horses do. To compensate for the acceleration which usually happens with drive (and you see this with English horses) our western breeds learn to hold the ground longer, which is what makes them slow.
It’s still very early days for Billie, and I think she’ll probably end up a better Hunter horse than a western pleasure mount, but she will still need to polish this skill regardless.

I’ve donated a gift voucher for 2 weeks free training to the Victorian Paint Horse Association. This will open shortly a...
16/09/2025

I’ve donated a gift voucher for 2 weeks free training to the Victorian Paint Horse Association. This will open shortly and I will update you all when tickets become available. The money raised will go towards building the club back to its glory days, it’s a club I’ve been a member of for decades and I’m very proud to now be holding the Presidents roll, we have some fantastic events in the making, so if you have western horses, or have ever wanted to get a taste for the western industry, pop on over to the page and send a request in, we’d love to have you on board!

It’s been a pretty horrible couple of days here in the Yarra Valley … a day and night of crazy winds followed by rain al...
16/09/2025

It’s been a pretty horrible couple of days here in the Yarra Valley … a day and night of crazy winds followed by rain all day and then this storm rolled in tonight, still raining now… spring is my favourite season but also the most challenging bringing horses back into work! Fingers crossed 🤞 we get a couple of good days now 🌞

13/09/2025

Training away from the arena

11/09/2025

Wet ol day in the Valley today… not much horse work getting done but it sure is a good day to clean up the stables! What do you do on rainy days?

10/09/2025

I’ve got a couple of my youngsters up in the stables and I’m back on task!
Today I’m sharing the very beginning of Billie’s performance versatility training, lungeline here to be specific. Billie has been taught the fundamentals last year, but has not had any consistent work, or any work towards the versatility class Lungeline.
The last few sessions have been recapping last years lessons and today I started to ask her to move through her gaits, walk, trot, canter … create an arch, stay out on the circle. We also worked on helping her manage her emotions through this. I will track Billie’s progress through her preparation and hopefully it encourages some of you to get out there and try these classes, they are a lot of fun and so good for young horses minds.

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