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Breeder of quality purebred Friesian and Barock Pinto horses, based in gorgeous Aotearoa New Zealand.

19/09/2024

Beautiful Hannah 🐴❤️

15/09/2024

Handsome Pluto 🐴🩵

12/09/2024

Takes your breath away, this stallion. Our gorgeous Nano! ❤️🖤

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10/09/2024

A green Spring…🐴💚

05/09/2024

Willowdale’s oldest stallion, Sunny, calmly observing his domain… 🐴🖤

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04/09/2024

🐴Hannah banana🐴

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31/08/2024

🌟Amethyst of Willowdale Ranch is growing nicely and will be available for his new home come November!🌟

🐴Amethyst is a purebred Friesian c**t, registered with the KFPS. He is brave, smart and playful, with beautiful movement. He makes paddock friends easily (even my boss mare has the softest spot for him), and will try hard for you.

🖤He is the offspring of his dam Betje (photos 17 & 18), imported from the Netherlands in 2021, registered purebred Ster mare, 1st premie, 2023 NZ Keuring Champion, and sire Nandert fan ‘e Tsjonger (photos 19 & 20), imported from the Netherlands in 2021, registered purebred Friesian stallion.

DOB: 5th February 2024
Dam: Betje (Uldrik 457 x Doaitsen 420)
Sire: Nandert fan ‘e Tsjonger (Tymen 503 x Sibald 380)
Location: Auckland

📖For more information, pricing and viewings, please get in touch with myself (Anna) via socials or [email protected]

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25/08/2024

Betje 🖤

Oh, those eyelashes! 👀

20/08/2024

🐴 Nano, pensive…🖤

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15/08/2024

The herd lately… ✨🐴

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12/08/2024

🤭Uh-oh… Bombastic side-eye if I ever did see one!

I’m sorry I was late with breakfast, my fair queen, your fabulousness, gracefulness and hangriness, Bettie boo!🫣😂😜

06/08/2024

✨ Frosty and foggy ✨

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31/07/2024

Willowdale’s mares + Amethyst ☺️🥰

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25/07/2024

Progress. 🌝🐴

18/07/2024

Back to the beginning, when ✨ Willowdale Ranch 🌿 was 🌲 Lone Pine Friesians 🐎

🌳 In order of arrival, our gorgeous residents on their first day at the farm:
1. The stables, recently completed, back at our original location 🤩
2. Bettie & Nano | April 2021 💛💛
3. Storm | June 2021 🩵
4. Sunny Boy | June 2021 🩵
5. Jazzy | October 2021 💜
6. Maike | December 2021 🩷
7. Pluto | December 2021 🩷 (still with his IRT sticker 😁)
8. Hannah | December 2021 🩷
9. Iberica | December 2021 🩷
10. Othello | February 2022 💙

☀️ It’s as if no time has passed, and yet so much has happened since! 🧡

#2021 #2022 **t

12/07/2024

How much weight can a horse carry?🐴

I have seen a lot of posts and discussions on this topic recently, and they have fuelled some thought…and the question:

How much weight should a horse be asked to carry? 🧡 Let’s set aside the physical just now, and focus on emotional weight.

Like many folks, I have experienced the incredible ability of horses to improve my emotional state, soothe my worries, take away my sorrow…brighten my day!

I do wonder, though… how much emotional weight can we ask our horses to carry? How much weight should we be intentionally putting on our horses? How much is fair? A bad day? A broken heart? A sore shoulder? They will help you heal and ask for nothing in return…

I think about this a lot. I don’t have the answer to my own question, but I think about the transfer of energy, and its effects on body, mind and soul… I think about intentional and directional energy, positive and negative energy, where it goes and how it manifests…

What I do know is that I’m honest with my horses. One has to be. There is no lying or pretence or “I’m fine” (when you’re not) around this animal. They see right through you. To your core. They feel your heartbeat. Your vibrations. They know who and how you are. Sometimes they know it better than you yourself do at that point in time. Perhaps you yourself haven’t yet accepted your current emotional state, but they already have.

It’s incredibly special. Horses are incredibly special.

Yes, I’m honest with my horses. Honesty is vital. But how much intentional emotional weight should we be putting on them? Something to think about.❤️🐴

I love you, Bettie boo! 🥰

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In a strange turn of events…these photos also pertain to another weight topic. I see myself not at my healthiest, not at my strongest here. The clothes hang a little. It’s strange. I’m glad two years on I’m back to my normal body size. I feel stronger again. In mind and body. This looks and feels different for everybody… Please love your body and mind, nourish your body and mind, and your soul will say thank you.❤️‍🩹🙌

10/07/2024

Today. Winter sun
In gold and pink. A setting
For stories of light.

05/07/2024

“Show me your horses and I will tell you what you are.”
~ English Proverb

Well, I guess we’re all a little mad here…a little clumsy, funky and wild.

I guess we’re also soulful…, genuine and joyful, and, well…I guess that’s fine by me!

26/05/2024

Paradise… 🐴🥰

06/05/2024

A beautiful weekend! 🥰 🐎

26/04/2024

Rainy day cuddles 🥰⭐️

05/03/2024

✨Introducing Amethyst of Willowdale Friesians✨

I am so excited to let everyone know that Thistle came into our world on the 5th February and is already proving to be a lovely, curious c**t! Mamma Betje, 1st Premie mare and 2023 NZ Keuring Champion, is being a fantastic mother, and I love seeing their interactions as he grows stronger and more confident!

So typical, though…she spends 11 months nurturing her baby in the womb and he comes out looking so much like Dad, our home stallion Nandert fan ‘e Tsjonger! 😂

Amethyst (Thistle), may you grow healthy and kind, and have a wonderful future ahead of you!

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14/01/2024

🥰 My heart is so full! The smells, the sounds, the trees, the breeze, the horses… 🌳☀️🐴

01/09/2022

🖤Storm🖤

The undisputed king of the hill! 🤪

24/08/2022

Bettie, Maike and I went on a three-day girls’ trip to Taupo. What a fun time and great experience for my mares! 🐴🖤

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Amethyst growing up so fast!🐴✨🤩 #willowdaleranch #friesian #horse #colt #amethyst #friesianhorse #blackhorse #strut #foal #presence #brave #newpaddock #herd #countryside #farmlife #aotearoa #newzealand

A glowing afternoon, with Sunny watching over Maike and Othello as they share a haynet 🧡🐴 #willowdaleranch #birdsong #glowing #afternoon #sun #golden #day #sunny #maike #othello #friesianhorse #friesian #friesiancross #horse #stallion #mare #breeder #stud #haynet #shelter #observation #chilling #countryside #farmlife #aotearoa #newzealand

A girl and a very special chestnut mare. A moment in time with Hannah… 🧡🐴 #willowdaleranch #morganhorse #mare #chestnut #chestnutmare #bossmare #hannah #hdhartland #morgan #horse #cuddles #kisses #moment #momentintime #joy #love #hangingout #scratchies #farmlife #countryside #aotearoa #newzealand

🐴Follow one of our herds as they graze, relax, scout and communicate… 👀I love observing and learning about the intricacies of the horse world, the dynamics within each herd, the roles these horses undertake, and how they look after each other. It’s pretty magical and, at the same tjme, so completely natural. ❤️I hope you enjoy our beautiful herd, the birdsong and the priceless tranquility…🌿 #willowdaleranch #horses #herd #smarthorses #grazing #relaxing #scouting #communicating #communication #morgan #friesian #barockpinto #friesiancross #kaimanawa #mares #colt #exploration #relax #rolling #observation #birdsong #quiet #tranquil #nature #countryside #farmlife #aotearoa #newzealand

This has been the herd’s favourite spot this week. Nice for cooling off and enrichment! 🌱💦 Always initiated by Bettie, our resident hippo/water buffalo/Nessie! 😂🥰 #willowdaleranch #swimminghole #pond #herd #horses #friesianhorse #friesian #mare #colt #morgan #kaimanawa #brave #water #cooloff #enrichment #choice #warmday #farmlife #countryside #aotearoa #newzealand

Just a full minute of fabulous scratchies (many more minutes of scratchies were enjoyed prior to filming)!🐴😂 Please enjoy Nano entering a whole new dimension, me baby-voice talking to my Friesian stallion and, of course, my beloved owl leggings! 🥰 #willowdaleranch #rawfootage #Nano #Nandert #friesian #horse #friesianstallion #blackhorse #stallion #scratches #feelsgood #funny #personalgroom #farmlife #countryside #aotearoa #newzealand

Peace and birdsong 💕✨ #willowdaleranch #horses #herd #birdsong #nature #beauty #farmlife #countryside #aotearoa #newzealand

✨New paddocks for the girls and young stallions today✨ I could watch them all day… 💕 Fabulous zoomies towards the end! 😂😂😂 🐴🐎 #willowdaleranch #horses #herd #newpaddock #grass #friesian #barockpinto #morgan #friesiancross #mare #colt #stallion #breeder #farmlife #countryside #evening #nature #aotearoa #newzealand

🌦️Atmospheric Winter sounds.💨 🌧️ 🐴 🐦 Just listen… 😊 #wind #rain #mud #horses #birdsong #muddy #farm #farmlife #willowdale #willowdaleranch #ranch #countryside #july #winter #friesian #morgan #barockpinto #kaimanawa #fjord #clydesdale #dartmoor #friesiancross #love #horse #sounds #atmospheric #aotearoa #newzealand

Rain washes away many things…past steps, hurts, dust and dirt… ☔️ I love the rain. It can be challenging to do the necessary farm work in this weather, but the fact that it forces me to slow down, sit tight and wait out the downpour while I start to view things from a different perspective, that it gently guides me to change my perspective, that it encourages me to problem-solve and evolve, is reason enough to love it when it comes… And, of course, I love the way it sounds… 🥰 #rain #willowdale #willowdaleranch #farmlife #farm #ranch #green #calm #wet #countryside #thought #perspective #depth #aotearoa #newzealand

Not all things are perfect, but there’s usually a rainbow amongst the grey clouds. And, hey, even the grey clouds can be beautiful. 🌱💧 We live by contrasts, and look for beauty in the most extraordinary of things and places. It is all around. Let it in… 🥰 🕊️ 🕊️ 🕊️ #beauty #rural #aotearoa #newzealand #horses #farm #countryside #rain #weather #clouds #rainbow #sun #sunlight #nature #willowdale #willowdaleranch #beautiful #letitin

Paradise… 🐴🥰

Willowdale Ranch

🥰 My heart is so full! The smells, the sounds, the trees, the breeze, the horses… 🌳☀️🐴

My baby growing up so fast… 🥰 ✨Lone Pine Merlot and his new spherical friend✨

"Mum's here! Dinner's here! Wahey!" ~ Nano, Pluto and Othello Side note: I think Pluto should really start training as a ballerina dancer - those high kicks! 😂