Royalton Showhorses

24/08/2024

Ice skating in the SJ today 😵🪦

Might need to do some more SJ practice.

24/08/2024

Getting real eventer vibes on the course walk today with my Springer Sadie.

22/08/2024

🪦Wholly hekka if I hadn't of been wearing these riding tights Saddle & Canter (thank you for ultra good silicon ) tonight, I would've had a right doozy of a crash and it would've been a big one.

🌶️Murphy decided to throw in a couple big ass bucks while going for a big strong 3/4 pace up the gallop hill and its steep!!

Fa%k me I almost ate it.

💀 All my years of riding track work and breakers paid off for the 4 seconds of crazy.

Tomorrow it might be just arena riding 🤣

22/08/2024

Goodbye to the false tail and hello jumping boots!

Eventing this weekend requires a whole new wardrobe!

The dressage potentially could turn to custard in a 20x40 arena in a frost without studs, but at least I will look like I have all the gear, even if I have no idea!

Saddle & Canter have made sure we look the part!

The vibe this weekend is -

🔷Mia show shirt.

🩶 Perla riding tights now with the colour rule change I don’t have to wear white!

And S&C long socks.

Now to figure out my XC look!

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19/08/2024

Basically a stunt rider now that makes some epic sounds 🤣

18/08/2024

Super family fun today.

Charlie and faithful Rolla entered the kindy ring for the Pukehou school bus fundraising show and I think the pony club bug fun bug might've bitten 🤞

Such a super fun day in the Sun.

Murphy had a quick jump and helped babysit my friends daughter on her greenbroke pony…. The pony was better behaved that ole buggerlugs 🤣

I should take him to town for a jump this week before his first ode this weekend coming if time allows, because he's not been over any poles till today since Taupo.

10/08/2024

Being able to put on a pulled shoe or even shoe saves me so much drama with annoying my farrier .

Honestly it's one of the best skills I think every horse person could learn and I am grateful I asked to learn.

Now we get to go XC jumping tomorrow! 💕❤️

He's rather unfit so it will be jumping with lots of walking 🤣

08/08/2024

This guy lives like I have the farrier on speed dial..

That teaches me for not putting his bell boots on!

Looking like at 530am ill be putting the shoe back on so I can work him before I head down to Wellington 😵‍💫

His love for cantering and bucking up and down the hill is a pain in my butt.

05/08/2024

As most of you know I'm all about gut health for my horses and Equinate Relief I use.

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Murphy is the most colic-prone horse, if I change anything in his feed or hay he gets mild colic and suffers from hindgut acidosis.

Since he been on Relief now for almost exactly a year he's only had 1 (touch wood) mild colic.

The inclusion of Bi-carb is 💅 for the big goof.

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04/08/2024

I'm failing to get Murphy into his sweet sleek Eventer bod... I almost had to use my teeth to get the girth into the 1st hole 🐷🍰

13/07/2024

Two nights away from home and one and half tubes of Stress paste since we left home along with his RP . I have a horse that's eating and and more importantly drinking. I cannot recommend this product enough ❤️

07/07/2024

Mid-winter tidy up with a sexy Ace Venture hair cut.

Clipping heads out is soo much harder when you have to leave ear hair and whiskers on.. Were looking moth eaten 😳

I should've left him with a half head 🤣

30/06/2024

Someone's overfed and underworked!

I am quite glad when he has his buckaroos with me it's in a straight line and he tries his best to hold it in 😳.

However, I love seeing the horses have a play on the lunge it means they are feeling well ❤️

26/06/2024

Who is who??

Riding horse VS the Dressage horse / Saddle Hunter.

26/06/2024

What says winter feeding like boiling barley before you organise the families dinner !

One perk from work is having left over barley, the horses only get half a kg split into two feeds and I forgot to put it in the crockpot this morning and now the house stinks like barley 😅

Who else reuses their Poseidon Equine buckets?

I like to use them to soak the SoyHulls and to hold each horses sponges in the wash Bay and super handy if a horse has special medication too.

23/06/2024

How cute is this little Donnerubin baby 😍

He and Murphy are almost a matching pair, maybe the husband wont notice?? and its even better when its your besties horse she's bred and put all the hard work into 🤣

Pickles is rising 3 and out of a TB mare by Zed, so should jump and explains his super nature with super sires on both sides💕.

He is such a dude, over the next we while I will teach him how to wear gear and long-rein him and set him up for the future.

He took loading into the float like star all of his own accord too & travelled with Eski like he's been doing it his whole life 💕.

22/06/2024

What an epic day riding up to the top of Mount Kahuranaki for the Native Ride Television Series fundraiser for Lizzie to get to the Montana
Film festival.

Sea level to 645m vertical gain and the views were incredible 👌

Rolla thought it was rather exciting and forgot she was a chilled-out girl from Tolaga Bay and was on her toes but thoroughly enjoyed it.

I can totally see why people love trekking, amazing views everyone is super cool, purely there because they love riding and the best food after the ride.

It was well worth persevering with my 3-day-long migraine to ride with my old friends too.

21/06/2024

Lights are on albeit 6 weeks later than usual but as of tonight, we're going to officially be on the uphill slope towards summer 👏👏

Bring on beautiful summer coats, hot hot days & long summer nights🌺

06/06/2024

Operation get my mojo back.

I’ve booked my bestie and myself to join in on the fundraiser trek mid this month.

We both figured that if we commit with each other we can’t back out 😂

Sonnys pony Rolla, is the steed for the job!

Dragged out of the hill paddock and we’re off bare back and in a halter 🤙

I’m sure she will enjoy 3 hours of walking around someone else’s farm listening to us natter and take photos?!

I’ve been having a bit of a deep and meaningful with myself about where I want to be with my riding, and how I’ve lost my competitive streak after going through the emotional stuff with Ace & Bella.

Has anyone else over come this and got it back?

It’s so weird to feel so blah about goals in a competitive sense.

I’ve always been so driven at achieving my own personal goals and I’ve never cared about winning, but to have lost any training goals is bizzare.

Normally the horses are under lights by May 1st in prep for Gizzy & HB show .. not this year! 🤯

I miss what I used to do in my younger years and that was getting semi wild station horses and making them turn into awesome horses.

I enjoy the horsemanship side of it and watching the change in the horse so…

I’ve decided to get a couple of wildlings through a friend to play with and see what happens with them.

Hopefully, I can come home with a couple of cool horses in a few weeks or so from up the coast.

A sea change is as good as a holiday .. right?

**psa, yes I know better to not wear a helmet but I trust this pony with my kids life **

01/06/2024

❤️We have dapples ❤️

I’m fairly certain in the whole 7 years I’ve owned him that this is the first time he has dapples like this !

I think the new approach of a very very high in fibre based diet is working with only 1.5 of a concentrated feed being feed split into his 2 feeds is having a huge effect.

I was so scared to make the change as I’ve always fed a super high protein feed and about 4kg a day 🤯.

With a ridiculously high feed bill each week & with the rising costs I thought something has to change.

I use these products below 👇

Poseidon Equine RP to feed the little army of gut microbes in the entire GI tract, ulcer prevention & gut health.

Nutrimix Equine soyhulls, multiple species of grass hay & balage & Lucerne for the win! Soyhulls are absolutely amazing for your horses. So many benefits.

Equinate relief for his acidosis issues he gets and I think why he is so colic prone.

He also gets Fiber Fresh Equine - New Zealand Fiber Ezy in his hard feed.

He has unlimited multiple species of old grass in his meadow hay & balage that has a bit a clover through it and has Lucerne hay to pick at too. His paddock hasn’t much grass as HB is in a bit of a winter drought.

I’m a bit lucky that the farm grows and bales the Lucerne so it’s in a steady supply, but having to buy in the baleage & hay is still a hell of a lot cheaper than spending a lot of money on 2 bags of feed a week just for him.

27/05/2024

Beautiful Ace for this shoot with .

A few months off the track and this was the first outing and first time I sat on him and now I get this special memory of him .

🖤 Black on black is my favourite look and it’s a total vibe.

Use my code Kate10 ;)

26/05/2024

Sorry for the lack of posts as of late and I’ve had a couple of messages that I’ve not replied to asking how Bella is and if we went to the young horse show.

As some of you are aware that 3 weeks ago I lost Bella ( Rebel) in a very traumatic stable accident

Luckily for the both of us we heard a huge bang and Trav and I were at the stables in under a minute and what we found was horrific.

Bella must’ve got cast or had a roll too close to the wall and got her hind foot up & over the 1.2 meter 19mm thick ply and pretty much cut off her hind hoof. ( thought it was safe enough but now the ply is 1800mm high)

The vet was called and he arrived very quickly, we applied a tourniquet and pressure bandage & she was still loosing blood with her severed artery.
The blood just wouldn’t stop and it was everywhere.

I’ll save the graphic images but the prognosis was not ideal, she cut through both tendons and ligament, cut into her bone and compromised her joint along with a huge amount for blood lost.

It’s taken me a few weeks to get my head around the trauma of what happened and my anxiety is settling a bit.

I’ve still not been able to ride Murphy.

I’m just so worried he will be next & it’s not helped that he had had a very very mild colic last night 🤦‍♀️

I’m lucky I caught it super fast.
I know him so well that I can tell by just how he stands he’s not ok.

Meds on board and he settled fast back to himself.
I know what caused it too… I added too much ( and it wasn’t a lot ) of baleage too fast to his diet.

I should know better as gut health is what I deal with all day everyday for my job 🤯.

Small small changes gradually Kate ! 🥴

He’s now getting Stresspaste for a few days along with his usual gut support.

It’s a horrible experience to lose 2 horses in such a stressful way in such a short time frame.

I tell ya …it’s thrown me for a bit.

We’ve got 50 percent of the property fenced in Equirope now.

Hopefully I don’t have a repeat of Aces injury & the stables have ply that’s 1800mm high, so I hope that will avoid any future injuries.

Hopefully the bad luck is gone and I don’t have anymore repeats 🥶

11/05/2024

Aurora Australis ❤️

27/04/2024

Horse girl math….

I can now see why our husbands loose their s**t 🥴

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