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Taming New Zealand's wild horses since 2010 and now a registered charity.

Back in 2010 I got two horses from the wild and documented there progress as they became domesticated, and turned into show horses. In 2012 it happening all over again, keep up with the journey, and share your own experiances, as a couple of Kaimanawa stallion learn about life out of the wild

02/09/2024

Did you see beautiful Diva’s video tonight? The tiny little foal that arrived a few months ago and was a cute little button is now a weanling that’s strong, spirited and full of personality.

This gorgeous filly is one of many of our young, not so wild ones that is available for adoption. With more wild horses about to arrive and our paddocks and pens already full to bursting we are looking for homes for many of our lovely young ones from the last few musters.

If you love a grey, plus something with a bit of fire and sass Diva might be the girl for you. What she lacks in size she certainly makes up for in personality. She is not going to be huge, I’d say around 13-14hh, but she can move and is going to be a real beauty. This one could definitely hold her own in the show ring in years to come. You can see the Arabian influence in these wild horses shining through with her.

Probably not suitable for novices as she will be a pony that needs boundaries and understanding but she’s going to be incredible for the right person. I think ideally suited to a horsey mum looking for a pony for the kids in a few years.

Want to talk about adoption send us a message! 🐎✉️

28/08/2024

This curious and wonderful mare has been lucky enough to find herself a dream home to go with her name, Dream Girl. She’s such a pleasure to work with and lovely watching her come out of her shell and really start to gain confidence. This one certainly is showing all the signs of loving the perks of domestic life. Especially the attention and scratches. Can’t wait to follow her journey in her new home and see what that baby looks like when it pops out. This mare can’t be to far away from foaling and is certainly sporting a very large belly at the moment.

While she’s lucky enough to have a forever home, we still have many pregnant mares looking to be adopted. So if you’ve dreamed of working with a wild horse now is your chance!

26/08/2024

Here’s a fun little game for you to play. Who of these two once wild stallions is bigger? Da Vinci a 6 year old grey from the far north or Ransom the 12 year old liver chestnut from the Kaimanawa Ranges?

We took them both for their first off the property outing yesterday to get measured for their height certificates. It was so nice to see both wild boys behave so relaxed and calm about it all, especially Ransom. Nothing was an issue, the new people, the new environment or walking into the measuring stand. Just for good measure do you want to guess their height as well?

21/08/2024

Can you help? Donations required!

We have so many mares in our care about to foal and we need your help. While we love foals and are super excited for their arrival that’s a lot more mouth to feed and a lot of extra care required. Currently our feed bills for these wild horses runs into the hundreds each week. That doesn’t even touch on our other costs, like veterinary, farrier, dentals and our personal time feeding and mucking out each day. These girls need maximum care and monitoring and deserve nothing but the best, especially in this crucial time.

However we can’t do this alone and with so few homes out there for these particular horses, we always find mature mares the very hardest to get adopted and some stay in our care well over a year, we need all support we can get. There are 7 wonderful mares all very soon to start giving birth. Can you spare the cost of a bale of hay or more to help?

Our donation page is super easy to use and you can donate any amount you like. The Wild Horse Project is a registered charity and caring for and sharing the story of these horses is our main priority. Donation link in the comments section below👇

20/08/2024

Just like that we have two wild horses being ridden.

Big Red & Tee, making it look seamless today for the first ride. So lovely to watch these two grow as a team.

Later this week Big Red, will be off on the very very long journey south to the vet hospital for his castration surgery. So it’s a big couple of days ahead for him. What’s lovely to see though is ticking off this major milestone was no big deal at all.

19/08/2024

These two deserve every moment of success. Today was such a huge day. Ransom got his first ride.

This for such a long time was looking incredibly unlikely. He has not been easy, there were so many days, hours and weeks of just hoping he’d pull through. Rounds of vet visits, Chloe looking after him through thick and thin. Making special buckets of food for him to eat out of when his neck was sore, ensuring he got extra tasty meals to hide the medicine. Picking him grass for his yard, mucking out constantly, doing the smallest training sessions possible to help him settle in while still healing. While he has never been mean he has not been easy in his training. He’d be up there with some of the toughest I’ve had to work with and he was Chloe 2.0 first horse altogether. Not the ideal wild stallion to learn with. Yet through everything she persisted. She kept going no matter what, the days where it poured with rain, the days he snorted like a dragon, the days where she hard to start from the beginning and go over everything again because for whatever reason he was extra scared that day, the days where he was tense and the many good days as well.

The reality is she put in the work, developed the understanding of horse behaviour and persisted with compassion and courage throughout, to get the results she got today. This first ride where Ransom was a calm, confident and engaged little horse wanting to work with her is no accident. The fact that these two, horse and rider have such an incredibly strong partnership is because they put in the work together. They never took a shortcut, never tried to catch up with anyone else. They did their own thing and never lost focus. They have worked through every little training milestone and built an incredibly solid partnership together.

I say all this because not only am I incredibly proud of them both. But also because we need to acknowledge that good horse training, doing what’s right for the horse and developing a true understanding takes time, effort and dedication. Sometimes social media can make it look like there’s a special secret, a gadget, potion or training formula that will give you the key to success with your horse. Theres not, the magic doesn’t happen magically it happens when you put the horse first and you put the work in. Today they made it look magical.

While he still has a long way to go this is a huge milestone ticked off and I think all of us here felt a bit emotional watching. An absolutely amazing moment for these two and so so well deserved.

14/08/2024

Bruce Wayne, some of you might remember this stallion, but he’s yet to really make his presence really felt on social media. Surprising since in real life he has quite the eye catching aura about him. The chunkiest of the wild boys, by far even if he’s in the shorter side.

He arrived a few years ago now and is no spring chicken. He’s been tamed for a long time but overlooked as we’ve been so busy with so many other wild arrivals. However Chloe 2.0 is picking up the reins and is bringing him back into work. He’s actually a gentle soul despite his chunky appearance. He also neighs out to you loves to come into his stable for cuddles and feed and is somewhat teddy bear ish in appearance.

I have a sneaky suspicion that underneath the chonky exterior there might be some serious athletic ability and can’t wait to see what he’s got over the next few months.

14/08/2024

The stallions are back in work! Office hours have resumed around here and a lot of our big wild boys who have been enjoying a bit of a holiday are now back to business.

First up is the beautiful Drover, just a sneaky little update you might be seeing on TV soon too. Drover and our lovely Jess are a fantastic team. He’s had almost 6 weeks off and only a limited amount of initial handling since he was first mustered. However he remembered all his lessons and seemed so happy to be back at work again. Straight away engaging in the sessions and progressing from right where he left off.

Jess always describes him as the “ultimate best boy” whenever she works with him. Intelligent and confident, yet also really generous and forgiving in nature. He’s super handsome on the young side, we think around 5 or 6 and had quite a large herd with him in the wild. He still lives with his last 3 mares today and is a confident, relaxed and eye catching, athletic, boy to have around.

13/08/2024

Would you come to a wild horse adoption day?

We have so many wonderful horses sitting in our paddocks right now and they all need homes. We know the thought of taking on a horse from the wild especially sight unseen can be a bit daunting. So we want you to the chance to meet them and see how incredible they really are. We also want to show off just what they can do and how versatile they really are.

However we want your feedback first before we commit to hosting a whole open day. Would you come to an open day to meet all the adoptable lovely wild horses we have here? Would this help you to think about adopting a horse in the future? Are you interested in adopting right now and if so what’s holding you back?

Our horses are only available once they are well handled and ticking off all their training milestones. We are also happy to include one on one lessons with your chosen horse for those wanting to get off to the best start possible with their new equine partner.

10/08/2024

Can’t wait to get back into training this beautiful black stallion next week. Truly the stuff dreams are made of.

07/08/2024

It’s so hard to guess with the wild horses exactly when they are going to foal. Usually they start around September but enough give birth out of season that we try to keep a close eye and be ready for anything. This beautiful young mare looks so close, she is very very round. Looking larger by the day and we can often see her belly moving as the foal stretches his legs.

She doesn’t have a name yet and is another sweet kind girl who just seems so friendly and zen about life and her new surroundings.

06/08/2024

Big Red update

While Ransom’s journey has been complicated Big Red shows what can be achieved when everything goes to plan. How amazing is this young stallion looking ? So fit, healthy and thriving in domestic life. iPhone photography and overcast conditions not at all doing justice to the amazing shine he has on his coat.

This horse is confident, working beautifully and just seems to have adjusted and thrived in his change from wild to domestic life. He’s fearless in the arena and seems to like doing complex work that gives him new skills to learn and makes him use his brain. This horse has gone from super reactive to really relaxed and a big credit to all the work Tee has put in.

He does have one more hurdle to overcome, he’s a rig or a cryptorchid. This means he has one completely retained testicle that is going to require surgery. While we did have him examined by the local vet it’s been decided that this is a job for an equine hospital not paddock castration. So soon he’ll be making the big trip south and the land of racehorses for this operation. We are hoping this will be a quick recovery so we can continue getting him ready for Equifest and his show ring debut.

05/08/2024

Daisy needs a foster home!

Remember our sweet little Daisy who had an unexplained illness and shaking a few weeks ago? She was so brave for the vets. Well she’s recovered beautifully and now needs a foster home for the next few months. She’s just a baby at approx 2.5 years old and standing about 13.2hh and heavily pregnant. A baby having babies and she needs a helping hand. With 7 mares about to foal we definitely need to clear up some space and paddocks for them all. Daisy is very very sweet and kind and just tries so hard to do everything right. She has shown an incredible attitude to everything and always tries to choose the most sensible and well behaved path, very genuine and a real trier.

She’s ticked off all the big training milestones and now just needs continued regular handling and to be showered in attention and love to really thrive. We’d love to find her a foster home with lots of grass to keep her in best condition possible as her foaling date approaches. As she did have a little hiccup with her health (she developed an unexplained and uncontrollable tremor for a few days, that required IV fluids and antibiotics) we don’t want to rehome permanently until we know for sure it’s not reoccurring and she’s foaled safely. However if a foster home fell in love with her you’d of course get first option.

Do you think you’d like to foster a wild horse? We can provide training if you’re a little nervous and one on one handling sessions to help you get to know Daisy. To be a foster home you must be able to supply references to prove your a responsible horse person. As well as a show you have adequate grass, feed and fencing on your property. This is a great option if you want to help with wild horses but can’t commit to the taming process or owning one full time. Daisy is what I’d call your ultimate wild horse starter kit, she’s young and will make some mistakes but wants to be your friend and is far more sensible that most domestic horses her age. She’s also paddock trained, good behind electric fences and with other horses. She knows all basic handling and ground work as well as obstacles, picking up her feet, catching in the paddock, hard tying and barn life skills. She’s hard fed, up to date on worming and has a current clean bill of health from the vets.

Want to know more send us a message if you’re interested in fostering.

05/08/2024

Handsome Ransom

I’ve been away for a few weeks, more on that story later, but what a wonderful homecoming to return to see our two Kaimanawa stallions looking so great. Especially Ransom, I can see so many changes in him both physically and mentally since I’ve been gone.

If you’ve been around since the start of the journey you’ll know he had a pretty horrific injury that set his training back by at least 6 weeks. It also almost cost him his life. Since then his healing and training have involved so much care, kindness and patience all of which Chloe 2.0 has devoted to him in abundance. Many others would have given up. It’s so great to come home and see all her hard work really starting to show in the form of a kind, relaxed and beautifully trained horse. For him he is obviously happy and relaxed in his new life now, which are the things we want most for these horses.

While he still has a few ongoing challenges with his neck, we think there’s probably a bit of debris in there still causing irritation. His attitude and behaviour is now that of a wise old school master. One that enjoys the finer things of domestic life like covers to keep him dry, stable to come into out of the weather and all his favourite treats to eat. He also looks in fantastic physical shape. Maintaining the beautiful stallion neck and muscling and generally appearing like a fit healthy wild horse that he is.

So nice to see the bond he and Chloe have and how genuinely he looks forward to being caught in the paddock and brought in for his training each day.

It’s a good reminder that even if the start to training is slow or filled with challenges, taking the time to do it right leads to far better results in the long run. Horses are capable of so much change and all will shine in their own way if give the chance to do so.

04/07/2024

Tee & Big Red have also been ticking off many training milestones over the last few weeks and have such an incredible bond. Big Red is a young stallion and has adapted really well to domestic life, loves his stable, playing with his friends and napping with his best bud Da Vinci every day in the paddock together.

His work and attitude is everything you could hope for in a wild horse. He tries really hard in his training, super focused and like to be part of everything that’s going on. That does mean he doesn’t make mistakes occasionally or knows all the answers, but he doesn’t get worried, always tries to learn and is growing in confidence every day.

02/07/2024

For anyone following Ransom’s story you will know it hasn’t been the easiest one. But I hope if there is a message in it all it this. Dedication pays off, trust the process, put horses needs first and you will get there.

Chloe 2.0 has put in the hours with this mature stallion. Nursing him back to health, helping gain confidence in his new world, building trust with him and making sure he’s never wanted for a thing since arriving. All that work is now paying off in leaps and bounds. Despite a slow start he is now catching up with all his training mile stones. Better yet he is becoming a relaxed and happy horse. His work on the arena is now beautiful, gone is the snorting and tension in his interactions, he moves with relaxation and softness in his work and this is reflected in his mental state as well.

He still has a long way to go but he is now well on the path to getting there. It’s been lovely to watch this pair find confidence together. Good things take time, never has there been a better example of this.

30/06/2024

A huge thanks to so many people over the last few weeks. Especially to Jessica Roberts Equestrian who not only has been helping tame horses, but getting stuck in to the never ending feeding out, mucking out and general work that comes with wild horse arrivals. She also drove up an entire trailer load donations from so many wonderful people in around Auckland. Covers, feed, hay and so much more that went straight to use with our recent wild horses.

A second thank you to all those who donated and helped fill Jess’s trailer with much needed wild horse supplies. It’s definitely a time we need it most as we head into the toughest part of winter with a lot of extra mouths to feed.

To all those other amazing people who have donated, or sponsored horses recently. Your help is amazing and makes a huge difference. Please know you are also an essential part of our growing wild horse support team.

Lastly the handful of people who work behind the scenes, help out when they can, often in the worst weather, or fostering horses through the depths of winter. Providing green pastures for young wild horses to grow before they go on to their new homes. Team work makes the dream work and it’s lovely to have such great people in the team.

I love being able to share the wild horses stories and show what incredible animals they are. Giving them a second chance and being able to create a safety net and a great start for those horses coming out of the wild is the work in most proud of. I’m so grateful to everyone who is part of making this possible.

28/06/2024

We are not out of the woods yet, but our sweet Daisy is looking better today. Much more back to her normal sweet and bright self.

I’m not sure we’ll ever quite know what went wrong with her. But I suspect it might have something to do with the extremely high worm burden some of the horses are having coming out of the wild this year due to the warm wet conditions and over population in their ranges. Fingers crossed she’s on the path to recovery.

28/06/2024

Our beautiful sweet Daisy is not doing well. This is a tiny little mare that came out of the wild 2 months ago. She has been the sweetest thing, very young and heavily pregnant and also the bottom of the pecking order in her herd. Yesterday as part of her handling we noticed something wasn’t right. She wasn’t herself and had tremors through her body. After some preliminary treatment yesterday and being no better this morning, she got a visit from the vet. We don’t use our vet race much, mostly as a cover rack and storage space but it was very useful today. We threw everything out of the way and helped her in. It gave us a great well lit area to examine her, take bloods and then stand as we gave IV fluids and antibiotics. Here she is standing like a perfect patient, far calmer than most domestic horses.

She was an absolute angel throughout treatment by the vet, and had to stand patiently for hours getting her fluids. She was so settled throughout and you could tell trying to figure out what she was supposed to do and be brave about it.

To me this highlights how important it is to handle horses and get them happy in their new surroundings so if anything goes wrong, like with Daisy, they can receive the best treatment safely and calmly and not have it be a stressful experience.

Horses in the wild die all the time from so many different causes and it’s just part and parcel of life out there. However when they come into our care we owe it to them to make sure they have a good quality of life and access to the best veterinary care we can provide. We’ve grown really attached to this sweet girl and hope she pulls through and shows signs of improvement soon.

28/06/2024

So nice to have some early morning sunlight today. The newest wild herd enjoying the drier weather. Isn’t this chestnut mare stunning as well?

So grateful to have the Stronghold yards this year to be able to hold all these extra wild horses. They have been a life saver, giving us the extra space and easily being able to construct different yard configurations for different groups of horses.

27/06/2024

How big is the new black stallion? He’s definitely size large. Here he is getting his first touch today. The first ever wild horse I’ve reached up to pat like this and standing next to such a big stallion, is I must say a pretty daunting experience. Gutted I set my phone up in the wrong place to really capture the moment but at least it gives perspective on size!

So far he’s been pretty incredible to work with. Very worried with you on his left side to start with. But by the end of his sessions today, I could stroke his neck comfortably. I’m not sure exactly what he’s been through, but definitely been out fighting other stallions. He’s got a lot of old injuries healing up and a cloudy patch in one eye, his right eye. I’d heard some stories he’d had a run in with a vehicle as well but I don’t think we’ll ever know for sure.

Regardless his belly is looking a bit fuller day by day. He’s getting a spark in his eye once more and he is relaxing into this new environment.

He still lives with his mares, and just comes into the yards to work with me for short sessions throughout the day. When not working you can often find all his family together eating out of the same hay bin.

They’ve got day yards, thanks to Stronghold, now it’s stopped raining out on the sunny side of the stock yards on lovely smoothed brown rock and bark and during the night they are in the round pen on sawdust. Our next priority is to get one of his mares handled as she looks very very close to foaling and it’d be lovely to get her out into new paddocks before that happens.

22/06/2024

Be still my beating heart….

Is this the most beautiful big black stallion you’ve ever seen?

19/06/2024

Thor is our beautiful cover model today. Thanks to Weatherbeata for sending up the newest of their canvas range, we are loving it. Thor is wearing the lined canvas rug. A nice light ripstop canvas outer, with a warm wool lining. This is the second canvas we’ve trialed and we are loving them. They are really breathable, the horses don’t seem to sweat up, saving the endless process of taking covers off and on. They’ve also proven to be super waterproof through the last torrential lotions of rain we’ve had, both the lined unlined version. Even better they seem to be pretty hardy, hard wearing covers that my team of wild horses have not yet been able to tear apart. Can’t recommend them enough.

I took these photos a few days ago and we have had torrential non stop rain since. Checking both Thor and Courage in their lined and unlined canvas rugs and they are both nice and dry underneath which is really impressive.

A few people ask why we cover?

We live in a wet environment, it rains pretty much non stop for 3 months of the year. Horses do fantastic with cold weather not so much with wet. We also work a lot with wild horses that come in skinny. We find covering helps keep weight on, protects them from the endless rain and associated problems like rain scald, mud fever and fungal problems . It helps with our management as we don’t constantly have horses coated in 6 inches of mud when we want to ride every day as well.

Most of all we find our wild horses actually quickly grow to like their covers just like the stables. They enjoy the creature comforts and not feeling the rain on their back day after day for months on end.

Check out WeatherBeeta or Equestrian Connection suppliers to grab one for yourself.

18/06/2024

We urgently need your help!

This year the Wild Horse Project has been inundated with calls to help with wild and feral horses all over the country. Yesterday we picked up another 4 horses unexpectedly and will be going back for 2 more horses today. We are an offical charity dedicated to helping manage, care and tame these horses and give them a second chance at a domestic life. However we are at max capacity and we can't do it without your help.

The cost of rehabilitating each horse can range from hundreds to thousands of dollars each. When it comes to vet care, feeding, worming, castrating, farrier care and so much more. We just can't do this without help from the public.

If you love following what we do and want to support our work and help save a horse please think of donating or sponsoring a horse and donating to our New Zealand bank account here

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18/06/2024

Watch this space we have some new faces to introduce tonight. Today was an action packed whirlwind we weren’t expecting.

For now though I need to finish feeding horses and find dinner for myself.

17/06/2024

There is so much basic good horsemanship that just doesn't get discussed enough. I’m here to share it. It can be the key to keeping safe with your horse and having a good time or not. A lot of things were taught to me when I was very young and I get more grateful with every passing year that it was. Gates, going into stables, small spaces and manoeuvring around tight areas is just something we teach our horses from the very beginning. Here's how we do it safely featuring our favourite wild stallion The Black.

The Wild Horse Masterclass was started to guide through the process of taming wild horses and show how we tamed an entire herd. These days we are adding so much more and delving into all the everyday horsemanship I think everyone with horses should know.

If you want to learn more 50% of The Wild Horse Masterclass profits go directly to caring for the horses. More info below

17/06/2024

Big Red and T are making such great progress ticking off all the milestones. Not only are they best buds, but really excelling with their work. Big Red getting a cover for the first time today and taking it all in his stride. It’s at this point in time I think he’d be surpassing a lot of domestic horses the same age with his level of training and good behaviour despite only being out of the wild less than 2 months. These two are really building a great partnership.

16/06/2024

Thank you to the amazing person who sent us some wonderful supplements for our horses that need it most! The package has been sitting at the neighbours for weeks, who kindly brought it down this morning. Can’t wait to get some of our lovely wildies like Delphi on it to see if it gives the extra boost she needs to really thrive.

16/06/2024

I have spent a lot of time watching wild horses. Infinite hours training them, sitting in the saddle, travelling with them. I’ve worked with horses in the USA, Mongolia, Australia, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Europe and a whole bunch of other places. What I know, is the more I see the more complex they become.

Here’s a screen shot of two stallions I’ve known for a long, long time. They are out catching new mares together. It was a pretty awesome and dramatic sight to witness. Necks down full gallop snaking after them and separating off the two they wanted. These two stallions worked together and their herd watched from a hill nearby.

I have known these stallions a long time, many years since they were both very young. They had been young bachelors together then taken over a herd together, stayed together and every year their herd grows. However there is so much more to their story than that. Two stallions staying with a herd together is not unheard of but it is rare.

I see them throughout the years and seasons. I see them groom each other, fight with each other and curl up next to one another fast asleep. They are insanely closely bonded but their relationship is complex. Horse behaviour is complex. The more I learn, the less inclined I feel to make bold statements about what normal wild horses or domestic horse behaviour is.

Among a lot of other things I’ve seen these two stallions and their herd mix with other nearby herds without conflict. I’ve seen these two boys fight, seriously fight, other stallions that challenge them or push the same herd at out of their territory at other times. I’ve seen them spend hours every day grooming bachelors bands and letting all the young colts in amongst their mares. At other times they will chase those same males away, not allowing them in their sight. I’ve seen mares join their band and also leave of their own accord without the boys stopping them. I’ve seen them let foals or young ones that don’t belong to their band, join and stay with then. I’ve seen them protect their families many times from rogue stallions trying to take them. Defending to the point where they are battered and bloody. Other times things are resolved peacefully.

I say all of this just to highlight the diverse range of behaviour any one horse can possess. These two stallions are just great examples of that incredible range. There is probably even more I haven’t seen that would make their story even more incredible. Their complexity resonates with me so much because to often with training our horses we expect the horse to be exactly the same day in fay out. That is simply not the case. This is something we need to remember with every horse we work with. That you must, as all the old horsemen say train the horse you have on the day. Not the one you had yesterday or want to have tomorrow.

A horse just like its behaviour is not a static object but ever changing and complex. Influenced by the environment, how you work with it and so many other factors.

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We took 3 wild horses to a measuring day. Including Ransom for his very first outing. They were all so well behaved! #horses #horsetraining #wildhorses #kaimanawas

There is so much basic good horsemanship that just doesn't get discussed enough. I’m here to share it. It can be the key to keeping safe with your horse and having a good time or not. A lot of things were taught to me when I was very young and I get more grateful with every passing year that it was. Gates, going into stables, small spaces and manoeuvring around tight areas is just something we teach our horses from the very beginning. Here's how we do it safely featuring our favourite wild stallion The Black. The Wild Horse Masterclass was started to guide through the process of taming wild horses and show how we tamed an entire herd. These days we are adding so much more and delving into all the everyday horsemanship I think everyone with horses should know. If you want to learn more 50% of The Wild Horse Masterclass profits go directly to caring for the horses. More info below

I love teaching people about how to better understand their horse. That's one of the best skills you can have when it comes to taming wild horses and setting them up for a happy domestic life. Don't forget if you want to learn more, you can sign up to our Wild Horse Master Class online and 20% of the sales go directly to supporting and caring for the wild horses that come into our care. #wildhorsemasterclass

Delphi and Diva came from the wild almost 3 weeks ago. Now that they’ve had handling, worming and a check over they can go out to grass to grow for a month before getting ready for adoption. Delphi is just a baby herself but already has a yearling colt, little Diva the filly and is pregnant again. She needs this break to look after herself as she’s really underweight and was full of parasites. #wildhorses #horses #horsetraining

It's time to share more. I think there is so much that goes on with great horsemen and women in everything they do with horses that so many horse owners are not exposed to. I know I was lucky enough to be taught all of this from a young age and now I want to share it with you. How you do things with your horses matters. It can keep you both safe, it can build understanding and it can make sure you have the skills to communicate effectively. Even something as simple as going through gate ways can show a lot about you as a horse person and your level of knowledge. The next few lessons I've uploaded to our online Masterclass are all about getting these everyday basics right and doing it in a way that enhances your horsemanship.

We’ve been mustering wild horses today. I got to catch up with my favourite herd and meet this little guy. Isn’t he the cutest? #horses #wildhorses #horsebehaviour

It's so exciting to be back filming and creating more Masterclass content. This week we are releasing 5 new lessons based on everyday horsemanship principles that anyone can do. I think with horses and horsemanship it is how you do the little things that really make the difference. Something as simple as haltering can set the tone for the entire training session. Usually when I'm working with problem horses even watching how their owners put a halter on will tell me a lot of what I need to know. Here's how I approach haltering. I wish I'd included some of my other favourite haltering techniques I've watched over the year. Including the sneak attack (the horse must not be able to see the halter as your walking up), the rugby tackle ( just full body throw yourself at the neck and hold on) also the water ski technique where you half get the halter on and then the horse takes off with owner skiing through the grass/mud behind. Whats your favourite technique for haltering? Also who recognises this beautiful mare? Serena is our lovely sport horse mare, whose mother was Fern, my first Kaimanawas and whose father was a sport horse stallion I used to own.

Come watch as we tame wild horses. Master your understanding of horse behaviour with the Wild Horse Masterclass. Make sure you get the Xmas code at the end of the clip for 20% off. #horsebehaviour #horsemanship #horsetraining

I think it’s important people know where so much of my association with horses and wild places comes from. It’s not limited to Wild horses I’ve spent over 10 years visiting Mongolia, riding the Mongol Derby, leading my own expeditions and spending time with the nomads and all their different animals. All of which made me the horse woman I am today. #horses #wildhorses #mongolia #adventure

Check out Opi’s latest update here. So proud of this little pony and everything he has done. He’s come so far and worth every little bit of effort to help him get there. Horses can change! #horses #horsetraining #horsemanship

Do you guys know about Boomerang? The wild stallion with the broken leg that healed? He defied the odds and survived and this is part of his story. Getting X-rays with the vet! #horses #horsetraining #animalwelfare #wildhorses

I think working with wild horses has made me a better horsewoman and trainer. They have so much to teach us about not only horses but ourselves. #horses #wildhorses #horsemanship #horsetraining

Check out these wild horses and a black stallion I’ve met many times before! #wildhorses #blackstallion #horses #horsebehaviour

We're back talking techniques. Updates for the Masterclass are on the way, Join us today!

This little stallion is a very unique individual that’s won our hearts. Vet visit today and while his friend was getting castrated he chose to come over and help out. While we had to chase him away from standing over us and all but handing the tools to the vet he decided to do the the next best thing and have a nap beside us instead. His condition is still a mystery but we’ve sent off hair sample and the vet got some blood today to see why he looks so beat up. Hopefully this means over the next few weeks we can come up with the best treatment plan to help him improve.

Pretty excited to have a some more foals coming in for handling very soon. This is by far my favourite job of the season. Have a foal of your own and not sure where to start ? Make sure you check out our online training program, link in Bio or look us up at The Wild Horse Masterclass