LV Horsemanship

06/01/2025

For those that have been asking…
Yes we are home and back at it! 🎉

A HAPPY NEW YEAR to everyone!!! 🥳

Look forward to seeing you all and let’s kick some goals with our horses in 2025! 💪🐴❤️

19/09/2024

Some snaps from Tropicana Classic 2024 🥰

We had a good show and placed exactly where we deserved to. Had some tricky cattle that taught us some new things. Witnessed some inspiring cattle skills from some fellow competitors. There were a lot of spills so we were happy to make it out of there on all four feet and glad no one was injured!
Oakie was consistent and a little trooper placing 3rd Non Pro Bridle Spectacular and 4th Non Pro Cowhorse.

Poor little Mercurial Cat tried his luck up against some seasoned horses in the Non Pro Hackamore Classic. His first big show and first aged event. We zeroed out in the reining with a minor error and our cattle work was a little lack lustre. But overall he was super level headed, cool, calm and collected and did everything asked of him. Little Col has been a slow learner in general but has a lot of potential. So we are headed back to the drawing board to further his education and get more miles on him before the next event.

With these shows it’s all an opportunity to learn and advance at our own pace on our own path. Because we don’t have access to cattle and surfaces like this on a regular basis, these shows are where we get our practice in.
So until the day we have full time access to those resources, we will keep chipping away at these fantastic shows, having fun, and learning. Until one day it will be our day! 🌟

02/09/2024

RIBBONS HAVE ARRIVED! 🎉 🏆

For the Western Clinic/Show! This will be our last clinic of the year so don’t miss out and book your spot today!

27/08/2024

SPOTS STILL AVAILABLE!

Western clinic & guided show
14 & 15th September

There will be some seriously beautiful sashes and rosettes up for grabs at this clinic/show! Even a ribbon holder or two! 🥇🥈🥉🏆 🎉🐴

Sashes will be awarded for all classes from 1st to 5th in both beginner and novice.

Championship sashes and ribbon holder for Overall Champion and Reserve Champion in both beginner and novice.

There will be a stunning rosette for the Horsemanship Award and the Encouragement Award.

Ever wanted to try western riding or a western discipline? Thinking about showing your horse but don’t know where to start? Or just wanting to hone your horsemanship skills and get more confident? Then come along for this epic weekend. No matter what level you’re at, this will be a relaxed and supportive environment to try some fun western classes and up level your horsemanship.

Get in touch with LV Horsemanship to secure your spot today!

05/08/2024

UPCOMING CLINICS

Horsemanship Workshop

When: 18th August 2024
Where: Glencoe Horse Farm, Fernleigh
Details: https://www.facebook.com/share/L1Zz4CzSQfWbnJhk/

Western Clinic & Show

When: 14 & 15 September 2024
Where: Mountain Top Equestrian Park, Nimbin
Details: https://www.facebook.com/share/PqT8uyrxG1YrJypR/

For more details or to book your spot send us a DM today.

11/05/2024

Hey peeps, my friend Lachlan from Go Bitless is currently doing the May 50k (or 150k in his case) with his horses, Bitless of course 🤩 to raise money for MS. Head over to Go Bitless to support him and follow his journey! 🐴 🏃‍♂️

11/05/2024

27/04/2024

Australia’s Greatest Horsewoman 2024
Done and dusted.

And these are our results:

AGHW Open cutting event: = 5th
Equine Art Prize: The Australian Cowgirl Award

AGHW Reining: = 6th
AGHW Cutting: = 4th
AGHW Obstacles: = 4th
Aggregate placing: 4th

AGHW Cowhorse Finals: 3rd

AUSTRALIAS GREATEST HORSEWOMAN OVERALL: 🥉🥉🥉 3rd

🥳🎉🐴🎉🥳❤️🐴🎉🥳

(This is going to be a long winded thank you because we just wouldn’t have had the opportunity if it wasn’t for the immense support)

3 months ago I received a message from Kim offering me back to compete at AGHW. I really wanted to get back down and have another crack at the title and support this incredible event. But I wasn’t sure how I’d be able to get it done. Oakie had been out of work, we still had no arena or cattle, Victoria is a looong way to go and financially it was going to be a huge endeavour with less than 3 months to save and prep!
I almost declined the offer as the mountain just seemed to high. But I got talking with my good friend Kristal and she jumped on board to help me see this thing through. And boy did she get to work. And while I set out to work on training Oakie, she arranged sponsorship, interviews, collaborations, promotion to help me try and fund some of my journey. Not to mention hours of footage and running alongside Oakie capturing our journey for people to share the ride.

Our initial goal had been to just get down there. Which we encountered many obstacles along the way to even just achieve that with cars, trailers, arena, rain and the rest as those who followed along would know 😂 But it was the support of our local Northern Rivers community and those people who so generously helped us with either their time, sponsorship, advice, contributions, support and friendship that got us to this result. Because of this support we were not only able to achieved our goal of getting to AGHW, but to shift our goal to making the finals. And then when we did make the finals 🎉 we then set our sights on beating our AGHW 2022 personal best (7th place overall). So when we came in at 3rd, it really felt like a huge win. Standing up there next to such accomplished and talented horsewomen and getting that far from where we had started was all due to the backing of all the people that showed their support along the way.

I have never felt such support from so many people it has been overwhelming and I am so incredibly grateful to everyone who has been apart of this journey…

Krystal, you my friend are the glue that held this whole thing together and it would not have happened without you. There are no words to express how grateful I am for your tireless support and loving friendship. 🥰❤️❤️❤️

My phenomenal main sponsors that believed in us enough to back this unlikely pair 🤩🤩🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

Equestrienne Magazine
Stablemate Pro
North East Equine Veterinary Services
Newrybar Produce & Saddlery
Thank you legends so much for taking a chance on us 🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️

All the people who helped towards our gofundme, my clients, Lennox Head Equestrian, North Coast Stock Feeds, my friends and family, Chantal & Chris for putting us up. 🙏❤️

The event sponsors for supporting this epic show which wouldn’t be able to go ahead with them…

Johnson's Natural Formula
Tania Burbury - Leatherwork National Cowboy Challenge Association
Ideal Western Saddlery
Living Horse Tails • Jewellery by Monika
Corral Boots
C&W HIDE
Mario's Muffins
Thomas Arena Products
Rhondu Crackin Sherrif
Wazz-A-Cow Cutter
Woodstock Paint Horses
H S HAY Services
Mountain Horse Trading
Branded Faith
Carlisle Art
The Hoof Co
Kim Thake Saddles & Tack
Feedtech Solutions
The cocktail cowgirl
Mansfield party hire
Black C**t clothing
The Hoof Co
Stockade country
Loots final delight, (courage Park quality coloured horses)
Essjay Performance horses
Equine HSD

Kim and Steph from The Australian Cowgirl Co. for organising, hosting, working their butts off to bring us all together and experience this legendary event. 🤩❤️

To all the girls who competed and left nothing on the table. I’m honoured to have shown alongside every one of you. With special mention to my home girl Christina Holloway for flying the Northern Rivers banner with me ❤️

And of course Oakie. For being my teammate even when he was feeling anxious, probably a little (or a lot) under prepared for this and he still put a run down for me and tried his little awkward butt off. 🥰🐴❤️

Such an incredible experience of highs and lows, stress, exhaustion, excitement, joy, fun and elation. I am left with so much gratitude, love and awe for the people and horses that we had the pleasure of sharing this journey with ❤️

21/04/2024

Hi everyone, Leah and Oakie will be competing in about 40mins.

I will also be doing on and off live feeds leading upto her run.

Please head over the The Australian Cowgirl Co. website to watch it live.

Thanks,
Krystal 💓🐴

21/04/2024

Australia’s Greatest Horsewoman UPDATE:

Oakie and I are Finals bound! 🎉 🥳

After 3 days and 3 rounds of competition and 22 amazing horsewomen later, we have made the finals sitting in 4th place.
Today will be a clean slate Cowhorse final so no score will be carried over and everyone will start fresh.

We have already accomplished our goal which was to make the finals so anything from here on out is a bonus! 🏆

Thank you to everyone for the support!!! It has been so amazing to have so much love coming our way and cheer us on. ❤️❤️❤️



North East Equine Veterinary Services

20/04/2024

Here we go!

18/04/2024

Oakie and I are Going live very soon!

https://www.facebook.com/share/hTeVEvpwQ2ADfErX/?mibextid=Cx5MWH

🔥🔥🔥OFFICIAL LIVE STREAM LINK🔥🔥🔥

The Australian Cowgirl Co. is proud to bring you a FREE livestream link sponsored by The Cocktail Cowgirl
Under no circumstances will we ask you for any credit card details. This link is available via our website https://www.theaustraliancowgirl.com.au/live-stream
We will commence Thursday afternoon with the AGHW Reining divisions and the Rein in Pink Open 💕

05/04/2024

WESTERN PERFORMANCE WORKSHOP CANCELLED 🌧️

For those of you attending tomorrow’s western workshop at Nimbin unfortunately we’ve had to make the call to cancel. We hoped that it might get a chance to dry out a bit today, but the weather gods have chosen otherwise! 😅

Deposits will be refunded so please send through your details and we’ll get those back to you asap.

We will be rescheduling this once we organise a new venue.

Leah 🐴❤️

16/03/2024

TIME IS RUNNING OUT - Spots still available!
For the 1 Day SOFT & SUPPLE workshop this Sunday the 17th at Fernleigh NSW.

If you missed out on last weeks workshop, well we still have a couple of spots available!

Don’t have a horse? There is still the option to ride Oakie! DM for more details.

Fence sitting will be free for this workshop.

Visit LV horsemanship for more details or contact today via DM or 0422906787.

29/02/2024

1 Day WESTERN PERFORMANCE workshop

6th April - Mountain Top Equestrian Park
Nimbin NSW
9am - 4pm
$200p.p

An introduction to western performance riding, try the different disciplines (reining, cutting, cowhorse etc) and start learning their manoeuvres. How to start using the mechanical cow and even have a go on a trained western horse.

To book a spot please send a message on Facebook or call 0422906787.
(50% deposit required upon booking)

29/02/2024

1 Day SOFT & SUPPLE workshop

17th March - Fernleigh indoor NSW
9am - 4pm
$200p.p

Advance your foundation riding skills and learn how to find that soft, supple, resistance free feel with your horses. For all disciplines of riding.

To book a spot please send a message on Facebook or call 0422906787.
(50% deposit required upon booking)