Leeukraal SA Sport Horses

04/11/2024

Leeukraal Kalahari is een maand oud vandag! Dit was tyd vir nuwe ervaringe so ons het begin wei in die verste weikamp. Ons het vandag vir Tiran (vaar) en Magnus ontmoet en ook besef die wêreld is baie groter as die 100m wat ons voorheen ervaar het.
Dit is absoluut ‘n seëning om op ‘n plaas te bly en met jong diere te kan werk!

30/10/2024

Loves & cuddles 🥰 🥰

28/10/2024

Beautiful Laika off to school! Thank you T.J.O Equestrian Training Yard for understanding how precious and loved she is! 💫

11/10/2024

This little flymask has been protecting Leeukraal babies since Leeukraal Asjas in 2017. 🌟
May there be many more!

05/10/2024

We proudly present Leeukraal Kalahari, born 4-10-2024, the offspring of esteemed parents Juistzoo Tiran and Leeukraal Lente. This charming and extremely friendly c**t has already demonstrated immense potential, and we look forward to his future development.

04/10/2024

Welcome to the world little one 💛
Beautiful little buckskin c**t born this morning out of Leeukraal Lente x Juistzoo Tiran.
We’re still looking for the perfect name and open to all suggestions. He’s curious and all too happy to hop around his mom mere hours after birth.

01/10/2024

Beautiful Atlas at the show in August.
Shown by T.J.O Equestrian Training Yard
Champion Gelding in Hand
1st Gelding under 5 years.

21/09/2024

🤩🤩 So proud of Atlas. Thank you T.J.O Equestrian Training Yard for helping me produce this boy.

17/08/2024

One of the oldest sayings I know of in the horse world is. “If you can’t control your emotions/temper, you shouldn’t go near a horse.”
This was a tough week for me, emotionally. To keep the consistency in my younglings program I had to think outside the box. I couldn’t work them as usual, my mind was nowhere near the levelheadedness needed. So we played.
This week Leja didn’t get her second groundwork session as planned, we only bathed.
This week Magnus didn’t work on his manners and lungeing abilities, I just spent time with him getting to relax and maybe figure out for himself how he feels about poles as a distraction to his crazy hormones and being on his own.
This week Laika didn’t start work under the saddle. We took photo’s, repeated all the easy stuff and played with my hat.
Mentally I wasn’t ready this week. But that’s okay.
Know your limits, deal with it, and adapt.

17/08/2024

“If you deworm without testing f***l egg counts first, you’re not only wasting time and money but also making anthelmintic resistance worse by giving unneeded treatments”

Researchers continue to study internal parasites, with a focus on preventing resistance to deworming drugs.

15/08/2024

11/08/2024

Great words 😍
credits: Rogue Equine Hospital

23/07/2024

Pretty Laika 💫

20/07/2024

Happy (lazy) Stallion in the Stallions paddock today🥰
Post workout dust bath

19/07/2024

! ! Auction ! ! Divine Dream GF covering!

To All my horsey friends and fellow breeders
I will be AUCTIONING off a Divine Dream GF covering in an effort to help raise funds for Sienna, a gorgeous little girl with type 1 diabetes.

After saving for a long time her parents had made the appointment for her to receive a new pump that would chance her life only for the funds to be stollen from their home 💔😭

Please help us get Sienna this life changing pump!

The Starting bid will be R6000 and will end on Saturday 20 July 2024 at 1:00pm
Bids will increase in R500 increments.

Note : This is only a covering from Divine Dream GF and does not include the vet or collection fees.

Place your bid in the comment section below 🥳

Please share with any horsey friends that might be interested ❤️🙏

( sorry I deleted the event as will be easier to do the auction with a post 😉)

For any questions 0849411330

21/02/2024

Expensive horses.
There has been a fair amount of rumbling about the price of decent horses lately.
The unfortunate reality is that one of the things that come along with a difficult economy is inflation.
Feed prices are through the roof, hay should be listed on the stock exchange and hoofcare goes up along with the above.
The cost of living goes up for all equine profressionals, and for them to stay in business, so do their prices.
This does have an impact on horse prices. It costs more to properly care for a horse now than 5 years ago.
Not just feed and hay, but hoofcare, body work, vaccinations and veterinary care.
The breeders and people who develop horses for sale set the market value for horses.
If a horse is in development with a trainer for 6 months it is quite easy to hit the R25k to R45k (South African prices) cost mark pretty quickly. That's before anyone makes any money.
Is it unfair for trainers to earn a living?
Should they just be selling horses for what it cost to keep them alive and healthy, and the hours they put in be for free?
This is difficult to compare to the breeders who leave their horses unattended on a hill. These "breeders" would be baffled to hear about daily handling, as their answer to training would be to trap a horse in a crush, wrestle a halter on and let the horse fight until they give up, and call them halter trained. When it comes to riding they offer some poor, unsuspecting teenage girl, that can't afford horses of her own, and has watched every episode of Heartland, the "opportunity" to back horses for them.
The only way these horses would have the same value as a well raised, well developed and well nourished horses is if we took price per KG.
Those cheap horses will cost you the same, if not more,, once you factor in it's vet bills, your hospital bills and the proper training you are going to have to pay for at some point, unless you give up and it turns into a paddock ornament.
A horse can be cheap and sound, but it won't be well trained.
A horse can be cheap and well trained, but it won't be sound.
If it's well trained and sound, it's not going to be cheap. It costs money to get them that way.

13/02/2024

This is for the young riders who started riding in the 1980s or after. That period was a major turning point in horsemanship. Before that point, the disciplines were there for the horses. Now the horses are there for the disciplines. This change or inversion is very important to understand. Riders after that point have only known that horses are there for the disciplines and I think that is a problem we need to address.

Before that turning point, people who owned horses used the disciplines to explore their horses' range of abilities. That was the purpose of the different disciplines. You might have had a polo horse. Could that horse do team penning? Horse owners loaded their horse in the trailer and went to find out. When they got there, the team penning people welcomed the new riders and showed them how. I had an Appaloosa mare polo horse that turned out to be better at penning than polo. Got a cutting horse? Will it fox hunt or do endurance? People tried out different disciplines to see what their horses' could do. The disciplines were there for the horses.

Not so today. Now the horses are there for the disciplines and that is all two generations of riders have known. Today horses are specialized for only one discipline, If you bring a dressage horse to a fox hunt or to team penning today, it is likely that your horse would struggle to get the job done in a different discipline. The horses are now there for each discipline and the consequences of this values inversion are not good.

What is important about this change is how it goes against the authentic nature of horses. Horses are incredibly versatile. They thrive on cross training and changes of scene. By contrast, most people love specialization. They can succeed and be a winner in a narrower context, and they love purchasing specialized equipment for a sport, which today includes a horse.

The enjoyment and success with horses used to be about exploring the vast landscape of the horse's abilities. The disciplines served this purpose. Now, it seems, that the enjoyment and success are about the rider winning a $2 ribbon.

We need more local mixed discipline events and competitions so that today's riders can once again explore their horse's range of abilities. We need the disciplines to be there for the horses to try something new. The American Horse Society is working on a group insurance plan that will make more local shows and competitions possible.

06/02/2024

Yesterday we received confirmation that Lente is indeed pregnant with her second foal to Juistzoo Tiran. Expected date is September 2024 🎉.

05/02/2024

For your consideration: 16hh SASHF Bay Tobiano Gelding

Once in a lifetime prospect:
🌟 Leeukraal Asterix Atlas 🌟

Registered SA Sport Horse gelding
16hh (measured 165cm by tape 2024-01-11)
DOB: 2020-03-07

HOY2023 SASHF Champion Young Stock, Champion Coloured Sport Horse.

Juistzoo Tiran (HOY23 SASHF Supreme Champion) x Leeukraal Lente

Situated in Toitskraal, Marble Hall, Limpopo. (90mins drive from Pretoria)

Atlas has been brought up with love and attention and will be starting his backing process this year at a more mature age of four. This gelding is a once in a lifetime opportunity to start your own soulmate.
The apple didn't fall for from the tree with this one. Out of a kind hearted stallion this boy is a generous blend of sire and dam. Lente is known and loved by all who meet her, she’s done SANESA, eventing and endurance with willingness and obedience. Tiran is a well mannered stallion that is stabled next to mares and turned out in a herd.
Born, bred and raised with us Atlas has been brought up slowly and steadily. He has a kind and calm personality with excellent manners.
All vaccinations are up to date and out of strong stock he can live inside our out. Complete medical and behavioral history available.

Only experienced, knowledgeable homes practicing sound horsemanship will be considered. No dealers please, contact with the new owners will be kept in a proud mommy way. Lifetime homes will have preference, if he’s ever put back in the market Leeukraal Stalle will have first right of refusal.

Medium to high price range that will increase as his training progress.

Please contact Annemarie on 072 422 8506 preferably on whatsapp or messenger, calls is not always possible in our area.

24/01/2024

Magnificent Magnus is in a very interesting phase of his c**thood. We’re currently trying manners through herd training. Such a beaut!! Standing 15.2hh and growing taller and stronger every day.

04/08/2023

Dear Small Breeder…. I see you!

I see you pouring your heart and soul into those mares praying for a good heartbeat check.

I see you, missing family gatherings because a mare needs bred. Or one is about to foal.

I see you, sleepless nights hoping nothing goes wrong at foaling time.

I see you, crying because you lost a foal, mare or both.

I see you standing over that prize yearling, that just broke its leg.

I see you, struggling wondering which incentives to pay into. Because everyone wants them all paid into every incentive possible.

I see you, as you are saying goodbye to the old mare that started it all… wondering if you should keep going.

I see you, struggling on which mare to breed to which stallion to hopefully make someone’s super star!

I see you, smiling because it all went right this time!

I see you, smiling because someone called to tell you how much they love that foal you raised. And it is their heart horse!

Keeping going small breeder! Because without you, there are a lot of people missing out on that once in a life time horse.

www.tienquarterhorses.net

(Copied from Forked Horn Ranch)

17/06/2023

The one and only ⭐️Juistzoo Tiran⭐️
Turning heads as usual
Champion Friesian Sport Horse 2023
SA Sport Horse Supreme Champion Stallion 2023
Supreme SASHF Horse of the Year 2023

Sire of:
SASHF Reserve Champion Young Stock 2023: Leeukraal Magnus
SASHF Champion Coloured Sport Horse 2023: Leeukraal Atlas
SASHF Supreme Champion Mare 2023: Leeukraal Laika

17/06/2023

This mare! 🤩
Leeukraal Laika:
SA Sport Horse Supreme Champion Mare 2023
SA Sport Horse Reserve Champion Horse of the Year 2023

17/06/2023

Leeukraal Atlas Asterix:
SA Sport Horse Champion Young Stock 2023
SA Sport Horse Champion Coloured Sport Horse 2023

17/06/2023

Magnificent Magnus was die enigste 2 jarige maar hy het homself so mooi gedra!
Hou hom dop! Hy gaan in ’n bitter mooi perd uitdraai!