Selsley Farm

26/05/2022

Farewell to Ambeck Royale whe has left Selsley Farm after growing into a beautiful strong c**t whilst he was with me. Thank you to Sarah Boughey for your support and for sending me this lovely c**t to work with.

15/05/2022

Selsley Farm foals are special!

11/05/2022

Life on Selsley Farm is never dull.

01/03/2022

Back on with the hiking boots! Hiking at Cathedral Peak! What an awesome and uplifting experience! I wonder why I waited so long before starting again. Next weekend - overnight camping too. Watch this space……

27/01/2022

This lovely, affectionate and easygoing 18 years young gelding is looking for his special forever home as a companion and hack. He lives out, although he is happy stabled too, he does not need shoes, he is a good doer and can be hacked out on his own or with other horses.
Contact me on FB Messenger if you are a genuine and caring home. He is currently living in the Kzn Midlands.

27/01/2022

This gorgeous, gentle and affectionate 18 years young gelding is looking for a special caring forever home as a companion horse and hack. He is barefoot, he sleeps out, although he is quite happy to be stabled too, he is a good doer and is happy hacking on his own or with a companion.

21/01/2022

Selsley Farm is slowly clearing out all invasive trees. This is possibly the biggest Privet ever!It was felled to perfection, falling on the drive and missing all else nearby. Congratulations to Duduza and his team for a job well done.

14/01/2022

Bagheera and his companion Rocky.

14/01/2022

This lovely young Vlamperd c**t is growing up here at Selsley. He has a seasoned and steady gelding as his companion and mentor. Such a happy pair of boys.

14/01/2022

Our first baby at Selsley this year!Beautiful Caladan at three days old enjoying this sunshine in his nursery camp on his first day out in the big wide world.

12/01/2022

Iron Princess left for Bexton Park today to join her new owner Lisa Perrins. This gorgeous girl has never been off the farm before or even seen the inside of a float. As soon as she understood what was expected of her, she simply walked on. So proud of her. Watch her on Instagram as she starts her new competitive career.

31/08/2021

Colts In The Mood and Fendi enjoying hugs in the warm winter sun at Selsley Farm. We grow our youngsters in a natural and relaxed environment and their response to us is so heartwarming.

31/08/2021

We welcome Royale to Selsley farm. This big, classy 16 month old c**t is here to grow up and make friends with other youngsters his own age in our large grassy pastures until he is ready to start his career. Thank you to Sarah Broughey for your support, and to Choice Carriers for his safe arrival yesterday afternoon.

29/08/2021

Soaking up some sun after the snowfall yesterday afternoon☀️
Clients Colts Fendi and In The Mood always inseparable.🐴💕

22/11/2020

Beautiful filly born to Seeis Showrian. Only 12 hours old when these photos were taken. Congratulations to Pam Oels on the birth of this most beautiful filly.

22/11/2020

This mare, rising four, has had such an unfortunate start in life, even having been raised as an orphan foal, and having had a colic op as a foal, which all happened before she came to Selsley Farm.
After her accident in June of this year, she steadily deteriorated to the point of where, a month later, she could not walk and struggled to raise herself if she had lain down to rest.
The Vet’s prognosis was extremely poor and guarded, as was that given by the Chiropracter. In fact we were told it would be more humane to have her euthanized.
We were not going to give up on her. We embarked on which has been an ongoing five month period of Transeva therapy which was started by Annette Schmidt and then continued by myself in the ensuing months. We progressed to small daily hand walks on the farm and lots of love and positive reinforcement from ourselves as well as exercising her joints and massaging her daily.
She has now progressed to being led on daily “outrides” which she loves.
She is probably 90% improved now.
She may never be an athlete or a competitive horse but I was promised by Stephen Gill that I could breed with her and have her first foal. The Chiropractor is absolutely amazed at her progress, as is my Vet.
Unfortunately she is still not declared well enough or strong enough to be ridden, nor can she be covered yet.
This is an ongoing story ....

10/11/2020

Selsley Farms new arrival, a lovely filly by Corlensky, born here. This pic taken at five days of age. Both doing so well and are now being happily integrated into a small group of mares.

02/11/2020

⭐Saltash Celtic Warrior⭐ AKA Wolf🐺

Our Gorgeous Warmblood Stallion is available for coverings this season🤩

Sire: Consuelo
Dam: Callao Firefly
Dam Sire: For Joy

5 years old
Measured at 170cm (16.3hh) Nov 2019

First Acceptance with the SAWHS.🏅

Negative for Sem Test and Dourine Test.💯

R5000 LFG

Comment or inbox us for more details. 💬

01/11/2020

Our new filly born to Enigmatic Phase, by Corlensky de Revel, on her first day in this big new world. Welcome little girl.

09/10/2020

What a perfect day🤩
The weather graced us with a beautiful sunny day today and we were able to get a fantastic ride to the top of the farm.
The camps are starting to get some lovely green growth from all the rain🌱🌧️

19/09/2020

11/09/2020

I recently had a lesson with a new student. The student is a competitive rider, who has had ' Natural horsemanship lessons' before.
Some of the movements we do were in place, but the relaxation aspect needed work, but the biggest issue she had was that she was unable to stop her horse once he got up to higher gaits. I started going through the basics with her, but the topic of gadgets came up.
I recommended she stop using gadgets altogether, and focus on developing a proper foundation. She responded that her other instructor had told her she should use the gadget in question. I won't mention the specific gadget, because I want to be clear here.. there is no gadget that replaces foundations, and no gadget that doesn't have a negative side effect.
The point here is: the answer to your problem doesn't lie in fixing your horse, but in changing the methods that cause the problem.
Yes, most other people are resorting to quick fixes, or shortcuts, but that same group of 'most people' have to snack on ibuprofen 3 times a day before they are even 30. Horses that won't stop because gadgets have made them dull, horses that won't respond to leg because people squeeze with their legs to hang on, horses that spook because no one addresses anxiety, horses that buck or rear because people hang on their reins.. these all make riding dangerous.. not horses themselves..the techniques that ignore the cause of behaviours and try put a band over the symptom.
If this rings true to you and you want to approach it differently.. let me know.. we won't force you to drop everything at once.. but we will let you know our recommendation.. you will still see positive changes if you only follow half our recommendations, but don't be surprised if some of your problems linger.
Most people come to us when they see our horses behaviour, or other students horses behaviour, and want the same from their horses.. horses like ours are the result of letting go of how you have always done things, and being open to evidence based training methods AND how you manage your horses living arrangements.

18/05/2020

Hunters Cherokee Dream was bred out of our two best horses. He has never known anything but Heartfelt Horsemanship. He is now a 5 year old, has been lightly ...

21/04/2020

Spot the spotted horse(s)! Two of the long term residents of Selsley Farm, Gail Wray's Warrior and Chabre

15/04/2020

Does your horse hate the arena, but is fine on outrides? Maybe the truth is coming out in the arena and you are getting lucky on outrides!

07/04/2020

05/04/2020

Anyone keen on a virtual outride on Selsley Farm?
https://youtu.be/yyUkpKM-Nfc

We have been posting lots of videos during lockdown, but this one really is just a fun video of an outride, with accompanying ramblings... hope it offers tho...

04/04/2020

If you have been following the training of Princess, the unraced Thoroughbred mare... here is here first saddled ride. Yesterday was her first ba****ck ride....

04/04/2020

Lockdown at Selsley Farm!what a privilege to be walking the dogs this evening at the top of the farm. Inhlosane peak and a cold and cloudy sunset seen from the c**ts’ camps. Lucky boys to have this view every day.

04/04/2020

Heartfelt Horsemanship working on Halter training foals at Selsley Farm.
Gail imprints all foals born on the farm, which makes this process much easier!
https://youtu.be/sQmLmVxvG2M

In this video, we cover halter training. These foals have been imprinted, so this process is easier, but we cover getting a foal to yield without having them...