The Curragh Paddocks

11/08/2024

I stole this from Tracey Leigh Beekes . 🤣🤣🤣 I couldnt resist. Its just too true 🤣🤣🤣

26/07/2024

14/06/2024

This is how we roll ! Winter mornings at the yard! Tristan loving kisses from special Tia. I think he needs a new broom though 🤣

04/06/2024

(Thanks everyone, She is Fully leased now😊)

Half LEASE AVAILABLE ! In a fun Chestnut mare. 15,3 hand Warmblood. RIVENS LADY OF THE LAKE .
Lady is 16 years old, she is a fantastic hack, loves going to Haka Game Park and is good on the roads with traffic. She can do nice dressage and is fun to jump. She does get excited when jumping but is not silly.
Looking for someone to share her with Leah. The half lease allows you to ride and compete 3 times per week. Livery is $200 per month and farrier and vet bills are shared. Stabled in Greendale.
Contact me on 0778097922 if interested.

01/05/2024

Found a few pictures from when we first arrived here 3 years ago.
The arena then and today! We are so grateful for this special place we get to call home and all the special people and horses that make up our Curragh Family. 💖

20/04/2024

Remember, after every storm comes a rainbow ! 🌈 If you're going through a storm or a tough time, things will get better. They always do, hang in there.
Thanks, , for this lovely photo of the yard from a few weeks ago.

25/03/2024

HORSE BOX FOR SALE.
Whats app on 077 809 7922 for details.
Refurbished a year ago. New tyres, new floor, ramp redone and fully spray painted.
Licensed until Oct 2024

28/02/2024

If you are looking for a chilled stable with happy horses, friendly people and grooms.
🐎14 acres of grazing, pleanty of time out and grazing time for your horse.
🐎Dressage arena 60 x 20
🐎Grass jumping arena,
🐎 lunge ring.
🐎 Hacking at Haka game park and around Greendale.
🐎 Social days and afternoons with other owners
🐎 Riding lessons available but all instructors welcome
🐎 Livery is $400/ month excluding farrier & vet bills

28/02/2024

If you are looking for a chilled stable with happy horses, friendly people and grooms.
🐎14 acres of grazing, pleanty of time out and grazing time for your horse.
🐎Dressage arena 60 x 20
🐎Grass jumping arena,
🐎 lunge ring.
🐎 Hacking at Haka game park and around Greendale.
🐎 Social days and afternoons with other owners
🐎 Riding lessons available but all instructors welcome
🐎 Livery is $400/ month excluding farrier & vet bills

Equestrian Yard, providing livery of Hacks & Competition horses, Racehorses on rest, Breaking in, B

06/02/2024

Sunday Hacking at Haka! Chased by Gnus! Brunch in our gorgeous shady picnic spot & swimming the ponies. What a special weekend with special people. 💕 We are incredibly spoilt to have this little peace of African bush only 3km from our doorstep.

03/12/2023

Being patted is not in a horse's ethogram. This means that they are never patted (let alone repeatedly slapped) in their natural environment.

Wither area scratching and rubbing mimics mutual grooming, and is inherently rewarding for a horse, so choose a reward that is instantly lovely for your horse.

If you watch their demeanour as you do it, you'll see them relax into it.

So good to see that the Australian Pony Club is embracing lesrning theory into their teaching.

Now everyone else needs to catch up!

One interesting point raised from a commenter is that she desensitises her horses to patting, in case a well-meaning person approached and pats them. Good point!

02/12/2023

The Curragh Paddocks Christmas Party ! Silly hats, Secret Santa, lots of laughs ! 🤣🎅🎄

03/11/2023

Thank You so much to The TELENTIS GROUP & for the great branded grooms worksuits ! We love them! ❤️
Our Curragh Paddocks grooms work hard & love all our special horses.
Happy staff = Happy Horses. 😊 🐎
Get your work suits & work boots from 62 Mutare road, Msasa or whats app  +263719331051, +263775161228. To order yours.

26/10/2023

This special pony,Kami. She was bred by my sister Daph Lindsay in Zambia and competed by my niece ,Carey for many years. She was sold on and has taught many children to ride along the way. Now back home teaching Sienna. She is just Gold, the best pony ever. So grateful for her. 💕

📸 Andrew Philip Equine Photography

26/10/2023

Beautiful Boy! CELTIC TIGER by DURANT B out out if Kalmar (TILDEN) Our first home bred. Now in his new home with Leah Evans.
Always hard to say goodbye. But i know he's going to do so well with her and hopefully jump the moon. 💕
Thanks Andrew Philip Equine Photography for the great pics and memories.

08/10/2023

This special boy is for Sale Tropical wood ! A real school master!
18years old. Perfect for a beginner adult or junior.
Please contact Sascha Barr on 0778097922

08/10/2023

Fun fridays at the yard! So special to see our old friends & Curragh Paddocks family Anja, Juliana and Rafael and to meet new horsey friends Plus Sat Pony Club vaulting with Natani Price.

11/09/2023

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10/09/2023

Ive seen people do some horrid things like putting barbed wire on poles, even cribbing collars are not very kind. Just turn them out and let them be horses.

16/08/2023

Some notes to a young horse person, and a reminder to myself always —

If we are in this for the love of horses simply just as they are, every door will open.

Learn from everybody but don’t try to be anybody but yourself.

Be ready to let go of the story of how you’ll think it will all go.

Safety can be a choice, not something we hope for.

The more we connect to ourselves the more we will connect with our horses. The more we love ourselves, the more we will love all and everything.

Horses are a way of life not a hobby.

Just the presence of a horse will give us more than riding ever could.

Be around as many horses as you can. And go slow. Envision the way ahead, but let the future come.

Forgive others, forgive your horse, and the biggest one of all — forgive yourself. Daily.

Let go of the big rocks you carry, called “past experiences that didn’t go as planned.”

Don’t think of unwanted behavior as something to simply train out of a horse. It’s their nature and history and feelings being expressed. Listen and understand and meet their needs, then communicate your own.

Your horse knows you by your presence, energy, intent, and your care more than your mistakes.

If you have horses, then connect with others with horses so you can build community and help others and have help when needed.

Take time away from horses now and then. Separation will unearth truth.

Ask for help and guidance often from those you trust and that feel good to your heart.

If we can understand what a horse is thinking and feeling, we can predict the future.

Understand the science of how horses think and move. And look deeply into the spirit and soul of a horse, what the mind and body are serving. “It is only with the heart that one can see rightly. What is essential is invisible to the eye.” — The Little Prince

Seek the truth that unites all horses and all of us. You’ll know it when you feel it because it makes sense like you already knew it.

Learn the laws of the universe — vibration, attraction, synchronicity, rhythm, cause and effect, duality, relativity, reciprocity, divine oneness, gratitude. Horses live by them too.

It’s all about love. The sooner you realize that, the better.