Natural Horse World Newsletter

Yesterday at my Young Horse Day workshop I met a wonderful soul in Boronia, a young shire mare. I was asked to work with her because she wouldn’t be caught, especially in the paddock with the other horses.
She would give up in the yard as she knew she was unable to get away, and her owner saw her as a ‘problem child’, especially when she kicked out at her when the pressure was on.

I haven’t had that much to do with the larger draught breeds but when I was a youngster, I remember being in total awe of the brewery teams of Clydesdales, struck by their stoic no nonsense natures and work ethic, as well as their hugeness.

The feeling I got when I looked at Boronia was of a gentle ‘old’ soul – her beautiful eyes hid behind a long dark forelock like a shy little girl, and that’s what she turned out to be.
When I stepped into the yard with her she moved away, so I talked to the workshop group while I wandered around without looking at her directly but taking notice of her responses. Without a direct line approach or thoughts of ‘I’m going to catch you’, she didn’t feel the need to move far or fast, so with some approach and retreat I was able to almost get within touching distance – in fact I was able to stoke her shoulder at one stage but she shied away from my touch.

I had a bag of treats with me as her owner admitted to using food to try and ‘bribe’ her into being caught but Boronia became good at snatching a mouthful from the bucket and moving quickly away. I intended to use the food as a reward, so to let her know I had some I put a few pellets in my hand and encouraged her to allow my hand in her space.
She wasn’t that interested in the food – or in touching my hand, even after tolerating my hand coming in and out of her space, which alarmed her at first.
So I just kept my body turned slightly away from her and tried making myself small to see if that attracted her attention. It did and she dropped her head to my level and relaxed a bit more, content to just be close to me as long as I didn’t try to touch her.

After a while my knees got sore from squatting so I slowly stood and rested against the yard rails, explaining my methods to the people, and with the attention off her Boronia became curious. We were talking about her past where she was raised in a large herd on a big property without much attention to anything more than the basics of handling, and had come to her present owner very undernourished after a drought sale. Once she was caught she would allow you to do anything with her and I immediately got the feeling that she was ‘shutting down’ to cope with the handling she’d endured – not that it may necessarily have been harsh, but in her eyes, she was scared and shutting down became her way of coping. This made her appear to be very quiet but she showed definite signs of withdrawing when too much pressure was put on her.

I discovered that perhaps for the first time in her life, Boronia was being allowed to interact with a person on her terms – she started to sniff me, brushing her long whiskers against my shirt, then my hand.
She eyed the bale of hay in the next yard, to tell me she’d rather eat that, so I grabbed a handful and she tucked into it then followed me around the yard to get more as I moved away from her, and allowed her to ‘catch me’ – perhaps another first.

Then she got tired of the hay and was happy just standing near me as I talked some more about how we could reward horses in different ways, such as being like another horse, just hanging out or giving them a good scratch.
I reached out to her neck and chest to see if she’d like to be itched and sure enough, that was her favourite spot. When I stopped, she carefully moved her big hooves closer and asked for more, inching forward each time I stopped.

When I decided to finish the session with her, she was chewing contentedly, with a soft eye and a smile on her lovely big Shire horse lips.
I invited her owner in to experience Boronia’s acceptance of people because I knew she’d overcome a big issue – she had never been given the choice of interacting with a human – it had always been the human’s idea and forced upon her which was why she didn’t enjoy being caught.
It was very special to see her owner amazed that she could walk right up to her ‘Bronnie’ and give her a big friendly rub – she took off her halter after some encouragement and vowed to spend more time ‘making deposits into her account’ with her, to make up for all the ‘withdrawals’ of the past.

The next horse I worked with was a lovely seven year old paint broodmare who hadn’t yet been ridden. She was a bit touchy about picking up her hooves and the workshop participants were keen to see some ‘join up’ and liberty work.
After explaining that I don’t do the traditional type of ‘join up’ where you deliberately send the horse away until it asks to be allowed back in, I introduced myself to the mare and started rubbing her body to find her favourite itchy spots.

After a little while she decided eating grass was better and moved off, so I gently encouraged her to keep moving and waited for her first sign of aknowledgement which was an eye and an ear focused on me – I turned away, taking the pressure off her and she willingly came right into me.
She then stood for more scratching and I worked my way down to her front leg – but as soon as I’d lifted it a little she hurried off – she had that choice being at liberty and it’s a wonderful way to find out what a horse can truly cope with.
Again, I encouraged her to move with the soft swing of the string I carry and after one trotting circle, she decided she’d rather be with me.

After that, she didn’t try to run off again – just moved a little when things got worrying for her. I was able to pick up all four feet at liberty then taught her to yield her hindquarters from both a suggestion (looking at them) and the touch of my hand.
She had some difficulty accepting the yield from her left eye and kept wanting to turn away and put me in the other eye, but after a few goes and having the choice to move her feet whenever she was worried, she could do beautiful yields with my hand on her side, where my leg would go.

Throughout this interaction with her I used my ‘clicker’ (my tongue) and treats to reward her, as food was her favourite motivation. She’d never had any experience with ‘clicker training’ but caught on right away without being pushy. This helped her enjoy her interaction with me and see that playing at liberty can be fun and fruitful.

So I too learned something from my Young Horse Day – we all have choices and by allowing the horses theirs, they will show us what’s best for them, so the more 'tools' (or different ways) for doing things we have, the better.
The students learned from observing that patience can be our greatest virtue, to take small steps and to consider the horse’s point of view. There’s always more to learn….

Learning is a never-ending journey so why not let the journey be the reward – it certainly is for me, especially when I discover little gems of wisdom from the horses.

(Photos by Ruth Tanner.)

Making the Feed Go Further By Cynthia Cooper ©

With many parts of the world affected by weather exremes, feed for horses is getting more expensive and less readily available, so it makes sense to stretch what you can get as far as possible.

So how do we do that without compromising our horse's health and well being?

It's a question I've been thinking on a lot lately as my horses have challeged me to balance the quantity they need for healthy gut function (and not eating weeds), with keeping them down to healthy weight, most being mature riding horses verging on the fat side!

One of the big discoveries I made is that hay fed loose on the ground can be gobbled up quickly leaving the herd hungry for more even after eating their entire ration which is based on their combined body weight.

It's easy to work out - I have seven horses in one herd - there are four that weigh close to 400kg and 3 that weigh around 500kg so thats a total of 3100kg. As they have no pasture to speak of, I'm feeding them 2.5% of their body weight in food a day - that's 10kg per 400kg horse and 12.5kg per 500kg horse - a combined total of 77.5kg.

As they get a small feed of chaff and minerals which weighs less than a kilo each, I'm left with providing 77kg of hay so I weighed my bales and they average 17kg each resulting in 4.5 bales per day for the herd. Phew - I knew I did maths at school for a reason!

So to combat the guzzling nature of horses that have no pasture, I made hay feeders that have a mesh screen they have to pull the hay through and it stops them tossing it all over the place to get to the seeds.
These are old apple bins and fit a bale on each side.
I had to put a screen on one so that the 'feeder hog' (2nd in command) allowed someone to share with him!

The biggest issue with this is that they just stand around in one place for a large part of the day - at least they have to walk down the hill to get to water. Some days they go out to graze a strip of track I'm eating out so the amount of hay is halved then, and they get to walk a further back to the water.

So I started looking for ideas on how to make some way of containing hay that made them work to get it, and could be easily put up in several places around the 10 acres they occupy.

I found the solution on a wonderful web site (see the end of this story for the link) which I'm in the process of adapting to suit the materials I have on hand. I'll include a photo in the next newsletter of the result.

My breeding herd have also presented a challenge in that some of them can cope with grass and need it, while others couldn't. My old broodmare who is generally a good doer, had developed greasy heel from being allowed too much rich grass in spring because I mistakenly assumed she would need extra to make all that milk for her foal.

I've discovered through trial and error in the process of clearing up the greasy heal, that the tall stemmy grass with seeds (usually cocksfoot and ryegrass) will cause her leg to flare up right away. I could actually see more swelling and weeping of toxins at the end of the day when she was allowed out on the seedy grass. My solution was to set up a track around the paddock to stimulate more movement, and slash the seeded grass on the track, leaving it for a couple of weeks to dry out - it was even rained on so that washed more sugars out. Freshly slashed grass can have more toxins that affect horses as the grass tries to recover, so its a good idea to leave it at least a week or two before allowing horses back on.

Now, as the track gets eaten down, I can let the youngsters in the middle for a few hours a day to eat a bit extra, and the mare can stay out on feed she can tolerate, supplemented with a bit of hay and her regular minerals and chaff. The beauty of this is that the mare can move around with the herd so no-one feels left out or in need of running through a fence. It's also a great way to wean a foal as they are only stopped from drinking and not from being near their mum.

The more I look for information on using tracks, commonly called Paddock Paradise, the more I see it as the ultimate way to keep horses and stretch the grass consumption over a longer period of time too.
During the drought, the track can be the sacrifice area and the majority of the pasture can survive with reduced or minimal grazing.

In spring, the track is the safest place for equines prone to laminitis, tender hooves, and behavioural problems associated with rye grass consumption - or even with weed consumption such as flatweed (false dandelion) that causes stringhalt. In this case you would need to scrape the track back to bare dirt and feed hay.

To counteract the problem of manure and not having the ability to pick it all up (most of our pastures are on steep land so impossible to use a 'poo sucker' as I call them), I'm setting up a track in every paddock so the horses can be rotated around them, allowing some to rest.

If you have more ideas about conserving feed, please email me so I can share that information in the next newsletter, where I'll continue this article with information on minerals too.

Click here to visit this informative and very helpful web site for more great ideas.

Like SuperHoof.org, the SuperHoof Yahoo Group is a forum for friendly, open discussion about various theories and methods. We can all learn from each other and put a little *fire* under the community at large to acknowledge the validity of healing without shoes, especially for pathological cases that are so often labeled as "beyond all hope". Click here to join.
When you join the group, please indicate whether you are a trimmer or a horse owner (or both) in the comment field. Check out superhoof.org here.

In the paddock or in the wild, we can see horses playing or challenging each other with a naturally collected outline and a flexed poll. But a horse will hold this posture for moments only before returning to his most natural and comfortable stance - head and neck lowered and most of his weight on the forehand. And when he does collect, he will also instinctively lift his back and use muscles, ligaments, tendons and bones all over his body to properly support this posture.

In training for dressage, one of the most damaging things we can do to a horse - especially a young horse - is demand an “outline”. A beautiful outline is something that will, if the training is correct, develop naturally over a period of years. To insist on it before the horse is ready can and does lead to premature breakdown in body, mind – and spirit.

Horses have evolved to carry most of their weight on the forehand for most of the time, and freedom of the neck and head is a crucial factor in being able to balance this weight. A green horse has natural balance, but all that is changed when we expect him to carry a rider as well. Now he must find a new balance. This alone may take many months, depending on the horse, his conformation, temperament and natural ability.

Training a horse to perform the higher movements with grace and beauty is not possible without conserving the horse’s natural balance. For flying changes, pirouette, half pass, or any other advanced movement, the horse must have superior balance. A short contact used to create a short neck and to force poll flexion will interfere with this balance.

Take the fly change or the half pass, for example. We should never have too much contact. We should use the reins to gently guide the horse in the direction of the

leading rein, then we should change softly, allowing the horse time to organise his legs and adjust all his vertebrae. Superior balance becomes even more crucial for the Airs-above-ground, such as levade, courbette and capriole. Interfere with the mouth, have the contact too short at the wrong time, and you will cause the horse to shorten his neck and thus lose his balance.

Of course, training with too long a neck can cause problems, too. If the horse is not encouraged to seek contact with the rider’s hands, to lift a little, he will never learn to carry himself in a way that will help him develop the muscles he needs.

But how short is too short and how long is too long? How much contact is the right amount to allow the horse to work with his neck in the optimal position? It depends on each individual horse and the level of his training.

In any type of training, the nose must be in front of the vertical AT ALL TIMES. If we force a green horse to work with a short contact he will go behind the vertical in an effort to evade the pain we are creating in his mouth and neck.

A nose behind the vertical causes the poll to become stiff. The neck rolls too much, which makes the top muscles too tense. The muscles underneath “suck up” as the horse tries to support himself in this uncomfortable posture. The seven neck vertebrae become stiff and tense, which causes the rest of the vertebrae (the horse has fifty-four in all, from the poll to the tail) to also become stiff and tense.

With a horse working at a high level we may need more contact, but this is because a horse at a high level has developed the ability and the stamina to hold himself in a collected outline with his poll flexed. It is still a light contact: he does not need to be held there. Shorter contact should always be by-product of physical development, not the means by which physical development is achieved. If it is the means, then it will be the wrong physical development.

Even so, we should not work even a highly trained horse in a collected frame for more than a few minutes at a time. Most of his work should be done on a gentle, fine contact which encourages him to stretch down and out with his neck and head, to seek our hands through the reins. This is called “long and low”.

Long and low is not the same thing at all as the “deep and round” principle, which relies on bringing the horse behind the vertical with a lowered head and a shortened neck.

Working a horse deep and round is often achieved with side reins and running reins, and is thought to lift the horse’s back and stretch the spine by enabling the hind legs to come through properly. In fact, when a horse is worked too deep in the neck, his back must arch down. This will indeed cause him to work his back legs harder to compensate, but there is too much movement in the stifle and the hock, and not enough in the body. The hind end is not working in harmony with the front end because the bridge between them - the back - is not moving. With the legs working so hard, they hit the ground harder. This can cause concussion of the spine and hip.

Deep and round restricts the respiratory system and blood supply, and the horse can’t see where he is going. The horse ends up weak in the spine. You cannot always see the damage immediately; it happens over time.

Dressage is an art form and, like any art form, it needs time and the right conditions in which to grow and flourish. The rider and his horse must work together, in harmony, to develop balance, rhythm, co-ordination and skill. We do not teach the horse passage or piaffe or tempi changes: these things he was born to do. But to do them with the same grace and beauty under saddle means we must work within his natural limitations, building his strength and willingness. If we don’t, we end up with a pale copy of the real thing. Allowing him to work with his neck long and low is where it all truly begins.

Product Review - the Blocker Tie Ring

Often, when a horse realises he’s tied solid he feels trapped, panics and pulls back – potentially breaking tack and hurting himself. When tack breaks, there is a sudden release of pressure and horses have to scramble to keep their balance and can easily flip over backwards and/or seriously hurt themselves.

Unique, the Blocker Tie Ring offers some resistance, but allows a horse to pull some slack in the lead rope when he pulls back which releases pressure and relieves the source of panic. This reduces the perceived threat to the horse dramatically, as well as reduces the threat to people who might try to release a distressed horse.

Often times, a horse just needs to pull a foot or two of slack in the lead to regain his confidence and quiet down.
A great tool for teaching horses to tie, re-schooling horses that have a pull back problem or for any horse, the Blocker Tie Ring offers varying degrees of resistance, from as little as a few pounds to a few hundred pounds, depending on the tying option and lead rope used. Versatile, the Blocker Tie Ring can be used anywhere one would tie a horse: cross ties, single ties, grooming areas, tack areas, wash racks, picket lines and inside and outside horse trailers.

The Blocker Tie Ring is perfect for use in trailers, should a horse fall down while tied in a trailer, the Blocker Tie Ring allows a horse to pull enough slack in the lead rope to get up on its own, reducing the need to manually free a horse and the chances of horse or handler getting hurt.

Blocker Tue Rings are distributed in Australia by Zilco so should be available from all good saddlery stores, and the RRP is $39.95.

For extensive information and videos on tying up with the blocker tie ring Click Here .

Kaya's Pippin (right) is enjoying the company of other Highland pony friends and leading a lamintis free life in the high country of Queensland. Read Pippin's lamintis story here.
Photo by Sue Moore, Rosemarkie Stud, QLD.

Tiny is Paul and Karen's new horse and all the others are amazed by her love of water.

Tiny get her first hoof trim in 4 or 5 years - she had run semi wild with a herd of sheep since she was a year old, having learned to escape people, that is until Paul put in the time and with great skill and patience, convinced her humans were ok.
This photo is testimony to her trust of Paul - built over several weeks.

A power wash for a 'power horse' - Remus handles the pressure!
Photo by Nadeen - Wallbrook Stud.

Blackwood Springs Laredo (by Anawa Mahushka) recently won his stallion class and Champion at the Wynyard show for Lisa.

Recently, t he NSW government announced that there are no longer any known cases of EI in that state. The Qld Premier made a similar announcement the previous week. In practice, it means that the last of the formerly EI-infected properties on the mainland are now free of the disease. It doesn't mean Australia is EI-free just yet, it means that there are no known cases - which is almost the same thing, but not quite. To regain EI-free status, there's still a bit of work to do in NSW and Qld to demonstrate there are no "unknown" cases of EI lurking about.

The task from here is some fairly intense surveillance of the relevant parts of NSW and Qld to prove EI freedom. There are various dates being bandied about on when that will be completed, but ball park is mid March.

The effect of Friday's announcement in NSW (and the earlier announcement in Qld) is that there are changes to the zoning status of what have been the red, purple and amber zones in those two states - and more changes are likely over the coming days and weeks. The changes in zoning status mean, basically, an easing of restrictions on horse movements within and out of those zones. If you have a horse in any of these areas of Qld or NSW or are contemplating taking a horse over there (and bringing it back at some stage), these changes may affect you, so please keep checking with the NSW or Qld DPI horse flu websites for the latest.

If you celebrate things (like the end of the EI outbreak) with champagne, it's not quite yet time to pop the cork - but it is time for you to check that you've got a bottle ready in the fridge!

One of the key lessons coming out of the EI outbreak is the huge value of having good tracing records at horse events - so horse owners can be contacted very quickly if it later turns out there was a horse with EI or any other serious and contagious disease at that event. Many event organisers have said that they will keep using the EFA tracing log at future events and we certainly encourage all event organisers to do so.

APRIL
1&2: Dr Bowker Hoof seminar in Melbourne
5th: Comfort Zone day at 'Harveydale', Westbury.
13th: Adult Education Hoof Care Course with Wild About Hooves.
19-20: Barefoot trim clinic at Broadhanger Equestrian Centre in Kalkallo Vic. Ph. 93088119.
25-27: Comfort Zone Spirit of Horse Clinic with Jenny Pearce at Sheffield. Contact Cynthia for details.
26-27: David Stuart clinic re-scheduled. (see below for more info).
26-28: Equine Touch Level 1 Foundation Clinic with Jock Ruddock at Lilydale.

MAY
1-3: Agfest at Carrick - Tasmania's biggest agricultural expo.
30-2nd June: Brumby Tour from Alice Springs, NT. with Wild About Hooves. See below for more info.

DAVE STUART COURSES Rescheduled
David has rescheduled his clinic to the 26th and 27th of April. It is now being run as a Horsemanship Experience and will encompass a wider range of training activities. Cost is the same ( $150.00 per day – rider, $30 per day as an observer). There are a few spots left as some of our original riders cant make it on this weekend so if you are interested in replacing them, let me know as soon as you can so we can finalise the details.
Contact Jacqui Smythe on 0409 928 393 or email jacquismythe@ozemail.com.au

EQUINE TOUCH Level 1 Foundation Clinic/Seminar
Instructor from USA - Jock Ruddock
Sat 26 April – Mon 28 April at North Lilydale
For registration contact Elizabeth Stanfield 63951590
Cost: $450 for the 3 day clinic (includes morning tea and course manual) Deposit $100 payable on booking. For more info go to www.theequinetouch.com

ADULT EDUCATION COURSES and A BRUMBY TOUR with Wild About Hooves
Jeremy Ford and Jen Clingly will teach three adult education courses in March and April in Launceston.

Two Natural Hoof Care courses will be held on March 16th (NA2635) and April 13th (NA2541) at Brooks High School. You will learn to maintain your own horses hooves using natural hoof care techniques. A theory and practical workshop to enable you to do-it-yourself.

To make your booking contact Adult Education ON 63362666 and quote the course number listed next to the dates above. To learn more about natural hoof care - www.wildabouthooves.com.au

THE WILD HORSE ADVENTURE - MAY 29 TO JUNE 1
Lets go Way Out Back! For those of you keen to observe the brumbies in their natural habitats in outback NT now is the time to book. Cheap flights are available!
Tiger Airlines have $59.95 flights from Melbourne to Alice Springs
Don't miss this opportunity - four day tour jam packed with brumbies, hooves, aboriginal culture, spectacular desert stars, and outback wildlife. enjoy luxury 4wd vehicles with awesome, experienced tour operators and guides of 'Way Out Back tour company ' catering to our every whim and wish.
Only $700 all inclusive (food, sleeping gear, drinks, transport and camping equipment).
Tax deductible for anyone running a hoof care business!
Contact Jen Clingly on 0408 838198 for further info and to book your tour place - spaces limited. (only 6 seats left!) $100 deposit will secure your seat.

COMFORT ZONE DAYS
The Comfort Zone Day is on the first Saturday of each month at 'Harveydale', Westbury from 9.30am to 3.30pm. This group study session is for people interested in deepening the level of communication and relationship with their horse through studying the E-Book 'Bobby's Diaries' by Jenny Pearce. All new participants must come along without their horse first and have the book so they have a basic understanding of the techniques used.

Cynthia guides and instructs the morning session starting with ground play and then riding.

Cost is $30 for the day which inlcudes one session of instruction in the morning and use of the grounds for the afternoon to take part in individual or group exercises.

Intending participants must email Cynthia (address below) to book in as numbers are limited to 10 horses.

FOR SALE: True black purebred arabian filly by Cherox Tchaikovsky. Rising 5, approx 14.3hh. Lovely movement and looks, needs experienced handler. Ph. Marg on 64 272275.

GOOD HOME WANTED: Ned is a beautiful sound bay gelding standardbred 15.2hh 6 year old, that was never raced because he was to slow. He has been ridden four times in his life and has not had much attention for three years. He is friendly yet spirited and green. Free to a loving home contact Paul on 0412 539763.

FOR SALE OR LEASE: Hyksos Good as Gold is a 3 year old, registered Quarab (75% Arabian) gelding, he is chestnut with dun factor and the only registered Brindle horse in Australia. Goodie has had correct care

and handling since birth and has a solid foundation in all groundskills, he has been trained using natural principles and is soft, responsive, respectful and eager to please. Goodie has a wonderful temperament, is trusting, affectionate and a joy to have around.
He is well socialised with all animals, is confident with traffic and used to small children and dogs.
As well having been de-sensitized to all manner of objects Goodie has been long reined and happily accepts the saddle. He is great to trim, de-worm, wash, float, rug, catch etc,etc.
This horse has had the very best education in preparation for riding and is ready now for somebody to begin his ridden career in which ever discipline they desire. He is athletic with smooth paces and straight movement and as such will make a very versatile horse suitable for almost anything. His pedigree combines the very best of endurance Arabians with performance bred Quarter horses and l am sure that he would equally excel in endurance or western events. He also shows a natural desire to work cattle and will often cut calves away from cows in the paddock.
All in all Goodie is a fantastic young horse for whom l had a big future planned, unfortunately with my commitments l cannot give him the time, company and attention that he deserves so have decided to give the oppportunity to somebody else. He is offered for sale to the very best of homes for $3000 however l am also willing to consider a long term lease to the right person.

FOR SALE: We have decided to reduce the numbers of our horses at Kalody Park which results in us offering several horses that were not previously for sale.
Please contact us if you are interested in further details on any of the following horses.
WEANLINGS:
Kalody Park Kailim..an exotic bay colt with so much promise, he is a delight to behold.
YEARLINGS:
Kalody Park Indian Blue..a delightful grey 100%Crabbet colt, his full sister has been purchased by the president of the AHSA. This little guy is very quiet and well handled. May be sold as a gelding.
Kalody Park Patriach..breathtaking chestnut colt, full brother standing at stud in N.S.W. Was going to be retained by Kalody Park as future sire but due to downsizing is VERY relucantly offered for sale.
GELDINGS:
Kalody Park Soultan..a big 2 year old Anglo chestnut gelding with flaxen mane, very striking appearance and a lovely soft gentle nature. Has been floated, rugged feet trimmed etc. Unlimited potential.
Double Helix..Steel grey 5year old Anglo gelding, very eyecatching. He has had a lot of ground work done and a pleasure to train. He was bred for endurance but would turn his hoof to just about anything.
FILLIES:
Kalody Park Elle..is a bay turning grey 3 year old purebred arabian filly. Very typey and is black bred. She also is a delight to handle and has been rugged, floated, feet trimmed etc.
Kalody Park Tesora... an elegant 3 year old 100% Crabbet Arabian filly, Tesora won Champion Crabbet mare/filly at our State Champ Show as a yearling. Certainly an asset to any breeding or show home. Tesora is only offered for sale as we are retaining her dam and sister.
MARES:
Gracelands Amira..is a lovely 17 year old bay purebred Arabian mare in foal to Moondarra Limelight. She is a very pretty girl and very smoochie, a lovely horse to handle and ride
Roxy..Unregistered quarter horse chestnut mare, currently heavily in foal to Boomori Kahlua. Very solid correct mare, one of the lowest maintainance mares I have ever met.
STALLION
Indian Blaze..Blaze is a stunning 19 year old chestnut 100% Crabbet Arabian stallion, he is a very gentle man that runs happily with his girls and foals. He has sired constistant show winning progeny, his 100% Crabbet bay colt is being retained by stud.
We also have for lease several horses that we are not currently using but are not prepared to sell at this present time. Ph Katrina on 62614183.

FOR SALE: BEAUTIFUL ARABIAN YEARLING PONY (pictured)
Spirit is a beautiful horse with a beautiful nature. He is great to catch, rug, trim, float and worm. He does anything you ask of him and always tries his hardest. He has lovely movement and will excel in the future as a riding horse with the right person. Best of homes only. Make an offer.
For more photos or information please call 0439311019

DROUGHT CLEARANCE : Quarterhorse XTB, 15 months gelding, bay, well handled, ties up, some floating experience. Steady, even temperament. Suit allrounder or make great small horse for child, teen or small adult. Mature approx 15 hh. $400. Low price due to lack of feed. Phone Judy on 6239 6362 before 8.15 am or after 7.30 pm.

1/4 clydsdale XTB. 15 month old gelding, bay, white socks. Wonderful temperament, foal imprinted. Mature approx 17 hh. Well handled, some floating experience. Out of talented dressage mare. Suit dressage, pleasure. Phone Judy on 6239 6362 before 8.15 am or after 7.30 pm. Price $2,000. Consider offers to excellent kind home.

To good experienced home only: Bay TB riding gelding approx. 16 hh, 8 years. Suit pleasure/trail. Good looking, pleasant temperament. Natural horsemanship foundation. $200 to excellent home. Quick sale due to lack of feed. Phone Judy on 6239 6362 before 8.15 am or after 7.30 pm.

FOR SALE: Smart Edition (Pugsley) is a 14yo thoroughbred (never raced) –striking dark bay with 4 white stockings and blaze, 16.3hh, gelding. Pugs has shown great potential to do great things and is a lovely calm quiet horse. Has campaigned for many wins and high placings. Would love to keep him but he and I do not get along. First ride with me did a 300 sheep muster. Didn’t even blink an eye lid. Easy going at new places and loves attention.
Pugs has shown me that he is keen to learn. He has beautiful gaits, forward and large, and has a great temperament. He has done showing and dressage. Was in training with Kerry Swan Bates with one of his previous owners.
Temperament does not change from just hay to hay and hard feed, stands still to mount and dismount. Good with dogs, sheep, cattle, cats and other horses. Can be trucked and floated, Ridden in snaffle. Will be someones best friend and safe first time hack or lovely pleasure horse for any age. Do not be put off by height. Is registered. $2000 (neg to the right home) – 0437609749 or 62635750.
ALSO: - Splendours Tuscany (Tuskany) is a bay, 15.3hh, 11yo Registered Anglo gelding. Tuskany is a pleasure to own and lovely to ride. He has snaffle mouth or can be ridden in Pelham. Tuskany has done showing (for wins and placings), jumping, trail riding and lessons.
Tuskany loves people and their attention and will happily eat anything you give him. He is an extremely good doer and currently very fat. Has been in light work and is going to the SAT show on the 15th march.
Has had many other people ride him and they found him to be a lovely horse.
Needs an intermediate rider to take him far and use him to his full potential – Will happily load on float himself, loves going places. Currently being ridden bareback or in saddle. Is good with sheep, dogs, cats and other horses. $1300 price reduced - call 0437609749 or 62635750 for Jessica.

GOOD HOME WANTED FOR: Elphyn Rasika 3yo Arab gelding (pictured left). Paddock mate only. For more information phone 62650600.

FOR SALE: Linseed (Flaxseed) - clean and almost food grade in 25kg bags for just $15 a bag. Clean oats and grass seed also available. Ph. 63 973593. Delivery to Deloraine available.

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