Our Horses

Pulse is the whole package. Everyone wants a Pulse. A beautiful nature, athletic, cowy, nice type and extremely versatile. She broke in very easily (was ridden by a 10yr old as a breaker) and is a pleasure to do anything with.  She is already proving to be an ideal performance prospect and also a handy beginner horse. She has been our ‘old faithful’ since she was 2yrs old! She is so like her mother Ganna Slip who I had as a child. Slip excelled at showjumping whereas I think Pulse might prefer cattle work, but she will have a go at anything.

A few of her highlights so far are wining the hack section of the Junior Hack Challenge at her first ASH Futurity as a 2yr old.  At 3yrs old she competed in her first draft getting a full course and a 81. Since then the kids have competed her in their leadline events at gymkanas and she has placed in a draft and challenges.

Stella is the last foal, and the only filly we have retained, out of my fathers amazing mare Ganna Slide.  Stella was purpose bred for polocrosse, combining Star Kingdom and Star Black Minstril, but is proving to be very versatile and is competing successfully in a variety of disciplines - polocrosse, showing, drafting and challenges.

Ganna Slide (older full sister to Ganna Slip) was a truly remarkable all round mare. She excelled at polocrosse, competing at club and state level, and won numerous individual awards. Slide was also very cowy, a great work horse who would have made a great campdrafter. She had a cool trainable mind, and was ridden by anyone from children to adults. Slide was a true family horse.

Stella is shaping up to be all that we hoped, perhaps a fraction smaller than expected (given she is pure TB/ASH) but she is a pocket rocket! She enjoys her cattlework and took to polox like a duck to water, showing big heart and try - just like her mother did. She also is a pleasure to do flat work on.

At 3 years old she competed in her first draft with minimal cattle experience. A spot came up in our local draft and Stella was the only other horse I had that was broken in! She ran an 81 straight up, into the Encouragement final! She was also competed at Chinchilla Encouragement Draft and ran an 82 in the Maiden. She has proven to be consistent in her draft scores ever since and also does some lovely flat work, placing in Ag shows and competing in dressage etc.

In 2019 Stella had her first polocrosse carnival and showed a lot of promise, being quite hard hitting and great at holding her line, particularly for her size. She had never been on a field or even attended a play/practice day and went straight to playing a full carnival at as no.3 - like her mother. The following weekend she was competing in her first challenge and won. Stella has also carried Jack to win lead line age champion at her first gymkana that year.

Solitaire was the third filly out of our beloved Sparkles. She is a big mare at about 15.3hh and has a lovely nature. Solitaire has been used around the place for work and pleasure. She is showing promise for a variety of disciplines, drafting, challenge, polox and even dressage.

In 2019 she attended a few Challenge/Draft clinics and received great feedback from various people. She competed successfully at a local Ag Show and had her first draft run at the Condamine Encouragement. She also competed in her first Challenge event where she tied for first in the dry work and trail class (with her stable mate Stella) and ended up coming 2nd overall. Solitaire also competed in her first campdraft and ran well (just running out of time).

2021 - competed in the ARBC and scored well in dry and wet work. Also competed in her 2nd ACA draft and again just ran out of time.

2022 - placed 4th in the Maiden for Maiden at Pittsworth, running 2 scores of 80. Very pleased for her third ever draft.

Jewel was our 4th foal (and 4th filly) we got out of Sparkles before we had to sell her. She has the same good honest nature as her older sisters and mum. This mare is naturally athletic and willing.

Wish is bred for polox, draft & challenge. Her mother was handy polocrosse mare and showed great promise at dressage (she had exceptional movement).

Wish has been to a local Ag Show and picked up ribbons as a yearling & 2yr old. We hope to get her out and about soon once all the COVID 19 stuff is over.