25 December 2013
season's greetings
Wishing you a great Christmas, a prosperous new year, and a fantastic holiday season!
07 December 2013
a welcome arrival
Gitana surprised us with an early filly today. She did a magnificent job as a maiden mare. The other mares stayed away, with one on "aunty duties", keeping the more curious ones away.
The filly is a good size and looks like she may be a dark buckskin. But she may also be brown. A bit hard to tell on the first day, and time will tell. But dad (Chango) is buckskin, so the yellow nose and slightly yellow cannons might indicate that she is heterozygous for the cream dilution.
Not that we care, what matters is that she is healthy, active and apparently well gaited. I think we'll call her Graciela.
The filly is a good size and looks like she may be a dark buckskin. But she may also be brown. A bit hard to tell on the first day, and time will tell. But dad (Chango) is buckskin, so the yellow nose and slightly yellow cannons might indicate that she is heterozygous for the cream dilution.
Not that we care, what matters is that she is healthy, active and apparently well gaited. I think we'll call her Graciela.
04 December 2013
new website is live!
The new Narrawin Stud Website is up and running. There are still a few areas that are incomplete, but the remainder will be added shortly.
For now, there is a link to the old site as well, which will stay until the new site is completeley finished.
The site content has been updated, and the layout and feel has been updated to an elegant and modern design. As a bonus, the new site is mobile and tablet friendly. It will automatically resize to accomodate any screen size, thanks to Bootstrap and HTML5.
Feedback is welcome :-)
Enjoy!
For now, there is a link to the old site as well, which will stay until the new site is completeley finished.
The site content has been updated, and the layout and feel has been updated to an elegant and modern design. As a bonus, the new site is mobile and tablet friendly. It will automatically resize to accomodate any screen size, thanks to Bootstrap and HTML5.
Feedback is welcome :-)
Enjoy!
25 November 2013
spring update
Spring has been a little slow in arriving, but we are finally enjoying an abundance of grass and warmer weather.
With only one mare due to foal, all eyes are on Gitana's big belly. We have started breeding mares as well. Rev (Reverende de United, Paso Fino) has had plenty of time to settle in since he arrived from NZ in May, and he is ready to rock and roll. Two mares bred, another three to go.
We have several Icelandic horses in for training, including my very favourite Nattfari.
Last weekend, we enjoyed a mini clinic and some private sessions with Trisha Wren from NZ. We built on to the concepts she introduced at the clinic at Narrawin Stud in May. Although not very familiar with gaited horses, she is very open-minded. So we could discuss concepts and applications which will help me with educating and training gaited horses.
Trisha is a fantastic teacher and a great ambassador for Connected Riding, and I can't recommend her highly enough.
With only one mare due to foal, all eyes are on Gitana's big belly. We have started breeding mares as well. Rev (Reverende de United, Paso Fino) has had plenty of time to settle in since he arrived from NZ in May, and he is ready to rock and roll. Two mares bred, another three to go.
We have several Icelandic horses in for training, including my very favourite Nattfari.
Last weekend, we enjoyed a mini clinic and some private sessions with Trisha Wren from NZ. We built on to the concepts she introduced at the clinic at Narrawin Stud in May. Although not very familiar with gaited horses, she is very open-minded. So we could discuss concepts and applications which will help me with educating and training gaited horses.
Trisha is a fantastic teacher and a great ambassador for Connected Riding, and I can't recommend her highly enough.
14 July 2013
06 July 2013
Reverende de United
Introducing our latest arrival...
Paso Fino stallion Reverende de United (Imp.USA). Rev recently arrived from NZ. We thanks Soho Paso Finos in NZ for the opportunity to purchase Rev. Also our thanks to Sea Horse Sea Freight for safely getting him to us. It was a tight schedule, but Alison from SHSF did a magnificent job in organising the land transport in NZ and all the paperwork in good time.
Rev is a magnificent horse to ride and I have already spent some time enjoying him out on the trails (despite the horrible weather since his arrival).
He is from mostly Columbian lines, but matches our predominantly Puerto Rican mares quite well, due to good size, solid bone and excellent gait. We have a line up of pure and partbred mares for him for next spring. He also stands at stud to approved outside mares of all breeds.
Paso Fino stallion Reverende de United (Imp.USA). Rev recently arrived from NZ. We thanks Soho Paso Finos in NZ for the opportunity to purchase Rev. Also our thanks to Sea Horse Sea Freight for safely getting him to us. It was a tight schedule, but Alison from SHSF did a magnificent job in organising the land transport in NZ and all the paperwork in good time.
Rev is a magnificent horse to ride and I have already spent some time enjoying him out on the trails (despite the horrible weather since his arrival).
He is from mostly Columbian lines, but matches our predominantly Puerto Rican mares quite well, due to good size, solid bone and excellent gait. We have a line up of pure and partbred mares for him for next spring. He also stands at stud to approved outside mares of all breeds.
04 July 2013
mid winter update
The weather is cold. We've had some cracking frosts. So much so, that the frost didn't just sit on the grass, but was high up in the trees! Looked beautiful when the sun came up.
We've also had some wet and windy weather, so with work and uni that didn't leave too many days for riding and working horses.
In May, just before the weather turned bad, we had a clinic here at Narrawin with Trisha Wren from NZ. The Connected Riding clinic went for three days (Yvonne's clinic report here and pictures from the clinic here). On the following day I managed to squeeze in a private lesson with Trisha before I had to dash off to work. The clinic was excellent. Trisha not only knows her stuff, but she is an excellent teacher and a lovely person. Add to that a great group of participants, and yeah, we had a great weekend.
On other news, congratulations to Jenny Jones from Sydney on purchasing Bluey. We first met Jenny and her husband Gareth about a year ago. They got hooked on Pasos, and Jenny fell in love with Bluey. Since then, they have acquired another Narrawin bred horse, Dacio NS.
Here is a short video clip from one of the clinic sessions. Riders are Paula from Singapore on Samba (Paso Fino), Jenny on Bluey (Paso Creole) and yours truly on Carlotta (Paso Creole).
We've also had some wet and windy weather, so with work and uni that didn't leave too many days for riding and working horses.
In May, just before the weather turned bad, we had a clinic here at Narrawin with Trisha Wren from NZ. The Connected Riding clinic went for three days (Yvonne's clinic report here and pictures from the clinic here). On the following day I managed to squeeze in a private lesson with Trisha before I had to dash off to work. The clinic was excellent. Trisha not only knows her stuff, but she is an excellent teacher and a lovely person. Add to that a great group of participants, and yeah, we had a great weekend.
On other news, congratulations to Jenny Jones from Sydney on purchasing Bluey. We first met Jenny and her husband Gareth about a year ago. They got hooked on Pasos, and Jenny fell in love with Bluey. Since then, they have acquired another Narrawin bred horse, Dacio NS.
Here is a short video clip from one of the clinic sessions. Riders are Paula from Singapore on Samba (Paso Fino), Jenny on Bluey (Paso Creole) and yours truly on Carlotta (Paso Creole).
01 July 2013
autumn update
After the summer went out with a big bang, we enjoyed some relatively quiet times and pleasant weather. Time was spent mending fences, spreading super and doing other farm jobs.
We continued working some of the greener horses and actually got some nice rides in on some of the older ones.
Nele from Litli Stadur Icelandics brought her young stallion Skelmir for starting, so we spent a fair bit of time with him. Here are some picture of him (accompanied by PP mare Flamenca) as he started going out on the trails. Photos by Greg Lehey.
We continued working some of the greener horses and actually got some nice rides in on some of the older ones.
Nele from Litli Stadur Icelandics brought her young stallion Skelmir for starting, so we spent a fair bit of time with him. Here are some picture of him (accompanied by PP mare Flamenca) as he started going out on the trails. Photos by Greg Lehey.
07 March 2013
summer update
During summer, I had time off from uni, and used it to work some of the young horses.We finished the basic work with Castellano and Bailador. Both did really well and are now listed with other horses on our sales page.
Bailador during one of the last sessions in the riding arena. After that, we took him out on the trails. He is one nicely gaited and intelligent little gelding!
Right at the end of summer, we had a very bad, very large bushfire at Dereel. Lucky for us, but unlucky for other residents, it burned on the other side of the main road. It was the last really hot day of the summer. Terrible conditions with low moisture, high temperatures and strong wind and a sudden change due late in the afternoon. It was a scary day. The fire started just over two kms from us, but the wind blew it away. Several houses and sheds were lost on the far side of Dereel.
It drove home the need the need to be prepared. I certainly put my bushfire plan into action by moving horses and preparing the house.
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