spring update

It feels as though winter hung in there with a vengeance, but spring is finally here.

The horses have nearly finished shedding out. Gone are the hairy yaks, replaced by shiny ponies. They seem to be making the best of it by taking turns eating, sleeping and running around having fun. It's good to see after so many months of dreary, cold weather.

We waved goodbye to Molly (a.k.a. Narrawin's Unchained Melody). She went to Tassie to be Phoebe Harper's new little horse. Phoebe had been campaigning another Smokey daughter in endurance, and recently completed the Quilty in Tasmania. Sadly, her beautiful mare died recently. So it came that another Smokey daughter went to Tasmania. We hear that Phoebe and Molly are getting along like a house on fire. Stay tuned for great news from this awesome team!

We brought another three geldings home from OliVaylle:

• AuSome Mentiroso: Wildmoor Pilgrim Son (American Saddlebred) x RN's Carinita (Imp.USA) (Paso Fino)
• AuSome Alegria: Wildmoor Pilgrim Son (American Saddlebred) x Guantanamera de la Raza (Imp.USA) (Paso Fino)
• AuSome Castellano: Don Cristobal Mako (Imp.USA) (Paso Fino) x Kobada's Piccaninny (American Saddlebred)

All three are big boys and show excellent gait potential. Our plan is to start them under saddle, develop their gait potential and then offer them as going pleasure riding horses.Having ridden their parents and being well familiar with their bloodlines on both the SB and Paso Fino side, I am positive that they have the potential to be outstanding riding horses.

We are currently starting Castellano and Bailador (AuSome Bolero (Paso Fino) x Lucero (Peruvian Paso)) under saddle.

We have Samba, Bluey and Zara in work. I have just started riding Zara in the bit (Maestro), here are a couple of photos from her first ride in the bit the other day. She is in four reins at the moment:

Photos by Yvonne Lehey.

Saddlebreds

On going through my photos, I found a few nice pictures from back in August. Yes, furry Saddlebreds!

Of course they look nice and sleek now in their new summer coats. But these are too nice not to share:

Speedy a.k.a. Narrawin's Speed of Light. The mare behind him is Laura a.k.a. Narrawin's Midnigh Escapade. Both horses are for sale, more info here.

Molly a.k.a. Narrawin's Unchained Melody. Molly is also for sale, more info here.

Odine a.k.a. Narrawin's Against the Odds has been sold. Congratulations to Andrea Liebenberg from Mandreica Stud.

January update

A happy and propsperous new year to everyone!

The sales listing has been updated, as well as the gear for sale listing. In additions, several other pages were brought up to date (stallions, mares, links, foals).

We've had positive preg tests for Flamenca and Samba. We've also bred Molly to Rolly, and from this mating we've ordered a stunning filly :-).

Congratulations to John Simonetti on the purchase of Eladia NS and Intrepido NS. They've safely arrived at their new home in NSW. We had a lot of fun riding Eladia before she left Narrawin.

We had several visitors to the stud this month to see our stallions and horses for sale.

If you are interested in Pasos, please check out PasoCentral. I've finally done some updates and there will be more news regarding the Paso Registry shortly.

Last but not least I'd like to let everyone know that I will be commencing full times studies at Ballarat Uni from March 1. Therefore I won't be taking many horses in for training. Instead, I will use my spare time to start some more of Narrawin's youngsters and further educate the ones which are already going under saddle.