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29/07/2026

A little update from us!

We’re hitting pause on breaking and training for the next little while. Our other company has been keeping us incredibly busy, Ash is looking forward to learning a new discipline, the littlest trainee isn’t quite tall enough yet, and we are fortunate enough to be moving to a bigger property later in the year!

While we’ll miss meeting new horses, but this gives us the opportunity to create a new setup that will make breaking, clinics and lessons even better in the future. Because of this, we will be taking a break from client horses for the next 12 months.

We have already contacted clients who had horses booked in over the next 12 months, but if you were thinking about it please get in touch anyway and we will refer you on to some local, trusted trainers.

We’d like to say a huge thank you to everyone who has supported us over the years and especially since Ash went full time breaking in 2020. We appreciate all the support, and look forward to sharing updates of all the new and exciting things coming up, and we’ll let you all know when we’re ready to start taking on breakers again 🐴

📸 Caitie Richardson Photography

31/05/2026

We have a client looking for agistment for a super friendly TB gelding in Maffra and surrounding areas.
If you know of some thing please let us know

27/04/2026

A trick a lot of horsemen use to help a horse understand that the snaffle goes over the tongue, not under. No, shortening the snaffle to create wrinkles does not help all horses… the twine lifts the center of the snaffle and blocks the tongue from slipping over. This happens maybe two colts a year that I resort to doing this. And it doesn’t take many rides to fix it.

22/04/2026

It’s obstacle week! My favourite week for horses, especially the breakers. Obstacles are fantastic not only for giving them a bit of a brain break, but they also:

🐴 Help with working out where their feet are and where to place them safely
🐴 Get horses used to walking onto different textures
🐴 Prepares them for float loading

While the obstacles are up, we often use it as a training tool for all our other ridden horses for something different.

14/04/2026