KS Equestrian

28/09/2026

If you haven’t done your spring wormimg yet, you’re running late like me!!! Just ticked another job off the list ✅

28/09/2026

Spring is for babies 🐴 💞
Early foal handling makes a world of difference

14/09/2026

This weekend is the highlight of our KS Equestrian year, our equine immersion clinic this year was bigger than ever! I absolutely love working with my buddy Simon Fielder Horsemanship every year, we just compliment each other perfectly when teaching and training. This time around, I decided to design my dream clinic with so many of my favourite people presenting and attending! Friday kicked off with Matt Charles from Sliding Lodge joining us to present mindset sessions with the three groups seperately. This was a huge success and participants are all demanding another clinic with Matt’s wisdom! We also kicked off the first session of our young horse starting demo with Simon happily getting onboard in his barback pad and halter and showing us all how it’s done. After a jam packed day of riding , Friday evening kicked off with a how to make a rope halter class taught by one of my very own mentors, Darryl Leigh. Lots of laughs were shared and some interesting interpretations of instructions witnessed!
Saturday was Darryl’s first day of joining us as the third coach with the crowd favourite activity- polo cross training. I’ve never heard so much laughter and excitement coming out of the arena! Lunchtime display saw us all seeing Sonny’s first ever trot under saddle, a happy and confident young horse soaking up the information like a sponge 🌟 for the afternoon there was grid work, dressage exercises and more obstacle challenges to explore. We finished the day with our Texas bbq theme night with some awesome outfits on display!!
Somehow on Sunday morning everyone was still full of energy and ready to begin the day with seeing me climb aboard Sonny and enjoy a first trot together in the saddle and bridle, a change he adjusted to seamlessly. Darryl had every one cracking whips and roping the cow 🐮 and the obstacle challenges turned into a course to put together.
These clinics involve months of planning and an army of helpers to make it all possible. I am so grateful to have so much behind the scenes support and never get sick of seeing the improvement in our group of horses and riders as well as the pure joy on faces from Thursday afternoon all the way through to Sunday afternoon. Yaralla is the perfect venue for so many reasons. But mainly because our hosts James and Carolyn are so welcoming and accomodating, it really is impossible to describe what this clinic means to all of us. Until next year, that’s a wrap 🐎🐎🐎

02/09/2026

I’ve been very quiet on social media lately, but the same is definitely not true for real life!! This year everyone has been so very supportive of my little business and it’s keeping me super busy, which as we all know- I love!!!
Next week is shaping up to be impressive with our biggest clinic of the year kicking off on Friday. I’m surrounded by some pretty impressive blokes this time but I’ll be aiming to give them a run for their money! As always limited spectator spots are available, contact me directly if you’d like a spot as they go super fast. Looking forward to another great event 🐎🤠
Sliding Lodge
Simon Fielder Horsemanship

29/07/2026

27/07/2026

27/07/2026

Today is an important day for ECVM awareness. Thanks to the Equine Functional Posture podcast, Bronsons story has been recorded and will make such a difference to other horses and their owners. I’m so appreciative for the opportunity to share what I have learnt from this once in a lifetime horse 💙

💜This week's podcast is one of the most important conversations we've had.

We spoke with Kate, the owner of a horse diagnosed with Equine Complex Vertebral Malformation (ECVM). When the time came that Bronson's body could no longer cope, Kate made the incredibly selfless decision to donate him for anatomical research so we could better understand what had been happening inside his body.

I had the privilege of attending and participating in Bronson's dissection, and it was an experience that will stay with me forever.

One aspect that had a profound impact on me was seeing how his Grade 4 vertebral malformation had altered the course of his vertebral artery.

Last year, I experienced a vertebral artery dissection myself, where damage to the artery wall created a flap that narrowed the vessel and reduced blood flow. From personal experience, I know how profoundly altered blood flow through this artery can affect the body—causing headaches, neck pain, brain fog and overwhelming fatigue.

The vertebral artery supplies blood to the spinal cord, brain and many of the muscles of the neck. It is a critically important structure.

In Bronson's case, the right vertebral artery followed an abnormal pathway, passing through the seventh cervical vertebra instead of the sixth. His longus colli, one of the key postural muscles supporting the base of the neck, also had an altered attachment.

We can only hypothesise about how these anatomical changes affected Bronson throughout his life, but they certainly make us ask important questions.

I encourage everyone to listen to Kate's story.

It may save a horse's life.

It may give you an "aha" moment about your own horse.

It may help explain why a horse labelled as difficult, problematic, unpredictable or accident-prone is behaving the way they are.

Most importantly, it reminds us to listen before we judge - to investigate before we simply add more training, more equipment or more behavioural modification.

I remember a time when behaviour-modifying drugs were commonly offered for racehorses after their careers ended. I was even offered them for one of my own horses.

I sincerely hope those days are behind us.

Because time and time again, we are learning that the most common cause of truly unpredictable and dangerous behaviour is not a horse trying to be difficult.

It is a horse trying to cope with pain.

Sometimes the greatest act of horsemanship isn't teaching a horse to listen.

It's listening to the horse.🦄💥💜

Spotify - https://open.spotify.com/show/3SodZ8cLj1uX7zjjOuRYVP?si=726c4589f2184035

Apple Podcasts - https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/episode-96-ecvm-guest-horse-owner-kate-schrieber/id1771538037?i=1000778521513