HALLMARK FARM The Prime Movers
As a little girl Lee Ann was told by her parents that the first sentence she ever strung together was ‘I want a pony’. By the age of 6, she was doing riding lessons at ‘Naroo Park’ with Noel and Bev Parker. At 11yo, she had her first pony, Rebel, a bay tobiano pinto—‘we called them skewbalds back then’. Prior to that, during school holidays, Lee Ann would bring a pony home from another local riding school, ‘The Little Ponderosa’. Jeffrey, on the other hand, had a Shetland pony until he was around 10, but didn’t begin riding again until the early 80’
After meeting, Lee Ann and Jeffrey became inseparable, which led them to begin their Hallmark Farms journey. They moved to Dubbo in 1997, to set up the stud on a 2500 acre cattle and pig farm. It was quite run down, the home had to be renovated from scratch, there were no stables or yards, but there was a lot of rubbish.
‘It was a tough job,’ the couple remembers. ‘We were raising 3 young girls and running a trucking business, but we got it done. We ran our stud from there and in
