Australian Performance Horse Magazine

Adam Wrobel FOCUSED ON THE FUTURE!

Adam Wrobel grew up in suburbia, on the Central Coast of NSW, and to this day has no idea why, at around the age of 4, he became completely obsessed with horses.

‘None of my family rode, and we had no contact with horses, whatsoever. But I had a picture in my head of the horse I wanted, and I can still visualise that horse today.’

Adam was five when his parents decided it was getting way too crowded on the Central Coast, so in 1992 they moved their family out onto an 80 acre farm at Missabotti, situated just out of Bowraville, in the Nambucca Valley.

‘Four years after that move, with my horse obsession as strong as ever,’ Adam remembers. ‘We finally got a pony! I was that excited and I remember that first ride so well. I had to wear a helmet, but the only helmet I had was a bright yellow fluoro pushbike helmet.

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