When former police officer Karyn Gitsham moved to South Australia to be closer to her ageing parents, she had little idea that she would one day run a horse stud and restore a mid-19th-century homestead at Wattle Flat on the Fleurieu Peninsula.
She’d always loved horses and been a keen rider, but never actually owned her own horse until she took her parents to the Goolwa Picnic Races and spotted a bay thoroughbred mare tied to a horse float.
“I struck up a conversation with the person who turned out to be her owner,” Karyn recalls. “He
