July - August 2020

Australian Performance Horse Magazine

Unique in the horse industry, covering a wide selection of equine disciplines.

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From the Editors
Welcome to the 2020 July-August Edition of the Australian Performance Horse Magazine. We hope all our readers are well in what have been extremely trying times, with everything that has been cancelled. We are looking forward to the restrictions easin
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Tunnel Vision
Everyone has heard the saying, but who actually does it? Many years ago I was doing a horsemanship clinic in Canberra and a young, aspiring eventer was made to attend as part of a lease agreement for the horse she was riding. When she turned up to th
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‘WAGING A WAR WITHIN’ Fighting for the Australian Brumby & Our Heritage
Horses were not brought into Australia because of someone’s dream or romantic notion. They were brought here by humans, as a resource of those times, to be utilised as a vital part of the workforce. In those early days they were used in every aspect
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IN SUMMARY - Australian Brumby Alliance
We Reject total extermination of heritage brumby populations; We Support objective science to assess both positive and negative horse only impacts. We Reject lethal control, We Promote the retention of agreed population levels managed by fertility co
Australian Performance Horse Magazine5 min readEnvironmental Science
THE POSITIVE ASPECTS OF WILD HORSE HABITS & HABITATS
Wild horses can complement an ecosystem, or life community, in many direct and obvious as well as more subtle ways. This they do when permitted their natural freedom to move and interrelate over a sufficiently extensive intact habitat and time period
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Solutions To Consider:
1. In order to realize healthy, balanced wild-horse-containing ecosystems, as full a complement of plant and animal species should be allowed. Wherever possible, this should include large carnivores/omnivores native to the region in question, such as
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The Power Of The Horse
It’s raining softly, although, the drops are heavy, and, just like that, my imagination runs wild as thoughts of them fill my head. I’m gone, yet again. The solitude of raindrops hitting a metal roof … but no … it’s a herd of horses trotting home, th
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John Brekelmans & the Dynasty of Duck horses 12th July 1954 – 7th July 2019
In 1971, at the age of 16 years old, John left home to pursue his childhood dream of working with horses. With no stock work experience he secured a job as a Jackaroo at ‘Bundure’ Station near Jerilderie, New South Wales, on a wage of $900 a year. As
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ESTL John Brekelman Dispersal and Kylie Graham Mungalla Stud Reduction
Great success out of Toowoomba on the weekend with the first Nutrien Equine online sale with 100% Clearance of the ESTL John Brekelman Dispersal and Kylie Graham Mungalla Stud Reduction Sale. The incredible catalogue was an emotional end of an era wi
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The Truth on Ice
You’ve just seen the most amazing Stallion. He’s a head turner and his progeny are setting the world on fire. You have a mental picture of he and your mare blowing kisses across the fence to each other and you’ve picked just the spot to place your Fu
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Do You Need A Website? Not Sure How To Go About Getting One?
Whether you are looking to sell online or just have a presence on the web, a website for your business is now much cheaper than it used to be. You might be pleasantly surprised that you can now get your business online with a professionally-built web
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ALL BREEDS Stallion Feature
Balink Heza Macho Glen Lee Metallic Acres of Who Conmoon Destinys Fancy Panther His Stargun is Hot A Little Turpulence International Horse Breeders One Moore Daddy RS Chisum One Roan Peptos Just Jack SDP Buffalo Ranch Contractor Hilite Dads Acres Ele
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Feeding For Double Duty
The question is often asked of Performance Stallions, do I feed them as a performance horse or as a Breeding Stallion? The Breeding Stallion generally has an increased nutrient requirement of around 25% more than the sedentary stallion during a non-b
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Equine Photographers Showcase Capturing our Greatest Moments
I’m actually a dog groomer by trade, I have my own salon on the south coast but photography has started to take up more of my time recently. I’ve always been drawn towards art and photography was a very natural progression for me. I first started whe
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ARCHA Pot Of Gold Reined Cow Horse Show
If you weren’t at Scone for this show you missed some exciting good rides. Winning a major class at this ARCHA show is no small feat. Numbers of entries was healthy and surprising considering we all have suffered a crippling drought in the last two p
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Reined Cow Horse With Aaron Scobie, Lee Deacon And Rob Leach
What is your background in the Reined Cow Horse Industry? I was first exposed to the reined cowhorse event around 1996 in New Zealand. At that time, I was showing in Quarter Horse shows as youth and would enter everything from the english and halter
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Australian Extreme Cowgirls
Australian Extreme Cowgirls are an affiliated EXCA club with our focus being on developing our foundation horsemanship skills and training for and racing in the western sport of Extreme Cowboy Racing. We welcome any level of horse and rider and striv
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Finley Rodeo with Sally H Photography
As with previous years the heat was predicted to be super-hot, with this in mind the committee kicked off the slack a lot earlier. This was the second year that the Apex Club has ran the Rodeo after Rod Harris and his brothers Rick and Scoof handed o
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50 Years in Rodeo Charles Ambrose Smith
A larger than life character that is described by his mates as a ‘True Champion inside and outside the arena.’ He loved to pull a prank, didn’t mind having a blue, but most of all loved to Rodeo. Born in Cunnamulla, one of five children, the only son
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Apra
Victorian couple Terry Evison and Leslie Moore led the Australian Professional Rodeo Association all around standings in March when the rodeo season was suspended due to the coronavirus. Evison first competed in the team roping at the APRA national f
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ABHA News and Events
In just two months, we have seen our world as we know it come to a standstill. There has not been on affiliated event, and boy are we looking to the future and daydreaming of what is to come. In this time, we the Board of Directors have had to sadly
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Reflecting On Our Classic Champions
With no events happening right now, it’s a great time to reflect and look back on the future champions of our sport and the ones who took home Classic titles in 2019. We have also crunched the numbers and looked at the statistics of the winning horse
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Let’s Talk TLC With Brianna Learmonth
“For me taking care of my horses is one of the most important aspects of our sport of barrel racing. No one can perform at their best if there is any pain or discomfort that comes from competition. I like to take my horses to a vet at least once a ye
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Top End Drum Runners Are The First ABHA Affiliate To Be Approved To Run Post-COVID-19
Top End Drum Runners is one of our affiliates based in Darwin, Northern Territory, and are a new affiliation to ABHA after the committee believed it was time for the club to take a leap forward to benefit its members. Unfortunately, just as this affi
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Behind the Reins with the 2019 ABHA National Finals Maturity Champion Leslie Moore & One Heckova Deck
Tell us about the horse you won the 2019 ABHA National Finals Maturity title on? His registered name is “One Heckova Deck” and paddock name is Grub. He certainly doesn’t live up to his name, he’s a very kind horse with not many quirks at all and is v
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Regain Control Of Your Calmness At Competition
Equine Mind Coach Have you ever noticed what kind of thoughts you think about? If you pay attention to all 80,000 thoughts, you would be amazed to discover that most of them are unimportant and negative thoughts. This stream of thoughts starts the mo
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Cisco And Smiley Jo's Kids Club
Howdy to all the NEW Cisco and Smiley Jo's Kids Club Members Mackenzie Woodward Are you an Australian Performance Horse Kid? Cisco and Smiley Jo would like to hear your horse stories, do you have one you would like to share? Would you like to join th
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Catching Up With Kaitlin Colless At Sevenoaks Farm
Tell us about your background? I grew up in a horsey family, my parents were involved in the Thoroughbred industry and my mum was a top level eventer. Some of my earliest memories are lunging horses in nappies, so it’s probably fair to say I was alwa
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Regional Equestrian Coaching with Lyndal Yelavich
I quite often refer to myself as the little girl that just never grew out of horses. I vividly remember my first ever ride on a horse. A little pie-bald mare in a cold, windy paddock somewhere in country Queanbeyan. I don’t recall a lot of my childho
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Book Release
At 12 years old, Sue-Ellen Lovett learned that she had inherited retinitis pigmentosa from her mother, more commonly known as tunnel vision. The specialist gave her a full prognosis, when he told her that she would lose her vision completely – and al
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Tennyson Stud
Tennyson Stud is a boutique stud in the Sydney hinterlands producing world quality elite performance horses. Principal owner, rider, trainer and breeder Claire Wickins has decades in this business. Her main purpose was to create modern sport-horses t
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POISON WEEDS & PLANTS SOME THAT CAN EVEN KILL! PART 2
In Australian horse pastures, we may find any number of poisonous plants, trees or weeds, with the potential to cause serious harm or even kill our horses. Normally horses will avoid eating poisonous plants or weeds, especially if the pasture is good

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