You will be required to assist with the handling and riding out of the youngsters, exercising the show/hunting horses and general yard duties including feeding out in winter.   We show at A&P level both Flat and Jump classes and are enthusiastic hunting home so there is the opportunity to travel extensively.  This position would ideally suit an experienced rider with the ability to back youngsters and take them through to established flat work. We work very much as a team here, there is a wealth of knowledge available for someone willing to learn. We stand 3 stallions, mares and have varying ages of youngsters growing on.  Our facilities include, sand arena, round pen, stalls, 5 horse luxury truck and 1200 acres to ride over.

If you are interested in knowing more about this position, please call Kate directly on 03 523 9341.

Kirsten Kelly riding the lovely Tiraumea Donegal was 2nd in the Amateur Rider of the Year.  He also placed 2nd in the 1.10 class and 6th in the 1.20.  Congratulations both Kirsten and owner Deidre Smith for your continued success.

TIRAUMEA COACHMAN – 6yrs has been sold.  Oliver Edgecumbe has purchased Coachman from Alana Alexander.  We look forward to seeing some great results from this potentially very competitive combination.  Photo is of Coachmans  first Training trial at Taupo in August.  Coachman’s Dam Zala is due to foal full sibling to Coachman late October. Also for sale is Zala yearling filly, half sister to Tiraumea Donegal.  Expressions of interest are invited.

I saw your guys being featured in this mornings Rural Delivery – well done !  I hope the added exposure will sell lots of horses for you….  Felix from Owen River Lodge

‘Dallas and Kate Kinzett have been farming and breeding sport horses for more than 30 years, with the objective of producing horses capable of excelling at any discipline for any level of rider. “We are in for the long haul”, they say. Dallas and Kate moved to their Tutaki Valley farm in 1978, just over the range from Lake Rotoroa. The Kinzetts won the property in one of the last Lands and Survey ballots. The farm is now 370 hectares; 250 effective grazing, and the remainder part of bush-clad Mt. Baring. They are one of only three farms in the valley running beef cows and sheep, as the rest of the valley is in dairying. “We are still holding out,” Kate says. They run Hereford and Angus cattle as well as a Suffolk sheep stud.

Dallas and Kate inherited their love of horses, with their fathers jointly owning a thoroughbred stallion, Red Ink. Kate’s father farmed just south of Murchison and used horses for ploughing and developing pasture out of bush. He also used them for making hay and building old-fashioned stacks. Early on when Kate was eventing, she and Dallas were breeding thoroughbreds for eventing and showing. “As I got older I realized not everyone could handle thoroughbreds; they were a bit hot” says Kate. So they got into using heavier stallions with some thoroughbred blood, over their thoroughbred mares. Sport horses are all-rounders. “They are a nice type of horse that can event, show-jump, do dressage, hunt and be shown under saddle. They are also good for stockwork.”

We have some stunning crop of foals this season, they are featured on the for sale page.  Get in quick to get your pick, there are some lovely ones to choose from, we have some great moving youngsters and some very strong jumping lines available for selection.

Murphy Herself and the lovely Tiraumea Marchi

To ensure your pick of this years youngsters we invite expressions of interest now.

First foal this year is a stunner, he is by Bondi out of Drover.  This is Drovers first foal and our first to have both Gentleman George and Flint on either side.  This boy is going to be a showstopper.  He is black with lovely blaze.  When temperament counts this young lad is for you, he is very friendly and inquisitive. with a real gentleness to him, he is loving all the attention being first born of the season.

Next was another beautiful foal, and for us to say he is beautiful, well quite simply he is!  Have a look at him and see what you think.   Also by Bondi out of Indy this Bay and White Colt has great markings that will guarantee to turn heads.

World No three Alison Higgins, from Nelson, will headline a five-strong New Zealand team out to end a 10-year drought in the endurance competition.

Equestrian Sports New Zealand named the first of  its team for September’s world equestrian games in Kentucky.

The 160km endurance competition is the equestrian equivalent to the marathon, and it can take up to 13 hours to complete.

New Zealand won team gold in this event in 1998.

Higgins,  who will compete on her horse Twynham El Omar, will be joined by Pokeno’s Sue Reid, the reigning national and North Island champion aboard Makahiwi Achilles, Masterton’s Jenny Champion on Freckles, Rangiora’s Debbie Worsfold on Northwinds Bradley McGregor and Te Awamutu’s Jenny Chandler on Lace and Fineness.

Four will ride as a team, as well as individuals, with the fifth just contesting the individual title.

High performance endurance leader and chef d’equipe Madonna Harris expected New Zealand’s main competition to come from the United Arab Emirates, Spain and hosts United States.

“Our riders know what speed they need to ride at to maintain that world class level,” she says. “Now it is a matter of making it happen. We have a great opportunity to do well there.”

Endurance is one of eight equestrian disciplines taking part in the games – the others being showjumping, reining, dressage, eventing, para dressage, vaulting and driving.

More New Zealand teams for the competition will be announced over the coming months.

Otago Daily Times

From all of us here, good luck Alison and Omar.