Updated Oct 2020: Thank you for visiting our site. It amazes us that our horses are still so well known and our page still receives a lot of traffic despite our absence from the show pen. We decided to suspend our breeding programme a few years ago due to a lack of time and also a general concern about the oversupply of horses in the industry. We maintain this page in a limited capacity as a photo album and historical record of what our horses achieved during the time we were active. And never say never… we still have semen to our stallion frozen down, and many of our mares are still enjoying a happy pasture life with us at home. There may yet be a few pleasure ponies in our future. We shall see what life brings.
Otherwise read on for our paint horse story as written in 2011….
We have been breeding Paint Horses since the year 2000 and it has been a long slow road with a lot of things learnt along the way. We chose our discipline first of Western Pleasure and then fell in love with the beautiful coat patterns of the overo paint horses. We were already very fond of the Quarter Horse and recognised their superiority at that point in time in western pleasure competitions around the world. So we set about trying to find paint horses with the necessary type and bloodlines that would be successful in the western pleasure arena against their quarter horse counterparts. However, these horses just could not be found in Australia. At that point in time there had been some specialisation made into halter breeding within the Paint Horse breed, but no specific effort made to pursue western pleasure bloodlines. A lot of paint horse breeding was (and still is) of a generalist nature aiming simply to produce coloured horses rather than specialist performance horses. So, although we never intended to end up breeding horses, it became a necessary step in order for us to develop the kind of horses we desired. Now, 13 years on we remain one of only a small handful of paint horse breeders that have taken this route and the rewards have paid off handsomely in terms of results achieved.
2012 was one of our most successful show years to date where we truly started to see the efforts of all the previous years hard work, breeding and selection come to fruition. We had 3 Dominion Equine bred paint horses make the top 10 of the NPHA 2yo Western Pleasure Futurity, one of which “I Like That” earned the Reserve Champion Honours. In the same year the top 3 placegetters in the PHAA National Show Open Western Pleasure Classic were bred by us. This is in addition to numerous other wins and placings all around the country.