Wongaburra Horsemanship Centre in Mooralla, Victoria, Australia | Sport & recreation

Wongaburra Horsemanship Centre

Locality: Mooralla, Victoria, Australia

Phone: +61 419 319 510

Address: 280 Snells Rd 3314 Mooralla, VIC, Australia

Website: http://www.wongaburrahorsemanship.com.au

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24.01.2022 End of session with horses last night, all 5 siblings out and about.

24.01.2022 In all the craziness this week...I forgot to post a photo of the repaired Woolshed verandah...one week later! Justin is a bloody miracle worker! Thanks to Tom L...aidlaw for his help...and moi of course. Just got to order new guttering and put in some lattice on the rails and its done! (Before photos last for comparison) See more

23.01.2022 Grandchild daycare done Wongaburra style. This is a series: part 1 - looking for the herd.

22.01.2022 Overlooked photos from the recent Trail Riding Focus camp! Lisa Boyd Natasha Jago Janis Hobbs

21.01.2022 Well folks, it’s been a bit since I could get back to you. Much has happened since then, some challenging, some good, and some great. So here we go. In Octobe...r Jody flew to Santa Fe NM for a fine time with a private 2-day session. Dave took off to Kearney MO for a 4-day Ranch Versatility clinic complete with cattle on the last day. It was great fun for all, well attended and all of us learned plenty about ourselves and our horses. Jody & I both then went to Lovettesville VA for 4 days of Refined Riding combined with Cowboy Dressage. Dru Roia, a Parelli 2-star Professional hosted us at her Lucia Farm, and it was a fine time with much learning. Jody really knows how to share Parelli Finesse. We just got home and I took off to Carmel Valley for more Cowboy Dressage for 3 days. Vicki Amon-Higa has such a beautiful place and it’s just right for Eitan’s great sport. I got home and Jody & I began the final preparations for the first annual Cowboy Dressage Retreat at our LS Ranch the following 3-day weekend. It was an unheralded success with many people signing up for next year before leaving the ranch. All were much surprised and pleased regarding how well our Cowboy Dressage skills actually lent themselves to playing with cattle the last afternoon. The very next weekend Jody left for Casa Grande AZ for a 3-day Horsemanship Workshop at Tammy O’Neil’s Grianna Stables. She reported that, as usual, it was a super weekend with great friends, great horsemanship, and very expert coaching along the way. We’re just winding up another truly wonderful Thanksgiving week here at the LS Ranch. We were visited by Margit and Mike Deerman from San Diego area, Maurice and Susan Thibault from Tehachapi CA, Kiki Ebsen and her husband Steve from Calabasas CA, Ben & Maria Anderson from Montana, Kris and Terry Fulwiler from Wisconsin, Maureen Anderson and her fine friend Chase from Montana, Ted & Vickie Axton from Wisconsin. The entire week from Saturday before Thanksgiving to Monday afterward was filled with Natural Horsemanship, calf branding on Tuesday, sorting and working cattle, and some colt starting along the way for good measure. Each guest prepared a specialty dinner with all of us helping on Thanksgiving. I deep fry two turkeys to go along with the fixings which are prepared over open fires at our pole barn gathering area. Dinners and music beneath old time gas lights and lanterns around a large fire pit is just unbeatable. Along the way Jody & I were very distressed to learn of the breakup of Pat & Linda Parelli. Jody & I each love them both. I need to share with you that during my 35 years with Pat I have been privy to much. I was there with Pat as he developed and named his program Parelli Natural Horsemanship. I was there when Linda came over from Australia learning about his program and miraculously putting into words the things that Pat knew but was unable to express. Along the way Linda’s growth and experience caused her to see things and express them in a way that has become her style based on Pat’s experience. I wish her only the best. I have seen and experienced all of the changes in the Parelli Savvy System. I have deliberately remained at arm’s length to any of Pat’s personal life, focusing on his and my horsemanship life. Pat Parelli has never misled me. He always shoots from the hip straight and narrow. I thrive with that teaching style while others struggle with it. The horsemanship that Pat has shared with me, often in a very outspoken manner, has allowed me to grow into my ability to share with all of you those things that allow us to understand and enjoy our horses to the fullest. I am 77 years old and have had a horse since I was 10. In the late 70s and early 80s I became aware of the Dorrances and Ray Hunt and tried to understand, to no avail, just what they were sharing with us. Pat Parelli took their philosophies and skills and formed them into meaningful expressions that all of us could finally wrap our minds around. For that I will be grateful for the rest of my years. On an extending note, I am fortunate to ride with great masters. Pat Parelli himself, Russell Dilday, Doug Williamson, Jake Gorrell, Lester Buckley, Jack Brainard, Eitan Beth-Halachmy. I am able to understand, soak up their teachings, and actually process and perform with their teachings all because Pat Parelli took the time to pressure me to be the best that I can be. He and he alone molded and expanded this international movement that many hundreds of others now embrace, modify, and teach as their own. More power to all of them all over the world. Parelli Natural Horsemanship will thrive and continue to grow regardless of any setbacks personal or business. David Ellis stands in support of Pat Parelli, and his program.

20.01.2022 Justin whipping that verandah back into shape...

19.01.2022 The view from Durango’s back...I love his wild two way mane...bareback riding in the playground today...

19.01.2022 I learned a new word last night...’doomscrolling’. Pretty good way to describe it...ok, everyone stop doomscrolling! (Including me) Go enjoy time with your hors...es, dogs, cats, kids, any human you love...Im off to do my morning yoga, walk in my garden then go to the horses after breakfast. Time for a fb, twitter and tv news timeout people! See more

19.01.2022 From garden to storage room for fermenting...’Bad Cabbage’ (aka Sauerkraut) is in process!

17.01.2022 My gardening is paying off big time today! Horses can wait today...

17.01.2022 Part 2: Looking for the herd...we found them!

14.01.2022 Part 3: Bringing them in!

11.01.2022 OK, so at the risk of inviting a lot of unwanted attention, here is my take on Racing and the inevitable responsibility of ending the life of our horses. Just m...y personal view, after 30 professional years with horses, and 58 years loving them like no other animal. (I love all animals just not as much as this species for some dna related reason I am sure) From a 30 year horsemanship career perspective, the actual raceday to me is just the tip of the iceberg of what needs to be examined in the light of horse welfare. From birth, through raising, training, then the short periods of actual racing and beyond to the ‘retirement’ from racing, Thoroughbreds need a better deal. Theres nothing in racing for the horse, from the horse’s point of view. It is anthropomorphic to think they care at all about the human ‘deal’ of racing. The least we can do is help them negotiate this part of their lives, which they were bred exclusively to do, and make sure its not only when they are in the public eye and not only their physical care that counts. Mental and emotional needs count. Pre race and post race career life counts. I am not an ‘anti-racing’ horsewoman, any more than I am an ‘anti-showing’ horsewoman. But I do care about the mental, emotional and physical needs of this magnificent animal, whose life depends and is dominated entirely by humans and their individual agendas. We can do better by the horse in all areas of their life and in all horse sports. *I also believe we humans hold a responsibility for better ‘end of life’ practises, we need to increase the humane set up for environmentally sustainable euthanasia (done right, captured bolt gun on property, where the horse feels ‘at home’ then removal of body for use as a meat product) although this is emotionally difficult for the human, it means the horse is not subject to the terror of transportation and yarding before shooting that none of us would want to subject our beloved horse to. This service should be a more widely available option especially since most horses live in urban fringe areas where burial of a body full of toxins is not allowed nor advisable. It is inhumane to both horses and their owners to shut down the practise of horse knackeries to the point where horses have to be transported longer and longer distances to be killed. In the USA the shutdown of knackeries has increased the suffering of horses. Dying is not the worst thing that can happen to a horse, living in misery is. I made a vow that apart from rehoming one of my horses with a responsible new owner, no horse of mine will leave my property for the last time alive. Even if it’s body is to be used to feed another animal. If I can be ok about eating meat, I have to be realistic about where my dog’s food comes from. The viable but potentially humane option of a home visit knackery service is something we need to support and again, we need to put in place best practise in that industry rather than demonise the ‘knackery’, which just turns it into a ‘behind the scenes’ industry where there are no real eyes to see - the demand does not reduce just because we push it to the dark corners, it is a necessary but uncomfortable fact of life. I have taken the option of both ways of making the hard decision for my own horses and also supported and helped others that were too emotional to be there in that terrible moment. It never gets easier, but in my personal experience, the folks I have had come to my property to shoot and then remove a horse were just as kind and humane as the vets that I’ve had come here to do an IV line of heart stopping drugs before burial. Neither option is easy. Not for the one doing the job, and not for the person standing by who made the call. Both these options can be done well or badly. But I truly feel this is a responsibility we should not be anthropomorphic about.

10.01.2022 So, 2020 just serving up a bit more shite.

09.01.2022 What the? Is it September again?

08.01.2022 Inspired by my friend Lou, I googled pickling beetroot and now I am in the middle of a new experiment!

08.01.2022 Another old one toppled over today! 2020 has been hard on the redgums...sad to lose this giant.

05.01.2022 #dropyourbeautifulhorseheadchallenge ok, I will join in...so many to choose from though...

03.01.2022 Covid good news of the day! Double ‘donuts’ for Melbourne, sixth day in a row! Good job! 3 sleeps until we get to see our youngest child Gabe Corbidge for the first time in 5 months, then another 3 sleeps until we see his legendary grandmother who has been living in lockdown with him!