Saddleveiw Acacia Portabella PHPA 727
Paddock name "Bella".
By far the cutest addition to our herd is "Bella" who was kindly given to us by an internet acquaintance for our son Tane. She is a mixed breed pony filly of two years old, standing approx 10 hh. Chestnut sabino or roan pinto.
Bella has the best little nature as evidenced by her outstanding performance at the Pinto Horse & Pony Association QLD State Show on August 9th mere months after she came to live with us. Check out our Show Results page for more details.
Bella will be started under saddle after a few weeks off.
Bella on arrival;
Bella having a practise run in her fancy dress costume before the show;
A clipped and different Bella!
Foals to date.
None and none to come for quite some time I imagine!
Indianna
Paddock name "Anna".
Anna arrived home Saturday 9th August!!!
Approx 9 yo, paint x clydie, approx 15.1 hh. "Anna" will be a riding mare for me as I get back into riding now our kids are old enough not to need me right there with them.
If you know this mare or any info about her good or bad we would like to hear it.
Foals to date.
Anna appears to be a maiden mare.
Brookvale Chick Flick PHPA 513
Paddock name "Chick".
Chestnut tobiano pinto mare.
By Winarbi Mingara AQHA Q40492 out of a station bred bay tobiano pinto mare.
4 years, 13.3 hh. Broken in but not ridden in some time.
This gorgeous new addition has been served by "Dunsplashin Warpainter" (due Jan/Feb 09) and is intended (as all our mares are) for dual purpose riding and breeding.
Foals to date.
Chick is the dam of one foal for her previous owner.
Brookvale Texas Chick PHPA 300
Paddock name "Texas".
This pretty bay mare is full sister to "Brookvale Chick Flick" and sports two pretty blue eyes!
She is 5 years old and 13.3 hh. "Texas" is unbroken but has recently had all the groundwork completed and we are just waiting to have the time and dry roundyard for her first ride.
"Texas" is currently empty and will be going to "Dunsplashin One Hellva Bill" in September 2008.
Foals to date.
Texas is the dam of two foals for previous owners.
SPINIFEX BLAISE
Paddock name "Blaise".
14 hh bay mare, sired by QH stallion Spinifex King Q-32684 out of a TB (Silver Crocus) X Toledo Joe (Paint/Pinto) daughter. She is unregistered but makes up for this with her great nature and looks. Everyone that visits wants to take this mare home and I have no doubt that a home for her foals can be found many times over.
"Blaise" has been broken in and used for cattle work. She is a dual purpose mare riding/breeding, we have given Blaise to our young daughter Tammy as she is such a quiet mare under saddle.
How Blaise got her name.
Blaise was not named for her large face marking but rather for being born on September 11 here in Australia and the large blazes that were going on in America at the time.
Foals to date.
Dustee Slim - bay solid colt (sold as a gelding) Melbourne Cup Day 2007.
WHISKEY
This mare is currently on lease to Bunya Valley Performance Horses for a 2008/09 foal to "Dunsplashin Warpainter" - it will be full sister or brother to "Dustee Sierra Sunrise".
"Whiskey" is arab x qh mare, 15 hh+, 9 yo. Grey born chestnut. Cowy and smart. 
Foals to date.
"Coke" bay clydie cross filly - May 2005
"Dustee Sierra Sunrise" registered foundation pinto filly, chestnut - December 2006
"BONNY"
IF YOU KNOW THIS MARE WE'D LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU!!!
We bought Bonny from Kevin Quinn - A1 Learner Horses & Ponies in Toowoomba (note I am in no way recommending the seller) in my highschool years, 1994/95 I think. We had just sold my last horse a appy gelding by the name of "Dusty" to a woman in Gracemere QLD and were going home through Toowoomba looking at a few horses on our way, one we had lined up to look at was a big TB gelding the woman was selling as she had no time for him after having kids, when we got there it was plain to see she was scared of him, would not canter or trot him, would not put him over low jumps yet was advertising him as a pony club mount. We passed on even giving him a test ride! The lady was nice enough and told us about the place where we found Bonny, we turned up there at a busy time and had to wait for attention so we wandered over to the paddock fence and said hello to the horses, of all the horses in there only one came up to say hello back - that was Bonny. As we were patting her the owner came over to ask us our business and when we told him we learnt that the mare we'd been patting was for sale. We were told she was around 11 and had been a ladies hack. So he saddled her up, showed us what she could do and I hopped aboard, she was nervy and light on her feet, she nearly lost me with her moves and the light mud in the yards but I wanted her.
We did a deal and talked him down from $800 to $650. He had no ramp and our mode of transport was a tray back Maverick of my uncles with a crate on the back, we simply backed it up to a small lump of dirt, made good use of some hay bales and she jumped right up. On our way home the river at Dalby was in flood, the water would have reached over the tray so we had to haul her the long way around.
The next year I won not only many ribbons but my local pony clubs age champion on Bonny and over the years she has been many things, mustering horse, foal companion, breaker lead out horse, stallion teaser, kids lead horse and anything in between. If her age is right Bonny is now about 23/24 years old and still going strong. As you can see I still have her.
Bonny is now mostly retired, she has occasional ride by me and our kids and spends her time keeping the other horses in line.
She has a few issues, she has never liked to be shod, the sound of the hammer hitting the nail has her all a lather. We assume this is from a obvious quartering of her nearside hind hoof before we got her. Bonny has also unfortunately never gotten in foal much to my regret as I would dearly have loved a foal from this grand old girl.
Her breed is unknown but we have guessed at arab/qh/pony blood.
Bonny and I in an Anzac Day Parade - Mitchell QLD in 1996.
Bonny and I (home on a break from college) in 1997.
Bonny at "Byerwen Station" Collinsville in 1998.
Although there are more photos between the one above and the one below I am unable at this time to put them up as our scanner is broken.
Bonny March 2008.
The quartered hoof.
