FOR a young woman, 21-year-old Miya Fleming is well travelled. Born and raised in Darwin she started riding when she was 11 and from the...

THE stand-out performer at the Australian Sports Pony Registry dressage event at Werribee Park last weekend was Nirrelle Somerville’s...

A GROUP has been established to work towards better promotion of Australian and New Zealand-bred performance horses as a distinct...

WHEN Elizabeth Krog visited her friends Pat and Richard Ryan at their Warrawee stud near Lancefield in Victoria five years ago aged just...

AUSTRALIA’S para dressage girls begin their journey to the FEI World Championships this weekend. Team members Di Barnes reports that the...

EQUESTRIAN communities are always hopeful of publicity but it’s doubtful our para dressage riders would have liked the attention they...

THERE’S an old expression “Mad Dogs and Englishmen go out in the midday sun”. Well, pony club kids are too smart to go out in that sort...

BURIED in a paddock a few kilometres north of Bendigo is a pony called Flash. By the time Kristy Kemp, the fifth child in a line-up of...

A personal reflection on the quiet achievements of an often overlooked discipline THE Quilty Gold Cup will be returning to Victoria in...

MAYBE they were once thought of as pit ponies, or stars of Thelwell cartoons, but the Shetland Pony breed also has one of the most...

THE Victorian Young Rider of the Year awards began in 1987 as a means to give promising young riders in showjumping, eventing, dressage...

BILL the Bastard is getting to be more famous than Phar Lap. A bronze, life-size sculpture of Australia's greatest war horse was unveiled...

THE Olympic Games creed says: “The important thing in life is not the triumph, but the fight; the essential thing is not to have won, but...

WINTER Woollies shows are marvellous little events that pop up just like mushrooms all around the country. They are identified by hairy...

A SLIGHT 14 year-old-girl and a 14.3hh Riding Pony are not a pair you would expect to see sailing around the two-star cross country...

THE Tatura Dressage Club has held its second competition as a standalone group. It is one of many horse clubs around the state that is...

THE Victorian Young Rider and Development Squad in dressage is one of the success stories in equestrian sport. Catering for dressage...

A WARNING to safeguard horses against mosquito-borne diseases may seem out of place in the depths of winter but unusually wet conditions...

JOHN Patterson, known Australia-wide simply as Patto, is in hospital with a broken hip. The family of the much-loved former Clerk of the...

AN OPEN LETTER TO THE FEDERAL TREASURER, DR JIM CHALMERS Dear Dr Chalmers, We need to talk about Peterborough. It’s a town in South...