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My love of horses began as a child, at which time I was a victim of polio and unable to walk until I was 8 yrs old, each weekend I would sit at the window of my ward at the Royal Far West Hospital for Children at Manly which overlooked the beautiful Manly Beach where I spent a lot of years of my childhood until I was 12 yrs old. In those days someone used to bring ponies to the beach for pony rides and this made me determined that one day I would ride these ponies. The promise came true about a year later, I was taken across the road to the beach and placed on a pony and that was the biggest thrill of my childhood years, this exciting event encouraged me to walk, as the Physiotherapist promised me regular outings to visit the beach ponies if I tried hard to walk. My first ride on the pony made me feel so determined to own my own horse and learn to walk and to ride so I could be like other children. This came to pass later in my teens, when I bought my first pony with money I saved her name was Princess. From there on I expanded my interest in horses doing endurance riding, which I enjoyed immensely sharing the interest with other horsie friends and going to shows to participate in hacking classes and finally, after my marriage settling for breeding APSB ponies and Shetlands. |
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Jindaberra Stud was originally formed with the purchase of two Shetland mares and one Shetland stallion "Fenwick Lucky Lew" who did very well for us in the Show Ring and to his credit won many Champion and Supreme classes. Lucky also won many ridden classes. He produced many foals during his lifetime and was also at stud to a good number of mares because of his Imported English bloodlines. Lucky parted with us at the age of thirty-one years, a sad time for the stud. |
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This breed was the sole interest until 1978 when I discovered a little thing moving through the long grass along the fenceline of a paddock as we were driving by. We pulled up to get a closer look at what it could possibly be, and to our amazement we discovered the most adorable feisty little grey miniature stallion who barely stood 30 " tall. Well that was it, I was bitten by the "miniature bug". Of course we just had to have one (or two or three) we discovered the little stallion "Pequeno Jim Beam" was for sale so we purchased him and "Shorty" came home to live with us and was the Foundation Stallion for our miniature section of the stud. |
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"Shorty" gave us many hours of pleasure in the show ring and in harness events and after joining Camden Harness Club he competed in many competitions. He sired many fillies for the stud all of different colours and sadly died at the age of 23yrs of Leukemia. He is sadly missed. Since the death of "Shorty" my breeding program has taken a new direction and I aim for Palouse and Palomino colours as I like to look out over a colourful herd of Miniature Horses and Ponies.
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My interest in Miniature Ponies took up a lot of my time over the years being involved at National Committee level with the Australian Miniature Pony Society (AMPS), at which time I served 15yrs as Editor of Small Talk magazine until 1995. I was honoured with a Life Membership for my dedication to the breed. I also involved myself with State Committee level of AMPS and organized many annual Feature Shows for the breed in NSW, was Editor of the NSW AMPS Magazine that I introduced for NSW members which I called the "Littlest Ones" during my tenure of serving. I became a NSW State Delegate, my love and dedication to the breed gave me many rewarding years and because of this I had made many friends among the members. My interest in horses extended to being Show Secretary for the Liverpool Agricultural Society for 22 yrs. Whereby again I made many "horsie friends" among the Show Exhibitors who frequented the annual show and monthly gymkhanas. Jindaberra Stud became a family orientated interest to breed and exhibit quality stock rather than quantity. To enable us to be selective with our breeding program to acquire Miniature Horses and Ponies with free flowing action (not up and down on the spot action) and introduce a variety of colours and the type that we are aiming for, which has been successfully obtained over the past 25 yrs. Much of Jindaberra bred progeny have been sold around Australia and also New Zealand. Today I have only one female left of the original bloodline from Pequeno Jim Beam aka 'Shorty' and a Shetland mare and her son and grand daughter from Fenwick Lucky Lew - 'Lucky' whose lines have produced many Miniature Ponies. We have many fond memories of old Lucky Lew who practically taught all our children to ride, he was educated in discipline and his flying changes would make any big horse envious. Later my interest turned to the Miniatures that go over the height ceiling of 34", and I have included breeding the Australian Little Horse in the program. The Australian Little Horse has a height ceiling of 10.2hds. It is a versatile animal used for pony club mounts, harness and performance, proving very popular for childrens ridden mounts. Please see the link to the Australian Little Horse and Miniature Breeds Association Inc. |
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I would also like to mention that our "Foxiedowns Kennels" often has puppies for sale as we breed Miniature Fox Terriers, Miniature Pinschers & Maltese Terriers too. |
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We believe that quality not quantity is the key to breeding free moving and attractive looking quality stock, our interests are breeding the Australian Miniature Pony and the Australian Little Horse & Australian Little Pony, with a lot of colour in the herd. So
if you are looking for the right type of Miniature Pony, Miniature Horse
or Australian Little Horse to suit your requirements, whether it is for
Show Halter Classes, Harness, Performance or Breeding, I am |
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