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I
was born in Nairobi East Africa. My father was a forester and my
mother rode and trained horses. In the early 60's my father moved
us to Australia due to the Mau Mau uprising. My mother ran a
riding school while my dad went to university to become a zoologist.
When my dad qualified, and I was about nine years old he was invited
to work on a sheep station in the North West of Australia. He was manager
of the station and his job was to research animals. The station
of 300,000 aces had a population of around 200 horses, a
stallion, breeding stock and working horses which my mother was in
charge of. I was given a chance to choose six horses for my mustering
team. On the station we had 30,000 head of sheep and the
biggest shearing shed in Western Australia. We spent three months
of the year mustering sheep for the shearing. When I was twelve years old
we moved to a cattle station of 2 million acres. I grew up
with wild cows and horses. When I was 14 years old I went to
Kobeelya boarding school which allowed us to have our horses for two
and a half terms each year. When I was sixteen years age I
trained a very special horse named Kala-Azar who changed my life. I
competed on him until I was 26 along with a group of other horses. In
1980 Kala-Azar broke a record in the six bar at six foot two and a half
inches. We placed sixth in the world cup show jumping, which short listed
us for the Olympics. When he died I went back to college, And graduated
as a Sport Massage therapist, Swedish massage therapist, Occupational
therapy assistant. Since then I have applied everything I learned to horses. I spent six months working with the accuscope on
people at Castle
Hospital and two years on horses.
I have done therapy on
horses for twenty five years.
This is my passion, This is what I love to do!
We are lucky enough to have a home on the on the Big Island of Hawaii with
plenty of room for our
donkey's, horses, dogs, cats
and chickens.
Wishing you lots of mana from the Islands.
TAKE
CARE YOUR PONIES
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