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Mark Mangold
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iving near the Nepean River, on the outskirts of Sydney, the current NSW Yard Dogs Rookie of the Year, Mark Mangold, has one hell of a story to tell. Growing up, Mark has always been involved with animals. His parents had a large performance horse stud in Mulgoa along with a farm east of Mudgee where they also ran a few sheep and cattle, working dogs were not a priority. Following school, Mark went on to complete his saddlers trade, where his family bought a shop in Penrith that Mark ran. During this time Mark was also completing his plumbing trade so that he could go on to run the family business. This led to Mark doing one day at Tafe, a day plumbing, and the rest of the week working in the saddlery shop or shoeing horses. With such large numbers on the family farm, Mark quickly picked up the skill to help reduce some of the bills, leading to him shoeing professionally a couple of day a week. On the weekends, Mark spent most of them at Pony Club when he was younger, and later on he started competing in campdrafts and breaking in horses.
After a few years, Mark decided he wanted a change and enrolled in the NSW Police Force, where he moved to Sydney and worked for just under eight years. Although his superiors were lining him up for a place in the mounted police because of his strong background with horses, Mark decided he’d rather become a detective, in which he enrolled and later found himself a job in the Darlinghurst detective division. Eventually moving up the ranks to the Criminal Investigation Branch, then onto Stock Squad for two years, where he was in charge on the North region, leading all the way up to the Queensland border. With all the travelling involved with the Stock Squad, Mark decided to leave the force and took over the family plumbing business alongside his sister. During Marks time plumbing for the family business, him and his wife Maria ran and later purchased a piggery in Mulgoa, they later on sold that and bought their place now in Regentville. Upon moving, Mark and Maria purchased a few cows to eat down the grass. These few paddock ornaments quickly turned into them purchasing high end Jersey cow genetics and showing them, where Mark then went on to ship embryos in from Canada. Mark has since won Supreme Jersey Cow at Sydney Royal
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