The Ebony Park Friesian Magazine - July 2015

July 2015 The Ebony Park

Friesian

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Dante - the young est ho rse in Austr alia w i Sport th a Predic s ate!

Breeding semen quality and health

Dressage - going back to the basics

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From the Editor

IN THIS ISSUE

Hi Fabulous Friesian Lovers!!

It’s been a couple of months... and although everything has been quiet here in terms of getting out there and competing the boys... it’s been hectic here at Ebony Park HQ!!

• PAGE 4: INTRODUCING MONTANA! • PAGE 5-6: NOTE FROM TASH • PAGE 7-8: NEWS FROM HOLLAND • PAGE 9: DANTE HAS BEEN AWARDED THE SPORTS PREDICATE CONGRATULATIONS!!

• PAGE 10-12: KATE’S KNOWLEDGE - SEMEN QUALITY & HEALTH • PAGE 13-14: TASH’S TRAINING TIP - GOING BACK TO DRESSAGE BASICS • PAGE 15-16: ONLY 2 PUREBRED FOALS LEFT FOR 2015!

• PAGE 17: EBONY PARK HIGH POINT AWARD • PAGE 18: EBONY PARK TV

We are getting so excited about the construction of our new indoor arena complex... it’s getting there!! Footings are going in this week which means excavation is nearly done!

This month we would like to welcome Marie to the Ebony Park family... can’t wait for your Ivy x Jorrit foal to be born in September!! It’s sure to be a stunner!

We would also like to welcome Montana to the Ebony Park Team... it’s been great having you on board and we can’t wait to get you out there competing on some of the Ebony Park horses later on in the year!

In this month’s magazine, I answer a question on semen quality and health as we start to look towards breeding season 2015; Natasha goes back to the dressage basics and we congratulate Natasha and Dante on their dressage excellence and being recognised by the KFPS with a Sports Predicate!!

Please make sure you send through your “selfie” photos of you and your horse for next months magazine, and if you would like any topics covered on horse health, breeding, dressage or all things Friesian, please send them through to info@ebonyparkstud.com.au!!

To Your Dreams Becoming Reality,

• PAGE 19: TRENDING ON FACEBOOK • PAGE 20: SOMETHING AWESOME IS COMING...

Kate Langdon

• PAGE 21: THE NEW EBONY PARK INDOOR ARENA COMPLEX CONSTRUCTION IS UNDERWAY! • PAGE 22: PHOTO GALLERY • PAGE 23: SELFIES!!

• PAGE 24: 5 MINUTES WITH ADELINDE CORNELISSEN • PAGE 24: CONTACT INFORMATION

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Introducing | Montana O’Riley We would like to extend a warm welcome to our newest member of the Ebony Park Team - Montana O’ Riley. Montana is our new groom and young horse rider and training, and will be training and competing some of our younger horses, getting them ready for competition towards the end of the year.

Montana has been riding since she could barely walk, starting off on a naughty little shetland pony like lots of kids do. She was lucky - her mother is a dressage instructor, and although to start off with she wanted to be an eventer, she chose dressage instead after riding her mother’s dressage horses (quite an achievement for a 10 year old to ride a 16.2 and 17.2hh warmblood!!)

After finishing VCE, she trained under Heath Ryan before working with Riding Ponies - so Friesians are a bit of a change of pace!

In 2010 she was on the Hamag young Riders Squad until 2013 when she stopped riding for a short time due to VCE commitments.

After finishing VCE she realised that her passion lay in dressage all along. She has already competed up to Medium level dressage in the past, and can’t wait to take her dressage journey all the way to the top, with a goal to reach Grand Prix in 5 years!

We can’t wait to see her out and about competing at Preliminary level dressage with two of Ebony Park’s young horses Helena and Zorro towards the end of this year!

Montana has been instructing for 3 years, teaching the art of dressage to riders of all ages and abilities.

She has taught a lot at numerous pony clubs and moved onto instructing at the local adult riding club - so she has coached riders of all ages and abilities. She’s really looking forward to giving lessons here at Ebony Park, and loves teaching riders of any level!! Make sure you contact info@ebonyparkstud.com.au if you would like to book one in with Montana! She has taught complete beginners, all the way up to Advanced level dressage.

FUN FACTS ABOUT MONTANA Favourite food: Tuna mornay Favourite movie: The Fault in Our Stars Favourite Colour: Purple Favourite Horse at Ebony Park: She can’t choose, but can narrow it down to Jorrit, Jantje and Loes!

Favourite Ebony Park Horse to Ride: Helena, because she has such wonderful movement, and it’s great to be able to train a horse from such a young age and watch them learn and grow!

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DIARY DATES Natasha is having some time off the competition circuit while the indoor arena is being built and while she is pregnant!! We will be back competing in October once she has safely delivered her baby!

Note from Tash HELLLOOOOO Lovers!!!!! :):):)

Friesian

So excited to say hello to you!!!!

Sorry it’s been a while!

Kate went on holiday and so did I and with that and the horses being on a bit of a holiday it has been a bit quiet while we re-group and get ready for a MASSIVE second half of 2015!!!!!

The biggest news is finally, finally FINALLY we are seeing progress and construction of our new home: The Ebony Park Performance Centre.

Make sure you go to page 21 to check out the pics and I cannot wait to share with you new photos next month as by then it should be up!!!!!

For all of you who want to book a lesson in the indoor we are anticipating a 1st September ready to rock date for when it is operational which is coincidently my due date!!!!!

Yes, I am still pregnant. 31 weeks and counting! I have so much to do and so many horses I want to ride, so I am really looking forward to having this baby and getting back in the saddle for hours every day and training all the horses towards their competition goals for October, November and December.

The other exciting news is Dante the superstar stallion received his sports predicate for excellent in the dressage arena from the KFPS (Dutch Friesian society). I find it interesting he didn't score high in the IBOP which is a 'dressage suitability' test for Friesians and yet he is the youngest Friesian stallion in Australia to be awarded the sports predicate. Make sure you read all about it on page 9 of the magazine!

Our other big news is we have finally found our first superstar to help us move forward with Ebony Park’s goals. Introducing our new rider and trainer Montana. Montana has trained up to Prix St Georges and competed up to Medium level dressage. She is a joy to work with and I look forward in supporting her Grand Prix goals and helping her with the Ebony Park horses.

We will be looking to have another rider trainer superstar join our team in October this year so if Grand Prix is your goal and you want to be part of a dressage team committed to helping each other ride our best, make

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DIARY DATES Make sure you email through your guess as to when Natasha will have her baby to info@ebonyparkst ud.com.au Here’s a hint - she is due on the 1st September!!

Note from Tash

sure you email info@ebonyparkstud.com.au now with your resume and cover letter with details on why this is the right opportunity for you.

Kate and I are working really hard putting together all the details of something totally cool and totally fun that you will love! We can’t say any more... but all will be revealed in September but we are SUPER excited to share it with you!!!!!

The other thing for all you dressage riders out there! I have been busily recording a Dressage Mastery TV episode every week where I help riders with their riding challenges. If you need help with your dressage I encourage you to watch every Friday. Also, if you like the TV episodes, then maybe my Dressage Mastery Academy program might be right for you.

There is a special on this month where you can join now and receive Month 1 on Rhythm and Seat for only $1.00 and you will receive over 1 hour 20 minutes of online videos and a 24 page manual!! Those of you who take action and join this month will also go into a BONUS draw to win a video lesson with me!!!

Click here for more information and to join us now in your dressage journey.

Enjoy this months magazine and I look forward to sharing more with you next month!

To your success,

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News From Holland | Immunity importance. There are all sorts of factors that can affect the immunity system, such as wrong management, some infectious illnesses or medication and deficiencies in diet.

Just like humans, equines also have their own defenses against disease. This ‘antiaircraft system’ can be used as a broad-spectrum, but also as a pin-point system to combat health attacks on the body.

The body is equipped with two army units that enable it to carry out strategic bomb attacks on germs. The soldiers of the non-specific, or innate immunity use the same ammunition for their attack on viruses, bacteria and fungi.

But they can also use precision bombardments, carried out by the adaptive immunity which has a capacity for memory. When the horse contracts a virus the adaptive immunity ‘department’ will learn how to deal with it and next time the right antibodies will be

produced. The trouble is however, that some viruses are capable of changing in the course of time, they can mutate.

It is important to give each horse annual jabs against equine influenza (the flu).

This creates a controlled environment in which elements of the virus are administered. The defence system then learns to concoct the right formula of antibodies without making the horse ill.

When the horse gets in touch with the real virus at any time in the future, its own body will start to produce the right antibodies to protect it.

Non-specific immunity The non-specific- and specific immunity both are of immense

As far as management goes there are two things to keep in mind. The first one is the birth of a foal. The complete transfer of immunity takes place after the birth when the foal starts drinking the colostrums (beestings). It is therefore essential that in the first 24 hours following its birth the foal takes in enough good-quality colostrums. It takes as long as four months before the foal starts to build its own immunity system.

Foals with poor immunity systems are more prone to umbilical infections, joint infections, lung infections, diarrhoea, and so on.

The second point to remember is all about reducing stress.

There are many stress-related activities such as the regrouping of youngsters for inspection purposes, change of ownership, relocations to another training yard, sudden long-term training schedules lasting weeks on end, longdistance transports, strenuous competitions; but also stress

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News From Holland | Immunity carrier of this virus and in stressful situations may very well start to exude the virus and in doing so infect other horses.

induced by for instance parasitic infections.

Infectious diseases Some infectious diseases can also bring the immunity system down on its knees. Or they have been so taxing for the immunity system that the next best germ that comes along makes the horse seriously ill. A classic example is the horse that has caught a cold because of a passing virus and then comes down with a bacterial infection as well. Some germs are so adept at concealing themselves within the body that immune systems fail to recognise them.

The horse then becomes a

Herpes viruses come top of the list in this c a t e g o r y. Wi t h horses this is defined as the Equine herpes virus or EHV, or the s o - c a l l e d Rhinopneumonitis virus. EHV type 1 causes infections of the respiratory tract but also neurological symptoms such as ataxia. More and more evidence is emerging that the EHV types 2 and 5 can indeed subdue the equine immune system.

mares and foals in a separate group and competition horses in another. Most ideal would be to keep newly purchased horses and those returning from long periods of competing in quarantine for up to two or three weeks.

Avoid any physical contact between your horse and others when out competing, especially nose-to-nose contact. Never allow your horse to drink from communal water troughs at competition grounds, always bring your own buckets and sterilise on a regular basis.

Source: KFPS Website

Sensible actions Always be aware that any horse leaving the yard can be the carrier of diseases. Every disease has its own incubation period. Most at risk are always very young horses, veterans and pregnant mares. The first safety measure therefore must be: grouping horses according to age and keep them apart as much as possible: young stock with young stock, pregnant

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Ebony Park Dante | Awarded Sports Predicate!!

Dante’s story is that of a rockstar. He is sired by the well-known and prestigious dutch Friesian stallion Norbert 444, who won the stallion show in Holland 3 years running, with another of his sons coming runner up in 2015.

Natasha has taken Dante from a green dressage stallion competing at preliminary level dressage just one month after giving birth to her first child... all the way to competing and winning his very first Medium level dressage test just 10 months later... and competing him in Medium level dressage all the way into her next pregnancy!! With such a stellar effort on the part of both horse and rider, it’s no wonder Dante is the youngest stallion in Australia to achieve the much coveted KFPS Sports Predicate from the Friesian Society for excellent in the dressage arena.

Ebony Park can now boast 2 Friesian stallions with a Sports Predicate the only stud in Australia to do so!

We would like to offer a HUGE congratulations to both Natasha and Dante for such an enormous achievement!!

Dante’s Journey So Far...

Late 2008

Dante’s dam Jantje imported to Australia

by Ebony Park in foal to Norbert 444

April 2009

Dante was born!!

Late 2012

Dante is broken in

Start 2013

Dante is taken to his first competition with our dutch young horse rider and trainer

Feb 2014

Dante restarts his competition career with Natasha on board, just one month after giving birth to her daughter!!

Preliminary level dressage

Nov 2014

Just 10 months later Dante competes at his first Medium level competition... and they win the blue ribbon!

Feb 2015

Dante scores his top score so far in Medium level dressage, earning him second place at the competition, and sealing the deal for a Sports Predicate!

June 2015

Dante awarded KFPS Sports Predicate for excellence in the dressage arena!

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Kind Kate’s Knowledge | Semen Quality & Health Kate Langdon has always had a passion for horses. Through a roundabout route including a desire to study veterinary science, but ending up with a Bachelor of Science (Zoology) and a Bachelor of Equine Studies, as well as studying at CSU in Colorado in reproduction, AI and foaling, she has now been at Ebony Park Performance Friesians as a breeding and nutrition specialist and stud manager for 5 years.

As we start to get into the winter months and look towards spring and the breeding season, I have had people asking about the ins and outs of semen quality - how do you know you have viable semen to breed your mare to, especially when it has been shipped out either chilled or frozen? So this month I wanted to talk about semen morphology and quality, and what you should be looking

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for and doing to ensure your mare has the best chance possible of getting pregnant!!

When you collect semen from a stallion or receive semen to inseminate your mare with, you need to evaluate the amounts of sperm that are what is called progressively m o ti l e - th i s means that not only are they alive and ‘wiggling’ – but they are also moving forwards in a straight line.

These are the only truly ‘fertile’ sperm cells, and Source: www.sciencephoto.com

therefore the number of progressively motile sperm cells is a true indication of the fertility of the sperm sample. This is very difficult because different people will have different views on the levels that are motile. This is why it is useful to have a computer program (see figure below - the progressively motile sperm cells are shown in green) that measures the levels of motility of the sperms objectively all the time – however, in most cases this is not practical, as the computer equipment is VERY expensive.

There is a massive variation within and between stallions as to the volume of the semen, but this actually has no correlation with the number of sperm cells

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Kind Kate’s Knowledge | Semen Quality & Health leaving it for too long will kill many of the sperm cells and reduce your mares chance of falling pregnant.

Some examples of abnormal sperm cells.

Source: Colorado State University within the ejaculate – generally the bigger the stallions testicles, the more sperm can be produced (so bigger stallions usually produce more sperm than ponies!).

There are HEAPS of things that will kill equine sperm cells – they are very fragile unfortunately (more so than many other animals) – so we need to know what to be careful of and what to look for.

Things like sunlight, temperature, contamination, shaking up the sample and

Temperature – affects sperm n u m b e r s produced by the stallion as well as the quality of the sperm cells.

If you compare the temperature of the stallions scrotum with that of the inside of the thigh when he is at rest, the testes should be cooler than the thigh.

Being frozen affects motility, as the temperature affects many of the cells, as well as the ‘freshness’ of the sperm cells.

When you chill semen this helps sperm survive for longer as you are decreasing metabolic action. When semen is chilled at 5 degrees Celsius, it is at around 7% of its normal metabolic rate.

When you freeze semen, the metabolic rate is so small, we generally describe it as being at zero – which in theory means that it could last

forever if kept at that extremely low temperature in liquid nitrogen!!

When you receive semen to inseminate your mare with, there are a number things you can look for without having to inspect it under the microscope. One of these is the colour.

If the sample is yellow tinged, this could mean that it is dirty, or that there is urine in the sample (it will also smell like urine) – many stallions have this problem, and it is a problem as urine is spermicidal (it kills the sperm cells).

If the sample looks red, this could mean that there is blood contaminating the sample – again, blood is spermicidal!

Depending on what is going on with the stallion, this could be just a on-off problem, or it could be ongoing.

The good thing about artificial insemination is that it is much easier to see the colour and smell the sample than it is in normal hand coverings.

When we are shipping semen, we tend to add a nonfat dried milk or egg yolk solid with glucose mixed with saline to the sample – this is called extender. We can also add antibiotics to the extender, which prevents any bacteria from growing in the sample and killing off all the semen.

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Kind Kate’s Knowledge | Semen Quality & Health cells in the total ejaculate!!

Sunlight (and warmth and nutrition) on the horse (not the sperm) has a positive effect on sperm count – horses are long day breeders, which means they are s e a s o n a l breeders during the spring and s u m m e r months.

For the mare all the sperm cells required for fertilisation have passed through the uterus and into the fallopian tube (which is Diagram of abnormal sperm cells. Source: w h e r e www.answers.com fertilisation takes place) Extenders are isotonic, which within 6 hours of mating. This means that the osmotic or salt is significant, as it means that, concentration is the same as if the mare is prone to post the sperm cells, so they are breeding infections, the uterus not killed! can be flushed out and Extender also contains a treated as soon as 6 hours buffered saline, which keeps after mating without the pH of the sperm sample interfering with fertility and neutral as sperm are pregnancy rates. producing acids and other When we are looking at the waste products that can de sperm sample under a detrimental to their survival. microscope, there are a few In a normal sized horse things to look for other than (500kg), we are expecting to whether the sperm cells are see around 5 billion sperm alive or dead, and whether

they are moving in a straight line.

The head of horse sperm is like a shovel – it is two dimensional really with a very flat side. When the sperm is swimming, it moves forward by wiggling its tail from side to side – the head flips over and rotates, hence the sperm moves in a spiral like manner when it swims.

However, you can get, for various reasons, sperm that doesn’t look quite right. When you are talking about the actual look of the semen, we call this looking at the morphology. The sperm cell may be alive and wiggling, but it has two heads, or two tails!

These sperm cells are generally not progressively motile, and therefore are not fertile as they will never reach the mares fallopian tube to fertilise an egg!

If you have any questions about foal immunity, or if you would like to ask a question that I can answer in a future article, make sure you email me at info@ebonyparkstud.com.au To Your Dreams Becoming Reality,

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Tash’s Training Tip | Going Back to Dressage Basics

A lot of people struggle with knowing what the next step in their riding is. I remember I thought going up a level was a huge ‘deal’. Now going up a level is or isn’t a big deal. I don’t know if it is or not, but I know that thinking it is won’t help me, so I choose to think it isn’t!

Dressage is all about training the horse. The more horses I train up the grades, the more I think it isn’t even about going up. The horse is capable of doing every single movement we ask in the GP test as a foal.

It isn’t about teaching the horse something it doesn’t know. It’s about helping the horse to understand what we want from our aids, and building his strength to carry himself and us through a test.

I liken it to a puzzle. When you start a puzzle, you may have only a few pieces together. Those few pieces are stop, go and turn if you are lucky ;) Gradually you add finesse. Go needs to come

from light aids, and there are endless variances of go, go into my bridle, go through your back, go into trot, canter, go straight into canter from trot, without any fast trot steps. Every day I work on the horse going that little bit quicker from my aids. His life is also filled with learning new things, we might play with shoulder-in, travers, renvers, walk-canter transitions, counter canter, flying changes, half steps. When he has learnt all this, then there is nothing ‘new’ to teach, just development of all the games we played. The travers goes into half pass and pirouettes, the flying change into tempis, the half steps into piaffe and passage.

But what are the basics? I still don’t know the basics as well as I need to! I truly believe the biggest difference between me and my young rider is that I understand basics better than her, and Isabel Werth knows the basics better than I. So we are all in this together. This quest, if you like, in really uncovering, understanding and mastering the basics.

It all looks so easy on paper, but as we know takes at least 5 years to all eventuate. When I am training, my clients can get frustrated they aren’t getting it, it’s not working and they aren’t progressing. 99% of the time this is because they haven’t got their basics right.

If the horse is blocked in any way he can't perform. He can’t be soft over his back, he can’t let his transitions come through. Everything will be a fight and a struggle.

Whenever I get on a horse I am looking for a soft mouth and moving forward from my leg and seat, into a soft outside rein. The horse must be ‘through’ - I feel if a horse is ‘through’ if he is ‘with’ me. He is with me - if I change my seat he goes with me and trots or canters or halts, he reacts to my tiny weight aids, he maintains an outside rein connection and a soft supple bend to the inside.

We hear it all the time. Go back to basics.

For now I thought it might be useful to share my understanding of the basics.

This is not ‘the’ list, I believe horseriding is like handwriting, we will all develop our own unique way to write the letter A, but we will all have a result that can be understood as an A. This is my A in basics.

This is the same as the German Training scale that has

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Tash’s Training Tip | Going Back to Dressage Basics rhythm, losgelassenheit and contact as its first three steps.

By Rhythm I make that mean that the horse stays in a forward rhythm by himself.

He doesn’t rush off and get too fast, he also doesn't suck back and get behind the leg and slow. He maintains his own balance and own forward rhythm unless I ask for a change. He does this in all three gaits - walk, trot and canter. I need energy in my dressage horse - without it I have nothing - so the first 5 minutes are spent encouraging the horse to have the energy and the rhythm I want, completely under my control.

Which goes into Losgelassenheit. I LOVE this word! We translate it to relaxation - but to me relaxation is sitting on the beach doing nothing. My Friesians shouldn’t be relaxed

- to them relaxation is eating grass! So I much prefer the translation of throughness or suppleness. We want the horse to feel ‘willing’ - we want the horse to be relaxed so it’ s not fighting us and trying to take control - we want him to allow our aids through and respond to them. So while I have rhythm, I want to also feel that the horse is listening to me, responding to my light aids and willingly wanting to perform what I ask. If I don’t feel this I will use a ‘louder’ aid until the horse responds and starts listening to my quiet aids again.

Then lastly do I have Contact? Can I move the horses shoulders around, can I put his legs wherever I want.

If I use inside leg does he soften and bend through his body, is he in a quiet soft contact, or is he heavy on the forehand wanting me to hold his head up, or is he empty in the contact and just tucking his nose in but I have no real connection? I have to feel his mouth - it’s how I talk to him so I work on pushing him over his back and into his outside rein, so I can catch him and be connected to him through my legs, seat and reins.

day - your SEAT. Again my seat is better than my young rider, Isabel's seat is better t h a n m e . Yo u r s e a t i s EVERYTHING when you ride! The more I learn and grow in my dressage journey, the more aware I am of how all that matters is how I use my seat. Awareness of how to use it and also building the tiny muscles and control, so you can use any part of your body completely independently of another is vitally important to progressing through the grades.

Remember if there is anything you want me to cover in these articles email info@yourridingsuccess.com - I am here to help!

For more information on going forward in your dressage journey, check out my new dressage program, Dressage Mastery Academy which you can join for just $1, by going to www.dressagemastery.com To Your Dressage Success,

Natasha Althoff

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Famke

Famke x Elko Due: 27th December 2015 Ebony Park Famke is the first purebred Friesian mare that we imported from Holland in 2005. Having produced seven lovely foals so far to Ebony Park Abe, Ebony Park Elko and Ebony Park Jorrit, she is currently in foal again to Ebony Park Elko.

At the 2009 Keuring, she was upgraded from Studbook mare status to Ster mare – we are so proud of her! Famke’s 2015 foal is available on one of our payment plans.

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Kirsten

Kirsten x Elko Due: 4th December 2015 Ebony Park Kirsten was imported from Holland in foal to Brandus 345 in 2007. In addition to being a sweet mare with a gorgeous temperament and lovely movement, Kirsten has proven to be an asset to the breeding program at Ebony Park, producing six foals including foals by Ebony Park Elko and Ebony Park Abe, all with stunning movement. She is in foal again to Ebony Park Elko for 2015 - this foal is available on one of our payment plans, and we are sure it will be just as stunning as her previous foals!

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Ebony Park High Point Award 2015

2015 Entries have opened!

Thanks to Lara for sending through these photos of herself and Achillies winning some ribbons!! :)

It’s been a bit quiet over the colder months, but we are getting plenty of entries in for the Ebony Park High point award 2015!!!

If you have invested in an Ebony Park horse, and you are out there and competing, in whatever discipline - including showing - send us through your results to info@ebonyparkstud.com.au to be in the running for 2015!

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Ebony Park TV

Introducing Dressage Mastery TV - mini-series with Natasha on SEAT! Part 1 of 3 (click on the video above to play)

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Tash's Training Tip: I was recently told—gee Natasha you are so good at manifesting what you want!

Now if any of you have had anything to do with the ‘secret’ you would know what manifesting what you want is all about.

The ‘secret’ was all the rage a couple of years back and it was based on the idea of the law of attraction. That you can attract everything you want into your life.

This idea of attracting and manifesting what you want it also something I do believe in from my NLP background.

However. the ‘secret’ only talked about this principle and seemed to miss out on the very vital ingredient to success. ACTION! So yes I agree I am good at attracting what I want. I have always said I would ride black stallions all day ever since I was a little girl – and now look at me - I ride black stallions all day.

But I didn’t get that from sitting in my room and wishing for it. I took action. Massive loads of action! That’s the key from any successful person - they did what others were not prepared to do. So I ask you now - what are you prepared to do for your dreams?

Massive Action creates massive results, so go get em!!!

Left: Disney horses!

Below: Caption this! Abe with a mouthful of grass

Below: Quote of the week Below left: Caption this!

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Something awesome is coming this December...

Something we have never done before...

We can’t wait to tell you what it is...

We can’t tell you much...

But... know you will love it!

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Ebony Park Performance Complex!

It has been a long time in the planning but FINALLY we are moving forwards with this project!!!

The Ebony Park Performance Complex is a custom built mirror lined indoor with 25 stables, hot wash, solarium, tack room, feed room, breeding AI area all undercover with a beautiful office and viewing area at the front.

It has been designed to keep the Ebony Park Performance Horses in luxury condition and give us a focussed, dedicated environment to train and improve dressage performance.

It’s all starting to happen!! We have had some setbacks with unexpected rock... but we are now well underway with footings getting started in in the last week of June!! :) Hopefully next month we have some great progress, with part of the building expected to go up in the next few weeks!

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Photo Gallery - Farm Snapshot

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Selfies!!!

Right: Megan with 3 week old Annabelle Chloe meeting retired dressage horse Ben for the first time

Above: Lara and Achillies with his new bridle!!

Left: Caroline, Dakarai and Danielle

Left: Danielle and her horse “I said selfie he said no�

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Above: Dakarai and Dejavoo

5 Minutes with Adelinde Cornelissen When did you start competing - what discipline and at what age?

Dressage at around the age of 7. At age 16 and 18 years old became Dutch champion showing my pony Ayesha in 1995 and his son Mr Pride in 1997.

Why riding?

It is something I wanted to do all my life. The relationship with a horse to perform together is something very special for me. I am quite athletic and love many sports including cycling, running, skating and swimming.

When and where did you participate at your first international competition?

2007 - In Falsterbo, Sweden.

(She surprised the world by becoming the runner up behind Swedish star Jan Brink.

Most memorable riding story...

Adelinde’s first international contest was in Falsterbo, Sweden, in 2007. She surprised the world by becoming the runner up behind Swedish star Jan Brink. She surprised the world even more by becoming the runner up behind Isabell Werth in the biggest international CDI of the world Aachen 2008, only her third international contest abroad. The choice for the Dutch Olympic team had been made before Aachen and Adelinde and her horse Parzival became the reserve rider for the Dutch squad for the Olympic Games 2008. The year 2009 became rather unbelievable. Adelinde scored a World Record in the Grand Prix Special (84.04%) and won the individual gold medal at the Europeans in Windsor, next to the team gold medal with the Dutch and the individual silver medal in the Freestyle. After all those successes, coincidences that decided her choices in the past, now again helped her further. Through a new Grand

FACTS DOB: 08/07/1979 Country: Netherlands Website: www.adelinde.nl Current World Ranking: 4 Education: University Graduate - English Teacher Current Trainers: Sjef Janssen Johan Hamminga (trainer to GP level)

Prix horse Jerich Wünschtraum owned by Herbert Jerich from Austria, she finally could welcome a sponsor who helped her to buy the second half of her medal horse Parzival from co-owner Henk Koers.

Hobbies?

All sports.

Superstitions?

STATS

None

Sponsors:

Most influential person and why?

It's not just one person. I am grateful to my Mum and Dad for teaching me everything in life and to my trainers who helped me to the place where I am now, especially Johan Hemmings at the start and Sjef Janssen now.

Ambitions during sporting career?

Simply to get better every day and to improve with Parzival and hopefully with a lot of other horses to come.

• Jerich International • Havens • Anky Technical Casuals • Olaf Bijlsma

Languages: • English • Dutch • German

Source: FEI Official Website

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