About Us
Kareela Hill
is a family owned stud, situated
near Kojonup, 260km south of Perth, Western Australia,
just off the Albany Highway. It is a 1400 acre working farm producing sheep for wool and
crops of canola, oats, wheat and barley. The reliable rainfall, cool
temperatures, heavy soil and improved pastures make this an ideal location for
the health and development of broodmares and young horses.
Our Breeding Philosophy.
Our aim with horse
breeding is to produce an attractive, athletic,
strong boned performance horse with an excellent calm temperament and
super movement which will suit both dressage
and jumping.
Above: Quarter horse mare Zipped in Three with her new born
foal, Zipped In Mystery in 2007.
Left:
Our first frozen semen baby by Weltmeyer, Weltanna.
This quest has led us
to focus on the Hanoverian Warmblood breed and specialise in using
imported frozen semen (IFS) from
Germany. Pregnancies can therefore be
difficult to achieve. However, the opportunity to breed to the "best of the
best" and have foals by super sires such as Weltmeyer and other world class
stallions is too exciting to ignore.
Our other love is the famed
Quarter Horse. These horses are
such a delight to work with due to their unflappable temperament, high
intelligence, athleticism and all round usefulness. They can do Pony Club one day, move sheep
the next, be turned out for weeks and come back in to work without any fuss. We
started breeding Quarter Horses in 1986 in order to produce athletic polocrosse
horses with strong bone and temperament.
Crossed with thoroughbred mares, these
horses have served the family well over the years in all kinds of disciplines.
Giselle
is the last mare we have kept from this
program.
All our foals are imprinted and well
handled from birth. We can walk up to any of them in the paddock and they will
come to us for a scratch and a cuddle. Attention is given to their correct
nutritional requirements as correct
nutrition is essential to develop strong bones and joints. We also do not
believe in bringing our
foals and yearlings on too quickly with an over-rich forced diet as this can
lead to problems with chronic diseases in the joints later in life (OCD's).
Our foals
also get to enjoy the wide open
spaces necessary to best develop their musculo-skeletal frame and also become well socialised by growing up in a herd.
Picture right: Friendly Quarter Horse colt 'Rex" enjoying a cuddle from
a guest.
We believe that the best time to wean foals is
between six and eight months of age in as natural a way as possible. The benefits to
the foal's social, emotional and physical well-being is best served by not
rushing this important time in a foal's life. By the time the foal has reached
seven months of age, he or she can be weaned onto lush green feed and without
any emotional trauma to either the foal or the mare. These holistic and natural
approaches will help to ensure that our foals will reach their full potential,
be self confident and stay sound throughout their life.
Picture right: Mares and
foals enjoying the lush winter pasture of perennials, oats and lucerne under a
stormy sky.
Breeding History and Progeny 1987 - 1995
Below are pictured the original broodmares of
Kareela Hill Stud during the 1980's with their foals. The Principal broodmare,
Nellie, is pictured below with foal Giselle (left), a first cross Quarter horse sired
by Sundance King (Hill King Pistol). Pepper (right), is a first cross Friesian sired by Maurits Friso
and is now a brood mare in Queensland.

Nellie with foal
Giselle 1988
Nellie with Friesian foal Pepper 1990
Below is pictured Nellie with Flashdance sired by Sundance King
(Q), and Ida
with Buster, also by Sundance King.

Nellie with foal Flashdance (AQHA) and Ida with
foal
Buster (ASH)1987
Chocolate Obsession (DOB 15th November, 1990)
Chocolate Obsession (Reg EFAWA), or 'Domino' as he was known
as a foal, is a first cross Friesian sired by Maurits Friso out of Butterfly, a
black thoroughbred mare. He was a stunning black foal (pictured below left at 5
weeks) and blossomed into a very quiet and friendly horse with soft elastic
movement. He is pictured below
right at the age of 2 years, during his early training. 'Domino' left us after being broken
to saddle, moving into an eventing and dressage home where he has since excelled and is now
officially graded
Medium in dressage and a member of the Young Riders Dressage Squad . "Chocky", as he is
now known, led the young riders display doing a freestyle to music
parade at the Isobel Werth evening at the State Equestrian Centre in Perth in
December, 2005.

'Domino' at 5 weeks
'Domino at 2 years old with our 8 year old daughter. A gentle giant.
Kareela Escapade
'Ernie' was born here on Christmas Eve 1995. By "Otto" (Sue Goodwin's stallion) who is by Lutz
(dec'd) out of the thoroughbred mare "Pillow Talk". Ernie has been competing for
many years in ODE's, dressage and showjumping and is now also a Level 2 Parelli
student. He enjoys a relaxed life-style on the farm, being ridden by various
members of the family and the occasional house-guest.
Competing at Mt Barker Show, 2004
Competing On Kareela Escapade (Trakehner x
Thoroughbred) at Upper Blackwood Show, 2005, in the Show Horse and Halter Arabian Derivative
Classes.
Kareela Sundance
Sunny

Foaled Jan 1988. So quiet, we broken him in ourselves with no problem and sold
him on for pleasure riding, stock work and, later, he was a reliable children's
mount at Pony Club. He is a very attractive chocolate chestnut with flaxen mane
and tail. Photo taken at his second ride under saddle.