Ray Hunt: "A horse doesn't want to get hurt. You are going to have to do something to make the wrong thing difficult and the right thing easy, but you should never do something to hurt him on purpose."

 Tom Dorrance: "Never knock the curiosity out of the young horse."

Our Breeding Philosophy.

Our mission at Kareela Hill is to raise and educate our foals using the Natural Horsemanship principles and philosophies of Parelli Natural Horsemanship. We take great pride in taking the time it takes to produce a horse with the best start nutritionally and with its handling. All our horses are sold with instruction DVD's and after sales support to help you get to know your new partner. Specialist Parelli instructors are frequently engaged to help us to achieve our goals and keep us on the road of never -ending self -improvement.

Warmbloods:

Our aim with our warmblood 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. We have bred several using frozen semen from Germany through IHB and are now also breeding a quarter horse/warmblood cross. This crossbred programme has resulted in a horse that will be able to do stock work one day, compete the next and trail ride calmly. The first crop is still only yearlings and will be started under saddle later this year. But, so far, they are proving to be a very versatile and easy to train lot that are also gorgeous to look at.

Below: Radical Blue Rebecca, Radical Blue Limelight and Radical Blue Merlin, all by Magic and out of warmblood mares.

     Left: RB Limelight

Below:  Our 4 "frozen" foals by such sires as Weltmeyer, Wolkenstein 11 and Wolkentanz

  Wolkenstar                                      Wolkendanza

Weltanna                                                 Wolken Aspen

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.

The Western Pleasure Type Quarter Horse. These horses are such a delight to work with due to their unflappable temperament, high intelligence, athleticism and all round usefulness. We have sourced a super quiet and handsome stallion, Radical Blue Magic (see stallion page), from NSW to put over our mares and also stand at stud for outside mares. These all-rounders can do Pony Club one day, move sheep the next, be turned out for weeks and come back in to work without any fuss. this year we have also added a new dimension by crossing Magic with a few select warmblood mares. See the For Sale page to view these.

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  well handled from birth. We practice Natural Horsemanship techniques at all time and all members of the family constantly seek to up-grade their skills, principally using Parelli. 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 also 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 (DJD'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 seven 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.

Magic at 3 years old, Feb 09

Progeny and Testimonials

 2001 - 2009

From Magic's breeder, Sue Fornasier, NSW (via email)

Thursday, November 12th

Hi Anna and Claire

I have just had a look at your website again after not doing so for a while and i am blown away by the quality of Magic's foals. Absolutely awesome and beautiful.

And Magic looks so well and radiant. He looks great going over the poles and shows his wonderful floating movement in that picture as he appears to almost hover over the poles.

As I have said before, I feel so grateful that he has come into your hands as you are really bringing out the best in him

I must say, I have experienced a few foals now and his temperament was so far the best. He was a very easy foal to handle right from the start and I will always treasure my memories of him.

Thanks for giving him such a wonderful home.

Best wishes and kind regards,

Sue

 Kareela Hailstorm

Stock Horse

Coolongatta Storm Boy x Kareela Giselle (Sundance King)

Chestnut Filly born Nov03

SOLD

 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 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.