Just 30 mins from Melbourne, Emmandy Equestrian specialises in the retraining of quality thoroughbre
02/06/2024
🔥 RARE PADDOCK AVAILABILITY 🔥
🐎 FULL CARE Agistment, Little River 🐎
We have a rare opening for full-care boutique agistment, suitable for a working professional wanting twice-daily quality care, feeding and rugging for their horse in a quiet and friendly environment.
Call or PM for more info and property inspection 🐴
23/04/2023
🔥 RARE PADDOCK AVAILABILITY 🔥
🐎 FULL CARE Agistment, Little River 🐎
We have a rare opening for full-care boutique agistment, suitable for a working professional wanting twice-daily quality care, feeding and rugging for their horse.
Call or PM for inspection 🐴
29/08/2022
Have you met (and fallen in love with!) our dreamy Donny?
Please jump on the Equine Edge page and comment your experience with him! Like and follow to see how he’s changing peoples lives everyday 🦄
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MEET THE TEAM: Donny [Brunswick Street] 8yo Thoroughbred
Donny might the best person you'll ever meet. In his previous life as a very successful racehorse, Donny won the 2018 Darwin Guineas horse race and a total of $83,000. He's also won 100's of hearts across Australia, from handlers, jockeys and owners in the racing industry, to more recently participants in our Team Development and Leadership programs.
Donny is truly made for this work. You may have seen the video of him being led by a 2yo child (go back a few posts if you missed it - it's adorable!).
Donny is gentle and kind. He doesn't judge, he takes you as you come - and once you've earned his trust, he'll move mountains for you. But try and bully him and he'll make his opinion known!
Donny has a bucket load he can teach you about your team's strengths; effective communication, leadership competencies, trust and team building, and strategic thinking, planning and analysis.
Keen to hear how Donny can give your team the edge? Contact us at equineedge.com.au to learn how our team development programs are helping organisations thrive across Melbourne and Geelong 🐎
24/08/2022
29/07/2022
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Reminder: big wins come by taking small steps.
🖼 credit: notsalmon.com
26/07/2022
Donny’s wise words: “When life gives you mud, treat yourself to a mud mask.”
Let Donny teach you to live your best life this weekend (link in first comment) ⬇️
20/05/2022
Here’s a little update on Donny (Brunswick Street).
After his kissing spine diagnosis last year, Donny has become a key team member in my Equine Experiential Education program.
Donny takes his role of helping individuals and teams to reach their full potential very seriously.
To date, Donny has never met a person who didn’t adore him 💗
Equine Edge
28/12/2021
🔥 One paddock available from January 🔥
🐎 Last spot filled within one day of posting 🐎
10/11/2021
🐎 FULL CARE Agistment, Little River 🐎
We have a rare opening for full-care boutique agistment, suitable for a working professional wanting twice-daily quality care, feeding and rugging for their horse.
Located 30mins from Melbourne or Geelong CBDs, our private property offers a quiet and friendly atmosphere restricted to 7 agistee paddocks - perfect for someone looking to escape bigger and busier crowded agistments.
✅ Large tree-lined improved-pasture paddocks
✅ 60x20 flood-lit sand arena
✅ 22m sand roundyard
✅ Grass riding area
✅ Undercover fully lit cross-ties
✅ Concrete wash bay
✅ Day yards and outdoor wash bay
✅ Secure feed and tack storage
✅ Fully insured
✅ Cavalettis, showjumps and woodshield poles
✅ Automatic waterers
✅ Horse-safe mesh fencing and gates with electric stand offs
✅ Float parking
✅ Pony club, you yangs trails and elcho park equestrian centre all a short trip by float.
➡️ Option 1 Full Care: Large 3/4 acre Private Paddock $134pw
➡️ Option 2 Full Care: Large 3/4 acre Private Paddock with new lined shelter $144pw
Inspections by appointment only.
Enquiries to Emma by PM or please call 0421572047 (leave a message and I’ll return your call).
Donny 🖤 finally starting to relax after his long list of issues… a month ago he struggled to pick up the right canter lead - this was the first ask today 🙌🏻 🐎.
Now he’s less anxious, he’s stretching to the contact, softer through his back and really building strength. Contact is still an issue at times, but generally he’s much better at accepting it.
He did pull a shoe this week 😑 but nothing the farrier won’t sort on Wednesday.
// BRUNSWICK STREET //
12 months on - this ride today makes me so happy! Yes, this looks like a super ordinary green horse video - but hear me out! This guy’s been a slooooow burn 🔥 but so worthwhile to have him so relaxed and happy as he’s just the nicest person I’ve ever known 🦄
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THE JOURNEY SO FAR…
July last year, Donny arrived fresh off a truck from Darwin for a well-deserved spell post racing.
After a couple of months resting, he lightly started some retraining with the view to event him. Some behavioural issues led to exploring ulcers - and a gastroscope confirmed he did in fact have very painful grade 3 ulcers 😔.
After finishing a 3 month course of ulcer treatment, the symptoms quickly returned with a vengeance. A second gastroscope revealed severe pyloric disease - so an additional treatment of carafate was added in addition to ulcershield. Plus some additional management strategies.
Riding had also aggravated a huge unsightly sarcoid on Donny’s face where the bit ring sits. After trying different fits with no way to avoid rubbing, it was decided we treat his sarcoid with Xxterra cream. This meant another few months of no riding as the treatment causes a severe burn-like sore to kill the tumour.
So summer passed, still no riding. Finally the sarcoid healed - a third gastroscope showed the ulcers had healed. Donny started work 🎉 started gaining strength, had weekly local outings for exposure and a riding club rally as his first “atmosphere”.
Just as we finally started to make some progress, he suddenly went very lame after a shoeing. 😭
Nerve blocks indicated feet as an issue, so off he went for some corrective farriery. Just as we were expecting to see improvement, he THEN contracted Ross River Fever and spent many weeks very flat with post-viral symptoms (I know, right - like how much bad luck…?!)
So here we are, August a year on. Though the lameness had improved dramatically in the past weeks, he still hasn’t been perfect - and RRV is known to cause ongoing issues with the hoof laminae. Our visit last week the vet suggested some heart bars to support his crushed heels - and Donny has made a dramatic improvement. The vet insisted - he needs to be worked! So after months and months off, here he is - absolutely trying his heart out to do good. Previously he’s always been quite stressed about upward transitions and not balanced enough to pick up correct canter leads. So this is just so good!
Fingers crossed the last year is behind us and we can go onward and upward from here. But to anyone else out there feeling defeated - sometimes chipping away, perseverance and patience pays off.
🐎 Donny’s fussy mouth approves of his Bombers Bit expertly fitted by Gary Mudgway