Holistic, evidence-based horse training - Education for people who love their horses and want to have an even more amazing relationship with them

We teach people how to train their horses using positive reinforcement and beyond - giving choices, building trust and helping to deepen the emotional connection between human and horse.

5 Ways to Have an Even Better Relationship with Your Horse in 2026

We want you to have the most amazing, beautiful, trust-filled relationship with your horse into 2026 and beyond. We’ve put together 5 of our top tips on ways you can have an even better relationship with your horse this year to give you some prompts that will see your relationship keep getting better and better.

After you sign up below, you will receive an email straight into your inbox with these 5 ways (check your other/junk/spam folder if you can’t spy it in your inbox).

In future, you’ll also receive news and updates about our events, activities, training and horse-keeping tips and what’s going on with our herd.

“Learning with Sarah has made me feel many things, the first that comes to mind is being understood. When I first 'met' Sarah, she expressed genuine interest, not only in my current situation with my horse & my aspirations for the future, but in me as a person. With this came a sense of connection, initially with Sarah as an individual, through our shared views & interests, as well as some parallel stories playing out in our lives simultaneously. Later, the From Green to Growth Program opened up a connection to other like-minded & lovely people, who appreciate the challenges of working with our horses & in keeping them happy & healthy in general. They also know how much it means to make progress & celebrate the little wins.

I feel inspired by how hard Sarah works to make Abbey's Run Equestrian a success & how supportive she is to her members. Her commitment to making this kind of education available to as many people as possible, is truly admirable. That level of passion is infectious, and is evident in the fact she has been doing this for 30 years! 

Ultimately, learning with Sarah leaves me feeling empowered, capable of doing more, learning more, trying more."

  • SH, 2026

Abbey’s Run Equestrian

is an educational business helping to connect horse people to quality information and experts along with sharing our knowledge. Our aim is to help horse people be the most amazing horse people they can be for their horses.

There are four ways we can support you and your equine partner:

  1. Abbey’s Run Equestrian Membership: our monthly, virtual Membership is ideal for you if you’re looking to learn & make connections but your life can be a bit bonkers and you don’t always have a lot of time, so you need something you can dip in and out of as life allows.

  2. VIP Weekends: these weekends are for you if you love learning in-person, hands-on, in a beautiful environment and as part of an intimate group where you get to share, be heard and get ample time to have your questions answered.

  3. From Green to Growth - developing positive partnerships for the future: this fully virtual 4-month program is for you if you’re an owner of young and/or green (inexperienced in any way) horse and you would like a structured, step-by-step, supported pathway to make efficient progress and to develop your confidence, clarity (ditch your analysis-paralysis) and feel empowered in taking your training forward.

  4. Self-paced short courses: are for you if self-guided, self-paced virtual learning works well for you. Our first course, Prioritise Your Training is a step-by-step process to work through that will give you the clarity and certainty about your training priorities - literally, so you know, with confidence, what to go out and work on today (tomorrow & next week too).

If you think you’d like to learn with us, but you’re not sure which option is for you, book a free 20-minute, 1:1 call with Sarah and we can see if any of our offers are a good fit for you and your horse, or, we can refer you on to some of our wonderful colleagues and/or other resources.

We also have our popular podcast, An Equine Conversation (available on most podcast apps), that connects you with top-quality information from experts and horse-owners around the world and has over 40 episodes in the back catalogue for your reference.

Occasionally, we explore other fun, equine-learning activities and opportunities too. Be sure you sign-up to our mailing list (using the easy form above), to be the first to find out what we’ve got happening.

Our online services are available from anywhere in the world (except the USA and Canda due to insurance limitations) and face-to-face activities are based on-site at Abbey’s Run, near Benalla in Northeast Victoria, Australia.

We acknowledge the Traditional custodians of the land at Abbey’s Run, the Waywarru, Bpangerang and Taungurung peoples.

We acknowledge Elders past & present.

We recognise and greatly respect Traditional custodians connection to and care for Country, which here, extends back 10’s of thousands of years and continues today.

We look forward to connecting with you soon

The Abbey’s Run Equestrian Team