Some of our Friends

We acknowledge that it takes a collective team of supporters, professionals and inspiration to keep you and your horse travelling on your journey.

Below are some of the people and groups who we have worked with and or whose work we admire. Click on the title to be taken to the main page for each business / person / organisation. Links will open into a new browser window.

AK Embroidery

We love supporting other small and local businesses. AK Embroidery, based in Gippsland Victoria, has worked with us on taking our logo and turning it into beautiful pieces of uniform that we love wearing & help in branding our little business. Kym and the team came highly recommended and we’ve found them really good to work with.

All Animal Eye Service

Dr Andrew Turner and the team at All Animal Eye Services have been supporting our team since 2018. This has been through local Vet referrals for both Charli (dog) and Flex (horse). While the clinic is based in Mt Waverley (eastern suburb out of Melbourne), the clinic offer regular Regional visits & consults which means we’ve been able to see Dr Andrew closer to home. We have found this specialist practice to be invaluable in providing specific ophthalmology support with Dr Andrew’s wealth of knowledge, not to mention kind manner.

Andrea Michael - Animal Art And Pet Portraits

 Andrea Michael is an award-winning artist who has a deep and abiding love of all animals. Andrea delights in bringing her subjects to life in high detail, utilising a range of mediums. Especially close to her heart are horses and dogs, but she considers all animals worthy subjects to capture.

Behavior Explorer

Established by Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz and Mary Hunter, Behavior Explorer looks at: why people and animals do what they do, how we can be more effective as teachers and trainers and explores all things related to behavior. Dr. Jesús Rosales-Ruiz and Mary Hunter are the minds behind the creation of PORTL (Portable Operant Research and Teaching Lab), a table-top game to help really sharpen training skills.

Cav Equine Veterinary Services Benalla

Dr Sarah Cavill is one of our wonderful local equine veterinarians who supports our team. Cav Equine can help with lameness, medicine, reproduction and general surgery. Consultations available at CavEquine or ambulatory service to your property. Sarah is a valuable member of the Abbey’s Run Equestrian team - without who we could not keep our team functioning.

Connection Training

Hannah Weston, Rachel Bedingfield and the team at Connection Training provide online courses, have recently released their first book and in some parts of the world offer face-to-face coaching.  Their work is down-to-earth and relatable, no matter what size or shape of equine you are working with.  We have found their work invaluable.

Empowering Equine Education

Founded by Dr Lizzie McCready, BVetMed (Hons), Empowering Equine Education is an interactive platform for horse owners and professionals. Offering vet-created and facilitated online courses and resources resources to allow you to become the best horse owner you can be. Lizzie is a really knowledgeable vet with a passion for helping horse owners be prepared and empowered to care for their horses when things go NQR.

Equiculture & The Equicentral System

We love the work of Jane & Stuart Myers on horse health, grazing & property management. We incorporate many of their principles in developing our property layout and functionality here at Abbey’s Run. ‘The Equicentral System is a way of managing your horses, and the land they live on, in a SUSTAINABLE way. It strives to save time, money and effort, and it increases the health and 'wellbeing' of your horses. It also improves their pasture, and has big benefits for the wider environment - a true win-win-win scenario.’

Equiosity

If you’re into Podcasts, we recommend listening to Equiosity, the Podcast of Alexandra Kurland and Dominique Day. A new Podcast is released weekly, often including special guests. Equiosity provides heaps of food-for-thought when it comes to animal training, with a particular focus on the horse + human bond. This has been a regular on our podcast playlist for some time and is a really valuable resource. If you haven’t heard about Panda, the miniature Guide Horse, then I can’t recommend enough, listening to the episodes about her – they blew my mind! 

Evie Franscesca Design Studio

Evie is the wonderful graphic designer behind the Abbey’s Run Equestrian logo & the gradual branding we’ll be rolling out as of March 2023. Despite the challenge of working together across different continents and never having spoken & everything organised by email, Evie’s communication has been absolutely fabulous. It’s been such a lovely experience working with Evie and we can’t recommend her highly enough - both for her design talent but also her ability to communicate with her clients.

Horse Magic

Early in 2020, I connected with the lovely Heather and discovered her blog, Horse Magic. I’m not a huge blog reader, but wow, once I ‘picked this one up’, I honestly could not put it down. Heather’s personal journey is relatable, captivating and inspiring. The link in the title above takes you to the first post – I’d recommend reading the story in order. Enjoy!

Horse Vet Dentist

We can’t recommend Dr Paul Owens highly enough for a full dental check and report for your horse.  Paul is here at Abbey’s Run every 6 months to check over our equine team.  His knowledge and willingness to educate, explain and show what’s going on is awesome. 

HorseForce Legal

HorseForce Legal is an Australian legal firm that specialises in horses and the law.  The team talk our language, know how horses behave and understand the risks associated with horse dealings and activities. We have found Michael and the team excellent to deal with for our legal needs & would recommend them to others.

Horses for Future

Alexandra Kurland’s newest podcast and Facebook group, Horses for Future explores how us horse people can make a positive difference to the environment around us and globally through our actions and how we manage our horses and properties.

I was lucky enough to be invited onto the podcast with Alexandra and you can hear that interview over episodes 26 and 27.

Website (and link to Podcast): http://kurlanda.wixsite.com/sequestercarbon

Facebook group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/521046615390520/

MB Podcast Services

MB Podcast Services provide podcast engineering and consultation services with a goal to empower podcast creators for those who would like to develop their own skills. For those who would like to outsource some of the podcast production grunt work, podcast editing & mastering services are also available. MB Podcast Services have been a fantastic source of advice, expertise and skill in developing our podcast at Abbey’s Run Equestrian, An Equine Conversation.

Positively Together

Based in New Zealand, Bex Tasker through Positively Together offers a range of resources and training opportunities for all ages to improve their connection with their horses, ponies and other animals. Training includes clinics (locally and overseas) and lessons, an online membership community, coaching intensives and an amazing youth programme (in partnership with a youth worker) that focuses on ethical horse training, life skills and mental health.

Sawmill Cottage Farm

Sawmill Cottage is a Farm Stay nestled in the Greta Valley at the foothills of the High Country in the beautiful North East of Victoria. Situated just up the road from Abbey’s Run Equestrian Sawmill Cottage is a spacious fully self contained open plan cottage, packed full of character and equipped with everything you will need for a peaceful and relaxing getaway.

StaleCheerios

Visit StaleCheerios for the awesome work of Mary Hunter (Masters of Science in Behavior Analysis). Mary shares stories, how-to articles, videos, conference reviews, and more about how positive, science-based training techniques can be used with ALL species, including dogs, horses, cats, rats, exotic animals, and more. Her combination of hands-on experience and academic knowledge gives her a unique perspective when working with pets and their owners.

The Canine Copyrighter

If you have a business in the canine (or if you ask nicely like I did, equine) space, and need support with copywriting or Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), then Rikki at The Canine Copywriter is who you want to reach out to. There are a number of ways Rikki can support you and her down-to-earth, practical and realistic approach is awesome and entirely stress reducing.

The Clicker Centre

The Clicker Centre is Alexandra Kurland’s educational website. The site is choc full of loads of resources (including: online courses, clinics and hard copy books and DVDs available) to help you in your horse training journey. Alexandra has been a leader in bringing positive reinforcement training to the horse-world. She has a huge amount of knowledge and the drive to share and help others.

The Equine Clicker Show

The Equine Clicker Show (TECS) is the official, international organization providing connection, community, and competition for equine clicker trainers. TECS offers an annual, virtual competition open to all positive reinforcement based trainers & their equines. The competition provides a competitive outlet with structured guidelines and goals for the development of well rounded, willing, and obedient equines without the use of force or aversives.

The Hoof in Health and Disease

The Facebook page of our wonderful trimmer Julie who has helped us learn so much about hoof health, care and shares our love of gardening. Julie’s knowledge and skill with hooves and her horse handling is outstanding and she has done (and continues to do) an amazing job teaching us how to trim our own horses which helps us to keep their feet ‘wearing’ in a more natural way. On this page Julie shares great information, stories and resources.