Who Are We?
Kimberley was also born into a horsey family, her mother riding trackwork for the jump racers in Scotland. Brought up through Pony Club, both her and her brother Steven were heavily involved in competitions, and would later represent Australia in mounted games in America. Kimberley has always loved training horses, and at the age of 15 took on her first breaker, an Australian Stock Horse named Jack.
From then on she had the Viewhill dream, attending lessons, clinics, shows, helping out at local studs, strapping at the ASH Nationals and Breeders championships for Shane Everingham. Completing the Horse Husbandry course at Tocal under Warwick Lawrence, she then headed up to Acton Super Beef for the chance to work with some of their famously valuable and well bred Australian Stock Horses.
From then on she had the Viewhill dream, attending lessons, clinics, shows, helping out at local studs, strapping at the ASH Nationals and Breeders championships for Shane Everingham. Completing the Horse Husbandry course at Tocal under Warwick Lawrence, she then headed up to Acton Super Beef for the chance to work with some of their famously valuable and well bred Australian Stock Horses.
Andrew was raised on a farm in NSW from a horsey family on both sides, and in as many generations back as anyone can remember. His parents and grandparents have always been breeders, particulary focusing on the Australian Stock Horse. From a young age was never found without his animals, riding bareback around the farm, bringing in the cows, and sometimes walking home in tears due to a naughty pony or two. This didn't deter him and as soon as he could he headed up to Queensland to further his riding and horsemanship skills. Working for the renowned Acton Super Beef, Andrew rode many different types and levels of horses and regularly attended campdrafts, often riding after hours and on weekends even after being in the saddle all day all week.
This experience has shaped his horsemanship skills and given him a great "outside the box" thinking style. There are not many places in the world we would get the opportunity to work with such diverse horses and riders, and in such great volumes.
Since moving back down here to Victoria together, we both regularly attend lessons, competitions, clinics and lectures on horsemanship, campdrafting, showing, ground and in hand work and dressage. There is always more to learn and everybody does things a little bit differently, we usually find at least one or two things each time that we can take away, adapt, and use in our riding and training. We just want to keep getting better and better, to better understand our horses and the success it can bring.
This experience has shaped his horsemanship skills and given him a great "outside the box" thinking style. There are not many places in the world we would get the opportunity to work with such diverse horses and riders, and in such great volumes.
Since moving back down here to Victoria together, we both regularly attend lessons, competitions, clinics and lectures on horsemanship, campdrafting, showing, ground and in hand work and dressage. There is always more to learn and everybody does things a little bit differently, we usually find at least one or two things each time that we can take away, adapt, and use in our riding and training. We just want to keep getting better and better, to better understand our horses and the success it can bring.