Horse Riding Holidays in
News letter
December 2009



Join us on a
horseback eco adventure, endless beaches, river crossing,
warm lagoons and fantastic cross country riding in
the heart of rural
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updated 2009
is going to be the year that we remember as a turning point in most of our
lives. A crashing recession has left
us all just keeping our heads above water!
Here at Sunray Farm, we are also managing to survive the worst drought
in living memory. Its
been a really tough year;
but we can honestly say that we have still had a great one! J WORKING RIDING HOLIDAYS
Clint
and Dez have been working on “The Loft” throughout
the year and can now sleep 6 comfortably.
The new lounge area is almost complete (we intend finishing it off
with tiles on the floor). French doors
open up onto the lawn, and we have hung hammocks in the old oak tree. A new back door will stop everyone trudging
through the bedroom! We have also
added on another shower and separate toilet which makes everything a bit more
comfortable. The last phase will be
completed in the New Year – one more separate bedroom, which will gives us
back our spare room in the main house!
We can take a maximum of 8 work riders at a time.
Shunter’s (our head groom) riding has improved so much. He is having as many riding lessons with
the girls as he can, is very competitive at horse ball, could easily compete
at a novice jumping show and is now being trained as a guide to take the out
rides on the farm. THE BEACH TRAILS & HORSE
SAFARIS
THE SURF & TURF HORSE
SAFARI is a brand new adventure that
we have launch in conjunction with Horizon Horse Safaris. It really is a great combination of African
experiences and riding. (You can see
all the details on our web siteJ)
We are all very excited about getting this trail off the ground, and
already have bookings for 2010. NEW
DEVELOPMENT - a WILD COAST HORSE SAFARI is being created and we envision this to
be a 5 star safari based at a luxury privately owned game reserve between
Sunray Farm and Kei Mouth. It will be
a base ride with an option to add on one or two satellite nights out along
the We
are very pleased that we have been able to upgrade our bridles to Wintec
Synthetic bridles with matching breast straps and martingales. The
horses all look so smart! The
material used is extremely hard wearing, easy to clean and rot proof. Perfect
for our coastal environment, it does not stretch, fray or break, and meets
all our safety requirements, this is a good long term investment, we have
always been very proud of our presentation and turn out of the horses and the
new bridles lifts the quality of our tack to an even higher level. TORSTONE SPORT HORSES &
ENDURANCE RIDING It
has been an exciting as well as heart breaking year for our breeding and
endurance program.
Three
mares, Sarah Jane, Queen Eleanor & Starlight were bred to him shortly
before he died, we can only pray that they took to the service and will
produce stunning foals at the end of next year. We
have embarked on a new breeding program with the introduction of ‘Bobby’ a
very handsome 16 hh Percheron stallion.
Bobby is being bred to some of our Thoroughbred mares and also our
Boerperd/Arab mares. The objective is
to produce athletic forward going horses with good bone and sensible
temperaments – in other words good looking Cobs for the trails and general
riding. We
had a stunning crop of foals this year.
Three colts and two fillies.
You can find all the photos on our Facebook page Wild Coast Horse Back
Adventures.
THE FAMILY
Ashley
has been riding hard, training for endurance – and doing really well. He is also doing more with the Working
Riding Holiday and getting more hands on in the general yard management. He will be exploring different options this
coming year, and hopes to complete his FAGASA level 1 guiding course. Clint
has been building the loft between hunts!
He has done a lot of work on the farm, and has managed to get huge
areas of over grown bush cleared and opened up. One advantage of the drought is that many
of our small stock dams dried up enough for him to be able to get in with a
bulldozer and clean them out. Our dam
next to the house is now huge and deep – now all we need is rain to fill it!
(Then we will be able to swim in it with the horsesJ) And
me, (Julie-Anne) well, I have been working on the web site (which is still a
work in progress), and built up a fun network on Facebook (Wild Coast Horse
Back Adventures), I have not done much endurance (I did a 60km and could not
walk for 3 days!), but have done all the crewing for Ashley and enjoyed
seeing all my enduro friends. I have been leading all the overnight
trails, with a couple of times during the year only being at home for a few
days between trails/endurance rides.
Organizing, planning, grocery shopping, marketing and general office
work keeps me busy the rest of the time!!
We never got to go away on holiday this year, but I have great plans
for when I can afford it J 2010 2010
is going to be a good year. Bookings
for the Gap Year Working Riding Holiday are already coming in, but because of
the world cup soccer the normal pattern of reservations might change
slightly. We are confident that the
trails will start to gather momentum again and that we will soon be fully
booked! What
our visitors want most in 2010 is something their money can’t buy. It’s
called Service Excellence – and it comes from being professional at what you
do, competent in how you do it, and treating people
with genuine warmth and respect when you do it. This is what you will get when you ride
with Wild Coast Horseback Adventures. “It is in the simple sharing of love that we make our beliefs come alive,
and our dreams come true.” Till next time. Happy riding. |
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email us for more details and prices
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Sunray
Farm, Telephone
+27-(0)43-8311087 Fax
086 6089578 Mobile
082-5670972 |
Content on this web site is
original and written by Julie-Anne Gower. Phrases and concepts are often
copied, but the implementation thereof never perfected. Other photos on this web site were taken
on trail by our team and our many happy clients. Thank you for sharing your
memories with us. |
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