Arandth Performance Horses

Arandth Performance Horses Equestrian coaching, agistment and Equine Assisted Learning sessions offered

Arandth Performance Horses is a boutique performance breeding, training and agistment facility located on a beautiful 52 hct property near Albury, NSW. Established for many years and offering the competitive equestrian first class facilities, coaching, training and breeding opportunities.

Received these lovely photos of beautiful Miss Aria from the recent Victorian Dressage Festival. So many really beautifu...
27/12/2025

Received these lovely photos of beautiful Miss Aria from the recent Victorian Dressage Festival. So many really beautiful photos to choose from. I found it very hard to choose so I bought a lot. I’m rationalising my purchase by telling myself i haven’t purchased photos of her since she was a novice horse.

Thank you Equilux Media and Design for taking so many photos to choose from.

19/12/2025

Morning feed up at Ferrari Park is always fun when the black lads 🐈‍⬛ 🐈‍⬛ come along for the ride.

2025 dressage year all wrapped up with our final run at the Victorian Dressage Festival at Werribee. Not unsurprisingly ...
16/12/2025

2025 dressage year all wrapped up with our final run at the Victorian Dressage Festival at Werribee.

Not unsurprisingly the weather was very challenging as is often the case at Werribee with serious storms on Saturday evening, very heavy rain and thunder and lightning that scared the wits out of me. Sunday no rain but the wind was so strong it was sending everyone nuts.

Miss Aria and I had our final go around in Medium. She produced 2 very accomplished and polished tests. To finish 6th in a very strong field of competitive ponies.

The highlight was her second test which was by far her best test ever. Lots of 7’s scored with a highlight being a 7.5 for the final extended canter and 7 for the transitions. Looks and sounds easy but getting a reasonable score for the up and down transition is quite challenging.

My goal is always to produce what I do in training. We did that and more. 🙏🦄. The reality is you can’t expect to do better than that. If you do it’s a bonus. If you win that’s also a bonus. If you don’t it just means someone else is probably training just a bit better than you.

The thing with a dressage test is yes you can do one or two movements in training that you think that should score an 8 but to put 24 movements together, in a set sequence that maybe doesn’t always suit you or your horse and still be able to produce up to what you do in training, now that is what we are all seeking. And the best bit, I didn’t F&:;?k it up. My old brain 🧠 and body functioned up to optimal level and allowed beautiful generous Aria to get on with what she needed to do. Keeping her knees up and dancing 💃 🌹after it felt like we had just won the pony Olympics.

A huge thank you to the organisers, judges, volunteers and fellow competitors who all make this a fabulous event. There were over 400 horses entered. Dressage is alive and well in Victoria.

Also thanks to friend Melissa Foster who is the best support person anyone could want. And the DF is always best shared with friends Pam Kennedy and super pony Harold.

A very big thank you to my generous sponsors:
- Naomi Harmer supporting team Arandth horses to ensure their bodies are in optimum order.
- Kimberly Carpenter for saddle fit and maintenance.

As always many thanks to the practitioners who keep supporting Arandth:



Aria Rose 🌹 how lucky I am to have such a generous of heart and talented dressage partner. Have a well earned rest girl in prep for training over the summer and hopefully stepping out in Advance in 2026.

Till then it’s goal reflection time, self analysis and planning for 2026.

While the weather was a little challenging, I still enjoyed a lovely morning coaching at Howlong PC last Sunday. This wa...
04/12/2025

While the weather was a little challenging, I still enjoyed a lovely morning coaching at Howlong PC last Sunday.

This was my 5th visit to coach at the club this year. It has been fabulous to get to know the members and I am delighted in the progress being made.

I look forward to continuing to support members in the coming year.

Every time I attend Howlong PC grounds I think what a fantastic facility they are developing. A real asset to the region. It is testament to the very hard working community/volunteers who make it happen.

I am now taking bookings for club coaching days in 2026. I am very experienced with both dressage and jumping and happy to coach all levels (beginners to experienced), in groups or private sessions.

For more information please make contact via 0413859756 or FB.

If you are also seeking support on an individual/private basis with your riding and achieving your goals please do not hesitate to make contact as above.

Cheers and happy riding.

Andrea
EA qualified and registered coach.

Great weekend of dressage staged by JEA last weekend with our local Championships. Miss Aria and I danced around in the ...
26/11/2025

Great weekend of dressage staged by JEA last weekend with our local Championships.

Miss Aria and I danced around in the Medium level. Very happy with both her tests, but the second was possibly her best Medium test to date. Finishing a very good second to a very stylish horse.

An especially delightful tradition that JEA Championships continue with is giving the prize money on the day with cash in envelopes. I know, childishly delightful. 👧

Takes me back to my early years when on the way home from Agricultural shows and we would stop for treats and out would come all the little envelopes with our precious cash wins. Hey we all know the prize money is not why we do it but in most situations having to send of many emails to sponsors, follow up with organisers a lot or in my situation never receive the prize money because it all becomes to hard for the small gain, it is a delightful tradition. 🙏👏👏😀 💴

Thanks to JEA for continuing to keep EA dressage alive in our region. 🙏👏

As always grateful for my generous sponsors
- Naomi Harmer
- Kim Carpenter

And thanks for continuing support from

Onwards to my favourite event for the year Vic Dressage Festival. Wow the entries are amazing. Dressage is alive and well.

And thanks to Miss Aria my little 🌟 always giving her best. ❤️🦄🙏🦄 🌹

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Such a sad day today at Arandth. Our special boy Fudge grew his wings and left us. Fudge was one in a million. Cute as a...
24/11/2025

Such a sad day today at Arandth. Our special boy Fudge grew his wings and left us.
Fudge was one in a million. Cute as a button, so kind to all he met, dogs , cats and people. Never complained. Never really misbehaved, always smiling. Really the happiest little fellow anyone could have as a friend.
Fudgie had a long (possibly 17 this year) happy life on the farm. Originally an urban bandit, we adopted him at about 6/7 years old and despite not really being built for farm life quickly adapted. It wasn’t long before he was stealing eggs from the chook house.
Fudgie your leaving us has made a huge hole in all you have left behind. Fly high sweet and happy boy 💔

26/10/2025

Its on again, Jindera Equestrian Association Dressage Championships 2025.

Hi looking for either an off side one of these or similar in size 3. Or a pair. If you have some sitting in a cupboard o...
26/10/2025

Hi looking for either an off side one of these or similar in size 3. Or a pair.

If you have some sitting in a cupboard or hidden in a safe place and don’t have any use for it please let me know. Thx Andrea

Anyone looking for a beautiful new saddle
22/10/2025

Anyone looking for a beautiful new saddle

So a big goal ticked off for Miss Aria and I qualifying and attending the Australian Dressage Championships at the Sydn...
20/10/2025

So a big goal ticked off for Miss Aria and I qualifying and attending the Australian Dressage Championships at the Sydney International Equestrian Centre competing in the medium.

It was my first time at the centre and it did not disappoint. Fabulous facilities and everyone right through from stable managers, competitors, supporters, organisers and stewards were so friendly and helpful. A great atmosphere and certainly makes me keen to revisit in the not to distant future. Thanks to organisers, sponsors and volunteers for staging such a great event.

In the first test Aria performed as well as she can and scored just under her PB. Had that fantastic feeling of “nailed that “. Did the best we could! “

Second test all started well but for some reason I will probably never know she got her tongue over the bit for some of the trot and walk sequence. Bu**er! She got it sorted during the extended walk but while she still did all movements pretty well the tongue appearing while she tried to fix it is not that well received by dressage judges. The damage was done despite a great recovery in the canter tour. Very disappointing all round. But you can guarantee a life with horses is often humbling.

As they say “one minute a rooster 🐔 next minute a feather duster”

Despite the disappointment still so proud of Aria performing up to her best at such a big event. We had a fabulous time, learned a lot and ticked off a big goal. 🦄

As my late mother Ruth used to say to family members who took on challenges that took them way out of their comfort zone “you were brave to go!”

No adventures like this would be possible without the ongoing support from my fabulous sponsors

- Naomi Harmer. Keeping team Arandth fighting fit. Congratulations on your recent excellence on upgrading your qualifications

- Kimberly Carpenter taking care of all our saddle fit and maintenance issues.

As always a big thank you for ongoing support from

Plus a huge thank you to Melissa Foster for being our person for the weekend supporting us, helping with all things competition, having a great sense of humour and keeping me awake laughing all the way home. I could not have done it without you. 🙏🙏

Also thanks to the team at home Andrew and Denise keep everything going on the home front.

Onwards to JEA champs, and maybe the Vic Dressage Festival.

But right t now it’s time for a little celebration.

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And that’s a wrap for the Yackandandah RC Shield Dressage series. At the beginning of the year I made the decision to up...
16/09/2025

And that’s a wrap for the Yackandandah RC Shield Dressage series.

At the beginning of the year I made the decision to up the challenges with Miss Ave and compete level 1. I felt that while she maybe wasn’t totally consolidated at this level by putting a bigger goal in front of us both would help to keep us working hard to achieve that small but continuous steps of improvement. I find that often if I stay competing at the level we are established at, while we might be more likely to be more successful, the downside is we tend to not keep pushing on with our training.
So after missing the first round due to me being ill, her first test was a good effort but did include some movements that were not required like flying changes in the counter canter.
But then we had another go at Benella and things had improved and last Sunday at the last round of the shield she showed just how much she has improved.
In both tests she maintained her balance and posture in a much more consistent collected manner. This made laterals, mediums and transitions so much easier and smoother as she wasn’t clunking onto the shoulders. Still work to do with canter walk throughs on the straight line but overall 2 very proficient tests. Even a few 8’s.

But the biggest advancement has been her attitude to accepting a bit of pressure to do more. She is now like “ok I get it I have to try a bit harder, ok I will give it a go”. A year ago it was like “no no that is way to hard”.

And during this year at this new level I have learned that I can trust Ave to keep trying and I’m learning to find the sweet spot between harmony and power that suits her and doesn’t over whelm her confidence by asking to much.

Thanks as always to the Yackandandah committee, judges and volunteers. A special mention and thank you to Alison For all your efforts.

Well done Ave.

A big thank you to my sponsors - Naomi Harmer keeping team Arandth fit and on form.
- Kim Carpenter looking after our saddle requirements. Loving my new girth point.

Also supported by fabulous practitioners


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Lots of classes for people who are not EA registered but a member of JEA. Membership can be renewed (if you missed it) o...
15/09/2025

Lots of classes for people who are not EA registered but a member of JEA. Membership can be renewed (if you missed it) or new membership all via Nominate.

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Table Top, NSW

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Monday 9am - 5pm
Tuesday 9am - 5pm
Wednesday 9am - 5pm
Thursday 9am - 5pm
Friday 9am - 5pm
Saturday 9am - 5pm
Sunday 9am - 5pm

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