Pinelands Equine - Amy Burns

13/09/2023

In search of new 🏡

All Smiles (Miley) is a 10 year old tb mare (Stravinsky/O’reilly), approximately 15.1hh.

Miley has done extensive hacking/farm/road riding, some pony club rallies, winter showhunter, showjumping and dressage days, a handful of ODEs and horse trials up to pretraining level. She has popped over a few of the 95 jumps at cross country training days, and is very bold. She is a clever jumper, and lots of fun for a confident rider.

Due to my university commitments Miley has been in sporadic work for the past couple of years. She has just been brought back into light work, but will need more time and consistency to build back up to where she was.

Miley is a forward ride, relatively green for her age and requires competent handling on the ground (as she does have some quirks).
⬇️💲reflects this, we just want her to find a good match.

11/11/2021

I know this pony well. Isabella has put a lot of work into to her and she has developed into a fabulous wee pony that will take a young rider a long way.

Small, confident, determined rider required for this smart 9yo part bred welsh buckskin mare by Waimai Sensation. At 123cm Golden Windz Dominique ‘Nikki’ is ...

30/08/2021

Part 4 of “Where are they now?” - Pedro!

Pedro’s family have done an amazing job with him, and are giving the best possible life a little pony - who doesn’t actually know he’s a little pony - could ever wish for. He’s lucky enough to have 2 little girls to enjoy him, and he is becoming such a star - I know it’s only a matter of time before one of them beats me in the horse trials on him 😅

I only owned Pedro for a couple of months, but he still managed to make quite an impression! He held a reign of terror over his paddock mates that was only resolved with some firm lessons in manners, courtesy of our largest and grumpiest thoroughbred, and a hastily-booked gelding procedure…to this day I never seen a horse of any size remain standing after that amount of anaesthetic 😳 Thankfully, once his hormones were no longer running the show, he calmed down hugely and his true personality came out. He was so angelic that he managed to score a new home on his very first every outing to an inhand day (first photo), and the rest is history 😁

30/08/2021

Part 3 of “ Where are they now?”

By popular (Jolene’s) demand….Yogi! Otherwise known as Yogurt Brown Catton-Burns, or more formally as RHL Little Brown)🐻

Both the hardest and easiest sale I’ve ever made, Yogi landed on his feet with Michelle. Michelle competed him for me when she was between horses, and when I sadly came to the conclusion that I needed to sell him before I left for uni, she jumped at the chance. It really is the perfect situation: Michelle is stoked with him, and I get to come and ride him whenever I’m up in Whangarei 🎉 and Yogi is also rather pleased with the situation, he must be the best cared-for horse in the country.

Yogles was a spontaneous Facebook messenger purchase, an unbroken, ugly ducking of a “pony” that I planned to break in and sell on quickly…yeah right 🤣 I was rather delighted when he measured at 5cm over pony height, and the rest is history! He taught me that I am definitely not cut out for a career in selling horses (apparently you actually have to sell them 🤔). However, I’m proud of producing such a quiet and well-rounded horse from scratch, and nobody deserves a Yogi more so than Michelle!

30/08/2021

Part 2 of my “Where are they now?” series!

Today’s update is on everyone’s favourite chunky boy - Kevin! Kevin is going from strength to strength in his new home and has found his perfect match in his young rider, Lexi. Love seeing their updates as they grow as a combination 💕

For those who are interested, Kevin was one who came to us in a rather sorry state, and I had no idea what he would turn out to be. Being the champ he is, he quickly bounced back, doubled his body weight (approximately 😅), and totally blossomed in his new-found lifestyle.

I’m quite enjoying this, so if you have a horse or pony you brought from me, please get in touch, I’d love to see how everyone is getting on!

28/08/2021

An update on Marmalade in her new home 💕
Her owner says that she’s stoked with her and they have really bonded.
Of course I miss her heaps, but it is so nice to know that she is well-loved.

Marmalade was a failed broodmare I took on as a ridden project. She quickly proved to be an awesome hacker, but did not appreciate flatwork, as much as I tried 😭 She’s been lucky enough to find a home on an amazing farm/station with a super gutsy rider who lets her have plenty of hoons - pure heaven for her!

13/04/2021

Well I think the first photo basically sums up the weekend 🤣 It’s hard to say what’s the most tragic - the weather, our expressions or my jumping position 🙊 Lucky that old Cruise is such a trooper...

I was lucky enough to have 2 horses to ride at the northland horse trials, despite having been living a totally non-horsey lifestyle at uni for the last 7 weeks. Both scored over 70% in their dressage, with only very minor jumping errors keeping us out of the ribbons. Cruise (Keyora) ended up 7th in his 80 class and Tinks (Fig Jam - owned by Shannon Coutanche) 8th in the 65.

Thank you Aleisha (Click It Photography) for the professional photos and Stella for the hilarious ones 😆

06/02/2021

Hello everyone 😁 as many of you may know, Tristan and I are moving down to Palmerston North in the next couple of weeks. I was wondering if anyone who has bought a horse off me, or had me ride or sell their horse would mind leaving a review on this page? I’m hoping that it may make it easier for me to find new ponies to ride 😆 Thank you in advance, it will be much appreciated!

Also if anyone has any recommendations of grazing facilities in Palmy, definitely let me know 👍

01/02/2021

Cruise and Miley tackling the 80cm at the Whakapara ODE with their vastly different techniques - Cruise 😇 has the showhunter grandad style and Miley 😈 has more of the headless chicken style but they both made it around!

Thanks Whakapara Pony Club for running a fun day out!

24/01/2021

We had a nice weekend at the 2 day New Year Showhunter. No super exciting placings for us (Cruise’s 4th in the championship was the best effort of the day) but all the horses did some nice solid rounds, and we had plenty of personal achievements.

Big thank you to I-rentals Whangarei for sponsoring our team to raise money for the Whangarei Riding for Disabled 🎉👏 our team was not super successful but it was still for a great cause!

It was Amber and Tussock’s last show together as Amber is ageing out of ponies. Tussock has found an amazing lease home (with a professional eventer 🤣 who would’ve thought...) to stay with when I leave for university soon. Amber will be stepping up to Cruise, and I’m sure they will be quite the combination.

And lil Yoghurt Brown also left for his amazing new home which was a very bittersweet moment, so if anyone wondered why I was so emotional, it wasn’t because of my scores 😆
I wish them all the best together and can’t wait to see them around 🥰