Patch of Heaven Equestrian Centre

25/11/2025

HORSE FOR SALE – “Source Code” AKA Cody🐴
📏 approx 16.2hh | 15 years | Safe & Reliable

Source Code is a lovely, calm gelding who’s perfect for riders of all experience levels. He’s steady, well-mannered, and great to handle in every way. Sad Sale he's been my go to in tough times seems to understand me and.pick up my spirits.

⭐ Key Features:
• approx 16.2hh gelding
• 15 years old
• Good with all types of riders,
school master
• Quiet, sensible, and easy to manage
• Great on trails and in the paddock
• Easy to catch, load/travel and handle
• Lovely character loves kisses and hugs no vices
• Would make a great therapy horse.

He’s been a fantastic horse and is ready to make someone else very happy. RFS moving overseas

📍 Location: Sommerset West
💲 Price: R50 000.00 or closest offer
Whatsapp 0661385416 for details and to book a viewing.

15/11/2025

HORSE FOR SALE – “Source Code” AKA Cody🐴
📏 17hh | 15 years | Safe & Reliable

Source Code is a lovely, calm gelding who’s perfect for riders of all experience levels. He’s steady, well-mannered, and great to handle in every way.

⭐ Key Features:
• 17hh gelding
• 15 years old
• Good with all types of riders,
school master
• Quiet, sensible, and easy to manage
• Great on trails and in the paddock
• Easy to catch, load/travel and handle

He’s been a fantastic horse and is ready to make someone else very happy.

📍 Location: Sommerset West
💲 Price: R50 000.00onco
Whatsapp 0661385416 for details and book a viewing.

14/05/2025

The South African Mainstream Media and trolls on social media are trying to belittle and insult these brave souls who decided to...

01/04/2025

Due to your horse's long neck and table-like body, when left to his own devices, your horse will use his head and neck for balance and carry the majority of your weight on his front legs and shoulders. This is known as your horse being "on the forehand" and is not desirable.

It is your job, as the rider, to teach your horse how to engage his hindquarters and lift and round his back so that he can carry your weight more on his stronger hindlegs. This brings your horse's balance back toward his center of gravity, taking his weight off his forehand, and allowing him to move in a more biomechanically friendly posture within a better balance.

The correct rider position (ear-shoulder-hip-heel) is correct for a reason; it allows you (the rider) to balance so that, in turn, you can improve the balance of your horse.

👉An unbalanced rider creates tension, which affects the communication between horse and rider because a tense horse cannot feel and respond to its rider, and a tense rider cannot feel and respond to their horse. This means that the aids can be misinterpreted or missed altogether.

👉A balanced rider creates enhanced communication. It allows the rider to use lighter and more accurate seat, leg, and rein aids, thereby promoting harmony and relaxation.

When horse and rider are both balanced together, their center of gravity is aligned.

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26/03/2025

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29/12/2024

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22/12/2024

Being a professional in the horse industry, I have experienced and witnessed a lot of negativity from mean girls to bullies to poor riding to animal abuse to lack of safety to poor sportsmanship and horsemanship.

I’ve forever been an advocate for the opposite of all of the above. I’m not sure it’s earned me any fans. Regardless, I will always stand up for what is right, even if I’m standing alone.

I hope to see…

Less pointing fingers, more helping hands.

Less Instagram, more education.

Less abuse, more understanding.

Less aggression, more compassion.

Less mean girls, more camaraderie.

Less upper level movements, more basics.

Less drilling, more hacking.

Less rollkur, more open throat latches.

Less perfection, more progress.

We need so much progress…

For the love of the sport. For the love of the art. Most importantly, for the love of the horse.

🌻 Cara

📸 Max & Maxwell: Equestrian Photography

07/12/2024

Wonderful judges excellent turnout of rider's we were blessed to have all these wonderful rider's

What a day! Thank you Patch of Heaven Equestrian Centre for hosting a lovely home show🤍

All photos are in process of being checked and will be uploaded tomorrow 🥰

A link will be shared across my social media platforms

In the interim, let's enjoy how handsome Jagger is🐴🫶