Our Facilities

We are based on our beautiful 12 acre property in Clackline, just off the Great Eastern Highway. The property and surrounding area is ideal for working with horses as it offers so many different types of riding.

We are close to the Heritage Trail and our property is adjacent to public open space for riding. The horses are exposed to a range of interesting animals (donkeys, camels, alpacas, peacocks etc) that all live in the neighborhood, plus our neighbour trains ponies to harness so the horses are exposed to horses and carts going past regularly and sharing their riding space. We also have an earthworks business down the road so the horses are exposed to graders, diggers, trucks ect on a daily basis.

We have access to some wonderful flat open paddocks, ideal for first canters and for getting great forward in horses. We also have some quite scary river gullies and banks, a winter creek and a large open dam for water training which Fred says is great for handing out bravery awards and gaining horses’confidence. We live on a gravel road but also have some higher traffic areas near by with nice safe shoulders to safely ride on and expose the horses to traffic.

Fred’s round yard is the perfect size and in full shade and there is a bench beautifully positioned on the hill over the round yard, under a tree for optimum viewing. BYO drinks!

Agistment wise, we offer steel yards with shelters that are a good size. We also have several post and sighter wire paddocks that all the horses have access to during their stay. We also have some heavy duty steel yards with shelters, suitable for stallions and wild/feral horses.

The yards are on the hill above the roundyard and all the horses have a great view of the ‘horse telly’, being Fred in the round yard and horses being worked thoughout the day. The property offers a wonderful, calm, rural environment that all the horses enjoy.


Hotel Watkins


Riding on the property


Stables and portable panel yards

 

The Dam

Roundyard and tie up pole

'Man From Snowy River' hill