Horse of the Year 2022

RUACH Horse of the Year 2019 Introduction What a fantastic show once again! The babies all did so wonderfully well!!   We took Our gorgeous Pony stallion Reed, and he did us proud once again! Ridden by Jayden Cooper. Our Friesian Sporthorse Stallion Kayleb, ridden by Heinrich Terblance, winning the ridden classes. Gorgeous warmblood mare […]

Friesian Sporthorse Stallion Kayleb

This magnificent home bred stallion has started his competitive career under the masterful hands of Wium van Huyssteen. Our young boy has entered his first ever dressage show competing at Young Horse Performance Series, leg 1, at Kyalami Park Club, in Novice 3 and 4. This 4yr old stallion has shown himself to be such […]

Dressage Debut

Our very handsome pony stallion Juistzoo Reed has been showing a great mind for learning new things, so to challenge him a bit, his rider/Trainer, Firn Hyde, decided to play around with some dressage basics and the young man rose to the occasion and presented a very elegant, refined side of him that we normally […]

Expected Foals for the 2015/16 Breeding season

We take great pleasure in sharing the following expected pregnancies with you for the 2015/16 breeding season. Sookie Lynn to Quantico Sookie gave us such a gorgeous colt to Zerro last season, that we decided to pit her to a stallion bred in the purple for dtessage. This foal will be born with dressage royalty […]

Expected Foals for the 2016/17 Breeding Season

Midnight Dream to Special Effects Edna van Smitsvlei to Wessel van Smitsvlei Southcross Amidala to Midas-Touch Samurai This combination has a 50% chance of producing a tobiano foal, it will likely be either dark bay or black tobiano. Eagles Whitney to Joepie The combination of two very powerful jumping lines. Foal is 100% guaranteed to […]

Westhills Jasper B

We are so very proud to share such stunning news of top performing half brother to our very own stud stallion Joepie. WESTHILLS JASPER B was born in Holland in 2002. He has an excellent trainable temperament combined with exceptional movement which has shown him to excel in the dressage arena. Jasper is currently training […]

Pinto VS Paint

The terms “paint” and “pinto” are sometimes both used to describe spotted horses, but in modern use there is a clear difference between the two terms.

Titan’s Training Progress

We have put a lot of time and effort into Titan’s training and groundwork since he arrived here at our stud in June 2012.

Wild Horses

Not all horses are bred and raised in a controlled environment like a stud or well managed farm area.