Discipline: Reined cow horse / Horsemanship
Location: Dungowan NSW
Who Has influenced your passion for equestrian the most and Why:
Fortunately, we have both had so many people and horses that had such a profound lesson or effect on us over the years that it is hard to narrow down to one in particular. I believe horses in general drive us both to be better, do better and think better. I can’t think of a horse that hasn’t lifted our game in one way or another. They are our greatest teachers and when you go to bed thinking how you can’t wait to see how that horse progresses tomorrow, or reflecting on maybe how you can show that horse something better tomorrow … that is where the passion lies. And I also think we influence each other, our main topic of discussion in our household is horses. If I had to name people Ray Hunt, Jaton Lord, Buck Brannaman just a few that we cannot help but be positively influenced by.
What Has been our biggest riding accomplishment:
# 2016 NCHA snaffle Bit Finalist leading the average into the final
#2017 Nutrien Finalist and 4th overall
# 2018 Nutrien Classic Challenge Winner (Taking home a Stock Float)
#2023 Gelding incentive challenge winner
# 2024 Limited Open Derby winner and runner up
#2024 Reserve Open derby Winner and 3rd place getter
#2024 Australia’s Greatest Horsewoman champion
#2023/2024 Australia’s Greatest horseman finalists and the first husband and wife team to make it back to the final
What Do you do to prepare yourself for competition?
Neither of us are very superstitious, Scott sometimes has a lucky shirt?? But we both heard something that we tend to remind each other to think about when going into compete.
Jaton Lord said once “How lucky are we to be getting ready to enter into this awesome arena and get to do the thing we love to do the most, with this amazing animal. we have already won!”
What is your dream riding goal?
Great Question !. To be the best dance partner our horses could hope for. The horse owes us nothing, yet we owe him everything, so we try to ride with respect, empathy and gratitude every horse, every day. I (Lindee) would love to understand horses like my husband, Scott can!
What Is your favorite Johnson’s Natural Formula feed and why ?
Platinum Low GI !! Can not speak more highly for this feed. All our horses are on it and love it, competition, stallions and the two-year-olds are all on Platinum Low GI.
We gravitated to the platinum Low GI as we Love that it has a pro biotic in it for gut health. It resonated with both of us as we ourselves take a pro biotic and have felt the benefits, so it made sense to offer that for our horses. Another reason is we have noticed that this feed has had zero effect on the horse’s temperament, which is important to us. Having a stallion and 2-year-olds we really are careful not to have a feed that affects how they behave and think. One huge benefit we also noted was a couple of horses we have had that had various gut issues all subsided once they were introduced to the platinum Low GI .
Scott and Lindee have spent well over 25 years in the industry starting horses and training horses for various disciplines. It has been a lifetime devotion to learning and desire to be a better human for the horse. Now most weekends are spent competing or traveling to do clinics either for Reined Cow Horse, horsemanship/groundwork, Young Horse Clinics, cattle clinics and more recent Lindee has graduated as an equine practitioner with ground work therapy. They have travelled to the NT, QLD, VIC and WA sharing their experience and knowledge of horses. When at home in Dungowan NSW they offer lessons though the week and also take a limited number of outside horses for training. Scott and Lindee also run the northwest cow horse club where they run two shows per calendar year and host an international clinician every year.
