Morning Scenes At Te Akau Stud
20 April, 2016
David writes:
What a beautiful spell of weather we are having this week!
This morning our Marketing and Social Media manager Julia Rose Ellis was out and about at dawn taking some beautiful pictures that I thought you would enjoy.
The first is James Jackson and Sinead Scott (below main left) with a Rock 'n' Pop/Princess Caga filly that we bought privately recently and who is completely sold already! Then heading clockwise, the next photo is of James riding the Rock 'n' pop filly who we have nicknamed "Luci". Below right Sinead is handling a Stratum filly that I bought from the Gold Coast.
James has been breaking the horses in at Te Akau Stud for about 12 years and Sinead has been working at Te Akau Stud for just over a year now.
The next photos are from top left and clockwise - the shelters where the breakers are saddled up ... Luke Copeland - the cattle manager at Te Akau Stud with his canine team ready to move stock this morning. Bottom right we can see spelling horses enjoying their breakfast at Te Akau Stud and bottom left James.
Below left is the Encosta de Lago/Andallthatjazz filly from the Gold Coast waiting to be ridden (what's with the tongue ha ha?). Upper right is James aboard the Rock 'n' Pop filly and bottom right is Brad Taylor, our new Te Akau Racing Manager, helping with the breaking in of the yearlings.
All these photos were taken at day-break and below you can see the cattle being fed haylage. We made so much haylage this year that we are feeding it out now so that we can save up even more grass for the winter. We have plenty of feed but I don't believe in selling haylage as that is equivalent to selling your farm's fertility. I like the haylage being fed out in the paddocks it has been made from.
The view below from the highest point on the farm at 7.30am this morning and below left you can see a view from the new part of our farm. Below right the view from our weanling paddocks.
