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Brett Parbery and Willinga Park Spot On at the 2020 Dressage NSW Young horse Qualifier (Image by Rodney's Photography).

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4 Our Contributors 7 From The Horse’s Mouth 8 Brister’s Brief 12 Around The Traps 14 Spotlight on Brett Parbery 24 Culture Corner: In the wild 30 A bit of a problem 38 Para horses need pizazz 45 Around The Traps 46 The Horse Listener 50 Nutrition: Regional challenges 56 Feature: Back to fitness 62 Around The Traps 64 Equipment: To rug or not to rug? 70 Travel: Wanderlust in the West 74 Life After Racing 78 Horse Breed: The Riding Pony 84 Getting to the pointy end 89 Saddle Review: Bates Innova 90 Around The Traps 92 On My Tackbox: Horses in sport 94 Around The Traps 100 Training Tips: It's all in the approach 106 Young Rider: Ellie Gough 108 Perfect Partners: Gillian and Freddie 110 20 Questions with Dan James

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OUR CONTRIBUTORS

Marissa Kuhlewein

A Queensland-based journalist, Marisa has worked for national and international media organisations. She enjoys all things art, travel and photography, and in her spare time you’ll find her out hiking. Marisa caught up with multi-award-winning photographer Carol Hancock and spoke to her about her fascination with the wild Brumby.

Amanda Mac

Amanda Mac has had two lifelong love affairs: one with horses, and the other with writing. Now she happily combines both passions as editor of HorseVibes. In this issue, she speaks to dressage great Brett Parbery about rollercoaster highs and lows, and what it takes to keep life on an even keel.

Anna Minogue

Anna is an equine dentist and qualified bit fitter who’s examined over 20,000 horses. An expert in the anatomy of the mouth, she has seen hundreds of horses with wounds caused by ill-fitting bits, and is passionate about educating riders and ensuring that horses are as happy and comfortable in their work as possible.

Aaron Hadlow

Winner of the 2019 Australian League FEI World Jumping Cup with his mare Vahlinvader, Aaron holds down a fulltime job on top of training a full stable of horses. With an efficient system for bringing his horses back to fitness after spelling, he generously shares his expert techniques with us in this issue.

Amanda Clifford

A full-time Equestrian Australia accredited coach, Amanda has had a lifelong interest in education and the philosophies that underpin excellence in coaching. Firmly of the belief that training should be horse centred, she shares some tips that might change your understanding of horses and the way in which you ride them.

N.G. Quinlan aka ‘Q’

N.G. Quinlan, otherwise known as ‘Q’, is a writer, musician and poet. A resident of Northern New South Wales, he has been contributing to HorseVibes since August 2019. In our new Perfect Partners feature, he tells the tale of Olympic dream team Gillian Rolton and her beloved partner, Peppermint Grove.

Charlie Brister

Regular columnist Charlie is an allround horseman whose expertise is in re-training problem horses, as well as coaching riders in the art of cross country, show jumping and dressage. Turn to Brister’s Brief for the first of his excellent three-part series on lunging – it’ll certainly get you thinking outside the circle!

Roly Owers

Roly qualified as a veterinary surgeon from Cambridge University in 1992 and worked with the Blue Cross and Royal Army Veterinary Corps before taking up his role as Chief Executive of World Horse Welfare. Roly is passionate about educating owners on correctly caring for their horses across the five domains of animal welfare.