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SERVICES

KL offers various Services for you and your four legged friend:

• Coaching- We offer coaching for all levels or riding from beginners to more advanced riders in all discplines. We have the following coaches registered to teach at KL :                

Dom Ingvall

Michelle Kavanagh                                         

Stephen Rinaldo

KL facilities are available for hire for outside coaches.

• Schooling- Do you need your horse schooled or educated? at KL we take on horses of all ages for schooling or educating. Schooling and education is done both riding and on the ground by experianced riders and staff. Contact us for more information.

• Selling- Do you need your horse sold? KL takes horses to be sold. During this time we ride, school or educate your horse while marketing your horse to the public through:

                               - Magazines (at your cost)

                               - Websites

                               - Word of mouth

        In this service we will present your horse and make a video together with photos to send to potential clients. We communicate and deal with potential clients from the first phone call and work together with you to get the best price for your horse.

• 'Tack up N' Go- this is a service we are offering to our busy agisters who like to squeeze in a ride before or after work. The staff at KL will have your horse well presented and tacked up ready to ride at any hour needed, and once you have finished riding you have the pleasure of handing the reins over to a staff member, while you jump in the shower, knowing your precious horse will taken care of and put back into their paddock/stable.

• Post op and injury care- This service is designed for those owners who have had horses in surgery or injury that need care and dont want to spend the dollars on more vet bills and vet stays. KL offers this service to both performance and race horses and work closely with local Vets Brett Warren and Brett Jones, who both have excellent credentials working with injury and post op care. The environment in which the horse is kept after surgery or during injury and the recovery is very important and with the new state-of the art facilities at KL you will be assured your horses recovery will be as good as any.

• Mare and Foal Care- KL has experianced staff to look after your broodie and/or foal.

Empty mares to be inseminated - We work closely with Revelwood Warmblood Stud to ensure your mare is inseminated to your chosen stallion as quickly and efficiently as possible. Revelwood having many years of experiance and a resident AI vet, together with KL who has been breeding and using Revelwood (15 mins away) to inseminate all of KL's broodmares, we can assure you rmare will be in foal in no time.

Pregnant mares- We care for pregnant mares who are to foal down. Your mare will be brought up to a top paddock with 3 rails (HorseSafe fencing) a shelter, automatic waterer and lgiths to foal down or in a large mare and foal stable in bad weather to foal down. Your mare will have a foaling alarm on that will set off to notify staff of your mare foaling down. Experianced staff will assist when needed when your mare foals, assist the foal to stand and watch until it has its first drink. Vets are on call incase of emergancies.

Mares with foals at foot- KL has 2 large Spelling paddocks for mares and foals. Shared with other mums and bubs until the weaning process. Mares with foals will be brought up regularly for handling, booster shots, worming etc.

Weaning- This process is a very important one as it is when the mare and foal are to seperate, usually around 6 months of age. At KL we have the safest Weaning process. The mares and foals are brought up to the stable complex and each pair recieves a box each. The mare is then taken away from the foal and put into a large spelling paddock away from the foals sight and sound. The mares generally dont mind leaving their little ones behind and settle within a day, whereas the foals will be a little more tense about the situation. The foals are individually handled in the stable by staff for a few days and lead around the closed stable complex. Over a few days the staff lead the foals in and out of a paddock close by and once confident that the foal is well handled and able to lead we put them together in a spelling paddock.

Yearling Handling- During the time the foal is weaned till they are yearlings they are regularly handled and brought up for worming, feet trimmed etc. Yearling handling includes tying up (both normail and in cross ties) having a bath, injections, rugs on, fly veils on, float training etc.

Breaking in- At KL we currently dont do breaking but we are happy to recommend breakers for both performance and race horses.

FOR MORE INFORMATION AND PRICE LISTS OF THE ABOVE SERVICES PLEASE CONTACT KITARA LODGE.