Wilga Park Morgans

Wilga Park Malaynee, the very first foal we bred, is started under saddle ...

Wilga Park Morgans blitz the field at Gold Coast Show. RanchBoss Cortez is Supreme Champion three times over, Wilga Park Tippuhana Champion Morgan Mare and Mt Tawonga Oscar Champion Morgan Gelding ... read more at the bottom of the news page.

Wilga Park Malaynee (Karenza Malanion - Imp NZ X Eagleview Skybeau) has been started with David Grace, one of Australia's top Parelli Trainers. She spent just three weeks at David's property and Jane Warren, Malaynee's owner, is so very proud of how she has taken to her new experience of being under saddle. Malaynee is so confident and curious, and so willing to try anything new that it is making riding an enormously enjoyable time for Jane.

We are like proud parents watching our baby take it's first steps and speaking it's first words. This young filly was the very first we bred and she holds a very special place in our hearts. She is the perfect package. Malaynee will not be more than 14'2hh finished, as she is 3/4 Lippitt and has a wonderful combination of her Dam's and Sire's looks, talent, personality, ability and intelligence.

Mt Tawonga Oscar has pleasantly surprised me with a third place in his last Elementary Test at Toowoomba. His score was just over 60%, but the unfortunate part about that is that it was in the Associate test, not the Official test the next day, therefore it didn't count towards a qualifying score for State Dressage Championships in October. However, we have nominated for State and fingers crossed they will accept us on our two qualifying scores.

RanchBoss Cortez will also hopefully be going to State Champs with Imke Quast, his rider, as they have three qualifying scores in Novice. Imke and Cortez have been attending clinics with Irene Barkles-Noreen and gaining a lot of helpful tips. Each time they go out together, their score is higher than the previous competition. Cortez is finally beginning to leave his sudden stops from his Reining Training behind.

Both horses have been out to the Samford Official Dressage day and Toowoomba Official Dressage very recently, doing well at each, and have a busy schedule ahead of them with more Official Comps at Laidley and Nambour leading up to State Championships in October.

However, the BEST news for August ... I've saved 'til last. Wilga Park Morgans had a Blinder at Gold Coast Show!!

RanchBoss Cortez .... 5 first places (two of those in ridden classes), 2 Champion Sashes, 1 Reserve Champion (in a Ridden class) and THREE Supreme Champion Sashes ... Supreme Champion Morgan, Supreme Champion Buckskin and Overall Supreme Champion of the 4 Supreme Dilutes (Palomino, Cremello, Buckskin and Perlino - a wonderful line-up of Supreme Champions).

Wilga Park Tippuhana has won her first Champion Morgan Mare and Mt Tawonga Oscar has taken home another Champion Morgan Gelding sash, along with a second ribbon to Cortez in the ridden Morgan class.

CHAMPIONS AT GOLD COAST SHOW

RanchBoss Cortez with Imke and Meike Bigg, Mt Tawongs Oscar and Kate, Wilga Park Tippuhana

Wilga Park Tippuhana & Imke, Cortez & Imke with Oscar and Kate, Cortez in the ridden Buckskin class

We had the most wonderful weekend, where we camped at Southport Pony and Hack Club and had a ton of fun with the horses on Sunday morning before heading off to the Beach for a swim and lunch and then back to the Showgrounds.

SUNDAY MORNING AT GOLD COAST

Cortez with Greg at Southport Pony Club grounds & trying the Cross Country Jumps

Oscar and Kate, having a fun time on Sunday morning after the Show at Gold Coast

Indigo Roc The Boat (Rocky), pure Morgan gelding, to join Wilga Park's Riding School ... Read More

Haymeron Park Ruby Jane (RJ), Foundation Morgan Mare, is in foal to RanchBoss Cortez, Foundation Morgan Stallion.

More breaking News for January .... Eagleview Skybeau (Calypso) in foal to Ragtime Oro Blanco (aka Casper); Mt Tawonga Natasha's filly foal is born: and colour genetics on Eagleview Skybeau, Wilga Park Serjania, Mt Tawonga Marrella and Red Bluff Paprika. Read More

Laidley Show, Foundation Morgan Stock, Make it Rein in August and Dressage! Read More

RanchBoss Cortez Stole the Show at the Stallion Parade, May 26th! Read More

RanchBoss Cortez - Supreme Champion Dilute at the Toowoomba Royal! Read More

January saw the birth of the very first Australian foal by the superb Morgan stallion, Ragtime Oro Blanco, here at Wilga Park.

It was also an eventful month for our 3 yr old filly, Haymeron Park Ruby Jane. Read More

December has been a wonderful month for us. Our first two RanchBoss Cortez foals have been born! Read More

The Sunshine Coast Dressage Championships, Queensland State Dressage Championships, South Queensland Dilute Championships and the Allora Championships, and maybe just one little trail ride! Read More

Gold Coast Centerary Show. Huge three-day event...what a milestone for RanchBoss Cortez!

We were invited by one of the Assistant Ring Masters of the Gold Coast Show to take Cortez to the Centenary Show. The invitation came after she had judged him at a Dressage Competition. We decided to take up the invitation and were so very pleased that we did. Read More

We felt it was important to have Cortez's colour genetics in certificate form, for those interested in colour. We sent hair samples to the States for testing for three factors - Red/Black, Agouti and Cream. Read More

With the breeding season soon upon us, we decided we should have Cortez collected for testing in differing extenders for shipping chilled semen. The results were impressive. Read More

We recently had the Regional Dressage Championships here in Toowoomba and...nah!!...no first ribbons or prizes, but what a great weekend we had. It was exhausting and exhilarating. We were running on adrenalin as we rushed from one deadline to the next. The highlights of the weekend for us were Mt Tawonga Natasha in her Novice Freestyle and RanchBoss Cortez's impact on the audience in the Stallion Parade. Read More

Since arriving in Australia and being released from Quarantine on 22 December 2005, RanchBoss Cortez has settled in well and has begun to make his mark in Dressage Circles. Read More