Wilga Park Morgans

The Morgan Breed Spectacular and the Toowoomba Royal - our Morgans did us Proud!

Wilga Park Golden Ash and Wilga Park Madagascar are on their home ground for a weekend together.

The Breed Spectacular at the Toowoomba Royal Show was a first for Morgans in Australia and it was only through the commitment of a wonderful bunch of people, and the willingness of our brilliant Morgans that made it happen.

A 40m X 20m sand arena was set up especially for Breed Societies to show off their Breed to the crowd. We decided it would be a perfect opportunity to have some fun and to show off the temperament and talent of our Morgans, so 8 weeks before the Show, we got together with other Morgan owners in South-east Queensland to work out some routines we might do to entertain the people.

The enthusiasm from everyone was overwhelming. We had 25 minutes to show off the horses and it was done beautifully. From stockhorse workouts, bareback riding, standing up on the horse and cracking a whip, Pas De Deux Dressage and long reining ... and the Finale ... a Quadrille - and all to music!! Oscar had three riders on the day ... four if you count the Border Collie, Chase.

A pictorial of the event .... and these were just our Morgans ... there were another 5 Morgans there as well.

RanchBoss Cortez - a western working horse and then a beautiful Dressage Horse (with Oscar)

Oscar taking Tam for a bareback gallop, then being joined by whip-cracking David and Nepean

It was a magnificent display of our Morgans and we have been fortunate enough to have the Board of the Association sponsor the professional production of a DVD of the whole event. These DVD's are for sale to interested people for a mere $35 including postage in Australia.

Toowoomba Royal - I will again let the photos tell the story ... RanchBoss Cortez went out on two days of the Royal Show. He came home on the first day with Reserve Champion Buckskin and Reserve Champion Ridden Dilute and then on Saturday, was Reserve Champion Morgan and first in the ridden Morgan Class. We are so very lucky to have such beautiful horses.

RanchBoss Cortez & Imke 1st, and Mt Tawonga Oscar & Kirra 2nd in the ridden Morgan Class

Wilga Park Summer Beauty (Chance), Cortez's first filly foal in Australia, has just made a huge leap in her education. She has been residing at Salt River Performance Horses in WA since she was purchased as a yearling, and Heath Stewart had the pleasure of backing her very recently. This has been a day Chance's owner has been really hanging out for.

A brief report from Tammy- Lee ... "Heath was on her for all of 10 mins in total - the canter part was just to get her moving out – two lots of about 20 strides. I rode her the next two days and we did about 2 laps of the arena (about dressage size) each day – walk, trot, canter – so very minimal. Just so she had an idea before she came home. When she gets here she will have 4-5 rides and then get left to grow until next year. Just some ponying out off the other horse, baths, brushing, general groundwork. Love it that she is still so tiny – don’t care if she doesn’t get any taller (though I know she will). Love her length of rein, everything really. She did it all effortlessly, a little bit of worry – the ‘what are you doing?’ and then ‘well ok then’. She really seems very mature minded – doesn’t mind leaving her buddies, doesn’t mind being left behind if they go, happy to be tied up by herself while I do her feet. It’s also good that when she gets here she has already been in a paddock with Rev (stockhorse who went to Perth last year), and my old quarter horse loves all the girls, so hopefully she will settle quite quickly.'

Chance will travel home to live with Tammy-Lee in Broome now that she has had the basic start. In fact she will be arriving at a similar time to young Golden Ash, (Cortez's first foal, born 3 days before Chance).

We feel very fortunate that Tammy-Lee has chosen one of our babies as her lifetime Morgan. Summer (Chance) will have a very fortunate life, indeed!

Wilga Park Golden Ash and Wilga Park Madagascar just happened to be here at the same time; Ash awaiting his trip to WA and Maddy for the Toowoomba Royal. Lisa, Maddy's owner suggested it would be nice to put the two boys together and compare them ... seeing as they were born just 5 weeks apart. What a wonderful idea that was, as I now have a photo or two of both our boys as two year olds. You would think they'd never been apart, as they accepted each other immediately.

March 2009

RanchBoss Cortez, with Imke Quast - 3 Times Champion at Oakey Show in Open Company!

Golden Glory and Jalapeno are still winning hearts.

Our expected Foals have been sex tested ...

Practicing for the Morgan Breed Display at the Toowoomba Royal ...

Wilga Park Serjania, Wilga Park Tippuhana and Wilga Park Golden Ash are making their new owners tremendously happy... Read More

January 2009

Wilga Park goes International!!

Golden Glory, buckskin filly and Jalapeno, the palomino colt are growing beautifully ...

Our 2009 crop of foals have been conceived!

Wilga Park Serjania and Wilga Park Tippuhana maturing into quality horses... Read More

December 2008

Buckskin Filly and Palomino Colt born ...

Gumbooya Kameko in foal to Ragtime Oro Blanco for a coloured foal - to be imported to New Zealand by Tui Morgans ...

Mt Tawonga Oscar having fun with Bernadette ... Read More

October - November 2008

RanchBoss Cortez on U-Tube ...

Catching up with Wilga Park Progeny ...

Mt Tawonga Nepean teaching the kids how it is done ...

See Cortez under saddle ... Read More

September 2008

Wilga Park Tippuhana - under saddle ...

Indigo Roc the Boat showing great promise under saddle ...

RanchBoss Cortez and Imke have some fun playing at cross country ....Read More

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

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