NEWS
16.8.2009 - Kai Hai Khaatya has foaled a stunning filly by Bluegrass King of Rock. This baby is proudly owned by Sonya Velic.
16.8.2009 - Kai Hai Sterling Sha'Keiraa won Lightweight 80Klm @ Townsville Endurance ride, and again won Best Conditioned.
7.6.2009 - Kai Hai Sterling Sha'Keiraa won Lightweight 160Klm @ Brookleigh Stud FEI Champs AERA, and was also best conditioned. Very capably trained, conditioned and ridden by Melissa and Stephen Longhurst
4.1.2009 - Kai Hai Khaatya (Khouros x Gleniph Antionette) has settled in well.
Kai Hai Sterling Amitaa (Ibn Sterling Shaklan x Kyang Shahmel) is growing well and will be a show filly for the future, maybe 2010.
18.12.2007 - today we learnt that a mare we have bred, Kai Hai Princess Sairaa (Windsor Park Hamid x Begg's Princess Eve) has been exported and is living with her owners Wendy and Kris Chambers in UAE. Sairaa leaves behind four progeny in Australia. A daughter by *Sambist (USA) and a son by Simeon Seth'na, both bred by Wendy and Kris, have also been exported.
Kai Hai Prince Sterling Raais (Ibn Sterling Shaklan x Kai Hai Princess Sairaa), black bay/brown gelding - Loved to bits by his owner Justine Ryan and slowly returning to endurance after trying to remove his hoof in a cattle grid.
Kai Hai Princess Sterling Sha'ni, grey mare - Loved as a pet by her owner John.
Kai Hai Sterling Sha'Keiraa, grey mare - Loved and also owned by Wendy and Kris - a top endurance mare. Now living with Melissa Longhurst in Mackay and already completed a couple of endurance rides in Far North Queensland.
Kai Hai Sterling Sa'Khaan, grey gelding - Much loved by Deb his owner.
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4.10.2006 - E-mail copied with permission of author.
Hi,
Just found your email address and thought I would tell you of Kai Hai Thyme Lord (*Ansata El Shahwan x Cherokee Royal Sarong).
We brought him as a 9 year old from a guy at Carbrook who had miss treated him ( also spoke and wrote to Sandy Sheridan who had owned him she had also sold him to someone who mistreated him and got him back). Tim or Tim tam as he got called had a wonderful nature if you understood him, and had his favourite biscuits handy...yes you got it timtams.
My daughter rode him for 4 years winning every possible pony club under 12 event out there from jumping to ODE to sporting, not to mention hacking and dressage to state level etc. In his life before us he had been in the wars quite a bit with many large scars and many owners who didn't understand him but this did not sway his training which was do it right and so will I. He could go around all-day with his head stuck out and looking like a donkey but if you could ride and push his buttons he was magnificent. And he knew the difference between blue and red ribbons especially in presentation classes......always walking out and standing before the judge had announced.
We sold him to a lady in Melbourne who again sold him on and he ended up in Sydney at a riding school for disabled. He was happy there well fed and ran the roost. But his owner ended up on life support and who's wishes were that he return to me in Qld as by his papers I had owned him the longest and had kept in contact ( loved him ).
Tim was now 16 but still Tim. He knew were he was from the time I unloaded him off the transport breaking free from the guy and running over two property to his stable gate and kicking up a fuss 'cause someone else was in there. Once in it was like he never left. I leased him to many children always keeping a eye on him or having him in my care ( I was not to sell him ) and he took many on to be young EFA dressage squad riders.
He trained many horses NOT to POO in his float and dare not poo in the wrong place in the paddock or there will be punishment . One of his favourite was to throw buckets at the other horses and watch them run or to drag long sticks and wave them about until he hit the offending animal. Put him in with the showjumps and he would dismantle every jump rail by rail lifting them down and dragging them in to the corner and stacking them up.
Koalas were another pet hate and it was a brave one that would enter his paddock but he would kill them and any other small animal entering his zone. Tim went on to live until he was 22 finally succumbing to colic in May 06. He was ridden only a few days before winning a presentation class at the local pony club and was happy and fat. He survived many cut injuries and miss handlings before we got him, founder , eye ulcers , colic not once but 5 times while we owned him, a abcess on a molar and always he was a wonderful patient horse easy to handle if you knew him. He is remember by many children who loved and cared for him.
Thank you for breeding such a wonderful boy.
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