The History of Aryline

Originally we played with breeding warmbloods but with 4 boys and 3 under 6 it just seemed obvious to make the transition to ponies. The bigger horses had the prefix of Wind Dancer Park, which was proving, a bit of a mouthful for the ponies and so Aryline was decided on.

Why the Australian Pony is a question that I have been answer many times and it's a very easy one to answer, way back in 1986 we were lucky enough to purchase a beautiful little 18mth old chestnut filly for Travis, who was also only 18mths old, for the princely sum of $75.00. Milky Way as she was called was an unregistered Australian Pony by Mitobe Bismarck out of Neva-Tia Lady Lucille and the best little pony ever to grace our paddock. She taught many a child to ride, was always called on for pony rides and visits to day care centres and when our next little boy Rhys was born she was often an unofficial babysitter as he was always to be found trying to crawl up her side or just sitting under her tummy. She was a much-loved family member and everyone was saddened by her loss at the age of 10yrs in 1996. So the search was on not to replace her, as that would be impossible, but to find a pony that could fill the void. As luck would have it late in 1997 I received a call from a friend Sherree Mostert who had picked up a pony from Mundijong Markets, Neva-Tia Sophia, would I like her as she wasn't quite what she was looking for and sight unseen we had our next Australian Pony. Sophia took Kaden (4yrs) to Pony Club for a year and then in 1999 we decided to show her in hand and what a year she had. She took out Champion Mare at most shows she attended and the highlight was seeing her sashed Supreme Australian Pony at the Autumn Horse Show. Sophia proved that the Australian pony really is the perfect child's pony and our stud grew from there. The rest as they say is history.