Sallyanne Slater
Training & Horsemanship
Sallyanne Slater says she made an oath to herself at four, that horses would be a huge part of her life and she credits her love of horses for teaching her some of the biggest lessons of her life. “For this I am eternally indebted to them. Horses are beautifully honest as they come without an ego or agenda and due to this they do not deceive or manipulate. The magic is not in me, it’s in them. I just listen and connect with their emotional body.”
As a youngster Sallyanne was active in pony clubs and rode and won places in the Royal Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra Shows. She competed & has been placed in several hundred agricultural shows. She spent nine years completing weekly tuition sessions with Dressage Master Anna Auer; she groomed for Three Star Eventer Rob Hannah in Gawler, South Australia and worked for Australian Show Jumping Coach, Rob Brown in Sydney.
Sallyanne has worked internationally in Osaka, Japan training horses on the flat for the Japanese Olympic Show Jumping team. She spent years in the outback where she taught at pony clubs, ran regular lessons for both adults and children and provided foundation training for young horses. Sallyanne has had extensive experience in the racing industry educating jockey’s in riding principles as well as re educating racehorses into equestrian riding horses.
Visit Sallyanne Slater at the following sessions
Details
Thursday November 14th
Duncan Equine Group Arena
Communication / Equine Behaviour
I would like to demonstrate through handling and ground work, how to best connect & understand horse behaviour.
Reading the horse’s energy levels and body language & in turn them reading ours is the way humans & horses interact.
Bonds are built & the perfect partnership is formed.
Ground work provides a great foundation to show the subtleties in equine behaviour & help audience piece together the building blocks of advanced human/horse communication and education.
Details
Friday November 15th
Stallion Rail Demo Arena, OTT Pavilion
Riding (How a horse in self carriage is a happy willing partner)
Empathy, balance, strength, timing & emotional balance are the attributes of a great rider. I would like to demonstrate how much easier it is for our horses to do their job when we take responsibility for ours.
- With Empathy we can ‘feel’ what our horse is conveying to us.
- With Balance we can help them find theirs and in turn improve on fitness and agility.
- With Strength we can hold our position & the horse can hold theirs.
- With Timing we are ready for the cue & so is your horse.
- With Emotional balance we become a reliable source for the horse to put their trust.
