tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15400899576498630732024-03-04T21:56:03.054-08:00Equine Sports Breeding Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1540089957649863073.post-37226734159532991892012-02-13T21:10:00.004-08:002023-02-25T15:27:05.568-08:00THE FOUNDATION STORY<div align="center" class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt; text-align: center;">
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">The Equine Sports Breeding (ESB) story is filled with heartache and triumph.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is a wonderful example of how dreams can come true with hard work, tenacity, focus and creative thinking.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">An equestrian breeding program that began in 1986, ESB has just produced its 250<sup>th</sup> foal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>From her first Irish Draught mare and her thoroughbred cross filly to Olympic silver medal winner, Kirby Park Irish Jester, owned and ridden by Megan Jones, Vanessa Hawkins, owner and operator of ESB has seen her program develop into one that has made a name for itself in the international eventing world.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Frustrated with finding the right horse for eventing at the upper levels, Vanessa undertook an extensive study of the different breeds of performance horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I wanted a horse that was well put together, could move and jump and that had a good temperament without the physical and mental baggage of racing,” says Vanessa.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Finding this horse, however, proved harder than she thought.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I was getting so heartbroken with rehabilitating horses in my pursuit of a good one, that I thought it would just be easier to breed a decent horse than to buy one.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With a degree in nursing and knowledge of genetics, she applied for and won a scholarship to study performance horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In April 1988, she traveled back to the UK, bought a Mini and drove over 10,000 miles around England and Ireland studying the Irish Draught horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spending many hours with horsemen from several generations and gathering advice and information on bloodlines, Vanessa learned that one of the critical aspects of breeding for performance was the importance of the mare, especially when out crossing to achieve hybrid vigour.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“So many people look to the stallion to fix everything when the mare has so much more influence, especially in the first cross,” shared Vanessa.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Convinced she was on the right track, Vanessa purchased an Irish Draught mare and her Thoroughbred cross filly with the help of her grandmother and then founded the Australian Irish Draught & Sport Horse Society (IDSHS) in 1989, serving as its President for the first two years.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">As what started as a small operation began to pick up steam, disaster struck. In 1990 Vanessa’s imported Irish Draught mare, ESB Irish Anna, suffered post partum laminitis after her fifth foal.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After a four-month battle to <span style="color: black;">save her and a tenotomy in all four tendons, Vanessa</span> tragically lost the mare to colic.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“It is a common complication after being confined for so long.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What makes me even sadder is that we could not have prevented it” says Vanessa. “She was an amazing mare, so incredibly tough, gracious and determined, she was my mentor and I was devastated by her loss.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People don’t usually allow us to grieve the death of an animal in the same way we do a person.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The pain is still very raw and this is what keeps me going.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I don’t want her life and her struggle to have been in vain.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">With huge vet bills to pay, Vanessa was forced to sell the half-bred mare, ESB Irish Bea, in foal to the thoroughbred stallion, Balmoral Boy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vanessa eventually put the new owner in touch with Megan Jones and she produced the lovely Kirby Park Irish Hallmark (Paddy) from this cross.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paddy competed at Badminton in 2004, leading after the first day of dressage.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Following the loss of ESB Irish Anna, Vanessa switched gears, married her college sweetheart, reduced her horse numbers and moved to Murray Bridge, South Australia, where she became a snow pea picker supervisor – a far cry from horse breeder!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was during this time that she met Margaret Jones, whose daughters, Emma and Megan, both rode competitively but needed some good horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vanessa helped them get started with a band of broodmares and her colt from ESB Irish Anna, ESB Irish Enough (Matty).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This gave Megan her foundation stock to start the Kirby Park Stud with Irish Jester, Jamie, Jig and Jessica in 1993.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The following year came Jordan, Justice, Jade and Janey.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Megan kept Kirby Park Irish Jordan as a colt and has continued to produce her stud from his progeny.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Four years later tragedy struck again as Vanessa lost ESB Irish Enough to endocarditis, an infection of the heart.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“He had caught a cold and the bacteria migrated to his heart without me realizing.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was lunging him one day working on his canter transitions and he just suddenly neighed, flung himself into the fence, staggered and dropped dead at my feet.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I just couldn’t believe it and sat with him lying in my arms for two hours before being dragged inside.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was one of the most magnificent horses I have even had the privilege of seeing, let alone riding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He was just amazing in every way and such a huge loss both to the breeding program and to me personally.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">While she was recovering from yet another set back, the ESB progeny were starting to make their mark in national and international competitions.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There were a number competing at the FEI level, but the day that <a href="http://www.irishjester.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: white;">Kirby Park Irish Jester</span></a> won the silver team medal at the Beijing Olympics, Vanessa knew that her hard work and determination had paid off.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“I didn’t allow myself to think about it until they had won, it was way too emotional.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In between the team medal and the individual round, Vanessa received an email from her mother saying “Congratulations, we are so proud of you and I am so ashamed for not supporting you more.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Vanessa was so pleased for Megan Jones and her family saying, “they have all worked very hard and sacrificed a lot to achieve such success”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Vanessa knew that something had to give. Between the breeding, competing and working to fund the program, she couldn’t do it all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Professionally, she had gone from nursing to snow peas, lecturing in horse studies, a Director of the Australian Horse Council (AHIC), an advisor on Government committees, creating and publishing a database of the industry and the first Event Director for Equitana Asia Pacific.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Throughout all this, her marriage dissolved, her house was showered with rocks by a gold mining company, which also dumped 45,000 cubic meters of rock on her property, another failed relationship, floods, and outbreak of EI, bushfires and the worst drought in Australian history.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Around the same time, Aboriginal scar trees were discovered on her property and she was approached about having an international car rally with over 200 cars traveling at over 200kms an hour on her land.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“There has to be a film script in there somewhere,” says Vanessa. “The whole saga is a cross between A Field of Dreams, Black Beauty, Erin Brockovich, The Castle and A Beautiful Mind.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>By now, however, she had become pretty unflappable and just put her head down and continued to work through the problems.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">The breeding program had been developing on a number of different properties throughout all of this but in 2000 Vanessa moved into her new house on a 300 acre property in central Victoria. Aptly named ‘Gold Fields’ (being on the edge of a gold mining company), Vanessa has developed the facilities to realize her other dream. The property is now home to <a href="http://www.thegoldfieldsstadium.com/"><span style="color: white;">The Gold Fields Stadium</span></a><span style="color: white;">, </span><a href="http://www.thebushcourtyard.com/"><span style="color: white;">The Bush Courtyard</span></a><span style="color: white;">, </span><a href="http://www.thegoldfieldsequestrianclub.blogspot.com/"><span style="color: white;">The Gold Fields Equestrian Club</span></a><span style="color: white;"> </span>and the Equine Sports Breeding & Training Centre.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">The challenge to take the ESB breeding program to the next step was primarily restricted by finances.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Riders were coming back to buy their second and third horse, but due to escalating feed prices with the drought, they couldn’t afford to pay me what these horses were costing me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So I implemented a ‘Pay as they grow’ payment scheme whereby I would match the rider with a horse and we would agree on a price and a time period for the horse to be picked up.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was a good cash flow solution for everyone.”<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Vanessa would invite the riders to come and stay if they had holidays or time off so they could all get to know each other, especially the horses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It gave Vanessa a chance to share her training and young horse philosophies with the riders and the riders had the opportunity to find the best match for them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It became clear to Vanessa during these visits that even though many of the riders had loads of ability and personality, they often lacked the experience and savvy to leverage their success and journey as professionals.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As a breeder, Vanessa wanted to make sure that the horses had the best opportunity to prove themselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So the concept of Team ESB was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Team ESB is a pioneering concept in which riders receive an ESB horse as well as the training, advice, guidance, mentoring and support to achieve their goal of reach the international level of competition.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>According to Vanessa, “The idea is to select the riders and match them with the right horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I seek advice from coaches or fate takes a hand but riders are selected on their riding ability as well as their attitude and personality.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I then “give” them a horse which I think suits them best at the time and that will also assist their progression to international competition.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>With good horses often hard to find, this can be a dream come true for riders - an ongoing supply of talented, purpose-bred and professionally raised youngsters without a large initial outlay of funds. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Vanessa’s goal is to create a global platform of talented riders on these lovely ESB horses. There are currently about thirty riders in the program and Vanessa is now on a mission to discover more budding event riders. “The rider selection is an ongoing process especially when I think the best ESB horses are yet to come. It is imperative that riders have the right attitude, will appreciate this opportunity and want to be the best they can as a person as well as a rider”.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">“I am concentrating on the more junior riders because they are less established and will hopefully appreciate the opportunities a bit more.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To grow our sport, riders need to think outside the box and become more entrepreneurial, creative and proactive in planning for their long term goals. One of the major challenges is to teach the riders how to communicate professionally and the importance of building their profile, networks and personality.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Vanessa now believes she has a better idea of what is required to develop the team and is equipped to take the next step.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She is has developed the Team ESB Manual to ensure that all members are on the same page and have a greater understanding of their role and direction.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has also run several training workshops with guest speakers on goal setting and strategic planning as well as media training. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">“The horse and rider combinations need to be focused on developing both their professional and practical skills as well as supporting and helping other members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As we continue to grow, we are working on building our profile, awareness and branding with websites, blogs, merchandise and publicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This provides better service to our riders, supporters, owners and sponsors.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">“Once we have everything in place, we can take this to potential owners and sponsors and offer them good communication and professional management and hopefully a return on their investment.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">Team ESB owners have the ability to be part of team syndicates and own a share of more than one horse.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sponsors have greater exposure as they are linked with more than one rider, often in more than one country.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As Vanessa shares, “Horse trials can be really exciting with loads of opportunities for individuals to have fun and feel involved as well as achieve corporate promotion, exposure and branding.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Team ESB embraces all members and makes the most of everyone’s energy, ideas and expertise so that our investors and stakeholders feel involved and valued. At the same time everyone wins and benefits from the global exposure as well as the expertise, mentorship and networks of all the team members.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Most of all though, it’s about having fun.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span face=""arial" , "sans-serif"" lang="EN-US" style="font-size: 11pt;">ESB horses currently compete throughout the world, but at the moment Team ESB’s focus is primarily in the UK, USA and Australia. Over the last five years Vanessa has been travelling over to the UK and USA researching the industry, exploring opportunities and sourcing the right people and riders to develop the concept.</span><br />
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We hope you enjoy our website. Please feel free to make any suggestions or corrections to the information we've supplied. Visitors are always welcome to tour the farm and the horses but just at the moment we are in the process of relocating to our new property in Euroa, so unless you want a job please contact us in the New Year.<br />
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