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Susan
Frost
& Robert Camfferman purchased their property "Murrawah"
in June of 2002 after falling in love with the potential of a rather
rocky and run down homestead at an Open House. After 3 tough years of
renovating and improvements they are now seeing their dream come to
fruition. Murrawah Performance Horses is now home to nearly 20 Quality
Paint & Quarter Horses bred for 2 distinct disciplines, Reining
& Halter.
Susan and Robert both
graduated from Agricultural colleges, studying Equine, Robert in SA at
Roseworthy Ag College and Susan at Gatton Ag College. Both
have
always had horses in their lives, Robert as a Jackeroo on large
properties in the territory and competing in Roping and Bull riding at
Rodeos. Susan grew up on the Western show circuit with Palouse Ponies
when they were hugely popular in the 70's and early eighties. Susan's
mother Judy Frost bred and produced a National Champion weanling colt,
in a class of 28 colts. Over the years they had 2 Palouse Pony
Stallions and Susan showed her mare for many wins and placing's at
State and National level as a Youth.
Both
Robert
and Susan changed over to other horse disciplines in their lives
competing in Dressage, Hacking and Rodeo but have now come to love the
western sports and have found a real passion for Reining and also
Halter Horses.
In 2002 Rob &
Susan re-commenced showing after purchasing some well bred horses from
Rockhampton Quarter Horse Sale. They then went on to find the
wonderful Paint Sire "Touch of Doc" and were proud to stand Doc for 2
seasons producing some wonderful foals. In 2004 they decided to sell
Doc due to the time constraints of their business and they have
retained 2 quality Doc babies. Deciding not to stand a stallion has
allowed them to go in search of breeding to some of their favourite
outside sires.
Susan
and
Rob in the past year have had Scott Sutton as a resident
Trainer at their property, Scott was recently married and has now moved
to the Sunshine Coast where he will continue to train reining horses
for Murrawah. For the time being Susan & Rob will continue
with their current breeding and showing program without a resident
trainer.
The wonderful property
is 23 acres and is located 4km from Oakey near Toowoomba in Qld . The
property has a large 4 bedroom home with a double garage, a detached
cottage, Top class Reining Arena Surface, roundyard and 5 stables in
their new Titan Barn. Electric fencing with 6 paddocks and 8 yards.
Located only 45minutes to Gatton Indoor and 10 mins to Toowoomba it is
well situated for the SE Qld Show circuit.
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