Welcome to Silverthorn
Australian Stock Horse Stud

Gloucester, NSW, Australia

Welcome, we are Paul and Julie Wardell and we hope you enjoy browsing our website.

We are situated in the Gloucester Tops on the Gloucester River, in a beautiful valley that runs from river to mountain tops.

A beef cattle property with country so steep that cattle-work is a difficult task but is efficiently achieved from the backs of our reliable Australian Stock Horses (ASH), enabling us to produce sure-footed, easy going mounts that earn us our living every day. These same horses, without missing a beat, are shown in high level ASH competitions most weekends, after the week?s work is done.

We pride ourselves on the excellent bloodlines that our horses carry, and enjoy breeding, raising, showing and breaking-in our youngsters and seeing them excel in whatever discipline their ultimate owners choose.

Our own show team has its share of success in the led, hack, working and campdraft arena which we feel reflects on the choices we have made in the selection of our breeding stock. Our aim is always to produce a line of horses that are sound, easy going, good minded, and of consistently uniform type.

We feel our long-term breeding programme is on track with the pleasing outcomes of matings by our past and present stallions to daughters and sisters of our foundation sire Montcalm Luke. Silverthorn Shotgun, one of the last sons of Montcalm Luke, has produced some quality foals over the last two years and we are looking forward to getting these young horses out and under saddle.

Our broodmare base is such that we can say ".....this is the mother, grandmother, or great-grandmother of so many of our horses .....". It is very satisfying to watch the progeny of these wonderful heritage bred mares whose bloodlines can be traced back to pre 1830, succeeding at the very most elite levels.

Currently we are offering four stallions at stud:

• Knights Jugaby
• Silverthorn Shotgun
• Silverthorn Easy Acres
• Crillee Amarillo Oak

Our dual-registered ASHS/AQHA Acres Destiny colt Silverthorn Easy Acres, has been an exciting addition to our stud. We are looking forward with confidence to the impact this magnificent individual is going to make with the arrival of his first foals this season. We feel this young stallion is going to make a worthy future sire.

Additional to the breeding and showing facets of our business, we also provide rider instruction. Paul is an ASHS Accredited Coach and he offers both private and group tuition - either on your own horse or on one of our reliable mounts. We also run regular training and horsemanship clinics. For outside horses we also offer breaking-in, training and re-training and show and sale preparation.

Our byline "From the high country ... to the main arena" - truly evokes who we are and what we do.