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Horse Trax Oz Welcome to Blackbutt Queensland and Horse Trax Oz. Located in Blackbutt QUEENSLAND, Horse Trax Oz specializes in all things recreational horse riding.

From trail mapping, project management to horse health workshops and confidence sessions. Trail ride groups also catered for with guided rides and camping with an obstacle course and arena for use by visitors. Horse Trax Oz adheres to the Horse Safety Standards Australia Code of Conduct. Horse Safety Australia Inc Code of Conduct for Horse Activities
Responsibility to individuals
Horse Safety Aust

ralia Instructors/Guides should:
 Provide their services conscientiously and competently.
 Not breach public trust, or the specific trust of their participants, clients, staff or competitors.
 Ensure that advice and directions provided give full and proper cognisance to personal safety. Technical skills
Horse Safety Australia Instructors/Guides should:
 Continue to develop their professional knowledge and technical skills.
 Not undertake activities they are not competent to perform and, when in doubt, obtain appropriate advice and assistance that will allow these activities to be competently carried out.
 State qualifications, experience and prior responsibilities accurately. Behaviour
Horse Safety Australia Instructors/Guides should:
 Maintain a high standard of integrity, and apply honesty and fair dealing in all aspects of their operations.
 Carry out their professional duties with due care and diligence.
 Act and communicate in a professional manner towards both their colleagues and their clients
 Act in ways which engender confidence regarding horse related activities and clearly support the Standards set out in the Horse Safety Australia documentation
In practice, this means that Horse Safety Australia instructors/guides should:
1. Place the safety and welfare of the participants above all else
2. Ensure that equipment and facilities meet safety standards and horses are appropriate to the age and ability of their riders.
3. Ensure that the time riders spend with them is a positive experience. All clients deserve equal attention and opportunities. SMOKING
Due to the dangers of passive smoking, non-smokers should be protected from tobacco smoke. For this reason Horse Safety Australia recommends that smoking not be permitted in any building where clients congregate, nor in eating or office areas of the organisation. Instructors should refrain from smoking while they are acting in an official capacity. HARRASSMENT
Horse Safety Australia is committed to encouraging horse related environments which are free from harassment and discrimination. All clients, instructors, administrators, volunteers and staff members have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Sexual harassment and various other forms of harassment are unlawful under federal and state/territory antidiscrimination laws. People engaging in harassment can have legal action taken against them under these laws. In some cases, legal action can also be taken against the organisation for which they work or which they represent.
4. Display control, respect and professionalism to all involved in their activities
5. Encourage all participants.
6. Be consistent, objective and courteous when making decisions.
7. Promote respect for all participants
8. Remember that they set the example. Their behaviour and comments should be positive and supportive.
9. Respect the rights, dignity and worth of all participants regardless of their gender, ability, cultural backgrounds or religion
Ensure that any physical contact with a rider is appropriate to the situation and only undertaken when necessary for their skill development.
11. Show concern and caution towards sick and injured riders. Ensure that a rider/handler who has been involved in an incident/accident involving a horse, is not be permitted to recommence that activity until they have been assessed for possible injuries by a competent first aider. If any injuries are evident or suspected, these should be treated by a medical professional before continuing with the activities



With hands one trail riding experience coupled with marketing and project management expertise, we have a core team of people to help with anything horsey. Name: HORSETRAXOZ
Registration Number: BN22390558
Registered State: Queensland
Registration Date: 28/03/2012
Status: Registered
Type: Business Names
Regulator: Australian Securities & Investments Commission

Another follow up for those interested and around the Brisbane Valley/Toogoolawah/Esk region who are struggling with bod...
20/08/2025

Another follow up for those interested and around the Brisbane Valley/Toogoolawah/Esk region who are struggling with body and feet!

This is the link to services and contact details for Animal Biomechanical Solutions

https://www.biomechanicalsolutions.com.au/services

My services are nutritional plans and REIKI but work in partnership with all other horse health providers.

Please ensure that your vet, bodyworker and farrier are on the same page!

Thanks all.

                                       24 Hours’ notice for cancellation is required, or the minimum charge will apply

This month I saw quite a few horses on small acreage blocks with the  #1 stand out confusion being quantity and quality ...
19/08/2025

This month I saw quite a few horses on small acreage blocks with the #1 stand out confusion being quantity and quality of hay needed for a horse to have a healthy gut.

There are many different opinions about what food how much what supplements etc. HOWEVER! SCIENCE tells us the basic needs of a horse. That is not disputed by any qualified equine nutritionalist.

Horses have a digestive system that's evolved to be pretty much constantly processing a high fibre diet and eating pretty much 75% of the 24 hours a day 7 days a week.

The calories need to come from at LEAST 50% hay/grass with a MINIMUM of 2% of their body weight in hay/grass.

So what does that mean?

Lets go with Spider as an example.

He is a 600kg horse not doing much just hanging out in a paddock and his BASIC nutritional needs a day are:

Calories per day - 21 megacalories... YES MEGACALORIES!!!
Weight of hay/grass needed A DAY with a minimum of 2% - 12KG

12kg of decent rhodes/grass/hay is a LOT! An average full small square possibly a day. My advice is however chuck a round bale in the paddock to munch on all day. That gets supplemented with 2 small hard feeds a day of gumnuts, oil for calories, chia seed, linseeds and salt. A handfull - I MEAN A HANDFULL - of lucerne occasionally as a treat and not green fresh lucerne either. The reasons are many and not for this post.

This is my NUMBER ONE RULE. Make sure your horse/s have enough grass or decent grassy hay. NOT LUCERNE... RHODES GRASS HAY.

NOT MOLDY CHEAP HAY..Decent rhodes grass cut as its seeded so you get the benefits of some possible germination.

If you want to do some of your own calculations on the rest of the dietary requirements you can visit this page and work it out from there....https://webassets.nationalacademies.org/nrh/

I will talk about 'supplements' another time as well as pasture management on small acreage lots.

This photo is from 2023 same time of year when we had 10mm in 3 months but there was grass on the roadside near drains. YES I WENT AND CUT FRESH GREEN RHODES FOR THE HORSES EVERY DAY.

That is what you do. I used to do this when I was a kid in drought. It happens. It wasn't 12kg either. This load was only about 5 kg a day but was to keep the digestive system working properly. It was in ADDITIONAL to free access to rhodes round bales in the paddock.

HAY HAY HAY HAY HAY HAY.

Quick pop in to the open arena for the NRHA - National Reining Horse Association  at QSEC today in between some free "ho...
19/08/2025

Quick pop in to the open arena for the NRHA - National Reining Horse Association at QSEC today in between some free "horse chats".

Have fun all.

Ok. I think we are all ready for Spring now...
17/08/2025

Ok. I think we are all ready for Spring now...

Go get Monty please Teddy. His turn for a trim. Thankyou.
17/08/2025

Go get Monty please Teddy. His turn for a trim.

Thankyou.


Trail riding really is my thing. That's what I do.  I train my horses to be safe trail riding horses who enjoy the time ...
16/08/2025

Trail riding really is my thing. That's what I do. I train my horses to be safe trail riding horses who enjoy the time with me exploring...bush bashing...nattering at leisure..outdoors.

Competitions was to challenge the skill set. Learn how to ride better. Motivation to trim feet and procrastination defeat.....*

Any trail horse can do things in an "arena" but heaps of "arena" trained horses would flip out on a trail ride.

Photo is of my magnificent Monty about 3 months after he arrived. Looks so young...it was 11 years ago after all.

So..yes...from Milestone Equestrian.

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A response to my previous post..... Just my opinion of course but I would suggest that if anyone has this attitude they ...
14/08/2025

A response to my previous post..... Just my opinion of course but I would suggest that if anyone has this attitude they might need to re-evaluate their relationship with horses and ask why the horses they are dealing are:

"What absolute bu****it, Sometimes horses are just as****es".

But what kind of AH - Mr Ed kind of AH? cause I have one of those... the gate opener.. the fence pusher over.. the get into the shed while I am not paying attention.. that kind?

Or the "try to kill you when you try to put a saddle on" AH?

Guess there are different levels when referring to a horse as an AH.

This is why I usually don't do negative posts, cause the AHs appear with their 2 cents worth gaslighting anyone who dares put the horses brain in the equation.

PHOTO from the INTERWEB clearly Mr Ed CBS TV SHOW for those who have no idea who this horse is.... google it.

"Don't let them put one over you Mel:!"Give em heaps!" ..as I spin a horse around and kick them in the guts!! That happe...
13/08/2025

"Don't let them put one over you Mel:!

"Give em heaps!" ..as I spin a horse around and kick them in the guts!!

That happened more than once..

I was like so many - the kid who grew up with the 'you must be in charge' and 'keep them in line' kind of training from stockmen in the 70s and even pony club not so long ago..... I have seen some pretty crappy horsemanship at PC... but..

We are thankfully NOW.

NOW - is a whole different ball game.. NOW is after having much more knowledge. NOW is having horses with massive trauma and learning better ways. NOWI am very happy with my new ways of training and getting horses back from where ever they have been. .

What is NOW? Now - it appears - is guiding horses out of trauma and learned helplessness.

Now - It takes a lot longer.. A LOT longer than most people have the time or patience for - but you know what - NOW IS BETTER.

When I started Back in the Saddle nearly 10 years ago - the horsemanship and clicker training thing really wasn't a thing. I just did what a decent human who didn't want to die would do. Make sure that before you got on the horse it was safe.

I was doing this with minimal knowledge of the science of guts, body, feet etc. I was doing it by instinct. I had JAKE to thank for starting to teach me about what the hell was going on in a horses head. Jake came from a great home and a family who adored the dude. He only raced 5 times I think it was, and they was taken off the track because he hated it. And he hated it meant he came second last. So his life has been pretty good so to speak.

Anyway - I digress back to the reason for my posting this. Today I shared a post on a few pages about patience poles which was a post backed by MUCH more experience than I have .. and there was a response from another person who 'trains' horses with horsemanship in the name of the business. (Remember I talked about this before).

Having HORSEMANSHIP in your business name kind of means nothing if you think that shutting horses down because they are RANK .....instead of working out WHY THEY WERE RANK IN THE FIRST PLACE proves my previous thoughts on the matter. I am probably going to cop it for this post as well... but hey.. my library my rules..

The comment that was directed at those (not just me) who don't agree with this kind of training stating we had never seen a RANK HORSE.. or even trained a horse.

Well... In my opinion - guess what? Rank horses come from rank training. Horses are essentially not an aggressive animal unless something is wrong. Again, there will be the ' but I had a mare' comments here as well. I might leave that response to those like Milestone Equestrian and Shelby who has already posted much about this stereotype about MARES... anyway...

So I guess my point is. What do you want? A shut down horse who has been trained through trauma and fear - or a horse that is absolutely happy to do whatever you ask of him/her.

Spending now 7 months on Ginja Ninja and hes still skitty and waiting for the s**t to go down - I hate to think what this horse has been through for him to be so aggressive when he is scared. And yes... Spider was no walk in the park either. And they have not been the first but these have been the most challenging because I am better equipped to deal with it.

SO YES - I have trained RANK HORSES.. and I have because I end up with the ones who have been trained by RANK PEOPLE.

BE KIND - humans, horses and yourself. Especially yourself.

Unresolved trauma is a very very heavy weight to bare and something our horses shouldn't be having to carry as well as us.



Almost a different horse...7 months.... still more work on the back and hooves but he is taking his time.
11/08/2025

Almost a different horse...

7 months.... still more work on the back and hooves but he is taking his time.

07/08/2025

Get into it boys!

More excellent rhodes grass hay for the boys from Dunngullen Brahmans, Hay and Fresh Produce.

Thanks Nathan.

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Horse Trax Oz is your one stop shop for anything to do with horse trail riding. From mapping, planning, project management to even guided trails, we can help you out. Horse Trax Oz adheres to the Horse Safety Standards Australia Code of Conduct. Horse Safety Australia Inc Code of Conduct for Horse Activities Responsibility to individuals Horse Safety Australia Instructors/Guides should:  Provide their services conscientiously and competently.  Not breach public trust, or the specific trust of their participants, clients, staff or competitors.  Ensure that advice and directions provided give full and proper cognisance to personal safety. Technical skills Horse Safety Australia Instructors/Guides should:  Continue to develop their professional knowledge and technical skills.  Not undertake activities they are not competent to perform and, when in doubt, obtain appropriate advice and assistance that will allow these activities to be competently carried out.  State qualifications, experience and prior responsibilities accurately. Behaviour Horse Safety Australia Instructors/Guides should:  Maintain a high standard of integrity, and apply honesty and fair dealing in all aspects of their operations.  Carry out their professional duties with due care and diligence.  Act and communicate in a professional manner towards both their colleagues and their clients  Act in ways which engender confidence regarding horse related activities and clearly support the Standards set out in the Horse Safety Australia documentation In practice, this means that Horse Safety Australia instructors/guides should: 1. Place the safety and welfare of the participants above all else 2. Ensure that equipment and facilities meet safety standards and horses are appropriate to the age and ability of their riders. 3. Ensure that the time riders spend with them is a positive experience. All clients deserve equal attention and opportunities. SMOKING Due to the dangers of passive smoking, non-smokers should be protected from to***co smoke. For this reason Horse Safety Australia recommends that smoking not be permitted in any building where clients congregate, nor in eating or office areas of the organisation. Instructors should refrain from smoking while they are acting in an official capacity. HARASSMENT Horse Safety Australia is committed to encouraging horse related environments which are free from harassment and discrimination. All clients, instructors, administrators, volunteers and staff members have the right to be treated with respect and dignity. Sexual harassment and various other forms of harassment are unlawful under federal and state/territory antidiscrimination laws. People engaging in harassment can have legal action taken against them under these laws. In some cases, legal action can also be taken against the organisation for which they work or which they represent. 4. Display control, respect and professionalism to all involved in their activities 5. Encourage all participants. 6. Be consistent, objective and courteous when making decisions. 7. Promote respect for all participants 8. Remember that they set the example. Their behaviour and comments should be positive and supportive. 9. Respect the rights, dignity and worth of all participants regardless of their gender, ability, cultural backgrounds or religion Ensure that any physical contact with a rider is appropriate to the situation and only undertaken when necessary for their skill development. 11. Show concern and caution towards sick and injured riders. Ensure that a rider/handler who has been involved in an incident/accident involving a horse, is not be permitted to recommence that activity until they have been assessed for possible injuries by a competent first aider. If any injuries are evident or suspected, these should be treated by a medical professional before continuing with the activities With hands one trail riding experience coupled with marketing and project management expertise, we have a core team of people to help with anything horsey. Name: HORSE TRAX OZ Registration Number: BN22390558 Registered State: Queensland Registration Date: 28/03/2012 Status: Registered Type: Business Names Regulator: Australian Securities & Investments Commission