The Society was established in 1971 in Scone (New South Wales) which promotes itself as ‘the Horse Capital of Australia’. Today the Society is the largest of more than 70 individual horse breed associations in Australia. We enjoy a loyal and growing membership of more than 9,500 individuals and have in excess of 170,000 registered horses.

The Society has 66 Branches throughout Australia. Our Branches conduct competitions and activities for Members in their area and assist in promoting the breed within the horse industry. The successful performance of the Australian Stock Horse has not only been recognised throughout Australia, but exports to United Kingdom, United States of America, Africa, New Zealand and Asia have given them worldwide recognition. The Society conducts a National Championships on an annual basis to emphasise, highlight and record the success of the breed in the competition area.

The Society aims to preserve and promote the bloodlines of the Australian Stock Horse, recognised for its versatility and superior performance amongst work and leisure breeds. Our Board of Directors endeavours to ensure that the history and identity of the Australian Stock Horse remains clearly identified and for the Australian Stock Horse to continue for many years to come.

For more information on online stud book,  horses for sale, International trading and membership please visit us at www.ashs.com.au

For many years now the meeting has been conducted at “Wyeera”, an aboriginal word meaning “turning of the soil”.

In years past the meeting was held on Caulfield Cup Saturday and often attracted a greater attendance than the corresponding Sydney metropolitan meeting. It is interesting to note that the winner of the 1920 Bong Bong Cup, Purser, four years later went on to win the Caulfield Cup

By the 1980s Bong Bong was the largest picnic race meeting in the world. At a time when race crowds were declining Bong Bong’s were increasing reaching almost 35,000 in 1985. However poor behaviour on the part of some of this huge crowd resulted in the meetings being closed. In 1992 the races were revived but under strict crowd control by limiting attendance to members and their guests only.

Some firsts for the Club have been:

• · first in Australia to be televised in both black and white and in colour,

• ·        first in Australia to conduct races restricted to lady riders,

• ·        first to have a female Secretary,

• ·        first to offer stallion services as a prize, and…

• ·        first Club in NSW to reintroduce hurdle and steeple races after WWII.

A proud possession of the Club is the actual 1898 Bong Bong Cup which was won by Mr Thomas Rutledge’s Record. The Cup is on display in the Club’s Bowral office. Record also finished second in the 1899 Cup as well as winning the Tirranna Cup at the Tirranna Picnic Races (near Goulburn).

Wyeera has developed into a fine facility over the years. Long gone are the days of 2 x 2 posts in lieu of proper running rails, ashes from a local brick works to fill some of the swampy parts and strand starting barriers. Gone too is the notorious “drop” just past the winning post where unsuspecting jockeys sometimes became airborne. These days the course is a professional looking track but one which still holds its picnic race atmosphere and charm with the famous hill in the centre of the course the source of many tales about what can happen out of sight of the stewards.

Bong Bong Picnic Race day falls on the second Wednesday in November.

Over the last 10 years “Wyeera” has been estabkished as a quality equestrian facility and is the home also to:

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• The Bowral Show Society

• Burradoo Polocrosse Club

• Bowral Dressage Club

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Peter Pryde, who founded Pryde’s in 1986, realised the benefits of extruded feeds when studying and training as a food technologist. He was convinced that cooking the starch and protein in grains would allow a much more efficient digestion process in the small intestine of the horse, overcoming many of the digestive and behavioural problems associated with feeding grain to horses.

Today Pryde’s operate under the Stockfeed Manufacturers Council guidelines and have adopted the FeedSafe™ Quality Assurance Program, which guarantees a clean fresh product every time it is manufactured.

Customer service remains the highest of priorities combined with the supply of quality nutrition products. Pryde’s manufacture, pack and dispatch products to order which helps ensure each batch of feed is freshly made when leaving the facility.

Pryde’s have an active product development program with a number of innovative new feeds in the pipeline that will meet the nutritional needs of a wide range of horses.

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PRYDE’S IS A FAMILY OWNED COMPANY THAT HAS A COMMITMENT TO PRODUCING THE BEST QUALITY FEEDS AT COMPETITIVE PRICES.

For more information and product list visit Prydes at  www.prydes.com.au

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Horselands – Moss Vale

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Southern Highland News

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