Maree Tomkinson – The Horse Magazine

Maree Tomkinson working with Princess Nathalie

March 16th, 2023
Princess Nathalie, trainer and rider tells us: “Let her come down in front, her neck has to come up as a result of the activity of the hind legs. Let her lower with the neck, play with the position, and then bring her up by riding her from behind." Read Article Comments Off

Meet the Saddleworld Horse of the Month – Diamantina

February 10th, 2017
Meet the inaugural Saddleworld Horse of the Month, Maree Tomkinson’s Diamantina. Maree has taken the mare all the way from Young Horse classes to representing Australia at the WEG in Normandy: “We purchased Diamantina in 2006 from Johannes Westendarp whilst we were in Germany with Rodrigo for the World Young Horse Champs. She was 4 […] Read Article 2 Comments »

Maree Tomkinson takes a lesson with Susanne Miesner

August 22nd, 2016
Poor Maree Tomkinson, you would have a thought a lesson with a top German professional rider-trainer-author-educator, would be a breeze. A wonderful opportunity to sit looking pretty on some superbly educated beastie with all his buttons firmly in place... but Susanne Miesner is too subtle for that... Read Article Comments Off

Countdown to Rotterdam

June 29th, 2016
All the Australian dressage contenders are over in Europe now, fine tuning their horses for the final selection trial. LYNDAL OATLEY Lyndal Oatley didn’t have the greatest start to her selection campaign, when her horse, Sandro Boy, was not fit to travel to Odense for the first of the qualifiers… How is your road to […] Read Article 1 Comment »

IAHP March Rider of the Month

February 29th, 2016
Maree Tomkinson grabs the lead and features as our March International Animal Health rider of the month! In case you hadn’t noticed, it’s a leap year, and that means it’s a Games Year and the race is on for spots in the Aussie team to go to Rio next August, and after the first CDI […] Read Article Comments Off

Simply Brilliant – Steffen Peters at Equitana

October 30th, 2015
I was wondering just how Steffen Peters would go as an Equitana super Masterclass star… when I saw him operate in Sydney a few years back, I was impressed by how quiet the guy was, how would he go in the big public space... Read Article Comments Off