Zoe McKinlay
Training & Horsemanship
Zoe is the head trainer and coach of Intrinsic Equine and as a qualified zoologist; she has been able to develop her skills and knowledge around animal behaviour, training and physiology with many different animals including both domestic and wild equids.
Growing up on a dairy farm in northern Victoria, she had a natural affinity for all animals and was destined to have a career working with them.
Knowing this she dedicated her gap year to working with animals in Africa, then moving away from home and heading to university to get a degree in zoology. During her studies she took particular interest in animal physiology, structure and behaviour, which would later prove to be an intergral part of her job as a horse trainer and coach.
Zoe started riding when she was 12 years old and broke in her first horse at 15, breeding her first foal shortly after that. While studying at university she continued to break in and train several horses, and kept finding herself employed in the horse industry – from training racehorses, dressage prospects, eventing horses, children in riding schools, as well as privately training western trail, campdrafting and reining horses for various people.
She and even safely competes bitless in campdrafting.
All in all giving her over 16 years of experience.
She finds more joy in seeing the horses and riders she has helped thrive by simply being out-and-about, rather than her being in the showring herself.
Variety is the spice of her life and describes herself as “thrives in calm chaos” which is why she coaches and trains horses and riders of all disciplines with all manners of problems with a focus on sound horsemanship principles, utilizing the 4 quadrants of training and proper biomechanics to get horse and rider working together in unity.
Visit Zoe McKinlay at the following sessions
Details
Saturday November 16th
3:30 pm to 4:15 pm
Duncan Equine Group Arena
Polework for cross training
Integrating polework into your regular routine can improve all aspects of you and your horses riding, fitness and general wellbeing.
It is an excellent way to improve topline, proprioception, agility, balance, straightness and suppleness.
This demonstration will allow viewers to see the benefits of polework and how, when done correctly, can be applied to ALL disciplines.
Details
Sunday November 17th
9:30 am to 10:15 am
Duncan Equine Group Arena
Arena exercises for the trail
Many people dream of going for trail rides on their horses, they dream of cantering through the bush like the man from snowy river or a free spirit out on the big open plains, maybe even just to go out to a new riding club.
Unfortunately, many riders don’t have the confidence to do this. They come up with excuse after excuse, and hold themselves back from greatness. During this demonstration we will go through some exercises that can be practiced within an arena to give you confidence to leave the arena and follow your desires to escape the confines of those 4 fences.
