Location: Biddaddaba, QLD
Discipline/s: Reining
First started riding: 6 years old.
Favourite thing about riding: Achieving personal goals. Making my client happy with the way their horse performed.
Barastoc & KER feeds used:
Barastoc Cool Command
Barastoc Breed N Grow
Barastoc Completo
KER Equi-Jewel
Barastoc provide me with a balanced, stable, nutritional feed for my horses and they are great people to work with.
Major achievements & career highlights:
Competing in the Reining World Cup in Oklahoma U.S.A.
Bring awarded Legend status for earning over $100,000 in competition earnings
Winning 3 National Futurity titles
Most memorable moment: Training professionally for only 3 years to win my first National Futurity.
Hints or words of wisdom: Set yourself realistic and achievable goals. Be disciplined and focus on the outcome.
Future goals/aspirations: To continue to improve and grow my business. To win more national titles. To do more clinics.
Current competition Horses:
Astonlee Thunder Road (5 Yr Old)
Snippin Cash (3 Yr Old)
Secret Assassin (3 Yr Old)
Personal training programs or approaches to a new horse, middle aged horse etc: To always start with a good foundation. To have him as soft and supple as he can be in all his manoeuvres before adding speed. Keeping him physically and mentally sound during his career.
Key approaches to troubleshooting some common training and horse problems within discipline: To have the horses needs first. Keep an eye on his mental approach to training. For example, does he still love his job? Or is the pressure of the competition getting to him? By giving him time off or just backing off the training at certain times to keep him in full concentration.
Website: www.johnwicks.com.au
