Profiles

HEATH RYAN

2008 Heath was a member of the Australian Dressage Team for the Beijing Olympic Games and Rozzie was named as the First Reserve rider for the same team. Heath has been 3-times Assistant Coach for the Australian Olympic Eventing team, 1996 Australia won Gold at the Atlanta Olympics, 2000 Australia won Gold at the Sydney Olympics and 2004 at the Athens Olympics.

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ROZZIE RYAN

I was born in Colchester, England and began riding horses at the age of 3 at West Mersey with a wonderful teacher -  Miss Catchpole. My parents were not involved with horses initially but were very supportive and my mother particularly enjoyed the competition scene. I was lucky enough to always have great ponies and competed in everything I could get myself to -  Eventing being my first love.

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EMMA ARMSTRONG

Emma hails from Cassilis, NSW where her parents own a family Sheep property running Merinos that have been bred by the Armstrong family for generations. Emma started riding at a very young age helping on the farm and mustering both sheep and cattle. She was an enthusiastic local Pony Club member from the age of 6yrs and in those early years was coached by Gordon Bishop.

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GORDON BISHOP

Gordon is in actual fact an independant operator at Ryan's however he has off and on been based with Heath and Rozzie for the past 20 years and is considered part of the team. Gordon has produced a number of horses to 3*** eventing level and has on numerous occasions been in final Olympic trials here in Australia in contention for Olympic selection.

SAPPHO RANSAN-ELLIOTT

Sappho joined the Ryan team in 2006 as a young SA rider who had enjoyed Pony Club and done some work experience at local riding clubs and also with some well known identities ie Megan Jones. Sappho has always had as her goal, making the Australian Olympic Team in the Eventing discipline. Sappho has come from a very different background, being fluent in the languages of French, Chinese ( Mandarin) and of course English.

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CORNELIA O’MAHONY

Cornelia, who is called by everybody here at Ryans simply "Ninx", arrived from England in July 2007 for a "gap" year and is still with us. Ninx has her own horse and much to the dismay of her parents - doesn't want to go home! She is training hard and has set her goals on making the British Olympic Dressage Team for 2012. Her horse Jive Talkin  is by JIVE MAGIC and we believe to be seriously outstanding and capable of being very much a part of this ambitious programme.

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ASHLIE OLIVER

Ashlie started as a working pupil at Ryans at the very young age of 16yrs in 2008. She came from a very enthusiastic yet non-horsey family in Victoria. Ashlie's father, Bryan was a very succesful racing car driver in his younger days and it is from here that Ashlie has inherited her very competitive nature. Ashlie's mum, Gael is a nurse and has to be very long suffering to put up with both Ashlie and her dad.

BREE TILLITZKI

Bree started her training with Rozzie Ryan at the age of 12yrs and has been pretty much with the Ryans ever since. Bree goes to school at Lochinvar so whilst Heath & Rozzie were based at Lochinvar it was simple enough to turn up at Ryans each day after school. Bree was initially involved with mucking out and tacking up horses for both Rozzie and Heath.

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OFFICE STAFF

Ryan's originally existed without any full time office staff and so this aspect of the business has been slow and painful in its birthing! Of course for those of you making enquiries re training or stallions or horses for sale this has sometimes been a frustrating experience. Well we are trying.

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