SALLYANNE SLATER EQUESTRIAN
The Formation of
SAS Equestrian
SallyAnne Slater
SallyAnne now...
Sallyanne’s lifelong passion and extensive experience lead to the formation of SAS Equestrian where Sallyanne loves working with her clients to support them as they gently educate their horses and continue to enhance their horse’s wellbeing. SAS Equestrian caters for an extensive range of training solutions. Sallyanne has successfully combined classical dressage training with Western-inspired training into an easy-to-understand method. This method combines groundwork, ridden training and horses at liberty to suit any client's need or experience.
Ethos
‘Listen, acknowledge, be grounded. Respond with embodied precision.’
Is the way I connect with horses
We all have a threshold. Everything on one side of the threshold is comfortable and easy & we are happy to stay here all day as it’s all predictable & we understand.
On the other side of the threshold we have the unknown, the uncertainty, the unpredictable, the fear.
When teaching a horse something new we must deliver confidence from what he already understands at the same time allowing him to be brave enough to explore into the unknown.
At this point we must reward the horse for his efforts no matter how minor we perceive them to be.
For in time this will be the advancement in his education.
The SAS Equestrian
Training Scale
Most training methods begin with a focus on where the horse needs improvement and that may be the case. However, my experience shows me that it all begins within the hands of the human that is looking after the horse.
Instead of beginning where the horse has the perceived training issue, imagine a method that both emotionally & mentally prepares the human with the calm leadership qualities, that are required to train the horse.
It is my mission to help humans not only understand their horses but more importantly understand the impact that human behaviour has on our much loved equines.
Before
SAS
Equestrian
SallyAnne Slater
SallyAnne's early years...
As a youngster Sallyanne was active in pony clubs and rode and won places in the Royal Melbourne, Adelaide and Canberra Shows. She competed & has been placed in several hundred agricultural shows. She spent nine years completing weekly tuition sessions with Dressage Master Anna Auer; she groomed for Three Star Eventer Rob Hannah in Gawler, South Australia and worked for Australian Show Jumping Coach, Rob Brown in Sydney.
Sallyanne has worked internationally in Osaka, Japan training horses on the flat for the Japanese Olympic Show Jumping team. She spent years in the outback where she taught at pony clubs, ran regular lessons for both adults and children and provided foundation training for young horses. Sallyanne successfully competed in many rodeo competitions and on two occasions was successful in the prestigious Mt Isa Rodeo 200 metre sprint. As well, she rode in camp draft competitions at outback events and was involved in station work and mustering in Mt Isa, Queensland. She has ridden and trialled race horses in both slow and fast work for trainers as well as sharing her craft with apprentice jockeys.
Director of SAS Equestrian, Sallyanne Slater says she made an oath to herself at four, that horses would be a huge part of her life and she credits her love of horses for teaching her some of the biggest lessons of her life. “For this I am eternally indebted to them. Horses are beautifully honest as they come without an ego or agenda and due to this they do not deceive or manipulate. The magic is not in me, it’s in them. I just listen and connect with their emotional body.”