Congratulating a young competitor on a job well done.  Winning a blue ribbon is the best out come for any one competing in a horse show.  Photo courtesy Heavy Thunder Down Under.

A Message from Paul and Jann

G’day and welcome back to Heavy Thunder Down Under horse website.  As you probably already know we have had horse websites for quite a number of years.  It all began with a passion for horses and the desire to harness the power of the internet.

That was a while ago now.  The first Heavy Thunder website would have been started around 1999.   But as you may know we have been in horses for many years, practically all of our lives.

And for most of our lives we have lived and breathed horses.  We have also had a passion to help others with their horses.  And so we began the Heavy Thunder Down Under magazine.  The full set is now archived in the National Library in Canberra here in Australia.

But our challenge was how we could effectively help others with their horses.  The answer eluded us for many years as we struggled to learn what we could about the ever present and growing internet.

Although we weren’t old people the internet was surely a challenge to conquer, as we recognised back then, it was the way of the future.  Even back then this technology boomed and new ideas were emerging every day about how the internet could be utilized.

So we were determined to grow with it. Albeit it was definitely a challenge, but meanwhile we had a couple of dreams which were:

1.    To work from home and:

2.     To be able to work with our beloved horses.  And we decided the internet was the way to go.

Paul had established he wanted to pass on his several lifetimes of knowledge to others before the end of his lifetime.  And Jann wanted to be a successful writer.  So after much soul searching and head scratching over quite a number of years Our Horse Secrets was born.

Our Horse Secrets was a way Paul and Jann could combine not only Paul’s amazing horse knowledge but also Jann’s love of writing.  Being professional people this concept of teaching was embraced and utilized with the help of the internet.

Our Horse Secrets allows you as a new or experienced horse person to learn at your own pace.  We believe knowledge is power and that knowledge is not to be kept to oneself but to be passed on and shared.