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About Sallyanne.

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.”

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.

Sallyanne’s life long 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 ground work, ridden training and horses at liberty to suit any client need or experience. 

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She advises on:

  • Training & behavioural issues

  • Higher level dressage coaching

  • Competition readiness

  • Mindset preparedness

  • Rider tuition & coaching

  • Group training sessions

  • Individual coaching

  • Remedial training

  • Bodywork

  • Nutritional advice

  • General horse husbandry

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