HIGH VIeW

HORSE COMPLEX

  Phone Sonja: 0409 291 494            237 Illowa Rd, Illowa, Vic, 3282             enquiries@highviewhorsecomplex.com.au

About Our Family

Steve and I (Sonja) moved to Warrnambool with our two girls in January 2012 from our 12 acre property in Northern NSW.

Steve grew up in Warrnambool so returning here was a homecoming of sorts and I felt at home right away. Steve’s Dutch parents were one of the first Dutch families to settle in Warrnambool after the war and they and their 9 children became ingrained in the local community over the following years.

I hail from the UK where I got my degree in Equine Science before traveling to the USA and working as an intern for Kentucky Equine Research at their nutrition research facility in Kentucky. I arrived in Australia in 2000 and met Steve shortly after that in Melbourne. That, as they say, was that and like countless other ‘pommies’ I decided to ditch my home across the water and began calling Australia home.

We moved to northern NSW in 2002 and married on our property in 2003. I continued working as an equine nutrition advisor for KER in Australia for 8 years until a year or so after the birth of our first daughter.

We purchased High View in early 2013 with a very long list of all the things we wanted to do to make it our own. We are steadily working through those lists and evolving our ideas as we learn more about the property and what the local horse people are looking for in terms of services.

We are starting to feel a very strong connection with the property as we continue developing it and hope to continue working towards a horse property dedicated to horse welfare and  best practice in management systems.