Coalfire Australian Stock Horses

We are Greg and Frith Tynan and we live in the South Burnett wine & olive growing area in South East Queensland

My aim is to breed great temperament, versatile horses for most disciplines, a horse for work as well as play, an animal you would entrust your childrens safety to, one who will take you further than you dreamed, and that has no price, a horse like my ASH Shiralee.

I believe that Australian Stock Horses are these horses.

I started in horses when my parents purchased one to pull a 1922 bent-shaft courting sulky they were restoring for the Cairns centenery parade in 1976, Avalon Darkey (by Daddy's Bid(IMP)) He never did take to the shafts so we borrowed a horse for the parade and all learnt to ride on him.

Later Dad and Mum purchased another for the sulky (Buttons).

Our start in Polocrosse was when a friend of Dads was looking for Umpire horses for the Cairns Club Carnival (now Marlin Coast Club) We all went to the carnival to take a look at how Darkey went, we were hooked.

More horses were needed for Mum, Dad and the two sisters of the Thomson clan to play this fantastic game.

Mum wanted us to learn to ride so we recieved a years membership to the local riding school and joined the pony club but always with polocrosse first and foremost in mind.

For about 8 years Shiralee and I played polocrosse, with her fantastic temperament and ability gaining us numerous best presented awards, Best #1 and best & fairest on the field.

High school and then college, then work away from home put a stop to my polocrosse, but always back to the horses on weekends, joined the Atherton pony club as part of the infamous F troop turning up when I could for loads of fun.

Bred my first foal Coalfire Hava Guess out of Avalon Shiralee by Yandaloo Dictator in 1991.

I hope to compete in the coming years with the new progeny, and with the sires I have chosen for my girls they could well be extrordinary horses.