About Us
Only fools breed horses… Wise men buy them​!
Welcome to Tarrendene Stud. We are a family owned business breeding quality dressage horses. We are located in Queensland not far from the RAAF Base at Amberley. Our horses are very unfazed by overhead aircraft, which given our location is a good thing!
Tarrendene Stud was started way back in the 1970s by Andrew and Merran Wilson. Originally they bred both Arabians and Thoroughbreds, Andrew having a passion for racehorse training and Merran for showing and dressage. They had the national champion Arabian Stallion Amazing Sachaar in the mid-80s. ​The horse addiction was passed onto their daughter Kylie who took anglo-arabs and thoroughbreds through dressage, showjumping and eventing through her teenage years. Kylie left the stud for a period to become a lawyer (as something
has to pay the bills when you have horses) before fully returning in 2009 and ultimately going into partnership with Andrew and Merran in the breeding programme. Over that time, Andrew and Merran had started breeding warmbloods in the late 80's to very high quality foundation thoroughbred and anglo-arabian broodmares.
In the early 90s they stood the Monopol stallion Monrand for a couple of seasons and the most successful of the stud bred progeny from him was Tarrendene Bethany who competed to Prix St Georges in the early 2000s. Andrew and Merran bought River Range Wolverene (Wolf) as a weanling (by Welt's Emperor by Weltmeyer) in the early to mid 2000s and then in 2009 Andrew, Merran and Kylie bought the weanling Sunny Boy colt Immenhof Scout (Scout) at the Auction of the Stars, having a good eye for the type of warmblood that could make it to FEI level and ultimately for the purpose of combining the Weltmeyer and Sandro Hit lines in the breeding programme.
Merran and Andrew with Amazing Sachar former Australian Champion Purebred Arabian Stallion
Matthew Lord started working at the stud to focus on commencing a dressage career as a rider and trainer in the late 2000s to campaign Scout and the young progeny. The stud funded Matt and Scout's carer through to Inter 1 and when Andrew became very ill in 2020 the decision was made to sell Scout to Matt, while retaining rights to breed Scout progeny, to take some pressure off the stud while managing Andrew's illness. Andrew sadly passed away in 2022 and Kylie and her partner had by this time taken over the stud to progress the breeding programme. This now included carefully selected frozen semen to further expand the genetics with a focus on temperament and confirmation, with an aim to breed warmbloods with the physical ability to achieve FEI competition levels with trainable temperaments that could be ridden and progressed by any professional, AOR or junior riders.
