MOYA STUD

21/07/2024

20/02/2023

Everyone is enjoying a bit of sun ☀️

13/02/2023

14/01/2023

Our visitors enjoying their time playing and resting

04/01/2023

Situated in Mooiplaats, Pretoria East, Moya Stud is just a 35 minute drive from the North Rand Training Centre in Randjesfontein and 40 minutes from the Equicare Hospital, in Blue Hills, Johannesburg. The farm is owned and managed by qualified Veterinary Nurse Claudia Snyckers, who lives on the property and who is once again offering expert post-operative care, recuperation and rehabilitation.

Moya Stud is also now offering spelling for racehorses, in our purpose-built, safe and spacious post-and-rail paddocks, which all have ample, well-established grazing. We also have facilities for small paddock turnout and lunging, up near the stable block. We have twenty large (3m x 3m) and well ventilated brick stables, including boxes suitable to board colts and entires. Your horse will be able to relax or recuperate in a safe and comfortable environment - our first priority is always the wellbeing of the horses in our care.

Please feel free to contact us via inbox for more information about our services and rates, or you can head to our website for direct contact details: http://www.moyastud.co.za/contact.html

20/12/2022

Enjoying the rain

26/08/2022

“Spelling. No, it is not something you do at an English castle, but rather something we do in Australia with our horses to allow them to rest. I am a great advocate of spelling and resting horses, and just as we humans benefit greatly from a change in scenery and a holiday, horses flourish when they are sent for a spell. In Australia it is very hot for most of the year and the Aussie sun does wonders for our horses when they are allowed to relax and rest. They come back in from their spells generally many kilograms heavier and often several centimetres taller.

𝙒𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙨𝙚𝙣𝙙 𝙖 𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙖 𝙨𝙥𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙜𝙤𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙖 𝙛𝙖𝙧𝙢 𝙨𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙤𝙤 𝙛𝙖𝙧 𝙖𝙬𝙖𝙮 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙬𝙞𝙡𝙡 𝙗𝙚 𝙡𝙤𝙤𝙠𝙚𝙙 𝙖𝙛𝙩𝙚𝙧 𝙖𝙨 𝙞𝙛 𝙞𝙩 𝙬𝙚𝙧𝙚 𝙎𝙚𝙘𝙧𝙚𝙩𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖𝙩.” - 𝙂𝙖𝙞 𝙒𝙖𝙩𝙚𝙧𝙝𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙚, 𝙡𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝘼𝙪𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙡𝙞𝙖𝙣 𝙧𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙝𝙤𝙧𝙨𝙚 𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚𝙧.

By G*i Waterhouse Spelling. No, it is not something you do at an English castle, but rather something we do in Australia with our horses to allow them to rest. I am a great advocate of spelling and resting horses, and just as we humans benefit greatly from a change in scenery and a holiday,

25/07/2022

“Timing is everything in racing and an often misunderstood training tool is a spell and the value created by giving a race horse a spell.

Thoroughbreds are no different from us. You know when you’ve hit your stride at just the right time – it’s when you nailed that presentation at work or when your footy team really connected their play just as the finals loomed. When the timing is spot-on your thoroughbred is winning that pinnacle race you have built your preparation around.

So when is the right time to spell?

One Australian trainer is famous for sticking to the mantra “ I always try to send a horse to the paddock for a spell with a bit of fuel still left in the tank!”

This means that the horse can go for a break still feeling well often after it has run a top race, maybe even have just won a race. The rationale being many horses spell better whilst still on a high mentally and physically. It is a case of making sure you don’t completely run out of petrol: refilling the tank is easy but towing your car to the nearest petrol station is not so easy.”

Timing is everything in racing and an often misunderstood training tool is a spell and the value created by spelling a racehorse at the right time.