About

ABOUT US

Nitro Equine is breeding quality. Well-thought-out matches of broodmares to stallions, combined with the right handling, starting, schooling, and competing, we are producing safe children's ponies, enjoyable all-rounders, as well as competitive performance ponies & sport horses.

Also renowned for sell-on-behalf, project ponies, breaking-in quality children’s ponies, and safe all-rounders, Nitro Equine has sold over 400 horses since and has matched many families with their real-life unicorns, and we enjoy following each of those combinations and their successes with them.

As part of the sales process, we offer full known history, previous owners, live video viewings, pre-purchase inspections, and nationwide transportation can be arranged as part of our service.

Nitro Equine was started in 2013 by Rachael Macdonald (nee Kirk) who decided to future breed ponies after realising the cost of quality ponies (let alone horses) was well out of reach for her family, namely her daughters Emma and Lucie.

Now we are breeding 2-4 a year with the intention to produce as far as possible before sold. We use our own stallions live cover and outside stallions AI or live cover.

Our mares are selected based on nature, their bloodlines and own merits. We retain some young stock for mare lines, and some are chosen to produce and compete.

Our breeding comes from Welsh, German Riding Pony, Morgan, Connemara, Holsteiner as well as East Coast, Northland, Stationbred lines.

With the help of family including daughters Emma and Lucie, sponsored riders, catch riders and team members, we are getting our brand recognized across NZ for not only our own homebred horses but campaigning selected projects and sell on behalf horses too.

Homebred

HOMEBRED

Featured here are some of the horses and ponies we have bred at Nitro Equine, since 2013. They have all have been stamped with our dedication, love and dreams - we hope all their current and future owners love them as much as we do.

Our homebreds go on to become kids ponies, performance ponies, safe & honest mum's horses and sport horses. Some are retained as part of our breeding programme, some remain our own riding and competition horses, some are sold as weanlings, yearlings, 2yo's, as green broke or during their first season.

We could not breed these horses without the support of our riders, family, property owners and friends who believe in the cause, which is Do What You Love, Love What you Do.