Arundel Farm is the home of Vaughn Jefferis and is the foundation and the base of his equestrian career.

In his early career Vaughn was a very successful Show Jumper. He worked and trained in Americia under John Madden, Husband of the very talented Beezie Madden. He Competing and won many world cup classes and in the late 1980`s won The Australian Pacific League.

He then switched codes in 1990 to Eventing and had immediate success, being part of the gold medal team at the World Equestrian Games in Stockholm riding Enterprise. Jefferis purchased Bounce in 1994 and rode the horse for the remainder of his international career. They won the world individual title in 1994 at The Hague. Then a bronze medal in the team event at the 1996 Summer Olympics, as well as the team gold at the 1998 World Championships in Rome.

Unlike the majority of his team-mates, such as Mark Todd, Andrew Nicolson, and Blyth Tait, who based themselves in England, Vaughn remained in New Zealand at Arundle Farm throughout his career. After retiring in 2000 he has concentrated on producing and training horses and riders.

He has heavily supported the equestrian industry, both teaching and sourcing great horses.

In 2019 he was inducted into the Equestrian Sport New Zealand Hall of Fame, for is outstanding contribution.

With a profound understanding of the type of jumping horse our riders in NZ crave Vaughn found Balou Barbados in Australia and imported him to NZ as a young unbroken Colt. Over the past three year he has carefully produced him. Recently Barbados has had his first outings at a show and behaved beautifully. (video below at this first event at Takapoto)

Balou Barabados is proving to be quite the head turner, both for his incredible jumping technique, his striking colour, marking, and his ridable nature. Making him an ideal sire for the NZ market.

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BALOU BARBADOS (AKA Eye Candy)