We also offer a wedding carriage with a pair of Clydesdales, a box waggon and pair, for horse-drawn funerals, a cart for formals ... Ian Stewart-Koster has been working clydesdales since 1980 after going 'on the road' with Doug Bunker's team of four, travelling through southern Qld, then working in Sydney and UK, driving draught horses in two horse-drawn omnibuses. Duneske Clydesdale Stud was star
ted in 1984, and we've been enjoying the breeding and working process ever since. Ian ran 14 'hands-on' schools teaching people to handle and drive clydesdales, as well as 3 amatuer harness making schools, and two 4-in-hand teams driving schools. Our children enjoyed taking the clydies to pony club, and also competing in junior handler classes at local shows - which all stood them in good stead for learning to break-in/ train and show them as they grew older. We've competed with singles, pairs, team of four, and once a team of six in-hand at Brisbane Royal Show. From a led-horse perspective, we've had a particularly great decade and a half or more of successes at 'The Royal' with stock we've bred,
(eight adult championships, five supremes, seven reserves, seven juniors, three gelding champions) as well as significant success at the well known Gatton heavy horse field days, twice winning TWO Supreme Champion of All Breeds in the same year. Hannah Willshire has won the Heavy Horse Under Saddle class at Gatton Field Days several times, with several different horses, and the same at Brisbane Royal. We've also gone out to non-competitive events: the Kilkivan Great Trail Ride, the Surat to Yuleba Cobb & Co reenactment, and local town parades (Crows Nest & Goombungee) over the years. The list goes on, but most of all we enjoy working them at home- it's a family affair!
