Meet the Team

Arthur is the ultimate gentleman. This chunky monkey's happy place is hacking out over the farm, but he's done a little bit of everything in his time.

Scuba has recently joined the team. So far he's a lovely quiet fellow, great for beginners.

Sterling had an illustrious racing career in Hong Kong, consisting of one race, where he came last.

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His talents lie elsewhere: he holds the record for having the most time off due injury of any horse at Pleasant View. If there's an accident waiting to happen, he'll find it!

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While he's a bit of a doof-head, he really is a lovely horse who looks after beginner riders and is happy to plod along or go faster if he really needs to.

Prior to coming to Pleasant View Elmo was owned by one family where he went to pony club and did trekking. Elmo is well suited to a wide range of riders and loves jumping. An ideal horse to learn on!

Poppins earned $196,761 from 19 race starts before being retired as a broodmare. Purchased from Waikato Standardbred Rehoming in Feb 2023, Poppins is a lovely safe ride for beginner riders. She is not keen on other horses being too close to her rear end and will let you know by turning on her grumpy mare ears.

Lena arrived unhandled and pregnant from Helena Bay in the Far North in 2017. She has mostly been clicker trained, and is super snuggly.

Sinatra is the first to greet you in the paddock as if you’re an old friend. He has a playful streak — his favourite toy is a giant Swiss ball, and he’ll proudly show off his dribbling skills if you give him the chance! He also loves picking up road cones and tossing them around. Sinatra is a lovable goofball who adores interacting with people (and ideally getting a good bum scratch!) and will give you plenty of laughs.

Sinatra trots beautifully and is working on building confidence in his canter.

Tommy is a very sweet horse with lots of character. As an ex-eventer, he requires firm boundaries because he can be a bit bossy. He can be nervous of irrigators (when they are operating) but we are working on this.

Suit intermediate to experienced riders.

Bailey is registered with AQHANZ and NZ Golden Horse society and he's a seriously cool happy hacker. He spent his younger years as a stock horse on a South Island Station, and he's been a full wire hunter, a national champion buckskin and is full brother of the eight time barrel racing champion Mt Albert Roc.

Has done western , dressage, trekking, Loves a good walk out. Suitable for beginner riders upwards.

Midge  has done heaps of forest/clinics/SJ/and a distance ride as well beach, bush and farm riding, and loves the water. 

Midge had a year of schooling with The Unicorn Project and attended lessons with Kirsten Kelly, Lisa Harwood, and Cheski Brown. 

Flake is an unraced mare who came to us via the fabulous team at Eventstars. Being a chestnut mare, she can have strong opinions, so she's more suited to experienced riders

Dino is a lovely bay thoroughbred who suits intermediate to experienced riders.

Deraygo is 26yo but that hasn't slowed him down any. Once upon a time he was an endurance champion, and as far as he's concerned he's still competing, so can be hot to trek in large groups, but he's super genuine and kind when out on his own or with one other horse.

Daniel's dedicated superstar RDA pony, Ngaio is learning to be ridden without any use of seat aids.

Merc competed to L6 dressage and was purchased as a schoolmaster in 2019. He certainly has fancy buttons installed, often showing them in the middle of a dressage test just because he could. Merc was retired to be a happy hacker on veterinary advice in 2024. Merc is best suited to Intermediate+ to Advanced riders.

Purchased in 2017 Blue was ridden by two teenagers primarily at home because he had a floating accident which had left him with equine PTSD. Blue is best suited to intermediate to experienced riders.

Fly is a sweet mare who came to us via the fabulous team at Eventstars. She's a lovely quiet mare with a fabulous curly mane, and nice flatwork. She is known to jig-jog when trekking so suits an experienced rider.

Lady was a wild pregnant mare mustered from Northland bush. She's currently in training, so not available to the public.

More info soon

Cloud has been used as a farm and trekking happy hacker. He is happy and bold to pop over jumps and logs, and has done horse sports and gymkhanas. Cloud joined the PV Team in October 2025 after being purchased from Jo Price in Whakatane.

Lady's baby

Gemma is a Hispano-Arab (Andalusian x Arabian) mare and is 14.2HH. She has trekked over all sorts of mountainous and coastal terrain like a mountain goat. She's been through rivers and mudflats and has never put a foot wrong. She is happy being a leader or at the back. Previously a broodmare, she has had two foals to Friesian Stallion Jorrit S.

50% Friesian, 25% Arabian, 25% Andalusian Sport Horse (Warlander)

Dam Gemma

Sire Jorrit S

Born 26.2.24

This boy sure can boogie!