Steve grew up on a King Country sheep & beef farm using horses for  stock work.  Pony Club & Polo Cross.  Whilein Melbourne during the mid 90’s Steve helped a  friend organise a week long charity horse ride & decided this could  work in NZ.  Introduced the Great NZ Trail Ride 1996 with 483 riders  around Coromandel for a week raising $40,000 for Multiple Sclerosis. Set up as annual  event building Potable showers from a container. Offered to LOTR  producers for use for free at Hobbiton while building the sets.  Conversation with  UPM lead to the role as Horse Coordinator/HOD  for the LOTR trilogy.

Three years later Steve was the Horse Coordinator for The Last Samurai leading to more features overseas as a Coordinator & Performer. Enough said the rest is history.

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