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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