Ancestral Horsemanship
Ancestral Horsemanship of forty plus years comes from a family history going back to when my grandfather travelled from Afghanistan via UK with a business partner in racehorses in 1923.
My grandfather – Jungha Khan – arrived in Brisbane QLD hoping to find his dream. Jungha eventually settled in a remote area of Bonalbo on the New South Wales north coast. The land he selected was 5000 acres of heavily timbered country on the Clarence River. Jungha toiled for years on his own clearing and improving the land to raise cattle and horses.
Back then Jungha, Florence and their children bred, raised and educated their horses in many different mediums eg stock horses for war effort, racing, country horse sports eg campdrafting.
My father Jim and his youngest brother Bobby took their horsemanship skills to the next level at an early age educating and training for the Brown Brothers from the 1950’s, in their early years. They also spent some of their teenage year’s droving cattle between NSW and QLD, which gave them time to make some nice horses on the way.
Jim started his rodeo career at a very early age and he soon became a household name. Jim won his first bronc ride at the age of 12 and continued a long successful career. He performed every year at the Royal Easter Show and was awarded a commemorative medal in 1963, when he performed in front of her Majesty The Queen and Prince Phillip.
Jim, after retiring from his sport, started contracting bucking rodeo horses full time with a successful business created on the east coast of Australia. Jim also bred and competed with Cutting Horses winning a futurity in 1994.
