About Us

We purchased our first part-bred Percheron from Dr Ross Stevens of the Lasswade Stud as a paddock mate for our then retired racehorse Monty, and just fell in love with the breed. After selling Stark House B&B in 2008, we moved to the Southern Downs just outside the historic township of Allora.

Over the years we’ve owned quite a number of Percherons from partbreds to purebreds and produced quite a number of quality warmblood and purebred Percherons which have gone on to some amazing dressage and show homes. In recent years though, we’ve reduced our numbers to focus on breeding purebred Percherons of North American type. The North American Percheron is fast becoming the most popular of the types in the showrings around Australia today.



Breeding for the Future

As responsible breeders we want to ensure the Percheron breed's future development and longevity within Australia, so we only put our best purebred mares to the best bloodlines available to help improve and diversify the breed. Its great to see more quality genetics being imported into Australia to increase our very lacking gene pool.

Imported Frozen Semen



In 2011, Ballara Farm Percherons in association with PHBAA, imported two shipments of frozen Percheron semen from French stallions Tom de Prainville, Oscar 566 and Terkasso du Vairais. This is the first time that French Percheron semen had been imported into Australia. The first foal sired from this semen in Australia was Ballara Prainville by Tom de Prainville, on 10 September 2012 and out of our purebred mare, Lasswade Pamela PAA M00430.

Frozen semen from Terkasso du Vairais is still available in limited quantities, please refer to our sales page for further information.