Timothy Blake Skerrett

Tim was born at Leconfield in New South Wales, Australia. Leconfield is a 5000 acre property, which has been owned by Tim's family since 1914. In the meantime four generations of the family have lived at Leconfield.

When Tim grew up his parents had a horse stud and a cattle stud, so Tim started riding horses when he was only 5 years old. At the age of 17 Tim broke in his first horse.

After High School Tim went to ‘Outback Australia’, where he worked with horses, cattle, sheep and working dogs. For some years Tim used to break and train horses for a living.

Tim loves working with animals and is very talented in sharing his knowledge and experiences with other people.

Tim has been studying Parelli Natural Horsemanship for 5 years and has his level 1 and level 2 certificates. At present he’s working on his level 3. He admits to have learnt more in the last 4 years than the 30 years before.

Leconfield 5-day Jackaroo & Jillaroo School

Tim started the 5-day Jackaroo & Jillaroo School in 1997 and has been running it very successfully. He and his staff enjoy teaching people about farm life and they plan to offer the Leconfield Jackaroo & Jillaroo School for many years into the future.