Tara Campain and Stuart Archibald

Stuart Archibald and Tamara Campain own and operate ACE Equine in the Southeastern suburbs of Victoria where they share a love of riding and training elite level dressage horses.

Stuart originated from show horse roots where he made regular appearances at Ag and royal shows before turning towards the performance world of equestrian; venturing into Eventing, Showjumping and Dressage as a young rider. Stuarts focus today is now heavily set on producing high level dressage horses all the way to Grand Prix.

Tamara started in the pony club world competing in all disciplines on her ponies before moving towards the discipline of eventing where she competed successfully to FEI level. After meeting Stuart at an equestrian event, her focus slowly changed to Dressage where she also has a focus on producing dressage horses to FEI level.

Stuart and Tamara have a common goal in reaching the top of the sport but also balance the demands of full-time careers outside of horses. Stuart works in the commercial banking work and Tamara runs her own Medical and Administration business. To say they are busy is an understatement, but they manage to make the early morning and late nights work and believe that to do anything successfully requires discipline, patience and a whole lot of hard work.

They both have had some wonderful results at State and national level at some of the biggest competitions in Australia but feel this is only the beginning of what they are aiming to achieve in the future with some amazing horses in their stables and big dreams on the horizon.

None of this would be possible without the wonderful support network of their sponsors and owners. Both Stuart and Tara and worked with Gen at Jin Stirrup Australia for many years now and are very grateful to be part of this team. They both use and recommend all things Jin Stirrup on a daily basis and would never be seen in anything else!