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Marji Armstrong is one of the pioneers of the classical philosophy of horsemanship in Australia. She has taught these classical principles to students around the world for the past two decades. In addition, as a result of 25 years of genetic development within her herd of horses, she has registered a new breed of performance horse, the Spanish Warmblood. == Early life == Marjorie Jean Armstrong (née McInnes) was born in Mortlake, Victoria, Australia on 18 September 1943. She grew up in the Australian bush, working with livestock on her family’s property in the Western District of Victoria, followed as a young adult by experience on the land in outback Queensland and Western Australia. Following her move to WA in 1966, she married Anthony Gordon (Tony) Armstrong in 1968. The family, including son Warwick (b. 1969), owned a mixed farming operation near Cranbrook, Western Australia. The family ran the farm as well as several small rural business operations including a local transport company (operated until Tony’s death in 2007), and a shearing contracting business in the early years of the marriage. With her husband doing the shearing, Armstrong was the cook and part-time rouseabout. In partnership with her sister-in-law Rosemary McInnes, Armstrong started "Bushman’s Bazaar", an early cottage industry specialising in home made products including spun and knitted goods, jams, preserves and morning and afternoon teas for tourist buses. She was instrumental in forming a local tourism promotion group for the Cranbrook area. In 1986, Armstrong opened an equestrian centre dedicated to Classical Equestrian Arts in Forrestfield, Perth which she ran until moving it back to Cranbrook in 1999. In 1985, she purchased her Spanish Andalusian stallion, Dulcero, from the van der Drift family in Qld and was influential in the re-formation of the then defunct Western Australian Branch of the Andalusian Horse Association of Australasia. During these years she competed successfully in F.E.I. dressage, horse trials and the show ring before switching to teaching and training. She held an International Competitors Licence for several years. In 2006, Armstrong was a Western Australian finalist in the RIRDC Rural Women’s Award.〔"Cranbrook equestrian arts trainer recognised in international arenas", RRR Network News for Rural, Remote and Regional Women in Western Australia p 8. www.rrr.wa.gov.au/documents/RRR_issue35.pdf〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marji Armstrong」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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