Byalee is owned and operated by Ann-Maree, Greg and Dimity Lourey.

Ann-Maree is a Grand Prix rider and seasoned competitor at State, national and international level. She campaigned first the Ludendorf-sired Grand Prix horse Byalee Tomorrow from the beginning of his career to the top. More recently she rode the imported Danish stallion Richmeed Medallion for five years, up to Grand Prix level where he scored more than 66% on debut.

Other competition horses include the Grand Prix son of Medallion, Byalee Magic (pictured, by Main Event Photography and Derek O'Leary), and the young stallion Byalee Romance, by Regardez Moi. As well, Ann-Maree was previously well-known on a number of other State and National level dressage horses including the AWHA registered stallion Cool Cat and the national FEI placegetter Wise Choice.

There are less than 30 Grand Prix horses competing in Australia – Byalee has three of them! But Byalee also has horses training every day right down to breaker level, and to ponies that are just beginning their careers as all-rounders.

Beginning Byalee

Byalee began back in 1985 with the purchase of a 14.2hh palomino part-Arab named Byalee Mackennas Gold. He cost the princely sum of $400 as a green 4yo out of the Saturday classifieds. After four years of training, during which time ann-Maree first came into contact with her current trainer Heath Ryan, "Macka" was competing at State level and was at PSG/Inter I level. However he wasn't designed to go further, and so it came time to sell him for $10,000 as an FEI schoolmaster. He might not have been going to the Olympics but he was as loved as only a first horse can be, and his name lives on in the stud forever.

Byalee was originally an Arabian breeding name used by Vicki Collien, and it meant "amongst the clouds". Now it lives on in hundreds of performance horses across Australia - and if it wasn't for a never-say-no little palomino, giving her a brilliant start in the dressage world as blind led blind, Ann-Maree would never have continued into the sport as she has. So a special thankyou is owed to Vicki for creating him in the first place, and to Joanne Kennedy who had to sell this special boy due to pregnancy! Little did they know what they were setting in train! Byalee has grown from one horse to 60, and from 5 acres to 103 acres. Pictured is Ann-Maree Lourey with the day-old foal Byalee Magic II, a full brother to her Grand Prix horse Byalee Magic. Breeding is now an important part of Byalee's daily life.