LOCATION:
TRIFFID PARK HORSE AGISTMENT
257 PERRY ROAD, KEYSBOROUGH, VIC, 3173, AUSTRALIA

* 30m x 60m fenced sand arena
* 20m x 40m sand arena WITH LIGHTS
* 2 x Lunging rings
* Riding paddock with jumps
* Lunch room with 2 toilets, shower, fridge, microwave, boiling water machine for coffee and lights throughout.
* 2 x Undercover saddle up areas with lights
* 6 Outdoor saddle up yards
* 3 Mounting blocks
* 4 Stables with lights
* 2 Undercover wash bays with lights
* 1 Outside wash bay
* 1 Holding yard
* Communal tack room with lights
* Automatic front gate with sensor security light
* Float parking
* Car and float access to all paddocks
* Bridle path to make a round road ride around whole 50 acre property.
* Riding distance to Hagen Park with indoor arena, Keysborough Adult Riding Club and Mentone Pony Club.  Also close to Dingley Pony Club and Melbourne School of Pony Equitation.

AGISTMENT FEES:

Your agistment fees are those that are agreed upon with yourself, the horse owner (agistee) and us, Triffid Park, the landholder (agistor).
The agistment fees cover the cost of the paddock, and use of our facilities.
An annual price rise takes place on the 1st July every year.
There can be a price increase of fees at any other time by Triffid Park, but a four week notifying period will take place.
Your fees start from the day your horse arrives at Triffid Park.

A weekly, non-refundable holding fee will need to be paid if you want a paddock held before you move your horse into Triffid Park. This is $25 per single paddock and $50 per double paddock per week, for a maximum of two weeks before the horse moves in.  After two weeks, the normal agistment rate must be paid if the horse has not moved in.  All fees must be paid a minimum one week in advance at all times. You can pay weekly, fortnightly, or 4 weeks, but it must be in advance.

A $5.00 per week or part there of, book keeping fee is charged on any overdue agistment.  Once your agistment becomes two weeks overdue, a $10.00 per week or part there of, book keeping fee is charged on any overdue agistment.  If you are late paying, please automatically add the extra fees to your agistment for every week or part there of, that you are late.

Please pay your agistment fees by placing it in the plastic envelope that you are supplied with, in the safe in the lunch room. The money will be removed by Triffid Park, and a receipt left in your envelope on the notice board.
If paying by cheque, please make cheques payable to "Triffid Park".  You can also pay by direct bank deposit.  Please ask us for our bank details.

Triffid Park requires a one week notifying period if you wish to move your horse from Triffid Park property.  If you cannot give one weeks notice for any reason, you are still required to pay one weeks agistment to cover the paddock.
All horses are to be vacated from their paddock, and the paddock and feed shed cleaned by 12pm on the day they are leaving.  Otherwise a $10 per day or part there of agistment fee will be charged.

Once you move your horse from Triffid Park, or change paddocks at Triffid Park, you must clean your paddock of manure, and clean out your feed box by 12pm on that same day, or a harrowing fee ($25.00 single paddock, $40.00 double paddock) and cleaning fee ($20.00 per feed box) will be charged to you.

Horses must not be removed from Triffid Park’s property until all fees owing are paid in full, the paddock and feed shed cleaned, or the cleaning fees paid in full.

If you are asked to leave Triffid Park with your horse for any reason, you will have 7 days from when notice is given, to vacate the property.  During that time, you or anyone else is not permitted to ride your horse on Triffid Park property, or use any of Triffid Park's facilities.  Your paddock will be padlocked until the arranged day that you are to leave.

After an agistment agreement has been terminated by either the agistee or agistor, any items left at Triffid Park after the agreed termination date, will become the property of Triffid Park.

Under the Impounding of Livestock Act 1994 (Updated January 2006), it provides landholders with a legal process and means of recovering horse agistment expenses where payments are in default.
If your horse agistment at Triffid Park becomes overdue for more than 14 days, (unless prior arrangements have been made with us) your paddock will be padlocked, or your horse will be moved to another paddock on Triffid Park property at our discretion and padlocked.  You will be sent an overdue account at this time informing you of the costs owed, including extra costs incurred by us for caring for the horse and book keeping fees between the date the default occurred and extinguishment of the contract, and costs incurred relating to the intended sale of the horse.  Any tack that you have on the property will also be locked up for future sale if your fees are not paid.  You will also be informed that if the money owing has not been paid within 28 days from the date the overdue account was served, we can sell your horse to recover debts.  It is an offence under the Act for a person to remove a horse during this time, without the permission of the landholder.  If during this time you want to collect your horse, all fees must be paid for in full, at your normal agistment rate, plus late fees, as well as any other debts incurred by Triffid Park i.e. feeding, farrier, vet, worming, harrowing of paddock etc. before your horse is allowed to leave Triffid Park.

While your horse is agisted at Triffid Park, Triffid Park shall NOT be liable for any sickness, disease, injury or death suffered by the horse or any other cause of action arising from or connecting to the agisting of your horse. All reasonable and proper care of the property is taken by Triffid Park, but all risks are assumed by the owner of the horse. The owner agrees to hold Triffid Park harmless from any loss or injury to the agisted horse. All costs, connected with agisting are borne by the horse owner.

It is the horse owners responsibility to insure their horse and horse gear/equipment against all risks while they are on the property or being transported.

Triffid Park will not remove agisted horses from the property without the horse owners consent, except where the horse is being sold to cover costs by Triffid Park, or there is an emergency (for example, fire or flood). In this case Triffid Park will promptly inform the horse owner of the new location of the horse.

In the unfortunate event that a horse dies, we can bury the horse here at Triffid Park for a fee of $150.  Horses are not buried in paddocks, but in a suitable spot as allocated by Triffid Park.

If you are not the rightful owner of the horse being agisted at Triffid Park, but have it on lease from another party, you must agree to pay all agistment fees and costs to Triffid Park until such time as the horse leaves Triffid Park. If the lease of the horse is terminated before the horse leaves Triffid Park, you are still liable to pay all costs, and care for the horse, until the rightful owner or new leasee signs an agreement with Triffid Park, or removes the horse from Triffid Park’s property. The rightful owners name, address and telephone number must be given to Triffid Park on signing this contract.

You are responsible to call and pay for your own vet and farrier as required. Triffid Park will notify the horse owner immediately if they become aware that the horse is suffering from any significant or noticeable sickness, disease or injury. We request a list of your vet and farriers name and phone numbers along with any phone numbers that you can be contacted on in an emergency. If your horse is badly injured or very ill and we are unable to contact you immediately, we will call your vet on your behalf. All costs must be paid for by you, the agistee. Please advise us if you change vet or farrier.  If you have not specified a vet on your agistment Agreement Form, or we cannot get in contact with your specified vet, then we will call the nearest vet in the area in the case of an emergency, and you will be liable for all vet costs.

Your farrier must clean up after himself i.e  sweep up all hoof clippings and nails and put them in the bins provided, and take with him old horse shoes.  This is your responsibility to make sure that they do this, otherwise that farrier will be asked not to return to Triffid Park.  No one else should have to clean up after others.

It is your responsibility to provide supplementary food for your horse. As well as hard feed, we recommend that you put a round bale of grass hay in your paddock so that your horse always has something to pick at. 
Triffid Park will maintain all water troughs and fences, but please advise us if you notice a problem with them.
Triffid Park will not allow the watering of grass for either irrigation or the softening of ground.

It is your responsibility to maintain the condition of your horses teeth and to worm, drench and vaccinate your horse against tetanus and strangles regularly.

Any fully paid agistee of Triffid Park may use the lunging ring, jumps, dressage/flat area in front of the facility shed and the fenced arena. There is to be NO lunging in the arenas. Consider other people when using these facilities, and keep your time to a minimum if anyone is waiting.

The stables are for everyone's use. There is a charge of $5.00 per night or $30.00 per weekly use.   If you have not paid for the use of the stable within one week of using it, there is a $5 late fee if you used the stable for one night, or $10 late fee if you used the stable for a week.

Anyone using the stables must supply their own bedding, or replace the bedding that was there. The day you have finished using the stable, you must clean out the feed bucket, muck out the stable and place manure and used straw or shavings in a chaff bag, supplied by you, at the end of the shed. Do not use the bags provided in the stands, these are only for horses in wash bays, saddle-up area and yards.
There will be a $25.00 charge if the stable is not cleaned out on the day you finish using the stable.

To book a stable for a particular night, please fill in your name and paddock number, for the stable that you want to use on the calendar in the lunch room.  Cancellations within 24 hours will still be charged, as someone else could have used the stable.

If you want to use the stables during a particular day as a holding yard, you can do so free of charge, but you MUST clean it out straight away, and remember that the bedding has probably been supplied by someone else.  So if you use it regularly, replace the bedding.

HELMETS AND SAFETY BOOTS:

WASH BAY/ UNDERCOVER AREAS/ SADDLE UP YARDS:

These areas are provided for your use. YOU are expected to keep them clean. Triffid Park will not clean up after you. Pick up any rubbish, horse hair etc. and put in the rubbish bins provided. Pick up your horses manure and put in the manure bags provided. Do not wash horse manure or feed down the drains or sinks.

Lights are provided in all areas of the facility shed for your use. However please only turn on the lights that you need to use, and although they are all on timers, please turn them off when you have finished.

Please do not put the paper Mitavite horse feed bags in the rubbish bin, as they fill the entire bin. Put them under the sink, and we will remove them from there.

The lunch room, toilet and shower is provided for you and your friends. If you take chairs outside, please return them to the lunch room when you have finished. Do not take horse feed or medicines into this room, or use any of the crockery, cutlery etc for mixing up feed or medication. The lunch room, toilet and shower can only be as clean as you leave them. Triffid Park will NOT clean up after you. Please do not smoke in the lunch room or butt your cigarettes out on the floor. When smoking outside please ensure that your cigarette is extinguished properly. Triffid Park does not supply toilet paper, it is up to the AGISTEES to take it in turns bringing toilet paper.

SLEEPING OVER: If for some reason you need to sleep over at Triffid Park in the Lunch Room, i.e. mare foaling, horse injured in stable etc, there will be a $5.00 per one person, or $20 per group charge per night.  This is to cover the cost for the extra electricity, water, rubbish removal etc.  It is the responsibility of the horse owner to pay this fee within one week or a $10 late fee will apply.

You can use the rooms provided for storage of your feed and tack etc. This is done at your OWN risk. Please keep these rooms clean, as you are the ones using it, not us. You are sharing these rooms with other agistees so please do not touch their belongings. Please do not smoke in these rooms. Last one out at night, please lock the doors. You can also use the tack/feed room in your paddock for storage of your horse feed and equipment.

There are no restrictions on what hours you may come and go from the property. We do however, expect orderly behaviour and respect for other agistees, us as residential owners, and other residents nearby.

It is your responsibility to pick up your own horses manure. The best way is to keep a bucket, shovel, gloves and strong plastic bags or chaff bags in your tack shed. Please do this as often as possible to keep your paddock clean and free of disease and worms. Place bags on the outside of your paddock and this will be collected by us and removed. Please make sure that the bags are NOT too full, as we need to be able to lift them up onto the back of a vehicle. Do not use the paper Mitavite bags, as these get soggy.

If you do not muck out your paddock, there will be a $25.00 fee for a single paddock and $40.00 fee for a double paddock, charged to you once a month, for Triffid Park to harrow your paddock. If you are sick or go on holidays, you can request for your paddock to be harrowed at the above prices.

Triffid Park will not slash grass in paddocks. We suggest that you fence your paddock into sections with portable electric fencing to control grass growth so that you have grass all year round and to control your horses weight. Please see us if you need help setting up an electric fence, because a wrongly set up fence can short out the whole property, affecting the safety of all horses agisted at Triffid Park.

SPRAYING OF PADDOCKS:

All paddocks are sprayed regularly by Triffid Park for weeds.  It is a condition of agistment that we are allowed access to your paddock at all times to do this at our convenience, or to do any other work on the paddock that needs doing.  If you have a padlock on your gate, we require a spare key to it.

NO outside contractors are allowed on to Triffid Park’s property for the means of harrowing, slashing etc. NO buildings i.e. sheds etc. are allowed to be built on Triffid Park’s property.

All horses must be constrained at all times on the property, except for in your paddock. This is for the safety of all horses, people, cars and floats. You are responsible to pay for any damage caused by your horse to any person or their property. You may graze your horse in the laneways as long as they are on a lead. All manure must be cleaned up from the laneway and car park area.

ENTERING AND LEAVING THE PROPERTY:

Please enter and leave the property via the gate signaged with "Horse Agistment". The gate to Perry Road is automatic, but please inform us if you find it is not working. This is for the safety of all horses, should one get out, or away from the handler. Please request that your farrier, vet and any visitors enter and leave through this gate. Cars are to be driven at WALKING PACE only, and horses also are to be walked along the roadways on the property.  Anyone caught speeding on the property will be asked to leave Triffid Park permanently.  Please tell your friend's, farrier's, horse feed deliveries, vet's etc, as they are your responsibility, and will not be welcome back.
The bridal path to 243 Perry Road is for horse riding only.  Please do not park on the road outside and walk through to your paddock.

NO other horses other than those agisted on the property are permitted to use any of Triffid Parks facilities at any time due to insurance reasons.

NO dogs are permitted on the property at any time, unless by prior arrangement.  Then they must be on a lead at ALL times.  Please make sure that your friends, farriers, vets etc, do not bring dogs, or else they keep them in their cars.

In an emergency, and we are home, you may use the telephone in our house.

NURSERY AND WORK SHED:

Our plant nursery, work sheds and tractor shed are not for your use. Please keep out of these areas. Please see Donna, Colin or Tina if you have a problem with anything. DO NOT ASK OUR EMPLOYEES.

ADDITIONAL SERVICES
You may like to look after your horse yourself by coming to Triffid Park daily/ every second day to feed, rug and pick up manure, as well as enjoy the many facilities on the property as shown above. 
Or for additional fees, as shown below, and if sufficient notification is given, Triffid Park may provide the following:

STABLING:  Per day - noon until noon or part there of (inclusive of cleaning and bedding provided by Triffid Park) - price on application

FEEDING:  Triffid Park will feed your horse if requested to do so, with feed already mixed by you in your individual containers  - price on application per feed

RUGGING:  Rug/s can be put on or taken off by Triffid Park staff at your request - price on application per rug/s on/off

MANURE: Triffid Park can harrow the manure in your paddock if you do not have time to pick it up, are sick or go on holidays - prices listed below under "Mucking Out Paddocks".

FARRIER: Horses can be brought in and returned to your paddock for the farrier at your request - price on application

VET: Horses can be brought in and attended to while your vet is there, and returned to your paddock at your request - price on application.

DENTIST: Horses can be brought in and attended to while your horse dentist is there, and returned to your paddock at your request - price on application.

FULL AGISTMENT: Including feeding with your feeds, rugs on and off, and stabling nightly is available by individual negotiation.