Use Southern Cross Horse Transport for all your interstate and local horse transportation needs

Areas We Service

Why Use Southern Cross Horse Transport?

Twins, Greer and Danielle Butcher need to transport their show jumping teams throughout Australia for regular competition. They understand the special requirements for transporting performance horses. Their horses arrive at events unstressed, fresh and ready to compete. At Southern Cross we ensure every horse receives this same level of care.

NEW - GOLD LOUNGE PASS

We have a new stable block fully operational for the care of your horses while in transit with us. Your horse will receive a gold lounge pass when they stop over with Southern Cross Horse Transport.

Stable block features:

Ten individual stables with feeders.
Stables have a breezeway that gives your horses plenty of fresh air, while still being enclosed to protect them for the weather.
Exclusive to Southern Cross Horse Transport, while in the gold class lounge your horse can:
- bring their own food,
- or feast on our steamed hay.
24 Hour Room Service with experienced staff on duty 24 hours a day
All this is included, at no extra charge

When you book your horse to travel with southern cross horse transport treat your horse to the GOLD service he derserves!.

Advantages of Travelling Your Horse With Southern Cross

Our trucks are equipped with rubber lined, wide airy bays with recessed fittings for horse safety.
Access ramps have a low angle that horses can negotiate easily.
Your horse will travel comfortably on air bag suspension.
Surveillance cameras ensure our drivers are quickly aware of any problems.
Horses have continuous access to food and water during all stabled rest stops.
Mares with foals are given double bays and foals are allowed to suckle regularly.
Mares heavy in foal are given wide bays.
Where possible, stallions are separated from other horses.
If cool, horses are rugged during stops.
Overnight stops are usually in our own brand new stables where your horse will receive the very best of care.
All horses traveling with us are fed steamed hay to reduce the risk of respiratory problems when travelling.
- Read more about the advantages of steamed hay
Only knowledgeable horse men and women are employed as drivers with Southern Cross

SCHT takes pride in ensuring that all horses traveling with them arrive at their destinations in the best possible condition.
In September (08), we were proud to transport six World Cup show jumpers from the Adelaide Royal Show to their next competition.

Southern Cross Horse Transport are exclusive carriers of The Butcher Twins Showjumping Teams.

Southern Cross Horse Transport has previously transported for the Australian Olympic and Para Olympic teams, the New Zealand Olympic team, and the transportation of horses for the 2010 Singapore Summer Youth Olympic Games, along with many other notable riders.

Regular users of Southern Cross Horse Transport include Australia's leading Harness Race Horse trainers and owners, the Australian Top Show Jumpers, Dressage riders, Event riders, Yearlings bought or going to Sales, transportation for Mare & Foals, Stallions, and numerous riders from the Equestrian disciplines, just to name a few.

Please look through the gallery to see how our trucks are fitted out, with horse comfort and safety being our no.1 priority.

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Advantages of Feeding Steamed Hay

Hay varies enormously in it's quality due to our varied environmental conditions.
Hay that is baled with a high moisture content is prone to contamination from fungal spores and bacteria, while hay that is very dry is often dusty.

Steaming hay reduces these problems by:

Destroying contaminating allergens (bacteria, fungal spores and dust mites)
Reduce respiratory problems by moistening dry, dusty hay

Steamed hay maintains it's nutritional value (just like steamed vegies do).

To help protect your horse while in transit we routinly feed steamed hay.

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Our Service Routes:

States

All NSW
Southern Queensland
All Victoria
All ACT
Eastern South Australia

Regions


NSW	Qld	ACT	Vic	SA
Southern Highlands Northern Rivers North Coast New England Hunter Central Coast Illawarra Hawkesbury Blue Mountains Central Ranges South Coast Riverina Snowy Monaro	South West and Darling Downs South East Qld Wide Bay Burnett Gladstone Region Rockhampton	North Canberra Belconnen Gungahlin Woden Valley Weston Tuggeranong South Canberra	North West Victoria North East Victoria South East Victoria Melbourne Region West Victoria South West Victoria	Coonawarra Barossa Valley The Flinders Ranges The Eyre Peninsula

Major Cities and Towns and all town between


NSW	Qld	ACT	Vic	SA
Byron Bay Tweed Heads Coffs Harbour Newcastle Port Macquarie Gosford The Entrance Sydney Wollongong Batemans Bay Queanbeyan	Warwick Tenterfield Brisbane Toowoomba Ipswich Maryborough	Canberra	Wangaratta Sheppaton Melbourne Geelong Ballarat	Renmark Adelaide Mt Gambier Port Augusta

All our transport horses are fed steamed hay.

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