Born and raised in Griffith, Ms Owen works training and selling horses with her fiance Sam Mooney in Wantabadgery, and will be making a special visit to Pioneer Park Museum to demonstrate her own style of horsemanship for the Action Day on Good Friday.

Her love of horses was a family affair, with horses and ponies a part of her life since birth, and after breaking in her first horse at the age of 12, she certainly found her future career early.

Ms Owen has competed in countless Camp Drafting events, Shows and Cutting competitions, with the highlight taking part in The Man from Snowy River Challenge in Corryong, which is an event that endeavors to find the modern day Man from Snowy River. 

But when she met Fix It Felix, working in the cutting industry in Shepparton, she knew her true companion had been found.

Helping train Felix, sired by award winning Stallion Metallic Cat, for cutting competitions, she saw the potential in him when no-one else did, sticking by the underdog and proving the haters wrong.

“In the cutting industry there is the Open and then there’s the Non-Pro and everyone said he’d be a really good non-pro horse, but he came out and he kind of took everyone by storm, and made the big futurity finals up in Tamworth in 2015,” Ms Owen said.

“He was always the bridesmaid, never quite making it the win, but every weekend show he would carve up.”

When Ms Owen left her full-time work with Felix and he just didn’t do the same, but when she agreed to help out again, he’s performances improved once again.

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“He came out and did well when I was there and everyone put two and two together that this was a thing: he did better when I was there, and then Victorian futurity he came out and he finally won it. I cried. In my horse career so far, that would have to be the best day of my life, I was so proud.”

He was doing well for his owner in shows at the time, but she realised one day that he just wasn’t her horse.

“She woke up one day and decided he just belonged to me. It’s one of those funny stories you hear about a horse and a person and you sort of don’t believe that there is this bond, and I guess I didn’t believe it until I experienced it with Felix.”

“She made the decision and called me and said I can’t keep him, he just doesn’t belong to me, he’s not my horse. So she sold him to us and we’ve had him not quite a year now.”

To watch Fix It Felix and Ms Owen in action, head along to Pioneer Park Museum’s Action Day on Good Friday.