Beljay Performance Horses
236 Hunters Road
Coalstoun Lakes QLD 4621
Mob: 0488 777 660
E: beljayperformancehorses@gmail.com
Terry & Marg Borland
1208 Emu Creek Rd
Degilbo QLD 4621
Mob: 0437 059 003
Email: tborland1@bigpond.com
Registration: #Q-84934
Foaling date: 11/11/2016
Colour: Chestnut
Height: 15hh
Breeder: Nathan J Wilson
Current Owner: Terrence & Margaret Borland
7 panel: GBED: N/N, HERDA: N/N, HYPP:N/R, MH: N/N, MYHM: N/N, OLWS: N/N, PSSM1: N/N
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| Sire: TASSA N SMART | TASSA LENA | SMART LITTLE LENA |
| LITTLE TASSA | ||
| OAKS FANCY JEWEL | DOCS FRECKLES OAK | |
| BOGAN CUTTERS EIGHT | ||
| Dam: SHEZ LETHAL | LETHAL LENA | SMART LITTLE LENA |
| HOT LITTLE LADY | ||
| MISS SPINIFEX | DOCS SPINIFEX | |
| NELLIE DELL | ||
Tassas Reflection was bred by Nathan Wilson & Brydie Hughes of Nathan Wilson Training Stables. He hails from the best their stables have to offer, the proven cross of Tassa N Smart & Shez Lethal.
Nathan purchased Tassa N Smart out of the Rockhampton Quarter Horse Sale as a 2yo colt, the same day, same sale as Seligman Spin. He trained him out, learning so much in the process.
TNS went on to win Novice Reining Horse of the Year with Warren Backhouse, many Open Challenges with Nathan, Rookie Challenges with various riders, including an Open Challenge and a Rookie Challenge with Brydie in 2015. He also won two campdrafts from not a lot of starts. Now 27 years old he looks an absolute picture.
Tassas Reflection’s dam Shez Lethal was again purchased out of the Rockhampton Quarter Horse Sale many years ago. She was a ridden mare that was used as a safe horse for backpackers to ride.
Unbeknown to Nathan at the time, she would go on to be his most valuable broodmare. Being by Lethal Lena & out of a Spinifex mare, it was her breeding that caught Nathan’s eye initially. Nathan says, “It was the best $5,000 I ever spent”.
In 2015 Brydie drafted Shez Lethal and soon fell in love with the way she would cutout and run a cow, however both Brydie and Nathan soon realised she was more valuable as a broodmare. She is also the dam of ARBC Classic Challenge Champion Lethal N Smart, now deceased and Tassas Lethal Spin, dam of Lethal King Cole.
Tassas Reflection was broken in and started by Nathan as a 2yo, showing a great amount of potential. A few months later Nathan received a phonecall from Cameron Parker asking, “What good ones do you have?” Nathan eventually sent Reflection up to Cameron to train him out and almost 2 years later he returned home a fully trained horse.
Within a short period of time he went on to win the Rocky Rush Classic Challenge, Cloncurry Futurity Draft & placed in other ASCA Challenges as a 4yo. The following year as a 5yo he won his first Derby Challenge at ARBC and the following weekend won the Nutrien Supreme Sale 5yo & Under Challenge.
In 2022 Nathan & Brydie made the decision to sell Reflection as they had recently purchased a colt they planned to use as a future sire. The purchasers were Terry & Marg Borland. Although Reflection was bought for Marg, the Borlands knew he was too good to just sit there so they decided Nathan and Brydie should continue to campaign him. He stood at Nathan Wilson Training Stables for the 2023 Breeding season.
In 2024 Tassas Reflection joined the stable of Benalla Stud, campaigned by Sally Stevenson.
2024 Foals
Tassas Reflection’s first foal crop was 2022, 6 foals were born, two owned by Nathan Wilson Training Stables and the others by Terry & Marg Borland.
2025
Top seller:
Lot 383 – Reflective Miss (2yo mare)
Sold $12,500.
Lot 83 – Reflecting Star
Sold: $40,000
Vendor: TW & MD Borland
Purchaser: Benalla Stud
100% Clearance (3/3)
Gross: $22,000 | Average: $7,333
Top Seller
Nathan Tassa N Smart out of the Rockhampton Quarter Horse Sale as a 2yo colt (the same day/same sale as Seligman Spin). Nathan trained TNS out and says this is where he learned so much.
TNS went on to win Novice reining horse of the year with Warren Backhouse, many Open Challenges with Nathan, Rookie challenges with various riders (including an Open Challenge and a Rookie Challenge with Brydie in 2015) plus two Campdrafts from not a lot of starts.
Now 27 years old he looks an absolute picture. His books are closed to the public however NWTS breeds many mares to him each year and continues to freeze his semen where possible.
Nathan again purchased Shez Lethal out of the Rockhampton Quarter Horse Sale many years ago. She was a ridden mare that was used as a safe horse for backpackers to ride. Unbeknown to Nathan at the time, she would go on to be his most valuable broodmare. Being by Lethal Lena & out of a Spinifex mare, it was her breeding that caught Nathan’s eye initially. He says, “It was the best $5,000 I ever spent”.
In 2015 Brydie drafted Shez Lethal and soon fell in love with the way she would cutout and run a cow, however both Brydie and Nathan soon realised she was more valuable as a broodmare.
She is also the dam of:
2025
2023
Photos by Sandie Read Photography.
2025
2024
2023
Reflecting Star