Estate Living Magazine Alfresco Living - Issue 36 December 2018 | Page 38

SaddleUp
If you’re waking up to birdcalls and there’s a horse in your back yard, but you’re close
to city life, there’s a good chance you’ve invested in Saddlebrook Estate.
So near, and yet so far. That’s the dominant theme of living in because of the space we have. Space is in short supply and city
Saddlebrook Estate in Kyalami – a horse jump away from Inanda councils are increasingly not feeling well disposed towards new
Country Base, and a short drive from Fourways Mall and the N1 estates with such large stands’.
from Pretoria. Sandton is barely half an hour away.
There are only 117 stands in the estate, of which 114 are
‘It’s country living, and a world away from the hustle and bustle residential units, all with ample space for paddocks and stabling.
of Gauteng,’ says chairperson of the Saddlebrook Residents Approximately 60 horses are stabled within the estate.
Association, Peter Warring, who says of this peri-urban
environment: ‘We’re out of the city, but in the city.’
This optimal geographical position is just one advantage of living
in a place where residents wake up to woodland birdcalls, hear
the odd jackal howl in the early evenings, and have the option
of keeping a horse in their back yard. Kyalami is, after all, horse
country.
‘There aren’t too many housing estates where residents live on
one-hectare stands,’ says Warring. ‘And where it’s completely
par for the course to step out of your house to feed your horse in
the back yard. You can’t compare this to any other estate, if only
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