British Breeder Dec 2023

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December 2023 

Futurity 2023 Highest Scorer - 

Myspires Totillah Time 

Futurity - 

Full reports 

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December Issue 

Welcome 

from the editor 

Cover 

The highest scorer, Myspires Totillah 

Time - Photos taken and compiled by 

Tanja Davis Photography 

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Welcome to the December edition of 

the British Breeder. 

We are now in the depths of winter and 

pleased to bring some British Breeding 

news and reports to relieve the long 

dark nights. 

This edition is a bumper Futurity edition. 

It includes the full round up from all 

the futurity venues from July to early 

Setpember as well as the Virtual futurity 

which gives those an opportunity to 

take part if they cannot travel to the 

futurity venue near them. 

We also here from entrants on why they 

did the Futurity and a 'Where are they 

now' report highlighting some futurity 

graduates. 

We have our regular slots from the 

Studbooks with their Grading and 

Competition results from the summer/ 

autumn period. 

Next edition will be slightly different 

as Fellowes Media are taking over the 

production of the magazine. British 

Breeding will continue to provide the 

content. 

We would like to take this opportunity 

to thank Piers Marson who has been 

providing the design and production of 

the magazine for several years. 

Wishing you a very Merry Christmas 

and a successful breeding season for 

2024. 

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Studbook News AHS 

Studbook News Anglo European Studbook 

Studbook News IDHS(GB) 

Studbook News SHB(GB) 

Studbook News SPSS 

GB PRE Report 

Studbook BHHS 

Studbook NPS 

Studbook Trakehners 

Futurity Report - Hartpury 

Futurity Report - Breen 

Futurity Report - Easton College 

Futurity Report - SNEC 

Futurity Report - Northcote 

Futurity Report - Catherston 

Futurity Report - The Grange 

Futurity Report - Northallerton 

Futurity Report - Hothorpe 

Futurity Report - Virtual Futurity 

Futurity Article - Why we did it 

Futurity Article - Where are they now 

Baileys Nutrition Article - Managing on plentiful grazing 

Product Feature - Equilume Lighting 

Vet Insight - Managing High Risk Pregnancies provided by Rossdales 

Farriery Article - Treating Flexural Flaccidity 

NAF Health Article - Nutrition through weaning 

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News - British Showjumping 

British Bred Showjumpers 

feature highly at HOYS 

Mark Edwards Dillinger Ne 

HOYS 2023 1st 

Welcome Stakes 

1st Class Images 

Mark Edwards has enjoyed a 

phenomenal summer season with his 

horses, most of them bred and produced 

at home on the family farm in 

Cowbridge, South Wales, and his 

success looks continued as he bagged 

two major wins at the prestigious Horse 

of the Year Show at the NEC, 

Birmingham. 

Never a slouch against the clock, Mark 

came out fighting for the win in the first 

of the three-star international classes, the 

Grandstand Welcome Stakes, with his 

father Martyn’s Dillinger NE. 

Mark has produced Dillinger (Diarado 

x Carismo) from 2020 and his novice 

days, progressing though the grades to 

contend the 2022 HOYS Foxhunter and 

Grade C Finals and winning area trials 

on the county show circuit in 2023. 

“He’s a great horse and the breeders, 

Ros and Denis Palmer were there to 

watch him and we really think a lot of 

him. I think he’s got a real big future 

ahead of him and hopefully there’s more 

to come,” added Mark. 

Mark was firing on all cylinders to 

record a second win later in the day, 

piloting Royale Tale into the top spot of 

the NAEC Stoneleigh Stakes. 

The 8-year-old, winner of the 

Newcomers and Grade C Finals at 

Horse of the Year Show in 2022, was 

bred by Sean and Charlene Daly and 

is sired by Mark’s home-bred former 

top ride Montreuxs Tale and out of a 

Cavalier Royale mare. Mark and his 

father Martyn spotted her potential early 

on, secured her purchase and have 

produced her from the beginning from a 

4-year-old. 

“This was her third win at HOYS; she 

won two national classes last year and 

has stepped up to the international 

stage. She’s a great mare and she wants 

to win as much as I do,” said Mark. 

Other British Breds performing well was 

Just Call Me Henry , the son of Argento 

out of a Kannan mare and bred by 

Murray McLeish and Steve Fag and 

ridden by James Whitaker. James and 

Just Call Me Henry secured the victory in 

the British Horse Feeds Speedi-Beet 

Grade C Championship. 

Hollie Gerken Another Barney 

HOYS 2023 138cm - 1st Class Images 

Mark Edwards Royale Tale HOYS 2023 

Stoneleigh Stakes - 1st Class Images 

James Whitaker Just Call Me Henry HOYS 2023 

Grade C Ch - 1st Class Images 

British Breds were seen winning at all 

levels with Rachel Hall making a winning 

return to HOYS after 36 years absence 

to take the NAF Five Star Bronze League 

Title on Balousina, The Baloubet Junior 

Z x Lauriston 9-year-old mare, bred at 

Renkum Stud – was purchased as a just 

broken 4-year-old from friend Margaret 

Tyers of English Bridles. 

British Bred ponies were also collecting 

the prizes with Katie Bradburne taking 

the Blue Chip Pony Newcomers title with 

Claire Crossman’s Shovern Inca, by Eros 

the stallion son of Diarado and out of 

a Wrayton Boaz mare and bred by Jill 

Webb. Hollie Gerkin claimed the Equine 

Rescue Services 138cms with Another 

Barney, by West Country Sport Horses’ 

Filesco, the stallion son of Boss VDL, who 

traces back to Indoctro and Nimmerdor 

with Phin Phin on the dams side, and out 

of pony mare Patch, breeding unknown. 

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News - British Eventing 

Austin O’Connor (IRL) secured the first CCI5*- L victory by an Irish rider in nearly six decades 

International Eventing 

End of season roundup 

of British Bred 

Successes 

Blenheim Palace International 

CCI-L 4* 

DREAMLINER took 5th place. The 

SHB(GB) gelding by Jumbo ex Doff 

Gudanov (TB) was ridden by Tom 

Rowland completing with a double 

clear. Tom & Dreamliner went to 

Blenheim after scoring a good 6th place 

in the CCI-S 4* at The NAF FIVE STAR 

International in August. 

CCI-S 4* 8/9 yr old 

4th was taken by the exciting D.DAY 

(Billy Mexico ex Dillus (Dillum))bred 

& part owned by Fiona Olivier ridden 

by Caroline Harris, owned by Fiona 

Olivier, Lucy Matthews, Marie Anne 

Richardson & Heather Royle. 

6th placed was the gelding POMP 

N CIRCUMSTANCE (Pompadour ex 

Bowhouse Mandalin) was owned & 

bred by Sarah Gough and ridden by 

Padraig McCarthy. He went to Blenheim 

from a good 9th placing at Blair Castle 

CCI-S 4* 

10th was taken by James Avery on 

SHB(GB) Gelding DALLAS 13 

(Dimaggio ex Pippa (Polarion TSF)) 

South of England International 

CCI-S 2* 

Won by Gemma Stevens on the 6yo 

stallion, CHILLI MORNING IV 

(Phantomic ex Koralle) owned and bred 

by Christopher Stone. He came from a 

good 8th at the CCI-S YH2* (^YO) at 

Cornbury Hourse International & Young 

Horse Championships.Hotly followed 

in 2nd place by the 6yo gelding SAGE 

SOLDIER (Ramiro B ex Freaky Flower) 

ridden by Tom Jackson, owned by Alice 

Midmer & Richard & Diana Midmer. 

6th was the mare KATELANE (Freeman 

VDL ex Gilane) ridden by Georgie 

Campbell and owned by Pippa 

Woodall & Anne Stratton 

Osberton International 

CCI-L 2* 

Emily King and 10yr old mare, JUST 

SODA NO ICE (Stallione Quainton ex 

Ryans Daughter(Night Shift xx)) Owned 

and bred by Zoe Feeney took 6th place 

to take the highest of the British Breds. 

Bicton International CCI-3*S 

3rd was taken by the British Bred 

SHB(GB) mare, KIMLINGTON FOLLY 

(by Cevin Z ex Mighty Oats who was 

full sister to the great Miners Frolic) 

ridden by Gubby Leach and owned by 

Sarah Pelham. Kilmington Folly went to 

Bicton on form having been in the top 

6 in her previous 3 runs including the 

well trodden path for autumn eventing 

of Intermediate placings at Cornbury 

International and then South of England 

Intermediate. In 5th was the British Bred 

full Thoroughbred mare, FINCH FANCY 

(by Arvico ex Eward Finch (Kayf Tara)) 

ridden by Ben Lee Liles and owned by 

Ben and CharlieAinsworth. 7th was 

taken by David Doel riding Owner/ 

Breeder Sarah Warden’s THE 

PREACHER MAN (by Billy Congo out 

of Dawn Catcher) CCI-2* L. 2nd place 

was taken by Dani Evans riding Patricia 

Laws’ British Bred OTTENTIK NOBILITY 

(by Ramiro B ex Ottentik Nobless). 

7th was Daisy Amin on her own AIR 

MAIL (Jaguar Mail ex Zyacint (Namelus 

R)). Air Mail was bred by Angela 

Stretton 

Le Lion D’Angers WBFSH 

Young Horse Championships. 

The exciting British bred mare, 

BARRINGTON ALICE, by Cevin Z out 

of the Kuwait Beach (TB) mare 

Allercombe Mayday (SHB(GB)), took 

the six year old title at the FEI WBFSH 

Eventing World Breeding Young Horse 

Championships under the expert 

guidance of Izzy Taylor. Owned by 

Barrington Sports Horses and bred by 

Susie Holroyd the talented mare has 

already had an excellent season always 

finishing in the top 3 at Novice and 

Intermediate level as well as coming 

third in the CCI-S 2* at Nunney 

International followed by 11th at 

Cornbury House International & Young 

Horse Championships in the CCI-S 

YH2* (6YO). Barrington Alice’s dam 

was the full thoroughbred by Kuwait 

Beach out of the Poetic Justice mare Last 

Edition; who also was the dam of the 

CCI4* mare Allercombe Ellie (by 

Jumbo) also ridden by Izzy Taylor and 

bred by Susie Holroyd. 

In 6th place was the exciting Stallion, 

KANTANGO, by Tangelo van de 

Zuuthoeve out of the Winningmood 

mare Eclaire who herself showjumped 

to 1.45m,. Kantango was bred by Kevin 

Sleap, ridden by Kitty King and owned 

by JANE BOGGIS, PENELOPE HOLLEY, 

JOANNA JONES, JANE TOLLEY. This 

was also a good finish to Kantango’s 

excellent season which included back 

to back wins at Wellington International 

CCI-S 2* followed by the win at the 6yr 

old CCI-S YH 2* at Cornbury Hourse 

International & Young Horse Champs. 

Maryland 5*International 

Austin O’Connor (IRL) secured the first 

CCI5*- L victory by an Irish rider in 

nearly six decades, jumping up from 

fourth place at the start of Sunday’s 

show jumping finale and catapulting to 

the top of the leaderboard with longtime 

partner COLORADO BLUE at the 

2023 MARS Maryland 5 Star at Fair 

Hill presented by Brown Advisory. The 

three-time Olympian sealed the deal 

to break the longstanding Irish drought 

with a mistake-free round on Sunday, 

jumping clear and finishing on a final 

total score of 34.9. Colorado Blue is the 

SHB(GB) British Bred by Jaguar Mail 

(Hand in Glove x Laudanum) out of 

Rock King mare, Rock Me Baby (Rock 

King x Shaab) 2nd Place was taken by 

the Five-time British Olympic veteran 

William Fox-Pitt (GBR) and the British 

Bred mare GRAFENNACHT 

(Grafenstolz x Narew) bred by Susan 

Eggleton who also competed her dam 

Advanced level. 

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Studbook News - AHS 

Mandarine by Premium stallion Sambist winning 50-miles class at Golden Horse Shoe over Exmoor, May 2023 

Agriculture House, Charnham Lane 

Hungerford, 

Berkshire RG17 0EY 

Telephone 01672 521411 

Fax 01488 682074 

Website www.arabhorsesociety.org 

Endurance Arabs to the fore in the 

Youngstock Evaluations - Anne Brown 

The Arab Horse Society is delighted that 

Arabians continue to score well in the 

Endurance section of British Breeding‘s 

Youngstock Evaluations, including 4 

year old Arab mare Lakkanas Spirit S A 

by AHS Premium stallion Crystal Magic 

who gained a Gold Premium this year. 

The video option, particularly for foals at 

foot, is welcomed by mare-owners not 

wanting to travel babies to an Evaluation 

venue, especially if the dam is in foal 

again. 

We are seeing these youngsters flourish 

once they ’graduate’ and start their 

long-distance careers. 

To encourage breeding from the best 

sires, the Arab Horse Society has for 

many years rewarded mare owners 

who use proven AHS Premium stallions. 

Many Premium sires, especially those 

from Biddesden Stud and Avonbrook 

Stud, also produce successful Eventing 

horses, and increasingly dressage 

horses as well. PS Aurora Silk by AHS 

Premium stallion Marcus Aurelius has 

excelled in Dressage this year. Marcus 

himself won the Style and Performance 

Championship at the national Veteran 

Horse Society Championships in 

October. 

Xquisite Dream, by the prolific 

AHS Premium stallion Psy Dream, 

placed fourth in the Ridden Arabian 

Championship at the Horse of the Year 

Show in October. 

These exceptional sires – pure, part or 

Anglo Arab – can gain their Premium 

status in one of three ways. They can 

complete the tough two-day 

multi-discipline Stallion Performance 

Test (although sadly suspended this 

year) for Premium Performance Status; 

alternatively, they gain the Premium 

Ridden Merit accolade by their own 

exceptional results under saddle, or 

they earn Premium Merit status through 

the success of their progeny in Affiliated 

ridden performance. All AHS Premium 

stallion must have proven fertility, passed 

a strict vet exam, be available at public 

stud by natural covering or AI, and be 

registered with the AHS. 

AHS Premium stallion Watt du Colombier rides 

the Golden Horse Shoe over Exmoor, with Esther 

Groen in May 2023. Photo David Saunders 

A breeder choosing one of these 

Premium stallions for their Premium mare 

receives a monetary Premium - currently 

£200 - and free registration of the foal 

with the AHS. The mare does not need 

to have any Arabian blood to qualify for 

a Premium! Non-Premium mares may 

receive a Nomination, at the discretion 

of the Premium stallion owner, to receive 

a Premium - currently £100 - and free 

registration of the foal with the AHS. 

High profile AHS Premium stallions in the 

past have included Tamarillo, winner of 

both Badminton and Burghley, racing 

supremo Sambist, whose frozen semen 

is still available, Silvern Prince, a former, 

‘Horse of the Year Show Ridden Arab 

Champion’, and a current 100-mile 

endurance winner Watt du Colombier 

who still competes regularly with owner/ 

rider Esther Groen. 

AHS Premium stallion Marcus Aurelius (above) and 

son PS Ibn Aurelius with their sashes from the Ridden 

Championships at the AHS National Summer show 

Crabbet Arabian championships 2023 

Oarehouse Hero by Anglo Arab Premium stallion 

Persiflage in 2023 Photo Matt Nuttall 

Sadly, some Premium stallions are no 

longer with us, but it is so gratifying to 

read of the success of their progeny 

round the world, such as Chatanz’s 

son, Warrens Hill Chayze, winner of 

this year’s Spanish National Endurance 

Championship over 160kms, and third 

in the World Championships a couple of 

years ago. 

Arabians are first and foremost ridden 

horses, with the stamina, temperament 

and sound conformation to last a rider a 

lifetime. 

For more details, visit the dedicated PPS 

site: www.ahs-premium.org.uk 

or ring the Premium Performance 

Scheme chairman, 

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Studbook News - AES 

The Anglo European Studbook 

Teams shone at the inaugural 

WBFSH Studbooks Global 

Champions Trophy 

Georgia Wells riding Heart of Cicero 

As the only studbook with all its 

teams in the medals, the Anglo 

European Studbook truly made 

its mark at the inaugural WBFSH 

Studbooks Global Champions 

Trophy at the Longines Jan Tops 

International Arena at 

Valkenswaard. The only 

studbook from Britain to 

participate, the AES fielded teams 

in the 5yo, 6yo and 7yo category. 

Says Lucy Simpson, AES Evaluator and 

team Selector: 

“We did not have a lot of time from the 

original announcement in June to put 

together our teams, but everyone has 

been enormously supportive of the 

concept and enthusiastic. We would 

like to thank everyone who participated 

for all their efforts in putting their horses 

forward and bringing them all the way 

to Holland. We could not be prouder of 

them all!” 

It is perhaps not surprising that the team 

of 5yo horses were the ones to find the 

step up to the international arena and 

big atmosphere at Valkenswaard initially 

challenging. The team nevertheless 

managed to end up in a very 

respectable 6th position overall after the 

qualifiers. The most improved horse in 

this group was the mare Moneypenny 

(Golden Eye x Classe), bred by Carron 

Nicol whose son Leo Lamb was 

piloting horses in the 6yo and 7yo 

teams. After being disqualified in round 

1, the mare showed a great improvement 

in the second round, and really found 

her stride and concentration by the end. 

Moneypenny had been awarded an 

Elite score at the British Breeding Futurity 

as a foal, identifying her as a youngster 

with international potential. 

Katie Speller on Breen Equestrian’s Z7 Pink Panther 

In the end, the AES 5yo team claimed 

3rd position in the 1.30m final of 10 

teams, with a total of 8 faults, only one 

fence behind the winners, the 

Hanoverian Association on 4. Katie 

Speller with Breen Equestrian’s Z7 Pink 

Panther (Cuick Star Kervec x Obos 

Quality) jumped clear, while Tom 

Dovkants with Moneypenny and 

Danielle Ryder’s stallion Espeshelli 

(Zambesi TN x Karandasj) each 

collected 4 faults. 

Says Chef d’Equipe Robbert Ehrens: 

“When making the selection for the final, 

it is always important to consider how 

the horse has developed over the course 

of the competition. Next year, the teams 

will be slightly bigger, with 6 horses to 

be selected, so that there can be a small 

final for the remaining 3. What made this 

competition particularly uplifting, was 

the great team spirit in which the riders 

all supported each other and worked 

together. We really saw some great 

examples of horsemanship and 

sportsmanship, with everyone cheering 

each other on.” 

In the 6-year-old competition, the AES 

dominated throughout the qualifying 

stages and were in pole position going 

into the Final. 

This exceptional performance also 

ensured that Georgia and Heart of 

Cicero ended up in second place in the 

individual competition. The final team 

consisted of Emily Ward on Angela Hunt 

and Nick Ward’s Millfield Lottery (Plot 

Blue x Mr Blue, bred by Millfield Stud 

and sold through the AES Elite Foal 

Auction), Leo Lamb on his mother 

Carron Nicol’s Comme Il Faut x Calido I 

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Studbook News - AES 

stallion Chrysler Key SR, bred at Keystud, 

and Georgia Wells on her own Heart of 

Cicero (Cicero van Paemel x 

Heartbreaker). 

After Emily and Leo collected 8 unlucky 

faults each, it was Georgia who saved the 

day with one of only three clear rounds 

in the competition, ensuring the AES 

achieved a podium position in 3rd place 

overall. This exceptional performance also 

ensured that Georgia and Heart of Cicero 

ended up in second place in the individual 

competition. 

In the end, the highest placed of the three 

AES teams was the 7-year-olds, which 

had been in runner up position during the 

qualifying stages, too. One combination 

that stood out throughout the competition 

was Leo Lamb with Gmail (Cornet 

Obolensky x Diamant de Semily) who is 

owned by his mother, and was bred by 

none other than Jan Tops. The pair won the 

qualifier of the 7-year-old individuals in a 

strong group of 46 competitors. 

Danielle Ryder on stallion Espeshelli (Zambesi TN x Karandasj). 

A total of 10 studbooks participated in the 

7-year-old final which featured a highly 

challenging course of 1.45m fences. There 

were no faultless performances, with the 

very few who jumped clear picking up 

time penalties. 

The first in the ring for AES was Emily 

Ward with her own Wild Star HF (Big Star 

x Oklund). This horse was bred by her 

father Nick Ward and is out of her own 

international 1.60m competition mare 

Wild Rose. They collected 8 faults. Ben 

Bick on Abbie Summers’ If Evers Girl (If 

Ever III x Arko III) who was bred by Harry 

Whall and Leo Lamb on Gmail returned 

on 4 each to finish on a team total of 16 

faults, only 3 points fewer than The KWPN 

who ended up in first position on a total 

of 13. 

Thomas Dovkants on Moneypenny (Golden Eye x Classe). 

Says AES Director Joris van den 

Oetelaar: 

“We are very proud of our horses and 

riders who showed a great amount of 

heart in this competition. It is also an 

excellent barometer for the future and 

shows that British breeding can hold its 

head high and stand up to the bigger and 

more established breeding nations. We 

are delighted with this new competition, 

which we believe will provide a great 

opportunity for our best horses and riders 

to shine and prepare for the future. We are 

certainly looking forward to returning to 

Valkenswaard next year.” 

To contact AES: 

Tel: 01293 871701 

info@angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk 

FB: Anglo European Studbook 

www.angloeuropeanstudbook.co.uk 

Emily Ward on Wild Star HF (Big Star x Oklund). 

Leo Lamb riding Gmail (Cornet Obolensky x Diamant de Semilly). 

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Studbook News - IDHS 

IRISH DRAUGHT HORSE SOCIETY (GB) 

Registered Charity No. 1080522 

The Irish Draught Horse Society 

(GB) is fully committed to the inspection 

of purebred and Irish Draught Sport 

Horse mares and stallions and has held 

inspections for 40 years. As a daughter 

Society of Horse Sport Ireland (HSI), our 

Inspections follow the same principles as 

those held in Ireland. 

Ballygaddy Indie 

Photos 1st Class Images 

The breeding objective of the Irish 

Draught studbook is to produce sound 

horses with correct conformation, type, 

movement and action, calm and willing 

temperaments and sufficient athleticism. 

This foundation breed, when crossed 

with other breeds, will produce all types 

of leisure and performance horses. 

Colts and stallions can be presented for 

inspection from 3 years onwards, there is 

no upper age limit. 

Pre-inspection veterinary screening 

examination: Prior to inspection, 

the horse’s soundness and gaits 

are assessed, as in a pre-purchase 

examination. This screening includes 

16 x-rays of the feet and limbs and 

endoscopic examination. Health 

certificates for EVA, EIA and CEM and 

a genetic test for Warmblood Fragile 

Foal Syndrome are also required. On the 

day of inspection, the horse’s passport, 

vaccination record, microchip and 

marking details are checked. His bone, 

height and girth are recorded and he 

undergoes another 5 stage vetting. 

The inspection panel: This consists 

of three senior inspectors with the 

knowledge, training and experience 

to assess stallions.. At least one of the 

inspectors will be a representative from 

HSI. 

Linear profiling was introduced in 2010. 

It was taken from the system used to 

assess continental horses and then 

adjusted to reflect the traits required 

of the Irish Draught. There are 45 

characteristics, covering conformation, 

type, movement and athleticism 

Conformation assessment: The horse 

is presented to the inspectors and his 

gaits in walk and trot are shown in hand, 

on a hard surface. 

Movement: This is reviewed when he 

is loose in the indoor arena. There is a 

trained arena party to work the horse in 

walk, trot and canter, on both reins. 

Jumping athleticism: The horse is 

guided down a jumping lane, consisting 

of a placing pole and three fences. 

The height and spread of the fences 

are progressively increased, up to a 

maximum of 1m high with a 1.05m 

spread. The panel are looking at the 

horse’s reflexes, scope, technique, 

elasticity, carefulness and attitude. 

Stallions aged 4 years and over may 

also be jumped under saddle. 

A linear profile is completed, then the 

panel assigns a score out of 100 for 

each element. These scores determine 

whether the horse has met the criteria 

for Class 1. The owner and spectators 

are given the result at this stage. The 

owner will later receive a comprehensive 

inspection report. 

Class 1 is for inspected horses that meet 

the veterinary requirements and all the 

inspection requirements. 

Class 2 is where the horse meets the 

veterinary requirements but doesn’t meet 

all of the inspection criteria. Progeny out 

of Class 1/Class 2 mares are eligible for 

Class 1 upon inspection. 

Class 3 is for horses which have not met 

the veterinary requirements. 

Class 4 is for uninspected animals or 

where the inspection could not be 

Class 4 is for uninspected animals 

or where the inspection could not be 

completed. 

The progeny of Class 3 and Class 4 

animals are not eligible to be inspected 

Irish Draught Sport Horse Stallions 

These horses are very important to 

the Society. They must have a proven 

minimum of 25% Irish Draught breeding 

and stand over 15hh. As their athleticism 

is also assessed under saddle, they 

must be 4 years old or over. There are 

different requirements to those for pure 

bred horses, which are outlined in the 

guidelines on www.idhsgb.org.uk. They 

must pass a 5 stage vetting, including 

endoscopy and must have current 

health certificates. Their conformation, 

movement and athleticism are assessed, 

with a score and comment sheet 

completed. The panel’s decision is 

explained to the owner. 

Mares 

Mares have a veterinary assessment 

on the day, checking their details, 

measurements and soundness. The 

inspection process for conformation, 

type and movement is the same as for 

the colts and stallions. They are not 

required to jump but can do so if they 

achieve Class 1 or Supplementary 

Grade Up (for certain sport horse 

mares}. 


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Studbook News - SHB(GB) 

Ros and Lordships Graffalo take a stylish lead at Badminton - PHOTO Badminton Horse Trials 

Sport Horse Breeding 

of Great Britiain 

SHB(GB) Horses lead the way 

A Giant Year for Ros and Graffalo 

By any standards Ros Canter and 

Lordships Graffalo have enjoyed an 

extraordinary season. In May, 

Lincolnshire based Ros and Michele 

Saul’s SHB(GB) registered Lordship 

Graffalo led from start to finish to give 

Ros her first Badminton win – the pair 

was second last year. Amongst the haul 

of prizes for the winning team was the 

Sport Horse Breeding (GB) trophy 

presented to the owner of the highest 

placed horse by an approved SHB(GB) 

stallion – the pair was also awarded this 

trophy last year. Ros and 11-year-old 

Graffalo finished the event in 

immaculate style with a clear round 

in the show jumping to win by a large 

margin of 16.6 penalties. 

In August the pair dominated the 

European Championships – held at 

Haras Du Pin – winning individual gold 

and leading the British team to a 

convincing gold also. 

Bred by Writtle College, Graffalo is by 

the former eventing stallion Grafenstolz 

out of Pennie Wallace’s SHB(GB) 

graded mare Cornish Queen by Rock 

King a mare bred by Bridget Parker out 

the advanced eventing mare Cornish 

Faer. 

It was a good year at Badminton for the 

Studbook; British-based Irishman Austin 

O’Connor and Colorado Blue rose from 

34th after dressage to stand second after 

cross country accruing the fastest round 

of the challenging course finishing a 

final third. Austin won the William Miflin 

memorial trophy presented to the rider 

of the horse closest to the optimum time. 

The 14-year-old grey owned by The 

Salty Syndicate and Austin, and bred by 

Kate Jarvey, is by Jaguar Mail and like 

Graffalo out of a Rock King mare. 

Gemma Stevens finished in 6th place on 

Chris Stone’s 15-year-old chestnut mare, 

Jalapeno who was awarded the prize 

for the highest placed mare. 


Studbook News - SHB(GB) 

PHOTO - Badminton Horse Trials 

Bred by SHB(GB) council member Nick 

Gauntlett (FBHS) she is by the former 

Badminton winning SHB(GB) graded 

stallion, Chilli Morning out of Maiden 

Voyage by the former HIS premium 

stallion Shaab. Shaab also appears in 

the pedigree of Colorado Blue as the sire 

of his grand dam. 

Ros Canter’s second ride Pencos Crown 

Jewel owned by Kate James and Annie 

Makin finished in 9th place. She is by 

the legendary SHB(GB) graded sire, 

Jumbo out of the same mare as Lordships 

Graffalo, Cornish Queen. Crown Jewel 

was bred by Pennie Wallace, who was 

awarded the 2022 SHB(GB) Breeder’s 

trophy and this year the trophy was 

awarded to Carolyn Bates, the former 

owner of the late Jumbo. 

Badminton Stallion Parade 

One of the highlights of Badminton for 

the studbook is the main arena 

display of SHB(GB) graded stallions. 

The parade that took place after the first 

day of dressage was blessed with what 

turned out to be the best of the weekends 

weather and was enjoyed by arguably 

the largest audience ever. Thank you to 

all owners and riders who brought their 

stallions forward, all of whom were 

immaculately behaved. 

High risers’ Austin O’Connor and Colorado Blue post a fast clear to rise 32 places up the leaderboard 

MORE SUCCESS FOR SHB(GB) 

The success of SHB(GB) registered 

horses continued at Bramham Horse 

Trials where the main event (CCI4*L) 

was won by Pippa Funnell riding Sarah 

Ross’s MCS Maverick. The 10-year-old 

gelding bred by Marion Watson is by 

the SHB(GB) graded stallion Mill Law 

out of a Head Stud Book mare, Aroma a 

Dutch-bred mare by Wolfgang. The pair 

in its first season together, was second 

after dressage and jumped double clear 

just picking up 1.20 time penalties on the 

cross country to record a first win at the 

level for Maverick. 

Following his win in the CCI-S 4* at 

Chatsworth B Exclusive by the Welton 

Crackerjack son Bazaars Exclusive was 

sixth for owner rider Lizzie Baugh. 

Bubby Upton ran out the convincing 

winner of the under-25 Young Rider 

Championship section with Magic 

Roundabout IV owned by Rachel Upton 

& The Zebedee Syndicate. The pair was 

also successful earlier in the season 

in the Advanced section at Thoresby 

Park International. Magic Roundabout, 

bred by Sarah Stone, is by Samraan, a 

SHG(GB) graded Thoroughbred stallion 

out of My Lady, whose breeding is not 

recorded. 

At Luhmuhlen Harry Meade and the 

French-bred Anglo-Arab SHB(GB) 

graded stallion (since gelded), Tenareze 

A double clear for Pippa Funnell and MCS 

Maverick winners of Bramham’ - !st Class Images 

(Jaguar Mail-Quatar de Plape X) gained 

their best result to date when finishing 

fifth in the Longines CCI 5* while Oliver 

Townend and Tregilder (Royal 

Concorde-Hand in Glove) were ninth. 

A month later the pair won a 50 strong 

4*L class at Alnwick with a double clear 

inside the time. 

Tregilder another bred by Preci-Spark 

Ltd is out of the SHB(GB) Main Stud 

Book mare Trewins, by Hand in Glove. 

These two also have a connection as 

Tenareze’s sire Jaguar Mail, is also by 

Hand in Glove, a Thoroughbred horse 

who stood in France. 

Fifth in the World Breeding 

Federation of Sport Horse (WBFSH) 

rankings – again 

The success of SHB(GB) horses in 

competition means that for the third year 

running the Studbook ends the season 

holding 5th place (out of 60 member 

studbooks) in the WBFSH eventing 

studbook ranking. Lordships Graffalo 

leads the studbook and is highest 

British-Bred horse in the WBFSH breeder 

ranking in 6th place. 

The top six horses that have contributed 

to the standing are; Lordships Graffalo, 

The eventing stallion Just Chillin and his breeder, 

owner and rider Fred Powell take part in this year’s 

stallion display - Kit Houghton Badminton HT 

Tregilder, Pencos Crown Jewel, 

Colorado Blue, Menlo Park (Berlin-Rock 

King) ridden for New Zealand by Clarke 

Johnstone – winner of the 4*L at Mallow 

(IRL) this year and Bramham winner 

MCS Maverick. Intriguingly four of the 

six are out of SHB(GB) graded Rock 

King mares. Lordships Graffalo and 

Pencos Crown Jewel are both out of 

Cornish Queen by Rock King, Colorado 

Blue is out of Rock Me Baby by Rock 

King and Menlo Park is out of Faerie 

Queen by Rock King. Faerie Queen was 

in fact a half-sister to Faerie Dazzler who 

is the dam of Faerie Dianimo, both 

sharing the dam Clayton Mudlark who 

was by the well-known thoroughbred 

sire Ben Faerie, one of the cornerstone 

sires of eventing breeding. This sire is 

also the maternal grandsire of Pencos 

Crown Jewel and Lordships Graffalo 

meaning four of six horses also have Ben 

Faerie bloodlines. Congratulations and 

thank you to all our breeders for 

registering your horses with SHB(GB). 

We much appreciate your support. 

T: 01732 866277 

E: laura@sporthorsegb.co.uk 

FB: Sport Horse Breeding (GB) 

IG: @sporthorsebreeding_gb 

W: www.sporthorsegb.co.uk 

BRITISH BREEDER| 15

Studbook News - SPSS 

Sports Pony - Celebrating Success 

Vedouz de Nestin & Madison Seedhouse 

Photo Equisportif 

With the 2023 competition season 

now almost over, we are delighted that 

SPSS ponies are continuing to make an 

impression, with some being selected for 

the ultimate pony competition, the annual 

Pony European Championships. The 

“Pony Euros” are unique among the FEI 

Youth Championships as the 3 disciplines 

of Eventing, Dressage and Jumping all 

compete at the same time and in the 

same location, Le Mans in France this 

year, making for an exciting event. 

We are thrilled that 2 SPSS registered 

ponies were selected for the British 

dressage team. These are British-bred 

George Clooney B.S (SPSS Elite 

Caesar 171 x Santano) bred by Julie 

Lockey & ridden by Abigail Gray and 

British-born Amden Supreme Golden 

Dancer (Dating AT x Scampi) ridden 

by Ella Glennon. Another selected and 

British-bred pony, WS Jackson, is by the 

SPSS graded WPCS Sec B stallion 

Chiskin Jaguar and one of the reserves, 

Brouwershaven’s Jasper (Valerio x 

Vita Nova’s Hanssie) ridden by Fleur 

Pocock, is also SPSS registered. In the 

Team competition, Ella & “Leo” were 

the GB pathfinders and British Dressage 

George Clooney B.S & Abigail Gray 

Photo - Spidge Event Photography 

(BD) reported that, at her first European 

Championships, Ella rode with “maturity 

and precision”. Abigail & “George” 

were next to represent Team GB and 

BD said that they gave an “exceptional 

performance” and Abigail achieved 

a new personal best score of 72.8% 

which ended up as the highest for GB. 

In the next day’s individual test Abigail 

& George were outstanding again, 

finishing 5th with another personal best 

score of 74.811% which put them through 

to the final element of the competition, 

the Freestyle Test. To quote again from 

the BD report – “The young rider and 

12-year-old George create a picture of 

power and precision together, with every 

movement extremely well prepared 

for. Performing to a selection of pieces 

composed by Murray Gold for the Dr 

Who series - music originally used by 

George's first owner, Sophie Taylor, and 

tweaked by Tom Hunt to fit Abigail's 

floorplan - this talented pairing rode a 

confident test showing super balance 

and exemplary presentation”. 

SPSS ELITE graded Glencarrig Dolphin 

(Coosheen Stormboy x Coral Star), a 

13 year old Connemara stallion, placed 

2nd at the 2023 FEI 2* British Pony 

Championships at Belsay International in 

early June. Ridden by Elizabeth Jelfs for 

his new owner Caroline Hawkins of 

Tivoli Stud, they finished the 

Championships just adding a few SJ 

time faults to their dressage score. As a 

result they were selected as part of the 

British eventing squad for the Pony Euros. 

Sadly, Dolphin subsequently sustained 

a minor injury so had to be withdrawn, 

devastating news for Elizabeth & 

Caroline and so disappointing for us and 

his many other supporters – we all hope 

he is back to full fitness soon. 


Studbook News - SPSS 

New SPSS ELITE Stallions & Mare 

In addition to the new SPSS Elite graded 

mares & stallions highlighted in our 

report in the last issue, we are pleased 

to announce that British-bred Godrics 

Dionysus (SPSS Elite Danger 36 x 

Donnerwetter), French bred Vedouz de 

Nestin (Imperial du Blin x O Malley) 

and German-bred Sweet Fancy 

(Scampi x unknown) have also been 

awarded the coveted SPSS ELITE 

Graded Status. Elite status is awarded to 

SPSS graded ponies/horses who have 

competed internationally, are owned 

and/or bred by a current SPSS member 

and, in the case of stallions, are currently 

standing with the SPSS. 

Bred by Bev Brown and owned by 

Andrew Constable, Elly Darling & Daisy 

Bullman, 7 year old stallion Godrics 

Dionysus & Daisy made their first 

appearance at FEI level at the Hickstead 

CDIP in March and then also competed 

at Hickstead and Wellington CDIPs. 

Daisy is still eligible to ride at the Pony 

Euros next year, so we look forward to 

seeing her impressing the selectors at 

more CDIPs as Dionysus, who is 

relatively young to be at this level, gains 

in experience. 

The other stallion to be awarded SPSS 

Elite status recently is the 14 year old 

part-bred Connemara, Vedouz de 

Nestin. Ridden by Jeanne Hirel (FRA), 

Vedouz was the 2021 Pony Euros 

Showjumping Champion and was also 

on the Gold medal winning French Team. 

Subsequently brought to the UK by ESM 

Equestrian, Vedouz was campaigned 

nationally and internationally last year 

by Sophie Evans and is now being 

competed by Madison Seedhouse. 

The latest mare to be awarded SPSS 

ELITE graded status is Sweet Fancy who 

was imported into the UK in 2018 with a 

foal at foot and carrying a foal 

by Dating AT. This Dating AT foal was 

named Amden Supreme Golden Dancer 

and his 2023 FEI international dressage 

results (including representing GB at the 

Pony Europeans) have earned his dam 

her SPSS ELITE status. Having had 2 

further foals for Naomi Maxted-Massey, 

Sweet Fancy is now a schoolmistress for 

her current owner, SPSS member, Isra 

Allajbev. 

Stallion & Mare Gradings 

Two Spring Stallion Gradings were 

arranged and held in Cheshire and the 

Scottish Borders in April. Our judges 

were delighted that all the stallions 

forward were accepted, subject to the 

post-grading requirements of vetting and 

DNA. 

Glencarrig Dolphin & Elizabeth Jelfs 

Photo Athalens 

Godrics Dionysus & Daisy Bullman 

Spidge Event Photography 

Sweet Fancy 

One of these stallions was Vedouz de 

Nestin (see above). Of the 6 others, 

Furzey Lodge Flash Gordon 

upgraded from eAssessed to Licenced 

and we are pleased to announce that 

Cadlanvalley Royal Celebration , 

Charramac, Glenview Shadow, Hej 

Roobikks Kuba and Willowsway Top 

of the Rock are now all SPSS Licenced. 

Contact details etc for these stallions and 

all the other SPSS graded stallions 

standing in 2023 are available online at: 

www.sportpony.org.uk/stallions. 

Then a further 3 Stallion Gradings were 

held in August, in Lancashire, 

Cambridgeshire and Hampshire with 

another 7 stallions passing this 

assessment with 4 of them (Ashwey 

Goldko Z, Dodo Hit EFA, Gorfelyn 

Persian-monarch and Myspires Triple 

Gold) having completed the 

post-grading requirements and been 

formally accepted as SPSS Graded 

Stallions. These stallions will be added 

to the SPSS website in early 2024 ready 

for their first season standing as SPSS 

Graded. 

There were 6 opportunities for mares to 

be presented for SPSS Mare Grading 

“in person” as well as eGrading (which 

is assessment of videos) and we were 

delighted that all mares presented were 

graded into one of the SPSS Mare 

Studbooks according to their score and 

completeness of pedigree. 

The SPSS team is looking forward to the 

announcement of the overall Stallion & 

Mare Grading Champions at our AGM 

and Awards Presentation on 18th 

November – the results will then be 

shared via our social media, so keep an 

eye on our Facebook page! 

Passporting a Foal 

If you have used an SPSS graded 

stallion or your mare is SPSS passported, 

graded or overstamped and you are 

intending to breed a sports pony or small 

sports horse, we’d love you to passport 

with the SPSS. There is no upper (or 

lower) height limit for passporting with us 

if at least one parent is SPSS graded 

- and our passports meet the latest UK 

and EU standards. However, please 

note that we will not passport pure-bred 

rare breed or pure-bred British Native 

ponies as these should always have their 

specific breed society passports. We 

happily accept other societies’ Covering 

Certificates. 

A DNA Parentage Verified passport is 

an option for all foals but mandatory for 

embryo transfer foals and any that are 

weaned before the vet does the 

identification chart and description. 

To get an SPSS passport, please either 

download the Passport Form from our 

website or ask us to post you a Passport 

Application pack (which includes the 

form and hair sample bags). There’s a 

check list on page 2 of the passport form 

to guide you through the process and we 

are always happy to answer questions 

if you’re not sure about any part of the 

process. 

Supporting British Sports Pony Breeders 

by licensing stallions, grading mares, 

evaluating youngstock, celebrating 

success! 

Tel: 07703 566066 

Email: sportsponies@gmail.com 

FB: Sports Pony Studbook Society - SPSS 

Web: www.sportpony.org.uk 

BRITISH BREEDER| 17

GB PRE - Organisation 

Razzmatazz PPD owned and bred by Premier PRE Dressage (Karen Manki-Bourdon) 

British Breeding 

Futurity (Hartpury) 

hosted by GB PRE 

2023 

GB PRE – Stephanie Hurstfield 

www.gbpre.co.uk 

GB PRE were thrilled to be able to 

host the first of the British Breeding 

Futurity Evaluation days at our National 

Championship Breed Show at Hartpury 

College in late July. A total of 23 horses 

were presented if which 7 were Spanish. 

Three of our British PRE breeders have 

given their insight and views on the 

event. 

In introduction, my name is Charlotte 

Crocker-Westlake, I am a co-owner/ 

founder of a Spanish Horse Stud 

called ‘Yeguada Lago’. Which simply 

translates to Lake herd of Mares. Just a 

little wordplay on our family name in 

explanation. 

We have been breeding Spanish horses 

very successfully in Dorset for 20 years 

now and have been very lucky to win 

many prizes for our efforts along the 

way. 

This year we entered two fillies into the 

Futurity. It was not our first time entering 

a horse to be evaluated. In 2021 Mat 

Baker presented our homebred colt Lago 

Paladin at The Grange. He did very well 

and got a high silver. At 2 years old he 

was very lanky and lean. Still beautiful 

in our eyes obviously, but it would have 

been better to present him when he was 

looking more developed. At 3 and 4 

years old he went to win Colt Champion 

at GBPRE two years in a row, which 

proves my point really. 

This time round Mat Baker presented our 

homebred fillies; Lago Siren, who is a 

yearling and Lago Rosa, who is 2 years 

old (Now owned by Swanmore Stud, 

home of dressage riders Ben St-John 

James and Roland Tong, which is more 

than a little exciting!). 

These fillies are full sisters by the Elite 

grand Prix Stallion Impaciente II and 

out of a prize-winning dam, Remachita 

Maynou IV. Remachita is a Calificado 

(qualified) mare, who has been 

recognised by Spain’s “Royal Purebred 

Spanish Horse Breeders Association” 

ANCCE as having the conformation 

traits for dressage. 

We were very pleased that both fillies 

gained a Silver, this time they were a 

bit over-weight and typically had a 

last-minute growth spurt behind. The 

fillies were both VERY excited about 

their loose evaluation and proceeded to 

bounce around the indoor arena, instead 

of cantering. Which made me realise that 

I should have practiced this with them 

before-hand. You live and you learn! 

It was interesting to present both fillies 

in the Futurity alongside our National 

Breed Show (A qualifier for the World 

Conformation Championships for PRE 

horses held in Spain). Both of our fillies 

won their respective classes two days 

prior to the Futurity. Interestingly, the 

yearling filly that came second to ours, 

achieved a gold in her evaluation and 

was the highest scoring yearling of the 

day. Which makes me very proud as 

well, because, as it happens, we bred 

both the sire and dam of that filly. Not to 

mention she was bred and is still owned 

by my best friend Emily Burns. I am 

looking forward to following their future 

together. 


GB PRE - Organisation 

Analysing the results has given me a little 

food for thought, and the advice from 

the experts was very interesting and 

helpful. We will stick to our guns with 

our breeding programme, our horses 

are first and foremost good Spanish 

horses, which have been bred with good 

temperament, beauty, movement and 

longevity in mind. We are definitely 

on the right track with our breeding 

programme and these Silver Awards 

prove it. It is great to have that validation 

from British Breeding, who encourages 

excellence from British Breeders, and 

rewards those horses and breeders 

that excel. This is a very important tool 

ensure that British Breeding stays in the 

forefront of Sport and this in turn keeps 

the market for the British Bred horse 

buoyant. 

We were so glad that we managed to 

present two horses this year, it was a 

bit of a push to run them up and down 

from various prize giving's on the same 

day, but totally worth it and we were 

absolutely chuffed with the results; we 

are already making plans about who we 

might present next year. 

year old by our Grand Prix stallion 

Deseado CCV and out of our wonderful 

broodmare, Sultana LXVI. They 

absolutely loved Danny with comments 

“Lovely well grown individual, very good 

topline and with a little more muscle 

development with age and maturity will 

be a super horse” and he gained a Gold 

which we were over the moon with. 

Next up was Razzmatazz PPD, our 

5 year old by our wonderful stallion 

Resuelto XX and out of Sultana LXVI. She 

achieved the top 5 year old and a Gold 

too! 

Last to be graded was the full sister to 

Razzmatazz PPD, our 3 year old by 

Resuelto XX and out of Sultana LXVI, she 

almost achieved a gold but just dropped 

into silver as she was so tired so really 

didn’t show herself to her best. She is a 

super mare and we have high hopes for 

her in the future. 

Premier PRE Dressage & Stud specialize 

in breeding sport horses, specifically for 

Lago Rosa Owned and bred by Yeguada Lago 

(Charlotte Crocker-Westlake) 

Finlake Andalusians – Emily Burns 

Romiera EJB is by my own stallion 

Lago Icon who I have owned since he 

was 18months old. He is successfully 

competing at Inter 1 and training 

towards Grand Prix. She is out of my 

own mare Lago Ventajola (By Barquero J 

F), who herself has proved to be a great 

ridden horse with a brilliant jump and 

the kindest temperament. Both Dam and 

Sire (and a few others in my breeding 

programme) are bred by the UKs 

leading Spanish horse stud, Yeguada 

Lago. I have an invested interest in the 

best bloodlines, buying mares and using 

stallions readily available in the UK. 

My main focus with breeding a small 

number of Spanish horses is not only to 

provide the wow factor movement, but 

are also beautiful, true to the breed type, 

with long term soundness, exceptional 

temperament and excellent trainability. 

My ethos is to breed horses that will 

succeed in all disciplines, and to be their 

owner’s best friend. 

We have some interesting combinations 

due in 2024 and some more exciting 

ones planned for 2025. So, watch this 

space! 

Premier PRE Dressage – Karen 

Manzi-Bourdon 

We decided to enter the British Breeding 

Futurity Grading whilst attending the 

GB PRE Championship show this year 

as it was the perfect opportunity to see 

how they score and grade the horses 

alongside the showing and judging by a 

Spanish judge. 

First up was Dancioso PPD, our 2 

Romeria EJB Owned and bred by Finlake Andalusians (Emily Burns) 

dressage. We only breed from our two 

stallions which were both purchased 

from Francisco Santiago Ruiz when 

they were 3 year olds and who has 

several horses competing at Grand Prix 

in Europe. We love their pedigree and 

Deseado is pure Escalera breeding. 

This year we have bred a couple of 

partbreds/fusions with our KWPN mares 

and have produced two super black 

colts by Deseado CCV, one of which 

is already sold. Watch this space as 

these young horses slowly develop and 

have the potential to make world class 

dressage horses. 

It was a great opportunity for me to enter 

the British breeding futurity evaluation 

at GBPRE this year. Of course, Romiera 

is perfection in my eyes but to have her 

achieve a great score in the ANCCE 

1yr filly class and then have a whole 

board of judges in the Futurity evaluation 

award her with Gold Premium and a 

score of 8.375 (highest scoring yearling 

of the day) filled me with great pride. 

I am looking forward to presenting my 

2023 Filly by Star Andalusians' Leviton 

JL out of Lago Gabriela (half sister to 

Lago Icon) at next years evaluations. 

I feel it is important when breeding for 

sport that there is a recognised award 

that encourages better British breeding, 

which identifies talented young horses. 

These evaluations are a great marketing 

tool for those looking to sell their quality 

youngstock. 

www.gbpre.co.uk 

BRITISH BREEDER| 19

Studbook News - BHHS 

Mare Sports Award – 

4/6 Year Olds 

BHHS Sports Test For Mares 

In 2023, we are introducing a sports test 

for mares. This is open to any mare that 

is eligible to be registered into the BHHS 

studbook, so it is not limited solely to 

BHHS registered horses. 

In recent years in Germany, more 

mares are going straight into sport 

rather than taking the traditional route 

of undertaking a mare performance test 

and becoming brood mares. 

As a result, the German Hanoverian 

society has devised a sports test for 

mares. This is aimed at attracting the 

owners and riders of competition mares 

that may go into breeding later in life 

or breed via ET. The growing number of 

mares competing and breeding via ET is 

also reflected in the UK and the BHHS 

will be running a similar scheme in the 

UK. 

All mares from acceptable studbooks will 

be eligible subject to the approval of the 

studbook manager. 

The scheme will be based on the existing 

BD young horse classes. These classes 

have been developed over the years, 

are highly credible and fit the required 

criteria. Specifically, it will be based on 

the results gained at the BD young horse 

semi-finals or the championship. 

All mares entered for the sports test will 

receive the sport test award and mares 

gaining 7.5 and over in the test will be 

eligible for premium status. 

There are two aspects to the award: 

• Participation in the BD young horse 

semi-finals 

• Completion of the mare studbook 

inspection 

Participation in the BD young 

horse semi-finals 

The sports test is open to all eligible four, 

five and six year old mares competing 

in the BD young horse semi-finals. Test 

sheets from the championship final are 

also valid. 

You will need to send a copy of the test 

result sheet along with a copy of the 

mare’s pedigree from her passport to us 

at info@hanoverian-gb.org.uk 

Once the mare’s eligibility is confirmed, 

entry to the mare sports test award 

can be made via the MyRidingLife link 

below. 

Completion of the Mare Studbook 

Inspection 

To complete the process, the owner or 

rider needs to present their mare at one 

of our regional shows or our annual 

show so that the mare can be studbook 

inspected. This is where the mare is 

presented in hand for an assessment of 

her conformation and movement. Details 

of the studbook inspection process can 

be found on the BHHS website under 

‘stud book inspection’. It is also possible 

to undertake this stage via video 

assessment. Details of how to present 

your mare for video assessment are also 

given under ‘stud book inspection’ on the 

website.Participating mares will receive 

a stamp for their passport with the results 

of their studbook inspection and a stamp 

showing that they have undertaken the 

sports test plus the score received for the 

test. 

All mares participating in the test will 

receive the award, with mares scoring 

above 7.5 overall gaining premium 

status. 

BHHS Annual Show 

At the BHHS annual show there are 

classes for different ages of mares. 

Within each class there will be specific 

prizes for the highest placed sports test 

mare. There will also be a significant 

training bursary for the best performing 

sports test mare overall. More details 

of prizes will be made available on our 

Facebook page.Mares are presented 

in-hand at the show and full details 

about how to present your mare can 

be found on the BHHS website. Videos 

of the process will also be posted on 

Facebook. 

If you are thinking of breeding from your 

mare in the future, the show is a great 

opportunity to meet breeders and see a 

wide range of Hanoverian mares, foals 

and youngstock. Our studbook manager 

will also be at the show and can answer 

any questions you may have about 

registering foals etc. 

Participation in the annual show is 

optional, but sports test mares will be 

offered a free entry to the relevant class 

at the show. 

Entry fee 

• £75 with studbook inspection 

• £25 for mares previously studbook 

inspected. 

This will include reviewing the pedigree 

and score sheet, the studbook inspection 

(if relevant), and stamps for the passport. 

Tel: 07479 366 046 

Email: bhhsuk@gmail.com 

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Studbook News - NPS 

National Pony 

Society News 

Romanno Spotless and Laura Browne. 

In 2023 the National Pony Society 

is celebrating 130 years since it was 

founded to encourage the breeding, 

registration and improvement of 

Riding Ponies and Mountain & 

Moorland ponies. British Riding Ponies 

(BRP) are incredibly successful in the 

show ring but the unique blend of native 

pony blood, crossed with arab, 

thoroughbred and anglo arab means 

these ponies are also incredible athletes 

and very versatile. 

Debby Walton-Smith reports that her 

consistent mare Romanno Spotless 

(Stanley Grange Regal Heights x 

Chiddock Spot On, bred by Jennifer 

Gilchrist) continues to add to a very 

strong performance CV. This season 

she has been winning at British Novice 

show jumping, qualifying for the second 

rounds and recently took the Part Bed 

Arab Novice level at the British Dressage 

Associated Championships at Bury Farm. 

They also qualified for the BD Nationals 

and the BE grassroots championships. 

Romanno Spotless is ridden by Laura 

Browne and the now 10 year old mare is 

a fantastic example of the versatility and 

quality of the British Riding Pony. 

Another pony who is proving to be 

multi-talented is Stanley Grange 

Scandalous Silk (Anton Scandal x Tartan 

Silk). Owners Charlotte and Sophie Hall 

purchased ‘Bunty’ as a weanling from 

breeder Jerome Harforth. Hoping she 

would make a small hack, Bunty had a 

successful in hand career but after 

backing it was clear she would stay 

under 14.2hh and so a new career 

beckoned. 

Her jumping talent was evident so 

Charlotte and Sophie enlisted the help 

of local event rider Jess Butler. As she 

is only a five-year-old, to date they 

have focussed more on training than 

competing. The pair have already taken 

the 70cm Reserve Champion title at the 

NPS/Anthony Evans Arena Eventing 

championships and won their first BD 

competition at Vale View. They went on 

to be awarded a wildcard for the BD 

Young Pony Championships at Hartpury 

Premier League. 

Stanley Grange Scandalous Silk and Jess Butler 

earning their NPS Arena Eventing qualification. 

The British Riding Pony breed show is 

held as part of the NPS Summer 

Championships at Malvern in August. 

Winning the Vincent Taylor Trophy and 

crowned breed champion was the very 

successful stallion Moor Hall Peter Pan 

(Stanley Grange Cocksure x Moor Hall 

Tinkerbelle). Owned and bred by 

Mandy Godden and Mrs Newnham, 

Peter Pan was champion BRP stallion 

and national champion part bred in 

addition to winning the Vincent Taylor. 

Showcasing the breed to its biggest 

audience is Horse of the Year Show, 

where BRPs took both Supreme Horse 

and Pony titles thanks to Champion 

Hack Forgeland Hydepark (Kilvington 

Scoundrel x Fernhill Park) and Champion 

Part bred Swan Lake (Llanarth Topcat x 

Dance All Night, bred by Jerome 

Harforth and David Dixon). BRP also 

took the Children’s Riding Pony of the 

Year, Mini Show Pony of the Year and 

Coloured Horse/Pony of the Year titles! 

Finally it was wonderful to see a BRP 

also competing in the pony show 

jumping with Wadacre Winnie the Pooh 

(Wadacre William x Gwauniarll Moira, 

bred by Jeanette Matthews-Griffiths). 

Ridden by Lacie Williams , the pair 

qualified for the 128cm Championship. 

Wadacre Winnie the Pooh at HOYS. Image 

courtesy 1st Class Images 

Charlotte says Bunty is a typical BRP - 

athletic, smart, fearless and quick in 

addition to being beautiful to look at! 

Alan Charlesworth, Moor Hall Peter Pan and Mr Thornley-Taylor presenting the Vincent Taylor Trophy. 

Image courtesy 1st Class Images 

Tel: 01420 88333 

Email: admin@nationalponysociety.com 

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Studbook News - Trakehners UK 

On the international stage the great 

Trakehner mare Dalera TSF continues 

her incredible career having taking the 

World Cup title in April, winning the Kur 

at Aachen following on from their 

German National title in June. She 

followed up these successes with the 

European title in September to confirm 

her status as the best dressage horse in 

the world. Sadly her sire Easy Game 

passed away in the Summer, leaving 

a huge legacy behind him as not only 

the sire of Dalera , but also the Olympic 

competitor Hermes and the super sire 

Millennium. 

The new Austrian eventing champion 

and 3 star winner was licensed stallion 

Lebenstraum (Abendtanz x Heops) and 

Lea Siegl. At Burghley American rider 

Boyd Martin and his fantastic 

campaigner Tsetserleg TSF (Windfall x 

Buddenbrock) competed a top ten finish, 

with a few expensive show jumping 

poles dropping them down from 5th 

after a brilliant cross country round. 

In the UK we also lost an important 

stallion with the ex Grand Prix and 

international Para stallion Woodcroft 

Garuda K having been lost at the age of 

22. The Munchhausen son was known 

for his great temperament and we 

believe there is still frozen semen 

available. 

Domestically Oxfordshire based 

Godington Stud’s homebred stallion 

Godington Utah (Contis x Roland) 

completed his BD Regional qualification 

at Elementary with a win at Cherwell, 

having recently teamed up with rider 

Steph Graves. 

Godington Okavango (EH G.Hannibal/ 

EH King Arthur) achieved a top ten 

placing in the very competitive Horse 

Events Young Horse Championship at 

Dauntsey Park last month and more 

recently winning the Aston Le Walls 

Eventers Challenge. Premium Mares 

Godington Balenciaga (Herzensdieb/ 

EH G.Hannibal) and Godington Burundi 

(EH Helium/ EH.G Hannibal) have 

started their BD careers with wins and 

placings at their first affiliated 

competition at Addington Manor. 

Ex eventer Godington Trasimeno (EH 

G.Hanibal x Maestro) has also made the 

switch to dressage and is now winning at 

Medium with Lucy Jackson. Godington 

Tancredi (Contis x Maestro) have had a 

number of wins at BD Prelim and Novice 

this Summer and Autumn. 

The late E.H Easy Game. 

Image courtesy Trakehner Verband 

Graded stallion Godington Utah and Steph Graves. 

Image courtesy Steph Graves 

Part bred Honeybrook Extra Special proves dual 

talented. Image - SophE Photography 

Georgie Guest had a good BD Winter 

Nationals on Donaustern (Abendtanz x 

Hohenstein) having qualified for both the 

Advanced Medium and AM Freestyle. 

Rob Barker and Herbstrot (All Inclusive x 

Insterberg) also took a top ten placing in 

the Advanced Medium Gold at the 

Winter Nationals and recently were 

back out winning at PSG. 

Donaustern has since moved up to PSG 

and Herbstrot was Regional Champion 

at the level in August qualifying her for 

the Nationals. 

The Trakehner has always been a 

massive influence on other studbooks 

and their part bred offspring have been 

doing very well in sport and proving a 

popular choice for breeders. Of course 

Badmington winner and European 

Champion eventer Lordships Graffalo is 

a son of Trakehner stallion Grafenstolz 

TSF who we expect to be the leading sire 

of eventers in the world when the final 

results are published. 

Pammy Hutton’s mare Honeybrooke 

Extra Special (bred by Lyn Phillips) is a 

daughter of the Elite Foal Show purchase 

Eilun Feer by Karolinger and is 

combining success at 4 star eventing and 

PSG dressage. The eye catching mare is 

attracting a big fan club and we hope 

her Trakehner heritage can be 

appreciated. 

Samantha Skinner reports she is 

gaining great experience on Bluewood 

Tornado, a part bred by Trocadero, 

recently attending the Petplan Nationals 

at Advanced Medium after a runner 

up place at Regionals. The pair are 

also winning at PSG. Claire Acherman 

de Preez has registered her part bred 

Woodcroft Heinrich, a grandson of 

the great Hohenstein. At the recent BD 

Middle Tour Championships they were 

reserve champion after taking 2nd in 

the Intermediate AB Silver Freestyle and 

in the Inter II. They also had excellent 

placings at Inter I. 

We hope to see more purebred foals 

born in 2024 and Nicola Joost 

reports her Keatinge Firefly is expecting 

a purebred foal next year. Godington 

Stud are expecting two Contis offspring 

from Pamina and EM Offerte. Katariina 

Luomanen had a purebred filly this year 

by Craig out of the Russian influenced 

mare Ibiza. 

If any mare owners would like mares to 

be presented for grading in the Spring, 

we are looking at a grading tour so 

please get in touch so we know where 

your mares are located. 

www.trakehners.uk.com 

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Futurity - Hartpury 30th July 

breed 2-3 foals a year. To have bred 

a national dressage champion and a 

graded stallion is a dream come true. 

We have big plans for Stolen Escador 

next year.” 

Our first Futurity event of the season on 

30th July 2023 marked a return to 

Hartpury College. The event was 

organised with the lovely support by 

GB PRE who held their annual show at 

the same time, offering participating 

breeders the opportunity to attend and 

enjoy both events. At the British Breeding 

Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity, we are 

always delighted to work with all the UK 

studbooks and to support and celebrate 

the great diversity of sport horse and 

sport pony breeding. 

The Top scorer of the day with a fabulous 

elite score of 9.05 was the dressage 

stallion Day Dream Believer by Dream 

Boy out of a Silbermond mare. He was 

produced and expertly showcased by 

Carsten Sandrock. 

Says breeder Nikki Heath: 

“We breed Flat, National Hunt and 

Dressage, loving the differences of each 

discipline. Having competed to PSG 

years ago, I returned to dressage buying 

17hh Hamberina after several glasses 

of wine off the internet. Her first filly by 

Morricone is with Rachel Crook. Her 4yo 

So Unique colt licenced with the BWS 

and was 3rd in the Regional 

Prelims with Lily Payne after a few 

outings. Hamberina throws carbon 

copies of the stallion but in red, stamping 

them with her personality and 

forward-thinking way of going. Dream 

Boy was used for long legged power 

and performance producing Freddie, 

now with Carsten Sandrock. She is now 

in foal to Dynamic Dream who looks to 

be an elegant horse with a quick hind 

leg, fingers crossed.” 

The top foal was the showjumping colt 

PGS Gino who also achieved an Elite 

score of 9.03. He is by Colmar out of a 

Cento mare. 

His breeder William Wherton tells us 

more: 

“We have a small breeding operation 

which started a few years ago, where 

we produce and buy 2 or 3 foals a year. 

“Victoria has had 3 foals with us, PGS 

Gino being the latest. Gino is full of 

character and presence, he’s great 

to have around! We chose Colmar 

because we wanted to complement the 

mare with size and scope as well as 

supporting British breeding. The mare 

herself jumped 1.40m. In the past we 

have used Talan and Taloubet Z on 

Victoria, both of these have great 

conformation and presence. The future 

plans are to expand and breed from the 

best mares we can and use stallions that 

have performed at the highest level.” 

The final Elite at Hartpury went to the 

dressage pony foal Gorgeous George 

by Woodlander Santana out of a 

Fourseasons Muffins Las mare. 

Breeder Helen Lomas explains: 

“At Fourseasons Stud, we are a close 

knit team, passionate about producing 

sports ponies and pure bred natives that 

not only go on to excel in a range of 

disciplines, but are also part of the 

family. We pride ourselves on 

continually producing foals and young 

stock that are well handled and 

educated. We feel this gives them the 

best opportunity to excel throughout their 

lives. 

Fourseasons Persephone’s (aka Piglet) 

last foal, Fourseasons Revelation was 

also awarded Elite back in 2021, so we 

were so excited for Gorgeous George to 

be awarded Elite too! 

George is a delight to have around. He 

is a confident and brave colt, coupled 

with his good looks and outstanding 

paces, he is a special boy indeed.” 

With a 8.55 Gold Premium, the highest 

Scoring 4yo of the Day was the 

dressage stallion Stolen Escador by 

Escamillo out of a Riccio mare. 

His breeder Michelle Dawson has high 

hopes for the future: 

“The Futurity at Hartpury was a big day 

out for my 4yo stallion Stolen Escador 

(Escamillo x Riccio x Parademarsch). 

He's being trained by Sonnar 

Murray-Brown, just like his half sister 

Stolen Secret. She has won the Equine 

Bridge, they are current Elementary 

Gold BD national champions and won 

the Tyrell Trophy as highest scoring 

British bred mare at the British Dressage 

national championships. Stolen Escador 

has big footsteps to follow. Hartpury was 

his first show under saddle and we were 

worried how he would react. He was 

amazing! He got really good marks from 

the judges including 9s for conformation 

and trot, getting a Gold award from the 

Futurity and also passed his AES stallion 

grading. Stolen Silver Sports Horses only 

Achieving a 8.375 Gold Premium, the 

highest scoring yearling of the day was 

the dressage filly Romiera EJB (by Lago 

Icon out of Lago Ventajola by Barquero 

J F). 

She is bred and owned by Emily Burns: 

“This was my first time putting forward a 

horse for futurity and what a great 

experience. Thank you for the 

welcoming, calm and laid-back 

atmosphere. 

“Romiera EJB is by my own stallion Lago 

Icon who I have owned since he was 18 

months old. He is currently competing at 

Inter 1 and training towards Grand Prix. 

She is out of my own mare Lago 

Ventajola, who herself has proved to 

be a great ridden horse with a brilliant 

jump. Both Dam and Sire (and a few 

others in my breeding programme) are 

bred by the UKs leading Spanish horse 

breeders, Yeguada Lago. 

“My main focus with breeding a small 

number of Spanish horses is not only to 

provide the wow factor movement, but 

are also beautiful, true to the breed type, 

with long term soundness, exceptional 

temperament and excellent trainability. 

My ethos is to breed horses that will 

succeed in all disciplines, and to be their 

owner's best friend. 

“From day one Romiera has had the 

biggest voice, screaming her head off 

at every opportunity, she is intelligent, 

quick witted, and kind... although I did 

receive an impressive bruise from her 

during the weaning process!! 

My future plans with Romiera are to 

continue with a few in hand shows like 

GBPRE, until she is ready to begin her 

dressage career with me, hopefully 

following in her sire's hoof prints!” 

It was a great day for ponies at 

Hartpury, too, with a great 8.3 Gold 

Premium making Farleaze Lord TeeVee, 

by Farleaze Lord Prenwyn out of a 

Captain Gerrard mare, the highest 

scoring sports pony yearling of the 

event. 

For Claire Moreton, breeding is very 

much a family affair: 

"We (my mother and I) started with the 

stallion selection. Farleaze Lord Prenwyn 

(Woody) is my own full Welsh section 

D stallion, that we bred. I compete him 

myself and so know what a wonderful 



temperament he has, and the talent to 

match. He's relatively lightly 

campaigned due to my commitments, but 

I've now found his new junior jockey to 

hopefully progress to FEI pony trials. His 

sire is the top pony showjumping stallion 

Machno Carwyn, the only pony stallion 

to have won multiple gold medals at the 

FEI championships. His dam, Follywood 

Miss Teak, I competed myself very 

successfully BD (highest placed British 

bred mare at the prelim summer 

championships 2008, and won her 

elementary Petplan regional) and top 12 

placing in the BE grassroots 

championships. 

“We have been breeding for 15years 

now, having focused on horse bloodlines 

in the past, foaling one or two a year, 

with several competing very 

successfully (Loxley's Last Stand- 4*; 

Lichotas Optimism 3*; Farleaze Ladys 

Waltz 2*; Farleaze the Beez Kneez 3* 

and placed at the 7yo 

championships). With Farleaze Lord 

Prenwyn very much being a pony, we 

thought we'd start breeding sports ponies 

and Welsh part breds, as my FEI event 

pony was a Welsh x TB, and the cross 

produces robust, versatile offspring. 

“We found Lord TeeVee's dam through 

a friend. She'd raced as a two year old, 

but due to her diminutive size, wasn't fast 

enough. She's exceptionally well bred, 

with her grandsires being Acclamation 

and Oasis Dream, two stalwarts in the 

sprint lines, and a lovely strong little 

mare, with a very easy manner, so we 

thought she'd compliment Woody well. 

Lord TeeVee is the second foal of this 

cross, with his full 3yo brother now under 

saddle and showing a great attitude and 

a willingness to work. We've got several 

other youngsters by Woody at home 

we're hoping to get to other Futurity 

venues and Woody is entered in the 

Burghley stallion parade, all to 

showcase his talents and promote what 

super offspring he produces." 

Another superb pony gaining a 8.125 

Gold Premium and thus becoming the 

highest scoring 3yo of the day was 

Ghabar Queen of Bling by Hulst Mando 

out of a Pantrygronw Deio mare. 

She was bred by Damien Harris and is 

owned by Bennie Seymour: 

"We purchased Queen of Bling 

(Queenie) as a 6 month old foal from 

Damien Harris at Ghabar Stud. 

Queenie was purchased as a potential 

broodmare for our own stallion 

Delaroche Black Gold who we 

purchased from breeder Lucy Sheldrake 

as a 2 year old in 2018. He won overall 

PGS Gino 

Champion pony at the British Breeders 

Championship show at Morton Morrell 

in that year. She has been kept with 

Julie John & her family on their farm in 

Defynnog where she lives out in a herd 

up on the hills. Julie has presented her 

on all of her outings & we are so grateful 

for the love & care given to her. We live 

in Kent but go to visit 2-3 times a year 

but Julie sends us regular photos & video 

updates which is brilliant. 

Queenie was presented for virtual 

futurity evaluation as a foal & was 

awarded a Gold premium. We 

presented her at the SPSS mare 

grading in 2022 as a 2 year old where 

she achieved a Gold award & was 

entered into the SPSS Head Studbook. 

She was also Reserve Champion for 

Wales & the North which was a great 

achievement. 

Queenie has a fabulous temperament & 

has real character. Her paces are 

expressive & uphill & she is a very 

exciting prospect both for breeding & 

her future ridden career. Our plan is 

for her to be covered in 2024 by our 

stallion & we are very excited to see the 

outcome of this pairing." 

The highest scoring eventing foal was 

Sir Firefly by the Futurity graduate 

Sir Mayfly out of a Chilli Morning mare, 

achieving a score of 8.1 

Says breeder Dawn Cameron: 

"Sir Firefly is a super, smart and elegant 

colt foal with excellent dressage, show 

jumping and eventing lines. He creates 

a wonderful balanced picture, strong 

stamp, self-carriage and lovely overall 

impression with scope in his 

movement. Like his sire, he has a 

wonderful calm and confident 

disposition and an extremely trainable 

attitude. He would make an amazing sire 

himself. We are excited to see where his 

competition future takes him. 

We are a small mother/daughter 

operation, breeding for great 

conformation, temperament, blood lines 

and overall ride-ability so every horse 

has a job and every rider has horse that 

wants to do its job. We have bred some 

superb youngsters who could be used 

for Eventing/Showing, BD or BS. Our 

homebred Stallion Sir Mayfly is proving 

to be breeding all round riding horses. 

He has super confirmation and puts his 

strong stamp on his offspring like his own 

sire Sir Shutterfly, who has bred many 

successful SJ & Eventing offspring." 

With a Gold Premium of 8, the top 

scoring 5yo at Hartpury was 

Razzmatazz PPD who is bred and 

owned by Karen Bourdon. 

For all Hartpury results, go to 

www.british-breeding.com 

Daydream Believer 

Gorgeous George 

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Futurity Report - Breen Equestrian 

All photos - Tanja Davis Photography. www.tanjadavis.com 

Futurity - Breen Equestrian 

31st July 

For the first time, the British Breeding 

Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity visited 

Breen Equestrian at their lovely facility 

at Hickstead. We would like to thank the 

team there for making us feel very 

welcome and for showcasing such 

a high quality of foals all of whom 

achieved very convincing results. 

The highest score of 9.02 and only Elite 

of the day went to a highly promising 

unnamed colt bred by Breen Equestrian. 

Says Greg Le Gear: 

“He is by AES Elite Graded prolific 

Grand Prix stallion Golden Hawk. His 

Dam is called BE Completely. She is by 

Cornet Obolensky out of Fragile D’Or 

who jumped herself to 1.50m level. BE 

completely is super careful and very 

scopey over her fences.nWe have high 

hopes for this colt and were delighted 

with the feedback from the whole panel 

on the day. 

“As a stud we stand 14 stallions, 8 of 

which are 1.60m jumpers. Our main 

stud is at Hickstead. There we have 

35 broodmares, the majority of which 

have jumped 1.40m level and above 

including international winners at 1.60m 

level . We have approximately 140 

youngsters, comprising of foals 1, 2 and 

3-year-olds. We also have a small stud 

in Ireland and in the Ukraine. 

“Our Hickstead facility is located 1/2 

mile from the Showground and has 

housing for approximately 100 horses, 

a sand arena, paddocks, AI room and 

stallion station for sending out chilled 

semen. The stud will continue to grow 

and develop.” 

The highest scoring eventing foal 

presented at Breen Equestrian was 

Sandhole Royal Flush who was bred and 

presented by Kate Ludden. This lovely 

colt achieved an overall mark of 8.8. 

Insert image Sandhole Royal Flush 

Kate tells the story behind this foal: 

“This is my second year of breeding and 

my first year of bringing my foals to the 

Futurity grading. My mother had bred for 

many years and I competed on many of 

her homebred horses in British Eventing 

events." 

Sadly in 2020 my mother was 

diagnosed with a brain tumour. We 

knew we had limited time with mum. 

During 2021 I bought a very well bred 4 

year old mare, Rachan Westdeka. She 

had super breeding and after playing 

with her for a few months under saddle I 

decided to turn her away as she needed 

to mature. Mum then said to me, half 

joking, that I should put her in foal, 

giving her time to mature and develop 

while having a foal. 

We used a super young Selle Francais 

jumping stallion and the result was an 

absolutely stunning filly. This filly was 

born 2 days before we lost mum, so 

mum never got to see her but I know she 

would have loved her and would have 

been so pleased. 

This gave me the bug of breeding, and 

I decided to put my lovely mare back in 

foal along with my other super mare that 

I had. This time I put Rachan Westdeka 

to a stallion that mum had desperately 

wanted to use, Britannia Royal. I spoke 

to Annabel Blake, the stallion’s owner, 

who very kindly donated half the stud 

fee to St Michaels hospice who had 

looked after mum in her last few weeks. 

The outcome was “Paco”, Sandhole 

Royal Flush. 

I am so delighted with this foal, and to 

bring him to the evaluation where the 

vets and judges also really liked him was 

wonderful. It was also really special as 

Annabel Blake and her husband came 

along that day to meet us all and Paco. 

My other foal also got a gold score, so 

the whole day was really special. It has 

however made me even more keen to 

keep breeding!” 

Sandhole Royal Flush Littledale What A Star 

The top scoring 4yo entry at this venue 

was the pony Littledale What A Star 

presented by Philly Ledger-Beadell. This 

young gelding is by Littledale Bright Star 

out of of a mare by Broadstone Dickens. 

He achieved a lovely high gold score of 

8.62. 

The highest scoring 3-year-old entry of 

the day was the beautiful dressage pony 

MM Sweet Sensation who achieved an 

impressive score of 8.5. 

Says her proud breeder and owner Kelly 

Mewes 

“Her dam is MM Sweet De Luxe who 

is now in Canada and whose sire is 

Champion De Luxe, a prolific stallion of 

champion dressage ponies. Her sire is 

Woodlander Sir Gorgeous and the stud 

bred 3 ponies from him as he produces 

not only a wonderful sports pony, but a 

trainable temperament too and is also 

now sold to the US. 

“We call her Eva at home, or Little Eva 

as she may be small but good things 

come in small packages! We lightly 

backed her this summer and she was 

incredible, being able to walk, trot and 

canter happily with a rider on in 6 

sessions and that was taking it slowly as 

she accepted everything so well! Then 

we hope to contend BD young pony 

classes next year. 

“She is quite the boss lady at home 

and loves attention as she knows she is 

special, but soo loving, she loves nothing 

more than a cuddle and some polos!” 

The top Eventing 4yo entry was Sarah 

Gadd’s Wolkens Law who scored a very 

good 8.4. 


Futurity Report - Breen Equestrian 

Sarah is very pleased with his progress 

so far: 

“I was chuffed to bits for my boy to 

receive such a good gold result. 

“Roscoe” is my second homebred horse 

and he is home produced as well. He 

was the first horse I jumped last year, 

when he was a 3-year-old old, after 

I gave birth to my little girl in January 

2022. He absolutely loves his work and 

despite being a tad cheeky at times on 

the ground (he is a right character at 

home and a favourite on the yard!) he 

really focuses on the job in hand and 

always wants and tries to do his best. 

I'm very aware that he is still such a 

young horse, so I'm not doing a huge 

amount with him, just focusing on doing 

the right things with him and letting him 

see a bit more of the world. The Futurity 

at Breen was such a fantastic event for 

him and it was something that I have 

been working towards since backing him 

last year. 

Wolkens Law 

“Wolkens Law’s mum, Diamond Mill, 

was our first homebred and she was 

out of an ISH mare that I had done 

everything with during my teen years 

and Pony Club. Roscoe's dad is 

Wolkenderry. I saw a foal by 

Wolkenderry that Mrs Fox-Pitt had bread 

and it was stunning. I looked into him 

more and felt that he would be a good 

match for my mare and after Milli 

(Diamond Mill) sustained an injury 

resulting in field rehab, I thought I would 

try and have a foal from her and a year 

later along came Roscoe. 

“I have always wanted a chestnut horse 

with white legs and I have to say I wasn't 

expecting a chestnut to come out of Milli 

(brown) and Wolkenderry (black) but it 

was a very nice surprise. 

“With regards to his future, I'm an 

eventer at heart, but I am keeping it 

completely open at the moment as to 

which way we go. Certainly, this year 

and probably next year as a 

5-year-old, I plan to do a bit of 

everything with him and see how he 

responds. We have started XC 

schooling.I feel he could be a very 

promising event horse with his love for 

both flatwork and jumping. 

“Roscoe means a huge amount to me 

and although I've been very lucky in 

having some fantastic horses during my 

life so far, I really feel he is my horse of a 

lifetime and I'm so excited to see where 

we could end up!” 

Katy Libreri is thrilled with her own 

dressage bred Fürst Fairytale whose 

score of 8.1 gained him the accolade of 

being highest scoring yearling entry of 

the day: 

‘’If someone told 10-year-old me that 

one day I would have a horse like Fürst 

Fairytale aka Sakura in my life, I would 

not have believed them! 

“I have always loved horses and waited 

until I was 25 to be able to buy my very 

special eventer (now retired). I was then 

given the opportunity to buy Fürst 

Temptation aka Theia from a very good 

friend; I would never have been able to 

afford her otherwise! Theia oozes 

quality and has turned her hoof to 

anything. Her movement is matched 

by her temperament and so I knew she 

would throw something special and she 

didn’t disappoint! 

“As my first homebred I prepared for 

every eventuality for the labour 

process, to wake up to see 8 legs on my 

foal camera without any warning signs; 

Theia and Sakura had done all the work 

without me. 

Sakura has a home for life with me and 

I hope to be able to compete her in 

dressage in the future (if my 4 year old 

daughter lets me ride “her” horse) - It’s 

lovely watching them together in the 

field. 

Sakura is a very friendly and social filly 

- she’s been kept completely natural and 

is treated like the other horses, so she has 

seen a lot of the world already. I’m 

hoping this will lead to a smooth backing 

process in a few years time! 

Fürst Fairytale’s sire is the amazing Fire 

Kracka, whose results speak for 

themselves. Both Fire Kracka and Fürst 

Temptation have a long list of incredible 

breeding lines. 

Sakura is the fairytale horse of 10 year 

old me, and that is how she got her 

name.’’ 

For all Breen results, go to 


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Futurity - Easton College 

15th August 

can find such as Totilas and Jazz from 

her mother. I’m excited for a successful 

dressage career in the future. 

The highest scoring eventing foal was 

Milestone Star by Future Gravitas out of 

a daughter of MySpires Revolution. He 

gained a Gold Premium of 8.55. 

Easton College was a new venue for 

the British Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds 

Futurity this year, and it was great to see 

very high quality entries and brilliant 

results. 

The two joint highest scoring entries 

gaining the accolade of Futurity Elite 

with equal scores of 9 were both bred 

for dressage. 

Verbena CS is a yearling filly by 

Vivaldos out of a Woodlander Wild 

Child mare. 

Sandhole Royal Flush 

Her breeder Julia Wilkinson tells us 

more: “I bought Verbena’s mother as a 

foal. I loved her feminine type, beautiful 

conformation and 3 excellent paces. 

She is a grand daughter (through her sire 

Woodlander Wild Child) of the great 

Woodlander Farouche who is the horse 

that inspired my interest in breeding. 

I picked Vivaldos to match with 

Verbena’s dam as he too had beautiful 

conformation, I also saw him live in 

Germany, he has a sweet nature and, 

for me, is the ideal sport horse. I’m really 

delighted with Verbena CS’ Elite score. 

She has always been a star from day 

one and I hope to see her on the 

International stage one day. 

“Here at Chadwells Stud we pride 

ourselves on breeding carefully 

for longevity, rideability and talent. 

We hope to see our horses enjoyed for 

many years by both amateur and 

professional riders alike.” 

I Caesar is a dressage pony foal by 

Totillah out of a Caesar mare. 

His breeder is Elly Darling: 

“We are still on cloud nine! I thought 

he was special from the minute he was 

born, but had convinced myself I was 

being a rather biased mum and 

maybe he was actually just a very nice 

but average foal... so to hear the words 

and marks from the judges at Easton, it 

was a mixture of shock and relief that 

actually I had been right all along! 

We named him after his grandsire 

Caesar as he passed away recently and 

I hoped that our colt, Bart, would be 

exceptional enough to pull off the name. 

It's fantastic to be told I was right. 

We plan on running him on as a future 

stallion, we hope he will make around 

15.2 and will fill a real niche in the dressage 

stallion market.” 

Totillah also sired the highest scoring 

dressage foal of the day in Toto’s 

Designer Lady out of a Tango mare who 

gained an impressive Gold Premium of 

8.8 

Caesar I 

Her breeder Kim Cosgrave had quite the 

surprise at the arrival of a lovely filly: 

“Toto’s Designer Lady otherwise known 

as Coco, was an absolute dream come 

true this year and a suprise filly after 

being sex scanned a colt, 3 years of 

breeding with my amazing mare she had 

a colt every time. She has the sweetest 

temperament with the right amount of 

presence and ‘look at me’ factor, bred 

with some of the best dressage lines you 

Toto Designer Lady 

We caught up with his breeder Lynsey 

Tyte: “We are delighted that our first 

homebred Milestone Star, known as 

Milo at home, achieved the top eventing 

foal score at the Easton College 

Futurities. His dam MySpires Another 

Star, had a successful in-hand career, 

and became a top scoring eventing filly 

herself as a 3yr old in the Futurities and 

then went on to become Reserve 

4-year-old BEYH Champion in 2017. 

She is a much loved family member with 

a very kind nature. 

“His sire Future Gravitas (who is by 

Grafenstolz and therefore related to the 

Badminton and European 2023 winner 

Lordships Gruffalo) has also had a 

successful eventing and more 

recently dressage career and passed on 

his excellent conformation and 

temperament to Milo. This was very 

important to us as we wanted to breed 

a horse for my daughter that had the 

capabilities to succeed at higher level 

eventing but also had the temperament 

and trainability to become a highly 

versatile sports horse suitable for both 

the amateur and professional rider. 

As first timers to the Futurities we found 

the experience very useful to receive 

feedback from the vet assessment and 

the evaluators and look forward to a 

long partnership with Milo.” 

A Gold Premium of 8.38 ensured top 

showjumping foal position of the day for 

Darwin’s Warrior, a son of Darwin Z out 

of a Noble Warrior mare. 

Says breeder Zoe Smith: "Darwin’s 

Warrior is a wonderful stamp of both 

sides of his parents. His mother is by 

Nobel Warrior and his father is Darwin 

Z by the ever famous Dominator 2000 

Z. Dominator is known for his long legs 

and huge scope, and his mother BE 

Boudicea has the most lovely nature and 



Darwin’s Warrior 

“TDR Mystical Love was a pleasure to 

take out. He came to the Futurity as a 

foal with his mum and this is first one on 

his own. Both times he gained a Gold 

Premium. He has a super temperament 

and I am hoping to keep him as one of 

my pony stallions, as he is so easy and 

good with children. Scoring a 9.5 from 

the vet was absolutely amazing.One to 

keep an eye on for the future. “All the 

mares I brought to Easton College are 

for sale.” 

world and we thought he would 

compliment our mare nicely. Mouse is 

super special to me and I’m hoping she 

will follow in her dam’s footsteps.” 

also had an impressive jump competing 

at 1.30m as a 6yo before she sadly got 

injured. 

“Darwin has an incredible outlook on 

life, very athletic and brave. We hope to 

produce him through as a showjumper 

and follow in his parents footsteps.” 

Successful dressage pony breeder 

Tammy Ruffles had an exceptional day 

at Easton College, fielding a number of 

youngsters gaining top positions in their 

respective categories. 

The highest scoring 2yr of the day was 

the pony filly TDR Conqueror of Dreams 

by Popsters Tommy Cockles out of a 

Wild Child mare, gaining a score of 8.3. 

The highest scoring dressage 2yo was 

TDR Forget Me Not by Ferdeaux out of a 

Sir Calypso mare gaining a score of 8.2. 

The highest scoring pony yearling was 

TDR Mystical Love by Dypool Miami 

Reef. He gained a score of 8.05. 

Tammy explains: “TDR Conqueror of 

Dreams is a beautiful pony, and I am 

delighted that she gained a 9.5 from the 

vet. She was best pony yearling at Catherston 

Stud last year with another gold 

premium. So I was over the moon that 

we were able to repeat the result. She 

has beautiful movement and loves 

children. I really hope I can find her a 

family that will love this very special 

pony who is going to be a real head 

turner. I can’t wait to watch her go down 

the centre line and am looking forward 

to backing her next year.” 

“TDR Forget Me Not is a beautiful big 

bay two-year-old mare who was so well 

behaved and enjoyed the experience. 

She has a wonderful temperament, a 

calm head, so nothing really worries her. 

This was her first time off the yard and 

she made me proud with her amazing 

behaviour, she took everything in her 

stride. She will also be backed next 

year.” 

Ottowa C 

The highest scoring 4yo at Easton was 

Ottowa C by Franklin out of a Houston 

mare, gaining a Gold Premium of 8.25. 

His breeder Karen Chaplin tells us more: 

“Ottowa C is a British homebred KWPN 

4-year-old bright bay gelding by 

Franklin out of Taijdora by Houston. 

Taijdora KWPN is a STB star, IBOP, 

Sport (dr) Mare who competed 

successfully at Advanced Medium. 

Ottowa was lightly backed last year and 

turned away, then rebacked in the late 

spring of this year with Ruth Hole and 

has now started BD Prelim dressage.” 

Converdi 

The highest scoring showjumping 

2-year-old was Converdi by Verdi TN 

out of a Contido mare. 

His breeder Laura Harrison is delighted: 

“Thank you for this opportunity, I am 

super proud that she was highest for her 

group as she is my first homebred. 

Converdi’s dam was brought from the 

field from Tracey Forrest as a 

four-year-old supposedly as a project to 

sell on, but turned out to be my horse of 

a lifetime. Produced myself right to 

jumping and winning around 1.30’s, she 

is as brave as a lion and has a heart of 

gold. We chose Verdi TN as he is one 

of the best showjumping stallions in the 

The joint highest dressage entry among 

the 2-year-olds was Razr Banks by 

Jameson R2 out of a Polansky mare bred 

by Madeleine Weightman. His owner 

Anna Kerridge is enjoying the journey 

she is on with this lovely young horse: 

"He was bred by Madeleine 

Weightman out of her ELITE, 

PROK-graded KWPN mare, Ucka 

(POLANSKY) by Jameson RS2. Ucka's 

dam is the full sister to the dam of the 

'world's number one dressage sire' 

Broere Jazz. She chose Jameson RS2 to 

compliment Ucka's powerful back-end 

but slightly longer back and felt his 

physique would work well. She was 

very pleased with the result! I purchased 

Banksy at the Futurity Elite Auction in 

2021 and he came to live on the Suffolk 

marshes in November of that year. He 

lives out in a herd of 14 others, with a 

retired eventer as nanny, some 3 year 

olds and 2 year olds with whom he has 

grown up. 

He has competed in British Sports Horse 

classes at the Suffolk Show, winning in 

2022 and second in 2023. He loves to 

go out and show off but is very grown up 

and travels on his own, stands happily 

in the trailer with his haynet and turns on 

the charm, when needed! 

He is such a gentleman to deal with and 

has a very mature head on his shoulders. 

I can bring him in for feet/vet/attention 

and he never calls for his field-mates but 

happily wanders into the stallion yard, 

like he's always lived there! In fact, a 

recent bout of mud fever saw him living 

in for nearly 4 weeks and I don't think he 

has forgiven me for putting him back out 

in the cold!! He is extremely trusting and 

likes to please! Although he is already 

16hh, he is short-coupled (which is what 

his breeder wanted). 

The highest scoring 3yo entry was 

Primavera Stream by Oasis Mac out of 

a Voice mare, bred by Mrs N Leer and 

presented by Rebecca Vick. 


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Futurity - SNEC 17th August 

For the second year running, the British 

Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds Scottish 

Futurity venue was the Scottish National 

Equestrian Centre which is proving to 

be a popular location for our breeders. 

We hope this Futurity event will continue 

to grow to allow us to keep offering the 

opportunity of a physical evaluation to 

our breeders in Scotland. 

The highest score of the day across all 

ages and disciplines was achieved by 

Berlinneke Z who is by Ecclestone Z out 

of an Azzurro mare. This lovely colt foal 

bred for showjumping achieved a great 

Premium Gold score of 8.88. 

Berlinneke Z 

Breeder Michelle Warnock explains: 

“Berlinneke’s mother Harlinneke (Azzuro 

x Metall) is a mare that I competed 

successfully in British Showjumping up to 

1.30m. Her mother Tarlinneke was bred 

by Jan Lutke Willink at the Linneke stud in 

Holland. 

Berlinneke’s sire Ecclestone Z (Escape 

Z/Cassini II) is a grandson of the 

Legendary Emerald. 

Ecclestone Z was National Showjumping 

champion with Danielle Ryder in 2022. 

We hope to compete Berlinneke in 

young horse Showjumping classes as a 

4-5-year-old.” 

Florie 

The highest scoring dressage foal with 

a Gold Premium of 8.55 was Florie by 

Johnnie Walker VDL out of an Amoureux 

mare. Her breeder Ferne Fairfull is 

delighted with the result: 

“Florie is out of my wonderful mare Ziva 

(Amoureva Z) whom I have owned from 

2 years old. She is by Amoureux out 

of an Argus mare, old school dressage 

breeding. Together we competed in BD 

with lots of fun days out at BS and BE. 

Ziva is my horse of a lifetime and it has 

always been a dream to breed from her, 

she has a fantastic attitude to life. 

“I originally aimed to put Ziva in foal to 

the young and upcoming dressage stallion 

Iron based with Helgstrand dressage 

however on the first attempt the courier 

was 3 days late, on the 2nd attempt 

the courier was late again and by the 

3rd attempt they decided to close their 

breeding season early! 

Feeling deflated my non horsey partner 

suggested one of the stallions standing 

at Drumcarrow equestrian as that is 

where she was being AI'd. Whilst Ziva 

was there I would regularly go and see 

Johnnie Walker VDL. I loved his cheeky 

personality and look at me wow factor. 

Despite being a showjumper he has 

lovely paces and a lovely active hind 

end so I decided to give it a go and 4 

weeks later Ziva had a healthy heartbeat 

scan! Johnnie has since gone from 

strength to strength and is competing up 

to 1m60 with Michael Whitaker. 

“Ziva birthed Florie in the beautiful 

sunshine out in the field, and within 35 

minutes she was up standing and drinking, 

it’s like she has been here before, 

she has a beautiful nature and she is a 

keeper. I plan to potter about over the 

next few years with her and de-sensitise 

her to life just like I did with her mum who 

takes everything in her stride. Then I plan 

to take her through the levels at BD and 

see where we end up whilst having fun 

on the side doing some jumping to give 

her a variety.” 

Staying with the discipline of dressage, 

we move on to the highest scorer among 

the yearlings, Florian von Faustinus who 

is by Faustinus out of a Don Olymbrio 

mare. He achieved a Gold score of 8.2. 

Insert image Florian von Faustinus 

Owner Emma-Louise Johnston explains: 

“‘Gabriel’ was purchased as a weanling 

Florian von Faustinus 

and has since been running in the field 

with other horses. He has a fantastic laid 

back nature and loves people. He won 

the yearling sports horse class and then 

took sports horse champion at this year's 

Royal Highland Show as his only other 

outing of the season. The plan with him is 

to keep him entire to add to our other 2 

stallions and to produce him for 

dressage ourselves with a view of 

competing in the age classes.” 

The highest scoring 2yo entry of the day 

was for showjumping in Ultimo Locura 

by Lansdowne out of a Phanten mare 

who was awarded a Gold score of 8. 

Insert image Ultimo Locura 

Says breeder Janice Pilkington: 

“‘Josie’ is 3rd generation breeding from 

my original competition mare. She has 

a 6-year-old half-brother by Zapatero 

who is successfully out jumping with 

David Harland. He’s a very big horse, in 

every way your traditional big 

warmblood showjumper! 

“I was looking for a stallion to give a 

more modern athletic stamp and went 

for Lansdowne whose pedigree fitted the 

bill! Josie actually has a full older sister 

Lily who we were so pleased with we 

decided to use Lansdowne again. Josie’s 

dam Phantens Buck’s Fizz is by the 

relatively unknown stallion Phanten but 

his sire is the very well known Concorde. 

“I’m hoping Josie will progress through 

the age classes with David Harland and 

hopefully have a bright future ahead of 

her!” 

The highest scoring 3yo across all 

disciplines was the dressage bred 

Adelphi who is by Rembrandt DDH out 

of a Goodtimes mare, thus carrying 

horse and pony genes. 

Breeder Li-Anna Tan explains: 

“My family hoped to breed a compact, 

small, intelligent horse and we have 

been pleased with her development so 

far. Willingness and talent to compete 

at higher levels of dressage was 

important to us, alongside trainability 

and easiness Millard of KMD stud. 



The virtual Futurity evaluations offered us 

the opportunity to have Adelphi 

evaluated as a foal, yearling and 

2-year-old which I would otherwise 

have been unable to do due to either 

work or pregnancy. This was the first 

year we attended the physical 

evaluation. 

“Adelphi was very gently backed in 

the Spring by myself with the assistance 

of my trainer and she responded very 

well. She will have another break for the 

winter, then we pick her up more consistently 

in her fourth year. We plan to have 

regular training with Robyn Smith and 

keep her work varied with jumping and 

hacking. We are hoping to enjoy many 

years ahead together. 

Once again, thank you for hosting the 

Futurities in Scotland.” 

The highest scoring 2yo for Eventing was 

Kenharth Miamor bred by Garth Stud by 

Amador 4 out of a Master Imp mare. 

Owner Caitlin Wilson tells us more: 

Adelphi 

Kenharth Miamor 

“I purchased Kengarth Miamor when he 

was just a week old, and what a journey 

it has been so far! He is an Andalusian 

x ISH cross. His dam has an impressive 

competition record jumping at 1.60m 

and a fantastic pedigree including King 

of Diamonds lines. Her sire Master Imp 

has produced many very successful top 

event horses. His sire Amador 4 was 

imported from Spain. As well as 

competing in all disciplines, Amador has 

produced some very successful stallions. 

“I have very big and very exciting plans 

for our future together. Kengarth Miamor 

has always been a very exciting and 

promising young horse, showing a lot of 

potential from a very young age. 

Jumping his stable door at 3½ months 

old and jumping in and out the field he 

has shown that he is a very keen and 

bold jumping horse. 

“Another goal of mine is competing at 

HOYS, and I am very hopeful that in a 

few years’ time we may well get there, 

he is such a flashy look at me type who 

just loves to show off. 

He's a lovely youngster to have on the 

yard and is never a bother, he's such a 

relaxed young horse, who really does 

light up when he knows it matters the 

most. I really am excited for our future 

together, which seems like it is going to 

be very promising and exciting indeed.” 

The highest scoring eventing yearling 

at SNEC was Seize The Day by Fames 

Dakota out of an Otis mare. 

Seize The Day 

Breeders and owners Pamela Kerr and 

Janice Mcdonald explain: 

“We were looking for a smaller stallion 

for our mare as she seems to throw big 

foals. A friend suggested Fames Dakota, 

a stunning dual purpose stallion whom 

we liked immediately. 

We have no solid plans for him yet, he 

has been out to a couple of shows for 

experience and getting lovely comments. 

He is Homozygous Tobiano but above 

all he has the most wonderful nature. 

“Seize the Day he is passported with The 

Arab Horse Society’s Part Bred register 

as he carries 51.34% Arab blood, we 

are looking forward to a bright future 

ahead.” 

Craigmancie Heather 

The top scoring pony entry of the day 

was 2-year-old filly Craigmancie 

Heather by Lonsdale Legend out of a 

Spinway Comet mare, bred at 

Craighmancie Stud in Aberdeenshire. 

Says her owner, Marjorie Grant: 

“I bought Craigmancie Heather as a 

6-months-old weaned foal directly 

from her breeder. Lonsdale Legend is 

also the sire of my current competition 

pony, Legends Star, who is competing 

at advanced endurance (80k), Trec and 

elementary dressage. ‘Toots’’s dam, a 

Craigmancie bred mare was shown with 

great success. 

“When she came to me in November 

2021, as an early 'big' birthday 

present, she was barely halter broken 

and very much a blank canvas. We have 

progressed to getting her out to some 

in hand M+M county level showing this 

year, where she has been successful with 

some wins and championships, plus she 

was graded with the British Connemara 

Pony Society as a grade 1 mare. 

In the future, I hope she will develop into 

a good all-round riding pony, with 

endurance, Trec, dressage and RC 

events in the plan. Hopefully, Toots will 

be as successful as her older sister when 

she embarks on her ridden career!” 

All results for SNEC and all other 

futurities held can be seen on our 

website under 

https://british-breeding.com/ 

home/2023-futurity-events 

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Futurity - Northcote 

21st and 22nd August 

Our return to Northcote Stud was 

our first of this year’s two-day British 

Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity 

venues, giving breeders the opportunity 

to bring their older horses and ponies on 

day 1 and the foals on the second day. 

It’s a great venue and very conveniently 

located for many breeders and owners 

in the North. 

Our return to Northcote Stud was 

our first of this year’s two-day British 

Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity 

venues, giving breeders the opportunity 

to bring their older horses and ponies on 

day 1 and the foals on the second day. 

It’s a great venue and very conveniently 

located for many breeders and owners 

in the North. 

The top scoring entry across all ages and 

disciplines was the showjumping foal 

HSS Supremo by Ecclestone Z out of a 

Clinton II mare. Bred by Sharon 

Whiteway and presented by Adam 

Birch, this lovely colt gained an Elite with 

a score of 9.03. 

His breeder Sharon tells us more: 

HSS Supremo 

“‘King’, as HSS Supremo is known at 

home, is the 2nd foal from Diralda P 

whom my daughter competed all the 

way from 4-year-old to 140 speed 

classes. Her first foal was sold at the 

premium Bolesworth sport yearling 

auction. We looked at the mare and 

decided we needed longer legs and a 

calmer temperament. We chose 

Ecclestone Z as we felt he had the 

quality we needed and the height 

without being sharp as our mare is sharp 

enough. It is our intention to keep him 

entire and, unless we sell him before that, 

we will grade him as a stallion and 

compete him from age classes 

hopefully to Grand Prix level. He stands 

out amongst our foals this year as he has 

a great personality and has 

exceptional movement. Using Ecclestone 

has given us exactly what we hoped 

in him and another foal by him and I 

couldn’t recommend him enough. 

We are incredibly honoured that we had 

the highest place foal on the day!” 

Sharon had another highlight of the 

event with HSS Start Me Up, by 

Rotherwood Signature out of a Kannan 

mare, who became the highest scoring 

pony foal with a very good Gold 

Premium of 8.7. 

Says Sharon: 

“‘Jack’, as he is known at home, has 

been bred by me out of a top grade A 

show jumping mare by Kannan out of a 

Darco mare. He has been bred with my 

granddaughter Emilia, currently aged 

5, in mind if she ever decides she wants 

to jump. The reason for breeding what I 

hope ends up as a 148 pony is purely 

that after being asked to source ponies 

for clients we just could not find anything 

of a decent calibre in the UK. I noticed 

a huge hole in the market so decided I 

would try to fill it. I used a 128 jumping 

pony - Rotherwood Signature - as we 

know him well and he has all the 

characteristics you would want in a 

pony, being both brave and talented. 

Our mare is 16 hands and he is the 

second pony hybrid we have bred from 

her. Jack has a very pony attitude to life 

in that he is mischievous and literally into 

anything and everything. We have had 

offers for him from both Ireland and the 

USA as his breeding does make him a 

bit unusual in the pony world. Currently 

we are going to keep him entire, as he 

is very easy to handle. Having watched 

him pop a 5 barred gate to go and join 

his friends last month I am sure he will 

make an excellent jumping pony when 

he is older.” 

Northcote Stud has long been a great 

venue for showjumping, and it is 

therefore perhaps not surprising that 

outstanding showjumping foals and 

youngsters turned up in full force. 

The second highest result and another 

Elite with a score of 9 was another 

showjumping foal in Turqueta TS, by 

Casssalco out of a Darco mare, bred 

by Walter Scott who had an excellent 

Futurity this year. 

Turqueta TS 

Walter explains: 

“Turqueta TS is named after a beautiful 

beach in Menorca, our favourite holiday 

destination and our first foal to score an 

Elite! 

“This is our 4th foal from Quevara van 

‘t Merelsnest (Darco x Nabab) having 

already had two foals by Tangelo and 

one by Dominator Z who scored a gold 

at the Futurity last year. Quevara is from 

a prestigious star studded family with 

too many 1.60m jumpers to mention but 

Glasgow and the legendary Olympic 

mare Sapphire are just a couple. Indeed 

her own dam is jumping 1.45m and her 

grandam jumped 1.50m. She already 

has two licensed stallion siblings by 

Comme Il Faut and Hardrock Z .She is 

scanned in foal to Hardrock Z for2024! 

“Tilly, as she is known at home, oozes 

quality and presence, impressing with 

her confirmation. Qualities for which 

I had chosen Casallco whom I had 

already used him on another mare. She 

is intelligent, a quick learner but cheeky 

which endears her to everyone. I will 

keep her to add to my breeding 

programme and she will go into the 

sport. She may be the one to go all the 

way and fulfil our dream. If not for sure 

she will end up a beautiful horse, which 

in the end as breeders we are all trying 

to achieve.” 

Walter also brought a 3-year-old 

showjumping filly to Northcote in Perfect 

Picture TS, a daughter of Eldorado van 

de Zeshoek out of a London mare. She 

was the highest scoring 3-year-old of 

the event across all disciplines with an 

impressive Gold Premium of 8.83. 

Says Walter: 

“Perfect Picture’s mother Hayavanta 

was purchased in Holland as a foal 

and has already had high scoring Gold 

Award foals at Futurity events with fillies 

by Diamant De Semilly and Van Gogh. I 

did not present her as a foal as she was 

born in 2020 just as COVID hit. As a 

4-year-old Hayavanta passed the IBOP 

test under saddle when the KWPN came 

over to do the gradings . 



“She stood out in her group as a foal 

and I always had great expectations of 

her, and her fantastic result at Northcote 

confirms this. She is a large framed, 

quality mare who will be given time to 

mature, hopefully being started under 

saddle at the end of the year and come 

out into sport as a 5-year-old. Next year 

she will just have fun and we will maybe 

take an embryo from her. 

“The cross with Eldorado seems to have 

worked well. For this reason I then used 

Grandorado on her and have retained 

the resulting filly who is now 2 years old 

and equally smart. Her mum is hopefully 

in foal for 2024 with another Eldorado 

son Highway TN. I also have a foal this 

year from Big Star who has an 8 year 

old full brother jumping 1.30. I would 

like to thank Ben Raistrick and the team 

from Northcote for presenting her so 

beautifully and providing such a great 

venue. In the two weeks she was there 

she took it all in her stride and went from 

never going down a line of fences in her 

life to making it look so easy!” 

Another great score among the older 

entries was achieved by Aredis 

Calipso by Cabrio van de Heffinck out 

of a Quality Time mare who became 

the highest scoring 4-year-old of the 

event with a Gold Premium of 8.45. This 

lovely showjumping gelding was bred 

by Steve Pullan who tells us more about 

the breeding: 

“Aredis Calipso is a homebred gelding 

produced by embryo transfer from my 

mare Hera Twiggy SVG while she was 

competing. Twiggy was bought online as 

a two-year-old through an online 

auction in Holland and went into training 

at Millfield Stud here in the UK where 

Brian Thompson rode her very 

successfully in young horse classes 

including qualifying for the Big Star 

six-year-old final. She was sold last year 

to Georgina Bond who has upgraded 

her to Grade A this season and is 

competing successfully with her. 

“I chose Cabrio van de Heffinck for his 

enviable jumping record internationally 

but also to add height as Twiggy was 

quite small. I am very pleased with the 

result. 

“Calipso's first venture off the farm was 

in 2022 when he went to Nikki Hazlett 

Equestrian for some training and 

backing. Calipso was presented in the 

Futurity at 3 years old, where he gained 

an Elite premium and gained the highest 

score for a three-year-old show jumper 

across all last year's venues. 

“He has had an extended time off after 

being backed following Nikki's foot 

injury and has only recently gone into 

training with Ben Raistrict at Northcote 

Stud. It is a long road from planning a 

breeding to seeing the horses start to 

compete at four or later. The Futurity has 

given us confidence that we are heading 

in the right direction. I would like Calipso 

to attend the Equine Bridge training 

sessions, too. 

“This year we are breeding using frozen 

embryos purchased at international 

auctions, which has given the 

opportunity to use mares who have 

competed themselves at 1.60m. We 

are currently achieving around a fifty 

percent success rate with these embryos 

and it will be very exciting to see the 

youngstock in future years at Futurity 

evaluations.” 

The highest scoring 2-year-old entry 

across all disciplines was the young 

endurance horse Geno Ibn Mansoura by 

Geronimo out of an Abishai mare who 


Geno Ibn Mansoura 

Karen Corr is proud of her lovely 

youngster: “All credit goes to Dean 

Richards, owner of Geronimo, and Eve 

Barber who chose her daughter’s mare 

Mansoura bint Abishai. Their aim was to 

create a horse for performance, speed 

and temperament. The sire has a very 

interesting pedigree which contains some 

of the most important and now very 

rare Polish Arabian performance lines 

through his dam Ozana. His sire is the 

prolific Arabian stallion Master Design 

GA, which has 4 lines to Bask. 

“Mansoura was a mare of incredible 

substance who carried over 75% 

Crabbet/OE bloodlines. The pairing was 

designed to refine this without 

compromising quality and agility – 

Geno’s futurity evaluation has certainly 

confirmed that this was a great decision! 

“I had searched for a young Arabian to 

become my next endurance horse for 

about 18 months. When I saw Geno at 

7 months old, standing proudly with his 

dam on that Welsh hill, I knew he was 

the one. The icing on the cake was his 

pedigree which contained 2 of my 

desired performance lines. He’s a 

sensitive, sweet-natured boy. Not only 

is he easy on the eye, he has amazing 

ground covering paces, loves being 

with people and is the type of horse you 

enjoy spending time with – an absolute 

‘must have’ quality in an endurance 

horse! 

“We are all very proud of his Futurity 

result. Endurance GB follows all the 

endurance futurity graduates. One of 

which was my own home-bred mare 

who gained a Higher First Premium 13 

yrs ago. She went on to become an 

Advanced endurance horse and 

Premium mare with the Arab Horse 

Society. The goal will be for Geno to 

progress through the ranks as she did, at 

his pace, once he’s matured physically 

and mentally.” 

The top scoring dressage foal at 

Northcote was Timeless D’Zyne, by 

Glamourdale out of a Westenwind mare, 

who achieved a Gold Premium of 8.3. 

Timeless D’Zyne 

Breeder Suzanna Whalley tells us more: 

“Breeding has always been my dream 

and after my dressage mare Epernay 

ELS (Westenwind x Ferro) had a field 

injury in 2019, which stopped her 

competitive career, I decided to have a 

go. Timeless D'Zyne, stable name Izzy, 

is my second foal from her, the first one, 

Pryme D'Zyne, was the top eventing 

2-year-old at the Futurity last year and 

received an award at the Futurity Ball. 

I decided to put my mare to the dressage 

stallion Glamourdale just before he won 

two gold medals for GB with Charlotte 

Fry. I originally breed her to be sold on 

at weaning but she has the most 

inquisitive, friendly, brave attitude and 

has just won my heart. I plan to produce 

both horses myself once they are old 

enough and see how far the future takes 

us. 

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After having great results with both foals, 

I plan to breed again from my mare next 

year to carry on the D'Zyne dream.”. 

The highest scoring showjumping 

2-year-old was Kydan Cruising on 

Guidam by Cruising on Clover out of a 

Guidam mare with a Gold Premium of 

8.25 who was bred by Vicky Hartley of 

Kydan Stud. 

His owner Michelle Elswood explains: 

“I was pleased with him on the day, he’s 

only been out once this year so behaved 

really well. I was thrilled with the 

comments about him, especially from 

the vet. His dam Vidona showjumped to 

1.20m in Holland, then BE100 and 

elementary dressage in the UK. Cruising 

on Clover is a class 1 ISH also 

competed up to 1.20 before retiring to 

stud. In later life he then started some 

dressage and arena eventing with a 

young amateur rider, being a 

confidence giver with his amazing 

temperament. 

“When we went to view ‘Fox’ as a 

6-day-old foal, the breeder offered my 

16-year-old daughter a ride on Cruising 

on Clover. It was this ride that sealed the 

deal. Fox was bred to excel in any arena 

with a temperament for an amateur to 

compete. Our hopes are that he will take 

my daughter through the levels at BSJ 

and maybe some BD for myself.” 

The top scoring yearling entry across all 

disciplines was MSF Friday Feeling by 

Franz Ferdinand out of a Supertramp 

mare, bred for dressage by Haydn and 

Charlotte Davies. He achieved Gold 


Leading in the 2-year-old Dressage 

category was Fosshey Dreamcatcher, 

bred by Sandra Tinker of Fosshey Stud 

by Damaschino out of a Der Lord mare 

with a Gold Premium of 8.025. 

Insert image Fosshey Dreamcatcher 

Owner Lisa Porter is thrilled with him: 

“Fosshey Dreamcatcher is from one of 

the Fosshey Stud’s most consistent 

foundation mares, Delta. Delta bred the 

only UK based performance tested 

gelding with the BHHS. And we would 

hope that Dreamcatcher could also 

achieve this accolade once under 

saddle. My ambition is to compete 

‘Dexter’ as he is known at home in 

Dressage. I fell in love with him as a foal 

and have watched him develop into 

this fantastic young horse thanks to the 

expert handling of the team at Fosshey 

Stud. He is so laid back and easy, he has 

a very trainable attitude and I could not 

be more excited about what the future 

holds for us!” 

Fosshey Dreamcatcher 

The highest scoring eventing 2yo was 

Buzz Along by Gemini’s Classic Opera 

out of an Alfora mare. He was bred 

by Sarah Judge and achieved a Gold 


Buzz Along 

Nicola Hazlett explains: 

Kydan Cruising on Guidam 

“Thanks for a lovely day at Northcote! 

Buzz Along is owned and bred by Sarah 

Judge from Lincolnshire. His dam was a 

full thoroughbred mare, making him 73% 

blood and showing all the attributes to 

have an exciting future eventing. 

“Earlier this season he showed in-hand 

successfully with results including 1st and 

champion at Lincolnshire County and 

a win at the Great Yorkshire Show. He 

came to me 5 weeks before Northcote 

to do some groundwork, lunging and 

long reining and to prepare for his 

Futurity evaluation. He has shown a 

fantastic attitude to his work and loves to 

jump proving brave and scopey. 

Buzz is now enjoying a few weeks out 

in the field before being backed and 

produced for the 4-year-old classes 

next year.” 

All results for Northcote and all other 

futurities held can be seen on our 

website under 




Futurity Report - Catherston Stud 

It is always a great pleasure for the 

British Breeding Baileys Horse Feeds 

Futurity to come to Catherston, which 

always attracts a large number of 

excellent entries. This year was no 

exception, and we are delighted to 

introduce some of our top scorers: 

The top entry across all ages and 

disciplines was the showjumping foal 

Ace of Spades, bred by Carron Nicol 

by her own stallion Chrysler Key out of 

a Goldeneye mare. He gained a highly 

impressive Elite score of 9.23 

All photos - Horsepower Creative 

Futurity - Catherston Stud 

30th & 31st August 

incredible long standing Futurity record 

with Elite scores of 9.125. 

Eventing youngster Borough Timpenny 

Fiver is by Timolin out of a Cevin Z mare 

and is owned and bred by Sally Bullen. 

Says Charlotte: 

“Tambatini is a super attractive and 

elegant filly with a lot of presence! She 

did so well last year, both Elite in the 

Futurity and also at the British 

Hanoverian show gaining Champion 

Foal. 

I rode her mother Sabatini on 3 

European Teams at Juniors and Young 

Riders, numerous international wins and 

trained her to Grand Prix. I did my first 

Grand Prix on her, however I wasn’t 

brave enough so did it HC! ” 

From the same mare, and by Opposition 

Bombshell, Charlotte achieved another 

Elite on the day with O Sole Mio who 

became the highest scoring 3yo across 

all disciplines. Charlotte explains the 

story behind the breeding: 

Carron Nicol explains: 

Ace of Spades 

“This foal has everything you would 

want in abundance He has three super 

uphill , elastic paces, he is literally on 

springs and I am very excited for his 

future. This is the 4th youngster I have 

bred from his mother Falanta who herself 

jumped up to 1.40m level . Her first foal, 

Moneypenny by Goldeneye received a 

Futurity Elite in 2018 and is jumping very 

successfully in 5-year-old classes. She 

represented her Studbook, the AES, in 

the WBFSH Jan Tops Global Champions 

Trophy in Valkenswaard and helped the 

team achieve a podium position. Her 

second foal Bonita by Galerius came 4th 

in this year’s final at Bolesworth, which 

was an incredible achievement as she 

didn’t start jumping until the beginning of 

June this year. 

Chrysler Key has already been the 

top showjumping sire in the Futurity in 

2021 and 2022 . Chrysler competed at 

Lanaken in the World Breeding 

Championships and the week after at 

Valkenswaard as part of the medal 

winning AES 6-year-olds team.” 

The two highest scoring yearlings were 

both presented by the team at 

Catherston Stud who continue their 

Timpenny Fiver 

Charlotte Dicker of Catherston Stud 

explains: 

“Borough Timpenny Fiver is out of the 

5* Event mare Borough Penny Z whom 

Sally also bred. Penny Z has successfully 

competed around Badminton & Burghley 

among many other European events, as 

well as London 2012 on the Italian team 

with rider Vittoria Pannizon. Sire Timolin 

is a Grand Prix dressage horse who has 

also evented to Intermediate and is a 

point off Advanced. 

‘Timmy’ is an absolute pleasure. We are 

all so excited to see him out eventing in 

years to come.” 

Hope it’s ok to do my two youngsters in 

one email! 

The second top yearling is Charlotte 

Dicker’s own bred Tambatini, by Timolin 

out of her Stedinger mare who is aimed 

at dressage. 

Tambatini 

“I retired Sabatini late on in the breeding 

season, she retired sound and very 

happy but owning a top competition 

horse is somewhat costly! So I put her in 

foal firstly to Opposition Bombshell, my 

mother’s homebred stallion, having 

ridden a number of his youngsters. 

My main reasons were his incredible 

temperament, which he passes onto his 

offspring, along with rideability and 

conformation. I had it in my head that 

even half the mother’s movement was 

enough as long as the brain was there 

to train. 

I am just thrilled with Mio, he is 

everything and more of what I wanted. 

He is the coolest youngster. Most 

definitely the apple of my eye! I’m so 

thrilled the judges agreed with how 

lovely I think he is! 

I’m so thrilled with both youngsters, it’s a 

fair bit of pressure being Jennie’s 

granddaughter and breeding some of 

my own! 

I certainly don’t have any intentions of 

selling yet, I’d love to produce them 

both under saddle as I have bred them 

to be my future prospects. Now to sell a 

kidney to fund their careers!” 

It was certainly a great event for Elites at 

Catherston, and there was another one 

to add to Sian Harman’s great record of 

Futurity achievements for the 

showjumping foal Silver Glitter by 

Silvester out of a Favorit Ask mare. 

She achieved a great score of 9.05. 

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Sian Harman of Hill View Stud is 

delighted with her foal: 

Silver Glitter 

“I am very proud of her. She is a 

wonderful bold filly. From the moment 

she was born knew she was something 

superior. She has a super character 

inherited from the dam and sire! I hope 

to find her a new home in the 

showjumping discipline although she 

would be also suitable to dressage with 

her paces being so good.” 

The top scorer among the dressage foals 

was Fabiella, bred by Ian McRobbie 

and presented by Ruth Hole. This lovely 

daughter of Fidertanz out of a Utopia 

mare achieved an excellent Gold 


Says Ruth: 

Fabiella 

“She’s such a super little girl and 

beautiful in every way! Her breeder also 

bred and owns her dam, Ulyssa who 

competed internationally and was 

training GP before taking a break to 

have a foal, so we are hoping that 

Fabiella will be a future Grand Prix horse 

too! It’s a long way to go from foal to 

GP, but with looks and moves like she 

has, it’s very exciting!” 

The highest scoring pony foal was Henza 

Double Trouble, bred by Diane Kilshaw 

from her own stallion Dark Knight out of 

a Parvadean Recharge mare. He scored 

a very good Gold Premium of 8.65. 

Henza Double Trouble 

Diane tells us more: 

“I bought his dam, Welsh section C 

Ormond Rosa, as a weanling foal 

having been impressed with her as she 

won her class at the Hay on Wye show 

before the annual Welsh Pony sale. The 

auctioneer described her as 

“charismatic” and this trait has 

certainly passed on to Double Trouble. 

The Futurity evaluators were impressed 

with his “look at me” attitude and yet he 

was beautifully behaved throughout. 

Double Trouble is by my own German 

Riding Pony stallion, Dark Knight by 

Dressman, who consistently adds quality, 

length of leg, and a great hind leg to the 

sturdy native mare. He’s the third foal of 

this pairing, the first Henza Rosa Bella 

also achieving Gold Premium at her 

Futurity as a foal. They’re like peas in a 

pod! I have the fourth foal from this 

pairing due in 2024. 

Both dam and sire have excellent 

bloodlines with highly respected 

damlines in their respective breeds, so 

the aim is to keep him as a stallion with 

the hope he’ll make a 148cm dressage 

pony with the quality to be a breeding 

stallion also.” 

The top scoring 2-year-old across all 

ages was the eventing filly Lady 

Moonfly bred by Dawn Cameron by 

her own bred stallion Sir Mayfly out of 

a Conthargos mare. She gained a Gold 


Lady Moonfly 

Dawn is very proud of this achievement: 

“Lady Moonfly is an elegant, free 

moving, beautifully formed two-yearold 

filly with excellent dressage, show 

jumping and eventing lines. She forms 

a harmonious overall impression, strong 

stamp, self-carriage and supple body. 

Like both her sire and dam, she has a 

wonderful calm and confident 

disposition and an extremely trainable 

attitude. 

“Lady Moonfly has 56.41% Blood. Her 

sire has an amazing can do attitude to 

work and loves an adventure, always 

giving 100%, competing very 

successfully last year as a 5-year-old in 

BE100 classes and qualifying for the PC 

Eventing Championships 2022. Her dam 

Uniform Contender is homebred and has 

an amazing attitude to work with 

exceptional paces and jumping 

technique. 



This year she started eventing and at her 

first event was placed 2nd and qualified 

for the Horse Events Championship. She 

has a very willing attitude and a strong 

stamp, athletic and balanced 

paces. 

“We are a small mother/daughter 

operation, breeding for great 

conformation, temperament, blood lines 

and overall ride-ability so every horse 

has a job and every rider has a horse 

that wants to do its job.” 

With a Gold Premium of 8.475, the top 

eventing foal at Catherston was Dennis, 

by The After Party out of a Mullentine 

Cavalier mare. He was bred by Gemma 

Greenway who explains: 

of mine; Judy my friend and co-handler 

on the day, Colin Pritchard who helps 

train Dennis (and keep him in his place!) 

as well as Pauline the yard manager to 

name only a few.” 

It was also another great Futurity day 

for Lianne Verity who added to her 

superb record with two category topping 

entries. 

Young showjumper Myspires Triple Gold 

by Langwedh Sunny Jim out of a Brennus 

B mare was the highest scoring 

4-year-od entry across all disciplines 

with a Gold Premium of 8.24. 

as well as big horse mares to reduce the 

height. 

The highest scoring pony 3-year-old 

entry was Myspires High Definition by 

Ynslyns Orlando out of a Multicolor 

mare with a Gold Premium of 8.08. 

Lianne explains: 

Myspires High Definition 

Dennis 

“Dennis is his stable name, I am yet 

to decide on his posh name yet to be 

created. He is out of my eventing mare 

‘Cillrois Cavalier Rio’. We chose his sire 

primarily for his temperament, but also to 

add a bit more blood and movement to 

my mare’s ISH genes. 

“The initial plan wasn’t to breed from Rio. 

She was to be my first eventer after 

having a break for children. However, 

Rio picked up an injury in the winter of 

2021 at only 5 years old. We decided to 

give her a job to do whilst she recovered 

in the field. There was no rush to push 

Rio, she’s my horse for life so if she 

needed time off, she could have it. 

“The Kingston Stud happens to be local 

to us, which was very helpful when Rio 

came into season the day the Vet came 

to start the AI process off. In fact, within 

three weeks of making the decision to 

put her in foal, she was in foal. 

“Dennis was born early May, nearly 

two weeks over. He is a super friendly 

foal that simply loves cuddles, fuss and 

a really good bum scratch. He’s also 

very inquisitive, having to say hello to 

anyone that comes by and definitely has 

a cheeky side mixed in. 

“Dennis and Rio wouldn’t be here 

without the team around me - I have 

many people supporting this new venture 

Says Lianne: 

Myspires Triple Gold 

“Luka is the Great Grandson from my 

original foundation mare Triple Elle, 

having bred his dam and Grand dam. 

I have always wanted to breed a 

palomino sports pony stallion and 

decided to use my small Chestnut 

warmblood mare Myspires Triple 

Generation to put to the Cremello Welsh 

Section B Langweah Sunny Jim knowing 

I would 100% get a palomino. With 

the dam being half Dressage and half 

Showjumping bred I thought that the 

combination would make a super small 

dual purpose pony/small horse and I 

was not disappointed. 

He gained a Futurity Gold Premium as 

a foal, so I was very pleased he kept his 

result as a 4-year-old. The same day he 

graded as a stallion with the SPSS 

Studbook. He is full brother to Myspires 

Triple Perfection who took SPSS 

Supreme Champion mare 2023. He has 

got 4 youngsters on the ground who 

look very promising and have scored 

Gold Premiums themselves. He will be 

standing publicly next season with the 

aim to hopefully showjump with a young 

rider and do BS Ponys as well as some 

BD. He has the pony temperament and 

character, very cuddly, jumps and moves 

like a sports horse in a small package, 

so will be very versatile for pony mares 

“Pearl is a super pony with an exciting 

future ahead of her! She was sold to Julie 

and Erika Moore in the US as a foal and 

remained with me until she was older. 

We are all very excited about her future 

as an FEI Showjumping Pony, which is 

the aim! She is currently in foal to an FEI 

1.30 jumping pony stallion. The foal will 

hopefully remain with me once she goes 

off and starts her competition career to 

carry on the jumping pony line. She’s 

very interesting in breeding as well as 

colour being a perlino tobiano, so will 

always produce a dilute with 50/50 

colour. She’s half Welsh D out of a small 

warmblood mare. She has a huge jump, 

looking very promising for the future 

with the biggest personality I have ever 

known!” 


Renkum Celeste, by Baloubet Junior Z 

out of a Renkum Off-Centre mare who 


Renkum Celeste 

His owner Phip Whitehead is delighted: 

“It was so interesting to hear the 

assessors comments and I’m hoping to 

bring my 2024 foals to be assessed next 

year. 

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“We bought Lyra (Renkum Celeste) from 

the Mindermans at Renkum Stud at the 

beginning of the year. As well as being 

a scopey and athletic mare she has a 

lovely temperament and is quick to learn 

and eager to please. Both her dam and 

sire lines include a number of 1.60m 

jumpers, including Baloubet de Rouet, 

Darco, Inish Mac Nevin and Renkum 

Valentino. Her sire Baloubet Junior Z has 

produced offspring competing at the top 

level of both Eventing and Showjumping, 

so we hope she will follow in their 

footsteps! We are planning to breed 

from her in the future and will use her 

Futurity assessment to choose stallions 

that will complement her and improve 

particular areas with the aim of 

producing correct, athletic foals with 

good brains.” 

Lady Darcy 

The top scoring pony 2-year-old was 

Lady Darcy by Blaencrymlyn Hywel out 

of a mare by Goldenfields Silver Star. 

Liberty Barrett is proud of her filly: 

“Darcy is my first homebred out of my 

own Welsh x Arab cremello mare. As the 

pandemic started there were no 

competitions or events running so I 

thought about potentially putting my 

jumping mare Sisi in foal. Sire ‘Harry’ as 

he is known at home is a versatile stallion 

with tremendous scope over fences and 

big bold paces in the dressage arena. 

A kind tempered stallion who passes 

this onto his progeny. He also crosses 

extremely well with TBs to produce 

excellent Riding Club, Eventers and 

Showjumpers. His and Sisi's 

personalities really complemented each 

other. It's been a real learning curve from 

the breeding to the delivery to now the 

training. 

My plan for Darcy is to make her into an 

eventing sports pony, with her unusual 

colouring, markings and her gentle 

personality I think she will definitely be 

turning heads. Darcy is already proving 

to be something special receiving 

compliments wherever she goes.” 

Garthfach Endeavour 

The top scorer among the jumping 

2-year-olds was Garthfach Endeavour 

who is by Ynslyns Orlando out of an 

Ashdale Misarko mare bred by Penny 

Teague. 

Owner Vicky Lacey explains: 

“I have owned Garthfach Endeavour, 

aka Buddy Bear, since he was 6 

months old. He had the long trip from 

Wales to the Isle of Wight. He has such 

character and is always playful and into 

everything. Buddy absolutely loves to 

compete, the bigger the atmosphere the 

better he performs. 

He has recently taken Champion at 

the New Forest county show and the 

Isle of Wight county show along with 

numerous champion and reserve titles at 

other mainland competitions through the 

summer. 

I am extremely excited for his future 

under saddle where he will be focused 

on Dressage and showjumping. He’s a 

special boy and I’m incredibly lucky to 

call him my own.” 

The highest scoring dressage 2-year-old 

was Wonderlust, by Wavavoom out of 

a Fürst Romancier, who was bred by 

Charlotte Mariosa. 

Says Charlotte: 

“Wonderlust, called Macc at home, is 

the first foal I've bred and I'm incredibly 

proud of his attitude to life and learning. 

He came to the Futurity as a yearling 

and it's great to see how, in coming 

again this year, he's really taken it in his 

stride. Despite 2 being an awkward 

stage of development he was really 

well-behaved and almost too laid back! 

His mother by Fürst Romancier is quite 

hot and it was really important to me to 

find a stallion with a great temperament 

and good ridability. I drove up to see 

Wavavoom to get a feel for his character 

and demeanour before using him and 

I've been thrilled by the result to date. 

I've loved the breeding process and 

whilst it's not for the feint-hearted at 

times, I've found it immensely rewarding. 

Both the BHHS and Futurity have been 

great in helping me with my learning 

along the way. Macc is going to be a 

big boy I think but I'm not in a rush with 

him so he'll have all the time he needs to 

grow and mature into what will hopefully 

be a wonderful and impressive dressage 

horse.” 

All Catherston Futurity results can be 

seen on our website under 



Wonderlust 



We very much enjoyed returning to The 

Grange in Devon this year, which is a 

lovely venue with great facility. We saw 

some lovely young horses and really 

hope the event will get the support in 

future necessary to carry on offering a 

physical venue in this region. 

The top scoring entry across all ages was 

the 2yo eventer Master Rousseau who is 

by Silvester out of a Rousseau mare. He 


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Futurity - The Grange 

4th September 

His breeder Jancey Wembridge is 

excited for the future: 

“This result made my day. Chewbacca’s 

dam Quantify (Quantum/Quidam de 

Revel) started as a broodmare for British 

team rider Jessica Mendoza and then 

jumped to 1.45m with Chloe Reynolds. 

Chewbacca is her 1st foal since 

returning to breeding. 

Quantify has a sibling who is a graded 

stallion jumping 5* 1.55m for Mexico, 

both her grand dam and great grand 

dam produced horses up to 1.60m 

Yearling Colt 2021; ECAHO 'C' Gold 

Champion Junior Colt and AHS British 

National Silver Champion Junior Colt 

2023 with many other accolades 

in-between. 

His temperament is outstanding and he 

has an amazing rapport with his lifetime 

producer and handler Hayley Crocker.” 

The highest scoring 2yo entry for 

showjumping was Lianko’s Classic 

Dancer by Lianko out of a Natal mare. 

He gained a Gold Premium of 8.45. 

His breeder Jenny Cook explains: 

Master Rousseau 

“Master Rousseau is out of Flicka who 

evented succesfully as a young horse. 

She never had a xc penalty and was 

exceptional on the flat. She scored the 

highest marks on the flat at the BYEH 

finals. She got to intermediate as 

6-year-old and unfortunately sustained 

an injury that prevented her from 

continuing. Master Rousseau is likely 

to go down the dressage route. He is 

showing outstanding movement and 

trainability. He will be lightly backed in 

the spring.” 

His score was closely followed by 

Chewbacca by Chubakko out of a 

Quantum mare who gained a Gold 

Premium of 8.6, making him the highest 

scoring showjumping and highest 

scoring foal entry of the day. 

Chubakko 

Sire Chubakko (Connor 48/Cassall) is 

a Ludger Beerbaum stallion who was 

placed in the World 6-year-old 

championships and jumped to 1.50m. 

Chewbacca will be retained to 

showjump and hopefully follow the path 

of his relatives.” 

With a lovely Gold Premium of 8.5, 

the highest scoring 3yo entry across all 

disciplines and highest endurance entry 

of the day overall was Dancing Mirage 

SBM by ES Sarab out of a Polon (PL) 

mare. 

Says his breeder Sarah 

Hampton-Howard: 

Dancing Mirage 

“We at SBM Arabians are delighted that 

Dancing Mirage SBM has been 

awarded Gold Premium at the 

Futurity. He is a homebred 3-year-old 

purebred Arabian colt. His sire ES Sarab 

was bred by the Emirates Stud in the 

UAE and his dam Polonaise Dancer 

SBM (bred by us) is from prominent 

Polish bloodlines. 

Dancing Mirage SBM has had an 

illustrious in-hand career to date, having 

been AHS British National Champion 

Lianko’s Classic Dancer 

His owner Ellie Atkinson explains: 

“This was my first Futurity event and I 

was pleasantly surprised at how well run 

the event was as well as everyone being 

so friendly and welcoming. I’ve 

definitely got the bug and looking 

forward to bringing other young horses 

in the future. 

“A few years ago we started to buy 

2 or 3 foals each year, with the aim 

of having a string of quality horses for 

both Eventing and Dressage. Lianko’s 

Classic Dancer, or Louis as he’s known 

at home, was bought in 2021 from West 

Country Sports Horses who we work 

very closely with each year to source our 

talented young horses, they breed top 

performance horses with well recognised 

breeding lines. 

“Louis is very level headed and has a 

trainable temperament and I believe he 

will excel in any discipline. Louis will be 

taken to a stallion grading next year with 

the aim to grow our breeding operation 

and continue to produce well put 

together horses, with the ability and 

temperament to excel throughout all 

disciplines. 

Lianko (Louis’s sire) is by the successful 

Eldorado Van De Zeshoek and I am 

keen to develop this exciting breeding 

line in the future.” 

The highest scoring yearling at the 

Grange was MAS Royal Dart, a colt 

bred for endurance by Silvern Prince out 

of a Pevensey Safari (AU) mare. 

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MAS Royal Dart 

Says breeder Deborah Duncan: 

" MAS Royal Dart is a 100 % Crabbet 

English Arabian who is my first home 

bred youngster. He has an extremely 

sunny disposition and I hope to keep him 

entire to improve the Arabian gene pool 

in the UK. He will be backed and ridden 

on as a performance horse in both 

Endurance and Dressage . 

“His sire is HOYS winner Silvern Prince 

who is owned by Caroline Sussex and 

his dam is Palma Benay owned by Anne 

Brown. Dart is the third Gold Premium 

son sired by both this mare and sire so 

he comes from an illustrious Arabian 

dynasty. " 

The highest scoring dressage 3yo was 

Forever Romance who achieved a Gold 

Premium of 8. He is by For Romance out 

of an Everdale Mare. 

His owner Samantha Gualtieri has 

exciting plans for the future. 

“Thank you so much for putting on a 

great event! 

Forever Romance (Romeo) was bred by 

Hilary Westgarth of Ardmore Stud, 

he is by For Romance x Everdale. 

He has been stamped with a fantastic 

temperament and attitude from both 

these prolific stallions. Over the winter 

I plan to start him under saddle and 

produce him slowly. I would also like 

to have him licensed over the winter as 

the plan is to keep him entire. The future 

goal is to produce him through the levels 

hopefully to Grand Prix and also to 

become a British based breeding 

stallion.” 

The highest scoring eventing foal of the 

day was Master Luc by Silvester out of 

a Rousseau daughter, a full brother to 

Master Rousseau. 

All The Grange results can be seen on 

our website under: 



Forever Romance 



It was our first time at Northallerton 

Equestrian Centre, where we held a 

very well attended Futurity event on 

17th September. We loved the friendly 

atmosphere and good location, and saw 

a wide range of wonderful youngsters. 

A particularly successful day was had 

by Team Hayler who turned up in full 

force and showcased a fantastic range 

of promising young horses all the way 

from foal age to ridden 4-year-olds. The 

youngsters were expertly presented by 

Andrew Wright, husband of Bobby 

Hayler, and Paul Hayler, known to many 

of us as the former British Dressage 

Training Director and a highly successful 

international rider. 

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Futurity - Northallerton 

Equestrian Center 7th September 

marks of 9, a great result at what is often 

a difficult age to show youngsters. They 

also presented the two overall highest 

scores of the day, which were gained by 

the lovely 4yo mare T. H. Leviosa who 

is by L’Espoir out of an Almaz mare and 

by the foal L’ Loxley, also by L’Espoir out 

of Bobby’s Grand Prix mare Josinaa van 

de Peelvenhoeve. Interestingly, Josinaa 

is jumping bred through and through and 

is by the 1.60m showjumping stallion 

Emilion out of an Odermus R mare. 

Yearlings can be at a difficult stage in 

their development, but the importance 

of getting support and feedback at that 

formative age, combined with the great 

opportunity to practise travelling away 

from home makes the Futurity at that age 

a valuable experience for owners and 

breeders alike. This makes it all the more 

impressive to gain an elite score at that 

stage. One who achieved this great 

accolade is Forgone Proposition, a filly 

for eventing bred and presented by 

Nicola Hazlett. She impressed with 

exceptional conformation, balanced 

gaits and flawless management and 

presentation, gaining her marks of 9.5 

from the veterinary team and an overall 

score of 9.05, which was the highest 

yearling score across all disciplines on 

the day. 

Well known for their enduring successes 

in dressage training and competing, the 

breeding operation at Team Hayler is 

very much informed by a deep and 

intimate knowledge of what is required 

in a successful performance horse: 

trainability, temperament, rideability and 

the all important expert production. 

Breeding from mares that have been 

successful in the sport in their own right 

provides a reliable foundation and 

inspiration for stallion choices. It is very 

interesting to see that all the youngsters 

showcased by the team were by British 

based stallions, proving that it is often 

more valuable to have the opportunity to 

use a stallion one has been able to see 

in the flesh, than to go for the latest in 

international breeding fashions 

Leonidas 

The proof is very much in the pudding, 

and in the end Team Hayler went home 

with an astonishing achievement. Not 

only did they present the highest scoring 

dressage yearling in Leonidas, who is by 

Paul Hayler’s stallion Lonswelt who is 

co-owned with Peter Spence out of a 

State Premium Florencio mare, a young 

horse whose wonderful trot and 

harmonious conformation earned him 

T. H. Leviosa 

L’ Loxley impressed the evaluators with 

three very expressive gaits, gaining him 

dream marks of 9.5 for his trot and for 

his canter. Overall, he scored a 

convincing Elite of 9.175, a mark she 

shared with T. H. Leviosa. This young 

mare was produced beautifully and 

presented under saddle by Andrew 

Wright. As well as gaining lovely marks 

of 9.25 for her trot and canter, no mean 

feat in such a young horse who is still 

finding her full balance under saddle, 

T. H. Leviosa also impressed with her 

wonderful conformation which gained a 

score of 9.5. She is a naturally 

expressive mare with a quick hind leg, 

and certainly a horse to watch for the 

future. 

L’Loxley 

Forgone Proposition 

Nicola tells us a bit more about her 

gorgeous youngster: 

“Her dam was herself awarded a 

Futurity Elite as a 3-year-old and is by 

Primitive Proposal. I campaigned young 

event classes with her. Unfortunately she 

sustained an injury, which is why we 

decided to put her in foal. 

We used the stallion Forinth on the recommendation 

from my jump trainer who 

had previously owned and ridden him 

- it turns out the match has worked really 

well and we are delighted with her. She 

will be aimed at some in-hand showing 

as a 2 and 3-year-old but undoubtedly 

her future will lie in eventing, so when the 

time is right she will be sold. 

Thanks for running the Futurity's, it's a 

great and educational day for both the 

horses and their breeders!” 

Staying with the discipline, the highest 

eventing foal score was achieved by 

Grufallo’s Child who was bred and 

presented by Phillip Jones. This lovely 

colt achieved an Elite score of 9.025, 

with a perfect mark of 10 for his truly 

exceptional canter. 

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Grufallo’s Child 

Says Phillip: 

“We were chuffed to bits by his result. 

A 10 for his canter was brilliant, and 

we were thrilled to have our own high 

opinion of him confirmed so fulsomely by 

the futurity panel. 

He is known as Goose at home and is 

by Grafenstolz, who is the event stallion 

of the moment following Badminton and 

the Europeans! He’s been shown lightly 

this season starting at Bramham when he 

was only 28 days and 5 hrs old, 

culminating in winning at the Great 

Yorkshire Show. His dam won at 

Bramham, the Great Yorkshire and 

Aintree, qualifying for the price family in 

hand supreme championship at HOYS. 

Mum is 8, by Renkum Calliano out of 

a Lauriston mare. We have owned her 

since she was 2, and have her older full 

brother who has evented up to novice 

with Holly Richardson, despite being 

18hh! 

Goose is a lovely gregarious and 

intelligent animal who has really 

benefited from turnout with his herd of 

mares and foals. I’ve just started out 

breeding seriously - goose has a 

4-year-old half sister by Future Illusion at 

home. We have 4 foals at home, so 

will be bringing most of them on for sale 

at some point. I would ideally like to 

keep Goose to produce for international 

Eventing with Holly or failing that find 

him a buyer with a track record of 

ownership with a world class rider.” 

The highest scoring showjumping score 

of the day went to Rulentic who is by 

Faltic HB out of a Linardo VB mare. This 

lovely foal was bred by Katie Benbow 

and presented by Lisa Benbow. He 

achieved a very convincing Gold 

Premium score of 8.75 

Rulentic 

From one of the younger to one of the 

oldest participants of the day, another 

showjumping Gold Premium was 

achieved by It’s the Warrior who is by 

Noble Warrior out of an It’s the Business 

mare and who achieved a score of 8.58. 

This makes him also the highest scoring 

5-year-old of the day. 

Says Jessica Hayes: 

It’s the Warrior 

“‘Turvi’ as he is named at home is a 

homebred horse and the temperament 

of a gentle giant, which we’re grateful 

for with him standing at 18hh. For a 

big horse he combines power with a 

lightness on his feet that allows him to be 

very balanced and level at this age. He 

had a very successful 4-year-old season 

and was crowned overall 4-year-old 

Champion at the British Breeding Bridge 

evaluations followed by a successful 

season this year jumping multiple clears 

at home international events including 

triple clear at Bolesworth International 

earlier in June. 



For the future we are focusing on fitness 

and elasticity in training to aid the 

support of his big frame and we have 

our sights set at the 6yrs series next 

year.” 

The top scoring pony of the day was 

the lovely yearling Leake Little Fire by 

Woodbank Barney out of a Flayne Don 

Daiquiri mare who was awarded a super 

Gold Premium of 8.475. He was bred by 

Leake Connemaras. 

Proud breeder and owner Victoria 

Jerrison tells us more: “Thank you for 

such a friendly and educational event. 

We have not attended before but will 

definitely do so again next year. We are 

a small stud breeding 8 to 10 foals each 

year. 

“Leake Little Fire is by our class 1 

Connemara stallion Woodbank 

Barney out of Loumic Flame Lily, a 

former successful dressage pony and 

SHBGB graded mare. Her sire is Flayne 

Don Daiquiri. This damline also includes 

the British riding pony stallion Twylands 

Toubador. At Leake Connemaras we 

previously focused on producing ponies 

for pony eventing teams. Many have 

gone on to be very successful. 

“In 2021 we turned our focus to 

breeding. Whilst we do breed some 

purebred ponies for the show ring our 

main focus is on breeding ponies and 

small sports horses by crossing 

Connemara stallions with small 

warmblood and tb mares. In doing so 

we aim to breed ponies and small horses 

with superb temperaments and 

rideability yet with enough athletic ability 

to be very successful in dressage and 

eventing. 

“Leake Little Fire was from our first crop 

of 2022 foals. The futurity was a fantastic 

and highly educational experience for us 

as we are always looking to learn and 

to improve the quality of our foals for the 

future.” 

The top scoring 3yo of the day was the 

showjumping bred Zaphire by Zip Phin 

out of a Lord Luis mare. He gained a 

Gold Premium of 8.4. 

Zaphire 

We caught up with his breeder Amy 

Goodwin: 

"He is such a special boy to us. I bred his 

mother, too, he name is Latitude, stable 

name Tiny ( don't ask, she's huge), and 

she is a daughter of Lord Luis who was 

owned by Nina Barbour of Harthill stud 

and ridden by Geoff Billington. She 

unfortunately suffered a field injury that 

cut her career short at a young age. She 

successfully jumped at newcomers and 

would have easily progressed if not for 

the injury. 

“I spent a long time looking at stallions. 

I was searching for one with the correct 

temperament first and ability second as 

I was breeding for myself. Zip Phin was 

exactly what I was searching for and 

Anna Beck was happy to chat about him 

and answer any questions I had. 

“Zaphire has the best temperament you 

could ask for. He’s gentle and he loves 

attention and just wants you to cuddle 

him. It’s definitely more like owning a 

Labrador, his favourite thing is to throw 

his feed bucket out of the window once 

he’s finished eating. 

“I will be keeping him for myself to ride 

and will possibly be keeping him entire. 

My plan is to put him forward for stallion 

grading next year and then see what the 

judges think of him. He's very clever and 

picks things up very quickly. He’s also 

managed to teach himself how to open 

the gate and let himself back up to the 

stables. I'm an equine vet groom and 

know how important it is for horses to get 

used to things they will come across in 

their lives and be happy to be handled 

and touched everywhere.” 

Vlacq Miss Razzamatazz 

The highest scoring Endurance 

4-year-old of the day was Vlacq Miss 

Razzamatazz by Vlacq Zibaq out of 

a Hip Who mare who was awarded a 

Gold Premium of 8.1. 

Happy owner Chloe Delaney explains: 

“After deciding it was time to start 

looking at purchasing a new forever 

friend I made the trip with my husband 

over to Wales to meet Laura and Sue at 

Vlacq Stud. I was looking for my next 

partner with whom we could hopefully 

get back to competing at the longer 

competitive distances in endurance. 

That’s why we decided to purchase 

“Razz” as a yearling. I loved her 

movement, attitude, forwardness and her 

enthusiasm. She is very willing and she 

thrives on wanting to be out there doing 

more, learning and being busy, which 

I love.” 

We are staying with the discipline of 

Endurance to introduce the highest 

scoring Endurance 3-year-old at 

Northallerton, Pictus Nightingale. By 

Dinarthall Concorde out of a Sir 

Oldenburg dam, this charming young 

mare was awarded a Gold Premium 

score of 8.05. 

Says owner Shez Hides: 

Pictus Nightingale 

“I bought 3-year-old Flo in March 

2023. She's a Connemara x Warmblood 

mix bred by Louise Paterson at the Pictus 

Stud. I was looking for my next 

endurance partner after my TB x Cob 

mare, Maggie Mae, retired from 

competitive rides. I knew I wanted a 

horse with good bone, good feet and a 

trainable willing personality. I had been 

to the Home International 2022 in 

Scotland and seeing a Connemara win 

the 2-day 160km made me think the 

breed could really suit my needs. I want 

to do further distances than I did with 

Maggie. 

“Flo’s great result shows goes to show 

that not only Arabs score well! We had 

lovely comments from the evaluators, 

which gives me great confidence in her 

potential. 

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Flo has an incredible personality. She's 

gentle, curious, and eager to please. We 

clicked right from the start and she's filled 

me with confidence already that she will 

be great at endurance. Her intelligence 

and willingness to learn have made our 

training sessions so rewarding. She is 

bold and has a self confidence that I 

hope will keep her trotting on anywhere 

I ask. 

“I can't wait to see what the future holds 

for us. We've got so many exciting 

adventures ahead, and I'm grateful 

every day that I get to share them with 

Flo.” 

The top scoring eventing 5yo at 

Northallerton was Pioen Rose ELS by 

Wolkenderry out of a Wolfgang mare 

who achieved a Gold score of 8.03. 

Breeder Carole Rolph explains: 

“Pioen Rose was first presented as a foal 

at the 2018 Elite Foal Registration Tour. 

She topped the Eventing Foal section at 

Twemlows and went on to be 5th in the 

National Final. From then on she lived as 

part of a herd at Edge O’Leet Stud until 

August 2022 when she joined Emma 

Corner in Malton to be backed and 

produced as an eventer. 

“The last 12 months has seen many 

changes in her life and her presentation 

at Northallerton was her first official real 

outing under saddle. She has proved 

to be incredibly accepting of whatever 

has been asked of her and has built up 

a special relationship with Emma, which 

bodes well for her planned eventing 

debut next year. She has some big shoes 

to fill as Emma produced her maternal 

half brother, Edmonton ELS (by 

Zacharov) to advanced levels at both 

eventing and dressage.” 


Cornhill Pallas Athena bred by Yvonne 

Scales by her own stallion Gambler out 

of a Fürst Heinrich mare. 

Insert image Cornhill Pallas Athena 

Yvonne was delighted with her filly’s 

confident performance: 

“Cornhill Pallas Athena is beautiful inside 

and out. She is the last foal out of my 

Fürst Heinrich mare by my 'one in a 

million' stallion Gambler (Voice x De 

Niro). She took everything in her stride 

at the Futurity. I, and the judges were 

amazed at her natural jumping ability, 

having never jumped before. She truly is 

very special with the ability to excel in 

any sphere.” 

All Northallerton Futurity results can be 

seen on our website under 




Cornhill Pallas Athena

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Futurity - Hothorpe 

11th & 12th September 


Our 2023 Physical British Breeding 

Baileys Horse Feeds Futurity Season 

finished on a high at the British 

Showjumping National Training Centre 

at Hothorpe. This event went over two 

days and saw some of the strongest 

entries of this year’s Futurity, including 

our overall highest scorer across all 

disciplines and ages. 

This superstar in the making is Myspires 

Totillah Time, a colt foal by Totillah out of 

a Goodtimes VDL mare who scored an 

astonishing Elite mark of 9.25. 

Myspires Totillah Time 

We caught up with his delighted breeder 

Lianne Verity: 

“Vito as he is known at home is the 3rd 

foal I've bred from the dam Velita and 

is her second Futurity Elite Dressage 

foal. When I first put the combination 

of Totillah and Velita together, I thought 

that he would complement her frame 

and movement but would also more than 

likely produce a very commercial foal 

with the breeding, type and all the bling 

from sire and dam to sell! 

However, that's very hard to do when 

they come out like Vito, the horse or your 

dreams - I have always wanted a black 

dressage stallion with all the bling. He 

was a star from day one, strong, with 

natural presence and ping. He has a 

wonderful character, sweet and kind 

with the added sass but a real mummy's 

boy. 

I knew he was very special, but it was 

truly amazing ot receive a 10 for his trot. 

I had to hold back some tears as on my 

list of goals was to one day get a 10 at 

the Futurity. 

Safe to say that for now Vito is going 

nowhere. Our long term dream is seeing 

him do GP at Olympia which I think he 

has the talent for, if the journey is right. 

He will run on as a stallion for the stud 

and possibly stand in 2026 to a limited 

number of mares. 

I am absolutely over the moon, a bit shell 

shocked after all the years trying to aim 

for the top. Breeding is a long journey, 

many times I have wanted to give up 

with the many ups and downs, but I'm so 

grateful I kept going and am starting to 

see the results I dreamt of. Velita is in foal 

with a full sibling for 2024. She's done 

me proud at the grand age of 21 coming 

22.” 

Lianne had a brilliant day at Hothorpe, 

also achieving the highest pony foal 

score of 8.48 with Myspires Triple 

Liberation by Myspires Triple Gold out of 

a San Liberty mare. 

Says Lianne: 

Myspires Triple Liberation 

“Triple Liberation is full brother to last 

year’s Gold premium filly Myspires 

Triple Liberty which was Triple Golds 

First ever foal. This makes him a Great 

Great Grandson of my foundation mare 

Triple Elle on the sire side and now my 

longest homebred Generation line. He 

also carries Triple Elle on the dam side in 

the second generation. I was delighted 

with his scores, he's a really smart colt 

with a lovely temperament alongside his 

movement and frame. He was also Top 

Small Horse with the SPSS. He is 

available for sale to the right home. 

Being 25% Welsh he gives the added 

section in the showing world. I think he 

will be a very fun and versatile 

competitor.” 

It was a great day for dressage at 

Horthorpe with another highlight in the 

dressage foal Orcades by Lestingdale 

out of a Don Frederic mare who 

achieved an Elite score of 9.025. 

Orcades 

This foal was presented by Jo Gummer 

and bred by Ruth Perry who tells us 

more: 

“We had a very exciting and 

unexpected day at Hothorpe. I bought 

the mare Don Cheri as a competition 

horse, but after an injury to her hind 

leg we had to retire her. Because of 

her breeding with her sire Don Frederic 

(whom I saw being beautifully ridden 

by Rodolpho Riskalla) and dam sire 

Florestan, and her amazing temperament 

we decided to go down the breeding 

road with her. I haven’t bred foals for 25 

years! 

“Zoe Kirkpatrick’s Lestingdale was my 

first stallion choice. I love his 

temperament and modern lines, and 

of course Glamerdale in the bloodline 

always helps! I planned to sell him but 

being a Grand Prix rider and having 

competed at C.D.I for GB, I don’t know if 

I will ever be able to afford a youngster 

of this quality, so he may stay with me, 

unless a superstar home comes forward. 

But for the moment he will continue to 

stay with Jo Gummer just being a happy 

much loved foal while Jo and I look for 

an exciting stallion for Don Cheri for 

next year. 

“His name comes from my Father-in- 

Law who died the week he was born. 

My in-laws had met in the Navy on a 

ship called Orcades, and subsequently 

named all their marital homes Orcades. 

It felt like a fitting tribute.” 

The highest scoring showjumping foal 

at Hothorpe was Buntingfields Elvis 25 

by Christian 25 out of an Eldorado van 

den Zeshoek mare with a great Gold 


Buntingfields Elvis 25 

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Breeder Emily Renshaw explains: 

“Here at Buntingfields Farm I am in the 

early years of a small breeding 

operation, currently only breeding 2 or 

so foals a year. Buntingfields Elvis 25 is 

a super smart and brave colt, fiercely 

independent, and full of presence. He 

shares many of the same attributes as his 

full sister who is now owned by Geoff 

Billington. 

“Elvis’s dam is by the prolific stallion 

Eldorado van de Zeshoek and their 

attitudes and characters, plus scope and 

movement are outstanding. Couple that 

with the movement, athleticism, scope 

and ride-ability of his Sire Christian 25, 

the model of Elvis is exactly what I was 

hoping for. I hope to be able to slowly 

expand my breeding set up, including 

Elvis’ bloodlines along the way, to breed 

the best foals possible, with the top end 

of the sport in mind. 

“Elvis has already become a firm yard 

favourite, his good nature, gorgeous 

looks, and outstanding paces 

hopefully lay the foundations for an 

exciting future!” 

The highest scoring Yearling of the day 

across all disciplines was the Beaumont 

Wildcat by Woodlander Wavavoom out 

of a Don Frederico mare. He was bred 

by Rachel Crook and is owned by Claire 

Bailey. 

Beaumont Wildcat 

Rachel tells us about his breeding: 

“Beaumont Wildcat is out of a 

Hanoverian Elite mare called Delta Lady, 

by Don Frederico out of an Imperio 

mare. He was a repeat breeding as I 

was so impressed with his full brother 

Beaumont Watteau, who was the highest 

scoring dressage colt foal at the Futurity 

2 years before. “Walter” is slightly more 

refined than his full brother but has a 

lovely frame and a great temperament.” 

The highest eventing score across 

all ages at Hothorpe of 8.475 was 

achieved by the colt foal Hope House 

Manhattan by Big Star out of an Argento 

mare. 

Hope House Manhattan 

Breeder Amelia Hope Waterhouse 

explains 

“I competed Manhattan’s dam Milton 

Mojito who is by Argento out of a Metall 

mare myself. She showed huge amounts 

of talent as a young horse and was 

aimed at the Young Event Horse 

Championships previously held at 

Osberton. Sadly due to injury her career 

was cut short going into her 6-year-old 

season. Milton Mojito was a serious 

athlete with natural elasticity and power 

combined with beautiful movement from 

her damsire Metall. 

“His sire, Big Star, needs no introduction 

being double Olympic gold medalist! 

We put a lot of research into selecting 

stallions each year with conformation, 

soundness and jumping ability being at 

the forefront of our breeding goals. We 

felt Big Star could perfectly compliment 

what Milton Mojito already has to offer 

and the combination of these bloodlines 

felt rather special. Needless to say we 

are very pleased with the outcome. This 

year we have rebred her to the late 

Numero Uno for a full sibling to our 

2022 foal, however we will definitely be 

looking at using Big Star again. 

“Hope House Manhattan has such 

natural power and balance, we are sure 

he has a big future ahead of him and 

can’t wait to see him progress through 

the levels in Showjumping. 

“Hope House Eventing stud and 

competition yard focuses on producing 

horses from breeding to breaking in and 

then onto the young horse classes. All of 

our 2022 foals were also awarded Gold 

Premiums last year. We are delighted to 

be producing such quality in only our 

third year of breeding.” 

The top scoring 4yo across all 

disciplines with a Gold Premium of 8.35 

was dressage bred Ginleys Gunpowder 

by Myspires Fider Hit out of a Johnson 

mare, bred by James Boulton at Ginleys 

Stud. 

Ginleys Gunpowder 

His owners Vanessa and Josephine 

Clewlow has great plans for him: 

“We bought ‘Waldo’ when he was 5 

months old with the hopes of training him 

to be a Grand Prix dressage horse. I saw 

him in a Facebook post and really liked 

his breeding and have been fortunate 

enough to meet his dam and sire both of 

whom have outstanding temperaments. 

He has 4 of the top 10 dressage sires 

in his breeding and his maternal grand 

dam has competed to Inter 1 as well. 

“He had an Elite Futurity evaluation as 

a foal which highlighted his excellent 

conformation and he was due to go on 

the Elite auction. At the time I didn’t have 

the funds to buy him and we watched the 

hammer fall at the auction and thought 

we had lost him. However, fate played 

its part and he didn’t reach his reserve so 

his breeder Ginleys Stud took him home 

and we had the opportunity to purchase 

him a few weeks later. 

“He has been a joy to own and we have 

loved getting to know him over the past 

four years. My daughter, Josephine 

(aged 20) has already produced her 

current horse to Grand Prix level and has 

backed him herself and we are really 

looking forward to getting to know him 

as a ridden horse and train him up the 

levels.” 

A gold score of 8.33 gained by 

Edmund C, by Cero Blue TN out of an 

Armitage mare, the accolade of highest 

scoring showjumping yearling. 

Edmund C 



TealeQuest Determinator 

Says his breeder Dani Collins: 

“Edmund is our first second generation 

homebred. My dad bred his dam and a 

couple more horses that I showjumped 

quite successfully, so this bloodline is 

quite special to us. His dam Meabh C is 

by Armitage out of a touchdown mare 

who was very successful as a young 

horse. Meabh C also had her 2023 foal 

awarded gold at Hothorpe. 

Edmund is proving to have a great mind 

and lots of potential. I plan to produce 

him myself for showjumping and 

potentially have him graded as a stallion 

in the future.” 

The highest scoring 2yo across all 

disciplines was the showjumping bred 

colt TealeQuest Determinator by 

D’Aganix Z out of a Rubin’s Black 

Diamond mare. 

His breeder Sharon Teale tells her story: 

“TealeQuest Determinator is my second 

generation of breeding, I bought his dam 

sire, Rubin’s Black Diamond, as a foal 

as I wanted a Hanoverian from which 

to breed my own line. I put him to a few 

select mares and started to breed with a 

view to sell into the sport. His offspring 

all gained high premiums and he even 

produced a graded son who also 

gained sponsorship on the equine bridge 

and went on to jump to newcomers 

before an injury in the field. 

“I planned to keep breeding, competing 

and producing but unfortunately I had 

to take a break from everything due to 

health reasons. A few years later I was 

back and ready to breed the next 

generation. I knew that I had a very 

good Hanoverian line (mostly state 

premium mares) and I had kept two 

daughters of my stallion, so I knew that 

if I picked the right stallion I could make 

a top horse for the future and that his 

attributes would still come through! 

“Having ridden TealeQuest Black 

Diamond, her sire and her dam, I knew 

all the traits and everything I wanted as 

she has a lot of blood, she’s athletic, has 

a great willingness to work and most 

importantly a good brain. I was looking 

for a calm minded scopey stallion, and 

thought that the Dominator son 

D’Aganix z would really suit. 

“When TealeQuest Determinator was 

born he was literally everything I dreamt 

of and more. He had a good brain from 

day one, he was athletic, willing, cheeky 

and has taken everything in his stride, 

he has a great character and attitude to 

life. Watching him jump over the stinging 

nettles in the field as a foal gave me 

goosebumps, he moved like a deer! 

“TealeQuest Determinator will not be 

missing any opportunities to shine. I aim 

to grade him as a stallion and target 

the young horse classes if he is ready. 

Meanwhile he has a younger sibling 

by Colorit z that will come forward next 

year and his mother has just started 

jumping herself. I feel very excited for 

the future. It’s been a rollercoaster of a 

journey against all odds. My dream is to 

be riding this horse around Lanaken in a 

few years time!” 

The top scoring eventing 2yo with a 

score of 8.175 was Phantom Adamo by 

Future Guilty Pleasure out of a Zirocco 

Blue VDL mare. 

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His young breeder Emily Nicol explains: 

“ I noticed Phantom Adamo’s sire for 

the first time at the British Breeding 

Stallion Show at the start of 2020. He 

was only 4 years old at the time and 

hadn’t been backed for long and I was 

blown away at his composure and how 

he remained so calm at such a young 

age in an atmosphere like that. He’s a 

truly beautiful horse with big movement 

and I thought he would complement my 

mare very well. Phantom Adamo’s dam 

is an old fashioned type show jumper 

with incredible balance and this was our 

first foal out of her. He has been a real 

head turner since day 1 - scoring a gold 

award at Futurity as a foal - and he just 

seems to be getting better and better! 

I was so proud of him for how well he 

behaved at Hothorpe, and he showed 

off at just the right moment. He will be 

backed next year and lightly produced 

as an event horse at 4/5 years old while 

his body is allowed to develop.” 

The highest scoring 3-year-old across 

all disciplines was the dressage bred 

Fruitilicious CS by Franklin out of a 

Woodlander Wild Child mare, bred by 

Julia Wilkinson at Chadwells Stud and 

owned by Caroline Watkin who gained 

a score of 8.05. 

Fruitilicious CS 

A gold premium of 8.04 gained Elmiro 

B the position of highest scoring eventing 

4yo. This young stallion is by the great 

Ramiro B out of a Florett AS mare and 

was presented by Steven Smith. 

Phantom Adamo 

Says his breeder Lynn Robertson: 

“‘Elio’’s dam Visage evented up to 2* 

and was quite successful winning several 

Novice classes before a field accident 

ended her ridden career, ‘Elio’ is her 3rd 

and last foal, the previous 2 are both 

out eventing successfully with their new 

owners. 

“Elio has an outstanding temperament 

which we believe alongside his loose 

athletic paces, bold and scopey jumping 

technique lend itself to him becoming a 

very versatile stallion and also 

competition horse himself. He will 

continue to be quietly and correctly 

produced with his future in mind over the 

winter months and will make a start in his 

dressage and showjumping competition 

career before making his eventing debut 

in the 2024 season.” 

The top scoring endurance yearling of 

the day was Knocksaul Dream Maker 

by Wyevale Boomerang out of a Lindon 

Scholar mare. 

Knocksaul Dream Maker 

Owner Tina Billingsley explains the 

reasons behind her interesting choice of 

using Cleveland Bays: 

“I bought Dreammaker in utero because 

of her breeding. The Cleveland Bays are 

on the critically endangered breeds list. 

She joined us at home at 6 months old. 

“Since then she has shown successfully, 

taking a first and then Reserve Supreme 

Champion out of ridden and in hand at 

Royal Windsor Horse show 2023. She 

was 1st yearling sport horse at Herts 

County Show. 2023, then Overall In 

Hand Champion Cleveland Bay at the 

National Cleveland Bay Show 2023 

and then took Overall Supreme 

Cleveland Bay Champion out of In Hand 

and Ridden. 

“She has a lovely temperament, but also 

quite a bit of attitude and stubbornness! 

She’s very sweet and always seems to 

want to follow you or be near you in the 

field. 

We know she can jump, as at only 6 

months old she jumped the 5 foot fence 

into the next paddock. She has done it 

again since so she is now within 6 foot 

Stallion fencing in her fields. 

“My aim for the future is to show Dream 

Maker in Hunter breeding classes and 

then ridden going forward. I will also 

breed from her to help preserve the 

Cleveland Bay breed.” 

The highest scoring eventing yearling 

was Margeuritte des Bois by Leprince 

des Bois out of a Cruise on mare. 

Margeuritte des Bois 

His breeder Helen Hurford-Dawson is 

pleased with her progress: 

“Bright, elegant and gentle, 'Maggie 

B' is a sweetheart to handle. We only 

breed from mares with a performance 

record. Her dam, Chelveston Lass, 

evented with Sarah Bullimore, and was 

always clear cross country. Her sire Le 

Prince des Bois is the only 5 * eventing 

stallion standing in the UK, ridden by 

Kai Rudat for Sweden he was part of 

the Swedish Olympic eventing team. 

So Margeuritte des Bois will hopefully 

follow in their footsteps with the same 

success.” 

All Hothorpe Futurity results can be seen 

on our website under 





Virtual Futurity 2023 

The Virtual British Breeding Baileys 

Horse Feeds Futurity was 

introduced during covid lockdown 

restriction to give breeders the 

opportunity to gain feedback and 

recognition for their youngster 

despite being unable to attend 

physical events. It has remained a 

popular option for those who live 

too far from a physical venue or 

who are unable to travel for other 

reasons. To achieve a high 

standard of precision in the 

evaluation, there are strict 

guidelines for the quality and 

content of the videos submitted, 

and we would like to thank all 

of our entries who have worked 

hard and have done a wonderful 

job. The Virtual Futurity is a very 

stringent and rigorous assessment, 

and to score highly in it marks an 

excellent achievement. We caught 

up with our highest scoring 

breeders to find out more. 

The highest scoring entry out of all 

virtual entries - was the 

Showjumping foal Calibre Prince who 

scored an impressive 8.7. 

His breeder and owner Stephanie 

Palmer is thrilled with his result: 

“William is from exceptional 

breeding lines. His sire All Star 5, 

grandsire Argentinus and Lux Z on the 

dam line need no introduction in the 

show jumping world. His dam 

Wiverna had a successful 

international eventing career and is a 

4* graded mare. He is very 

expressive and has three very good 

paces, gaining a 9 for his trot and 

high scores for his conformation and 

veterinary assessment. He is destined 

for a top show jumping career and will 

be looking for the right partner to help 

him reach his potential.” 

The top scorer among the 2yo 

entries - and also highest scoring 

dressage entry across all ages was 

Karibu, a filly bred and presented 

Karibu 

by Judy and Malcom Harvey, who 

gained a score of 8.525. 

Judy explains: 

“Karibu’s mother, Palimera, was a 

successful international show-jumper 

in her former career. She has lovely 

paces and an amazing walk, and I 

re-trained her for dressage. We 

competed successfully at Advanced 

Medium and had qualified for the 

Regionals at PSG when covid struck 

and we decided to put her in foal. She 

was 15 years old. Being from jumping 

stock, Palimera brings in new lines, so 

we had plenty of options in Dressage 

Stallions. 

We took advice from Bert Rutten 

(KWPN) and he recommended the 

Van Olst Stud’s Kjento, the 6yo 

World Breeding Champion. Kjento is 

uphill with an amazing canter, great 

temperament and beautiful 

conformation. It was a gamble, and 

we are so lucky that our first foal, 

Karibu, has exceeded our 

expectations. 

She has always been very sweet 

natured and easy to deal with. 

Calibre Prince 

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Unlike most foals, she has never been 

out of proportion and has not yet gone 

through a gawky stage. She is very 

correct in her movement, nothing flash, 

but that excites me as coupled with her 

temperament she looks to be both 

trainable and sustainable. Her name 

‘Karibu’ means ‘Welcome’ in Swahili, 

we feel it suits her well. 

We also have her younger full brother 

‘Kengele’, a very handsome yearling colt 

who achieved a Gold Premium as a foal 

in the virtual grading last year. Palimera 

had no foal this year but is back in foal 

again to Kjento for next year, it will be 

fascinating to see how the third foal from 

the same bloodlines turns out. 

I feel that the virtual grading is much 

safer and less stressful for youngstock, 

although of course, it is impossible to 

show them looking as good as in real 

life. 

We only have the one broodmare and 

have no intentions of becoming big 

breeders. We have had a lot of pleasure 

breeding from Palimera and who knows, 

if Karibu proves herself in competition it 

will be fun to see what she can 

produce.” 

The Truffle Shuffle 

The top pony score - went to the foal 

The Truffle Shuffle who was awarded an 

8.4 by the evaluators. 

Her breeder Grace Wilson tells us more 

about her breeding: 

“Truffle’s sire, Numinous Uno NDW, is 

owned by my mother Gail Allum and 

bred by Nicola Dyson. He is only three, 

and after lightly backing him this year he 

has been graded by the AES. His sire is 

the pony stallion FS Numero Uno, a very 

exciting pony stallion who has already 

produced over 36 licensed sons. 

“Truffle’s dam is Bibi, a lockdown 

purchase off the internet from Holland as 

a just backed 3-year-old. She is one of 

the most fun and trainable ponies I have 

ever had the pleasure of producing. 

Her young age and trainability was the 

reason we put her in foal. 

“Truffle exceeded our expectations in 

every way. Our aspirations are to 

produce her as an FEI pony, but most 

importantly to have great fun with her.” 

Zeronica 

The top scoring dressage foal - was 

Zeronica, who was presented by Jane 

Marson and bred by Emma Langley 

by Zackorado out of a De Niro mare. 

Zeronica achieved a score of 8.375. 

Her breeder Emma Langley tells us more 

about this stunning foal: 

This stunning black filly foal is the result 

of the combined elegance and grace 

of both her parents who between them 

exhibit correct confirmation, movement 

and temperament. Her beautiful dam 

Weronica (by De Niro and out of a mare 

from the influential W line) was bred by 

The Aragon Stud in 2013. 

She was purchased as a rising four year 

old to produce for dressage and after 

several seasons the decision was made 

to breed from her whilst I underwent hp 

surgery. Her first foal by Glamourdale 

also received a gold premium from 

British Futurity but this years foal by 

Blue Hors Zacarado is even more 

beautiful and more elegant in stature 

and movement. 

Blue Hors Zacarado was chosen to 

compliment the beautiful Weronica with 

his lightness of movement and ride 

ability. The fact that he carries the 

homozygous black gene was an 

extra benefit, thus guaranteeing beautiful 

black offspring. 

The foal Zeronica has a very calm and 

biddable nature and is easy to handle. 

She has inherited her mother’s beauty 

and her fathers elegance, combined 

with super movement and confirmation 

from both. She surely has a successful 

competitive future ahead of her. 

The highest scoring Yearling - was 

Saxon TM who was bred for dressage 

by David and Ann Clark and also 

gained a score of 8.375. 

David Clark explains: 

Saxon TM 

“We chose the stallion Suarez for his 

very good breeding, strong dam line 

and performance credentials. He is by 

Sezuan out of a Desperados mare and 

has good rideability and three good 

gaits. 

“Our German bred mare Ehrendame 

is from the legendary E-line, she is the 

mother of regional and national prize 

winners, a German champion mare and 

grand dam of a mare placed 9th at the 

2023 Young Horse World Dressage 

Championship. 

“We aimed to breed a horse with good 

rideability and 3 good paces, hopefully 

suitable for an amateur or professional 

and a lovely partner in the sport.” 

The highest scoring Eventer - was the 

foal Cornsay Overture who was 

awarded a score of 8.35. by 

His breeder Louise Smales tells us the 

interesting story behind this foal: 

“‘ET’ as he is called at home is my first 

venture into embryo transfer foals! I had 

originally booked the stallion Diacondrik 

for my mare Tretinney, who very sadly 

had to be euthanised due to severe 

lameness from EMS. Victoria Wright 

from Caunton Manor was brilliant and 

let me change to Tretinney’s daughter by 

Britannia Royal , but as she was only 3 

yrs I was advised to go by embryo 

transfer! So off to Twemlows she went. 

I did not want to lose the blood lines: 

Chilli Morning, Hand in Glove, Heraldik, 

Headley Britannia and Contendro, all 

into one foalie! 

“He is a very bold, beautiful, easy to 

train young man, a touch arrogant at 

times too but his evaluation was the 

product of only routine handling and 

attention rather than special preparation. 

“My aim with breeding is to produce 

correct , well mannered, 

conformationally good young horses 

that have the chance and ability to go 

and do a good job with a competent 



amateur rider and not necessarily a 

professional, wherever their abilities take 

them. 

“The Futurity Evaluation system is 

invaluable in measuring how my young 

horses are doing as it is so easy to look 

at your horses wearing rose tinted 

spectacles!” 

The result in the 3-year-old group 

- went to the dressage pony Romanno 

Boogie Woogie who achieved a score 

of 8.275. 

Romanno Boogie Woogie 

Kiera bought him as as a foal from 

Jennifer Gilchrist at Romanno stud: 

“‘Kevin’ comes from a strong motherline 

of many successful ponies and is by 

Brando SD. It is important to us that we 

include British bred ponies in our sport 

pony breeding programme here at 

Maestegeirian sports ponies and horses. 

A pony with British riding pony and 

welsh breeding in the bloodlines can turn 

their hoofs to any job. We are excited for 

his career under saddle. He is for sale 

and is looking for a jockey to trot him 

down the centreline. Kevin along with 

our foals by our own Welsh C stallion 

Gweunydd Sianco presented for futurity 

this year all achieved gold gradings 

which we are over the moon with. We 

hope to keep breeding ponies with great 

temperaments and attributes to allow 

them to go on to be successful in any 

discipline, along the way always 

supporting the British bloodlines and 

breeders.” 

The top scoring eventing 2-year-old 

- was Silver Birch who also gained a 

score of 8.275. 

Silver Birch 

Jane Marson tells us more about this 

lovey gelding: 

Silver Birch aka ‘Sid’ was purchased at 

the British Breeding Futurity Elite Auction 

in 2021 for my daughter, Ada’s, 16th 

birthday present! I was helping at the 

British Breeding auction and had not 

intended to buy anything. However, 

when Sid came into the sales ring he 

really had something about him, 

especially when he picked up the flower 

in the pot and started trotting around 

with it! 

I loved his eventing breeding with his 

sire, Catherston Oakley by Opposition 

Bombshell who is by the great eventing 

sire Fleetwater Opposition out of the 

Dutch Gold mare, Catherston Deodara. 

Catherston Oakley has already proven 

himself as an event horse and now is 

excelling in the dressage arena. 

‘Sid’ came to the sale as a foal at foot so 

it was an advantage to see his dam; a 

lovely moving mare with a strong 

broodmare pedigree being by the 

successful KWPN stallion Libro with top 

jumping lines being by the great Faust Z, 

1.60m Winner, out of the SHB(GB) Main 

Stud Book Thoroughbred mare, Silver 

Sovereign. 

Sid qualified for the British Breeding 

Futurity Elite Auction as a foal by 

achieving a good GOLD award. 

He was bred by Fleur Swanton based 

near Salisbury. Fleur had done a great 

job with his early education and when 

we collected him as a weanling he 

slotted into our group of weanlings as if 

he had always been there. 

Our daughter, Ada Marson, was 16 in 

December that year and we took her 

down to the weanling yard where she 

was met with Sid dressed up with sashes 

and birthday banners!! Ada did all the 

work preparing him for his virtual futurity 

this summer. She was very excited to 

hear about him doing so well and is 

looking forward to their eventing future 

together. 

The highest 5-year-old score - was 

achieved by the dressage pony Neue 

Royaal T who was awarded a Gold 

level of 8.2. 

Says her breeder and owner 

Tracey-Louise Muir: 

“‘Jett’ was awarded a SPSS Gold 

Premium as a foal. She is a combination 

of some of the best UK pony bloodlines 

with some iconic German dressage 

names. Her sire Auchmaliddie Royal 

Party is a Gold Medal winning Welsh 

Part Bred Stallion with three fantastic 

paces. His sire, Deanhills Royal 

Jubilee was NPS Young Stallion of the 

Year for two consecutive seasons, and is 

the full brother to Deanhills Royal Portrait 

who was Reserve Cuddy’s Supreme 

Champion. 

Neue Royaal T 

“Neue Royaal T is the first foal out of my 

imported Hanoverian mare 

Dancier Diva, who brings a mix of 

classic dressage bloodlines, including 

the sadly deceased Dancier and on her 

dam side Rotspon and Wittinger. Diva 

was a class winner at the British Breeders 

Network Championship Show. 

“As a foal, Neue Royaal T attended the 

Elite Foals Championships having been 

awarded the highest flaced Sports Pony 

at the Scottish Regional qualifier. She is 

now under saddle and will be aimed at 

the British Dressage Young Pony 

Championships and the Associated 

Championships for 2024.” 

Another score of 8.2 was awarded to 

Ezhiray Winterfell, making her the top 

scorer among the 2yo ponies. 

Another score of 8.2 was awarded 

to Ezhiray Winterfell, making her the 

top scorer among the 2yo 

ponies. 

Ezhiray Winterfell 

She was bred by Siân and Kelly Larken 

who tells us: 

“Ezhiray Winterfeel is by Woolander 

Wavavoom out of a part bred Welsh 

mare by Beaudog Storm of Heaven. 

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We wanted to breed a British Bred 

dressage pony that could not only rival 

the best of the German Riding Ponies but 

with enough quality to go up against the 

horses too. Our aim was big warmblood 

paces in a pony sized package and we 

think we achieved that. She is one of 

two foals of Ruby’s gift, her older brother 

Ezhiray Wilding (by Woodlander Wild 

Child) was also a top scorer in 

the futurity as a foal and is currently 

starting his ridden career. 

“We were inspired by Lynne Crowden’s 

world class breeding programme and 

we’re passionate about supporting other 

British Breeders. We wanted a proven 

sire with an impressive pedigree who 

could fit nicely onto our pony mare. 

Wavavoom has added refinement, big 

warmblood paces and a bold confident 

character. 

“The dam, Ruby’s Gift, is a beautiful 

mare with lots of expression and 

trainability to boot - she trained to 

medium as a 6-year-old before being 

put into foal. She’s now back to 

competing with a family who in only 8 

months have achieved numerous 

placings at national level in BRC 

championships, qualified for gold 

regionals, scored 90% in BD youth 

assessments and is being aimed 

at BD youth selection. We really like 

allowing mares to produce a couple 

of foals in combinations with a ridden 

career. For us it’s about breeding quality 

not quantity. 

“We are so thrilled with Ezhiray 

Winterfell. She is everything we set out 

to breed and our plan is produce her 

and aim her at the national pony 

championships as a 4-year-old with 

Siân Larken who is an advanced 

dressage rider.”. 

Fortis Adamo 

Also on a score of 8.2 was Fortis 

Adamo, making him the highest scoring 

eventing yearling. 

His young breeder Emily Nicol explains: 

“Fortis Adamo is by Future Prophecy, 

and out of a daughter of Zirocco Blue 

VDL. His sire is a young TB stallion from 

Future Sports Horses, whose siblings 

and offspring have been purchased for 

Olympic and CCI5* riders worldwide. 

He is a big mover and serious jumper, 

and his pedigree is a who’s who 

of the top thoroughbred bloodlines in 

sport. Fortis Adamo’s dam is an old 

fashioned type show jumper with 

incredible balance and this was our 

second foal out of her. 

“Fortis Adamo has had a true presence 

since day 1 and has always looked so 

put together and well developed for his 

age. He scored within the top 20 

eventing youngstock at futurity as a foal 

with a gold award. This year I am 

incredibly proud of him for his 

performance as a yearling and we are 

absolutely thrilled by his results. I bred 

him as an event horse - and hopefully his 

results bode well for the future!” 

Lakkanas Spirit S A- "Lily" with her older half 

sibling, SAR Magical Spirit (also by 

Crystal Magic x PHA Magic Dream). 

The highest scoring endurance and 

also highest scoring 4-year-old entry 

was Lakkanas Spirit S A who achieved a 

gold score of 8.05. 

Gina Hunt tells us more: 

“Lakkanas Spirita S A was bred by 

myself and is by my own stallion, Crystal 

Magic, who has been a consistent sire of 

advanced level endurance horses & has 

also sired 3 other Gold Premium Futurity 

youngsters, one higher gold & one Elite 

Premium. 

Her dam, Lakkana, is of racing lines, 

being out of Lapsana who is the dam of 

GFA Leopard, a prolific Arabian 

racehorse. I intend to retain & "Lily" as 

another potential riding horse for my 

daughter, Ruby Theobald.” 

On an equal score of 9.05, Gráinne 

was the top scorer among the 

showjumping bred 2-year-olds. 

Says her breeder Jenny Kennedy: 

“Gráinne has some of the best European 

bloodlines in her pedigree. Her dam is 

Leo Lux whose showjumping career was 

cut short due to injury but with 1.60m 

showjumping stallions on both sides 

of her pedigree she has turned out to be 

an amazing mum. She is by Lux Z, who 

competed at the Sydney Olympics and 

has Lord Calando and Ahorn bloodlines, 

and is out of a dam by Coolcorron Cool 

Diamond, one of the most successful Irish 

showjumpers who has a host of famous 

and approved stallions in his pedigree, 

including King of Diamonds and 

Nasrullah. 

“Gráinne's sire is Noble Warrior, 

another 1.60m showjumper, with an 

outstanding pedigree which includes 

Warrior and Casantos bloodlines. 

Gráinne has two full siblings: 7 year old 

Okehurst Boudicca and Okehurst 

Gallahad. Both have been produced 

by Barry Drea and his daughter Maisie 

Drea at Okehurst Sports Horses in 

Sussex. Boudicca has many wins and 

placings, this year winning the 

Coombelands 7-year-old 

championship, she is now jumping under 

FEI rules with Max Routledge. Gallahad 

won the Coombelands 5 year old 

championship this year and placed 

8th in the Hickstead 5-year-old 

championship. 

Despite being a chestnut mare 

Gráinne has a lovely disposition. I am 

planning to start her next year and am 

sure she will go on to fulfill her obvious 

potential.” 

The highest scoring 3-year-old 

showjumper with another gold score of 

8 was Heritage Poseidon. 

Breeder and owner Jane Marson 

explains: 

Heritage Poseidon. 

"We are thrilled that Heritage Poseidon 

aka ‘Percy’ has been awarded the 

Highest Score for the Showjumping 

Virtual Futurity 2023. Percy is out of one 

of our long standing damlines which all 

descend from the stud’s foundation 

Thoroughbred mare, Queen of Twilight, 



NRG Akhdhar 

who still to this day is one of only a few 

fillies ever to win the Jockey Club Stakes. 

Queen of Twilight bred some brilliant flat 

race winners for my parents who 

started the stud in 1974. One of the 

daughter’s, Darkest Hour, was injured 

in training and so came back to stud as 

a broodmare. We decided to use her to 

breed high class Anglo Arabs. 

Percy’s dam, Heritage Juno, was one of 

Anglo Arab daughters. With 25% Arab 

and 75% TB blood a good eventing 

record with a Junior, we felt she had the 

perfect credentials to make a top class 

broodmare. She was Graded by the 

SPSS and awarded their Regional 

Reserve Champion Title. 

We had always loved Arko III since we 

saw him at the British Breeding Stallion 

Event and wanted to use him on our 

Anglo Arab dams . We are thrilled with 

the resulting offspring with Percy even 

looking like his father. 

Percy has the most relaxed attitude to 

everything; he was so easy to teach to 

loose jump and totally loved it. 

We had originally bred him to go 

Eventing but he currently looks more 

likely to go showjumping. 

He is being broken next month and we 

will aim to do some 4yo classes with him. 

The top scoring eventing 3-year-old 

is Song of Solomon. 

Caroline Spurrier is proud of the 

achievements of this special family: 

“I bred Song of Solomon’s dam, 

Athaliah and I bred her dam, Sharp 

Move. Sharp Move was a full 

sister to Solomon’s Song, winner of six 

races. Both Sharp Move and Athaliah 

have been placed in NH flat races and 

hurdles, but neither have won. They are 

well bred mares, being from the family of 

leading NH and show jumping sire 

Menelek. Athaliah is by NH and leading 

eventing stallion Primitive Rising. Her 

foals have all exceeded her 16.1hh, and 

my choice of Rexter D’Or was to breed a 

horse of similar size to his dam. 

Song of Solomon. 

“My choice of stallion must always have 

good correct confirmation, good 

temperament and a proven performance 

record. The Connemara cross 

thoroughbred is invariably a good and 

popular cross and with Rextor D’Or’s 

outstanding career and Selle Francaise 

in his dam’s breeding, I thought 

the progeny could be very exciting! 

Hopefully, I am right!” 

The top scoring endurance foal was 

NRG Akhdhar. 

Breeder and owner Esther Groen 

explains: "NRG is the result of 2 of my 

FEI3* endurance horses: Dam Moragh 

Akhdhar (2x 160km) and sire 

Watt du Colombier (2 x 160 km). I feel 

he has a lot of potential for a future 

endurance horse, showing a very good 

walk and trot and an excellent balanced 

canter. As he is his dam's last foal 

he will be kept on to be one of my future 

endurance horses along with his 

2-year-old Anglo Arab half brother 

Voltage (who received 8.6 at the futurity 

2 years ago). Sire Watt du Colombier is 

available at stud both live covering and 

frozen semen.” 

Congratulations to all our Virtual Futurity 

participants this year. 

The full list of British Breeding Baileys 

Horse Feeds Futurity Results can be 

accessed at: 

www.british-breeding.com/ 

home/2023-futurity-events/virtual-futurity. 

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Feature Article - Futurity 

Futurity and Why We Did It 

In conversation with Helen Hurford Dawson 

Enthusiastic amateur breeders and twin 

sisters Helen and Jane Hurford Dawson 

presented their foal and two yearlings 

for the Hothorpe evaluation this year 

and have shared with us their story, their 

motivations for breeding and their 

experiences of their evaluation. 

They were encouraged to take part by 

their friend Katy Evans, whose own 

Flypast Fairway secured 7.56/Silver 

Premium at Heart of England Futurity 

in 2007. Katy says she “very much 

encouraged them to do it after I had 

taken my own three year old”. Katy 

added “everything the vet report said 

came true”. Katy’s views on gelding her 

youngster were also influenced by her 

Futurity participation “it made the 

decision to keep him and have him 

gelded very easy. Had he scored elite it 

would have been a tough call. I am glad 

he's not going anywhere and is so much 

easier to handle”. Flypast Fairway has 

gone on to affiliate with British Eventing. 

Buoyed by the advice and experiences 

of their friend, Helen and Jane entered 

this year’s evaluation. We caught up 

with them on their second day when they 

had brought their yearlings. 

These youngsters had something else 

in common as well, Sarah Bullimore 

competed both their dams, both of which 

were “lovely mares with competition 

history, were superbly trainable as well 

as retiring sound” said Helen. 

Jenny Any Dots 

Marguerite des Bois’ (LePrince des Bois 

x Cruise On) dam Chelveston Lass is an 

Irish Sport Horse with a good BE record 

and competed BD Elementary. Helen 

chose LePrince des Bois to complement 

her mare’s sporting ability and superb 

temperament, and for his own 

competition record. Marguerite was 

entered in the eventing section and 

secured 7.35/Silver Premium. 

Jenny Any Dots’ (Temple Akropolis or 

Akropolis Van ‘T Merelsnest x Unknown) 

dam Missus Kali was an “unlikely mare 

who did very well, going to BD 

Nationals, and whose temperament 

shone through” said Helen. “Kali was 

bred to Temple Akropolis because of his 

own young horse record (1.40m) 

Marguerite des Bois & Katy Evans with 

Jenny Any Dots & Jane Hurford Dawson 

and pedigree (Voltaire x Darco). He was 

injured before achieving his full potential 

and is a lost jewel in showjumping” 

added Helen “ 

we both really liked the sire’s damline. 

The dam is Safari Van ’T Merelsnest also 

known as Sapphire (Darco x Hedjaz) 

who won more money than any other 

showjumping mare in history”. Jenny 

was entered in the showjumping section 

and secured 7.75/Silver Premium. 

Says Helen “we are small individual 

breeders, we love all our horses and 

think they are wonderful, but we have 

no way of really being able to compare 

them or know where their potential might 

be so the Futurity day helps give us a 

perspective. What attracted us to the 

Futurity was the vet’s assessment and the 

evaluators’ comments. Their feedback 

gives us something to work towards, 

some good guidance which is really 

helpful”. 

Helen explained that the Futurity 

experience started with a lot of advance 

thought and preparation “We needed 

to make sure we were ready to present 

them, that meant practicing in hand, 

practicing loading, bathing and plaiting 

– all good experience”. 

She goes on to say “as amateurs, we 

are maybe a bit different from studs, we 

breed fewer horses and want them to go 

on to have full lives, settling into 

whatever career suits them and being 

loved by their owner, this is the best we 

can achieve in our breeding”. 



Helen and Jane’s reflections on their event were that “on the day 

the advice we had from the vet was really clear and their 

pointers meant that we were able to then talk to our farrier to 

implement what they suggested. We are still learning about 

linear profiling and whilst it sort of makes sense, it would be 

good to possibly have a webinar explaining what it really 

means and how we as breeders can properly use it”. 

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Futurity: Where 

Are They Now? 

Ros Canter and Lordships Gruffalo - Hannah Cole Photography 

We begin our new series 

Futurity graduate profiles with 

Pencos Crown Jewel and 

Lordships Graffalo 

What a year 2023 has been for British 

event rider Rosalind Canter, and this has 

been made all the more special by the 

fact that two of her top five star event 

horses are British bred and graduates of 

the Baileys Horse Feeds British Breeding 

Futurity! 

When small breeder Pennie Wallace 

was offered the broodmare Cornish 

Queen, by her breeder Olympic Gold 

medallist Bridget Parker in 2006, little 

did she know what this amazing little 

mare was going to produce and the 

journey it was going to take her on. This 

daughter of Rock King had excellent 

traditional eventing bloodlines, being 

bred from Bridget’s Cornish breeding 

family, going back to the likes of 4 star 

(now 5 star) Elite mare Cornish Faer, 

Ben Faerie, Tregea and Four Burrow. 

Being 84% Thoroughbred blood, Pennie 

decided to put Cornish Queen (Geri) to 

her long-term favourite eventing stallion, 

Jumbo, to get the benefit of the infusion 

of renowned Irish jumping bloodlines 

from Skippy and Legaun Prince. The 

resulting athletic filly foal born in 2009 

was Pencos Crown Jewel or Jasmine 

to her friends! Jasmine gained an Elite 

premium at the Futurity as a foal, and so 

enjoyed performing her athletic moves 

in front of the judges at Plumpton, that it 

took quite a while to catch her! 

Pennie sold Jasmine as a 6 month old 

foal to her current long term owners (and 

now great friends) Annie Makin and 

Kate James. When Annie asked Pennie 

what she would do with Jasmine, if she 

was keeping her, she said ‘I would look 

into doing embryo transfer, and I would 

put her with a top rider’ – never 

dreaming that Annie and Kate would 

actually do that! 

Jasmine produced two foals by embryo 

transfer before she began her ridden 

career – Jamakin Faer Trial (by Mill Law 

) now a 3 star young rider horse, and 

Jamakin Faerie Folklaur (by Lauriston) 

retained as a broodmare by Annie 

Makin. When Jasmine was three, Annie 

went round all the young event horse 

producers, and she chose Ros to 

produce her. Ros was only just setting up 

on her own when Annie and Kate sent 

Jasmine to her to be backed as a 

three-year-old. What incredible foresight 

this was and the start of such an 

incredible journey! Jasmine won her 

first International One Star event as a 

six year old at Weston Park, went to 

the World Breeding Championships for 

Young Event Horses at Le Lion D’Angers 

as a seven year old and then steadily 

progressed up the ladder, also having 

some great success with Tom Jackson at 

4 Star level, whilst Ros was on maternity 

leave in 2019. Jasmine made her 5 Star 

debut with Ros at Bicton (replacement for 

Burghley) in 2021 where they finished 

4th. 2022 brought further 4 Star success 

for this amazing partnership at 

Chatsworth, Bramham and Hartpury 

culminating in Jasmine and Ros winning 

the inaugural Event Horse Owners 

Association 4 Star League. They then 

topped off an amazing year by 

completing their first Burghley in 11th 

place. 

Walter, or Lordships Graffalo, is 

Jasmine’s younger half brother, also out 

of Cornish Queen by Grafenstolz. As so 

often with little (or not so little at 17hh!) 

brothers, they feel the need to make their 

mark and out do their siblings! He was 

born at Lordships Stud (Writtle College) 

in 2012 as part of a breeding 

programme set up between the college 

and Ken Rehill of The Stallion Company, 

when he visited Writtle to speak to a 

group of Pennie Wallace’s students, 

when she was working as a senior 

lecturer there. With such a fantastic 

opportunity to use world class stallions 

owned by The Stallion Company, Pennie 

put her own mare Cornish Queen 



forward for this programme, to be bred 

firstly to Grafenstolz and then to 

Parco. Both the resulting foals – 

Lordships Graffalo (Walter) and 

Lordships Parc Royale (Polly) - were 

produced for the Futurity by Writtle 

College students and both gained 

Higher First premiums. Pennie then 

bought both Walter and Polly back from 

the college and sent them to Ros Canter 

as three year olds to be produced, and 

follow in the successful footsteps of their 

big sister, Jasmine! 

As a four year old, Ros took a rather 

green and wobbly Walter to the 

Burghley Young Event Horse qualifier 

at Houghton Hall. It was his first proper 

show and despite his inexperience, he 

was amazing, jumping “out of his skin” 

and giving a hint of what was to come in 

“Walter’s World” in years to come! He 

finished third and qualified for Burghley 

on his first attempt! Long term supporter 

of Ros, Michele Saul came to watch him 

and bought him from Pennie on the basis 

of this performance. Walter then went on 

to finish third in the Four Year Old Final 

at Burghley, when he was ridden by 

guest rider Ian Stark! 

Pencos Crown Jewel - Hannah Cole Photography 

Walter then was the highest placed 

British bred horse in the Five Year Old 

National Championships at Osberton 

and he also went to Le Lion D’Angers 

World Breeding Championships for 

Young Event Horses as a seven year old, 

where he finished 8th with Tom McEwen, 

who was deputising for Ros whilst she 

was on maternity leave. 

Walter then made the progression to 4 

star quite quickly when he was back with 

Ros, and despite the disrupted season in 

2020 due to Covid-19, he finished 2nd 

to Banzai du Loir in the 4 Star 8/9 year 

olds at Burnham Market International. 

In 2021 Walter continued to rise above 

the radar with a win at Blair Castle 

International in the 4 star short and 2nd 

at Blenheim Palace International in the 4 

Star long. 

At his 5 star debut at Badminton in 

2022, Walter burst on to the world stage 

by finishing on their dressage score in 

2nd place to Laura Collett and London 

52. He was awarded the British Horse 

Foundation prize for the highest British 

bred horse at Badminton. He made his 

championship debut at the World 

Eventing Championships in September 

2022 at Pratoni, where he again finished 

on his dressage score in 4th place, 

frustratingly on the same score as the 

individual Bronze medallist Tim Price and 

Falco. 

Could 2023 really top such an amazing 

year as 2022 had been for Ros Canter, 

Jasmine and Walter? It certainly could! 

In May, at a rather soggy Badminton, 

breeder Pennie Wallace was made 

immensely proud to witness Ros riding 

both homebreds in the same 5 Star 

competition, and they weren’t just there 

for the ride – Walter won by the largest 

margin in 15 years and Jasmine finished 

9th. Both horses were then long listed for 

the British European Eventing 

Championship team in Haras du Pin in 

August, and Walter got selected to 

compete there with Ros. In the very wet 

and challenging cross country 

conditions, Ros and Walter were in a 

class of their own, being the only 

combination to go clear within the 

optimum time and make them the very 

Lordships Gruffalo - Hannah Cole Photography 

worthy winners of the individual gold 

medal and also securing the team gold 

with Kitty King, Laura Collett and Yasmin 

Ingham. 

What an amazing journey and an 

incredible year for Ros Canter and her 

two 5 star British bred stars – Pencos 

Crown Jewel (Jasmine) who is finishing 

her season with Pau 5 Star, and 

Lordships Graffalo (Walter) the 

reigning European Champion! 

With thanks to breeder Pennie 

Wallace for this inspiring story. 

Do you have a Futurity Graduate 

you’d like us to feature? Let us know 

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Feature Article - Baileys Horse Feeds 

Managing broodmares and 

youngstock on plentiful grazing 

Many people would not dispute that 

grass is the most natural feedstuff for 

horses but, over the winter months, 

when grass availability and quality 

may be more limited, grass turnout 

may be primarily a means for a 

leg stretch rather than to supply a 

nutritious meal. Come the spring and 

summer, however, and grass pasture 

will usually become a much more 

prominent part of our mares’ and 

youngstock’s diets. 

Throughout the year, grass growth is 

regulated by the weather and the 

nutritive status of the soil in the paddock. 

In the UK, we generally have a flush of 

grass in the spring. Maximum growth is 

between May and June, followed by 

a decline in summer and then a further 

autumn flush, usually between August 

and September. In the right conditions, 

growth can re-occur right into October. 

This seasonality of grass growth also 

affects how digestible or nutritious the 

grass is at certain times throughout the 

year. 

At Baileys, we have analysed hundreds 

of UK grass pasture samples, with 

interesting results. Protein levels in grass 

pasture typically follow a similar pattern 

to that of grass growth, with higher 

protein levels being seen in April and 

May, with a drop during the hottest 

months. However, this will again vary 

depending on weather conditions and 


location. Protein is essential for growth 

and development and so it is important 

to ensure that a consistent protein source 

is supplied in sufficient levels by the diet. 

Too much of a good thing? 

When the grass is looking lovely and 

plentiful through the spring and summer, 

it can be tempting to leave our mares 

and youngstock out full time to enjoy it. 

However, for good doers, care must be 

taken to monitor them and ensure they 

are not becoming overweight. When we 

look at the average digestible energy 

(DE), or calorie, content of UK grass 

pasture, it is easy to see how this might 

happen. For example, an average 

pregnant mare weighing 500kg 

typically needs around 71-88 

megajoules (MJ) of DE per day to 

maintain her condition through 

pregnancy (NRC, 2007). If she is turned 

out on good grass for 24 hours a day, 

she could be consuming on average 

around 10kg of grass (on a dry matter 

basis) per day – though this will be 

dependent on grass availability, as well 

as her individual appetite. Assuming an 

average DE in grass of 9.5 MJ per 

kilogram, this may easily supply about 

95 MJ per day - already up to around 

24 MJ above her daily requirements!

Feature Article - Baileys Horse Feeds 

Furthermore, in many cases grass DE 

could be even higher than this, around 

12 MJ per kilogram, and some 

broodmares may quite easily consume 

greater quantities than 10kg per day. 

With this in mind, the need to monitor our 

‘good doer’ broodmares becomes even 

more apparent, especially when we 

consider that obesity during pregnancy 

can potentially impact on the health and 

future potential of the foal, as well as 

the mare’s own health and reproductive 

function. 

It is also important that we monitor 

our youngsters’ condition when they 

are turned out on good grazing – for 

example, a warmblood yearling on a 

lush, high-calorie pasture may consume 

around 10kg of grass (on a dry matter 

basis) per day. This would potentially 

supply up to around 120 MJ daily, 

whereas their maintenance requirements 

are only around 94 MJ per day. 

Considering that excess weight in 

youngstock can put more strain on the 

limbs and increase the risk of growth 

problems, it may be prudent to consider 

limiting grazing access where grass is 

abundant, either through strip grazing 

and/or limiting their time turned out. 

When aiming to present youngsters for 

a Futurity or the show ring, taking steps 

to ensure your youngster has a healthy 

body condition and is not overweight 

will help to support your veterinary 

score, as well as their longer-term health 

and wellbeing. 

Plenty of grass = plenty of 

nutrients? 

It is a common misconception that plenty 

of good grass at any time of year also 

means that adequate nutrients will be 

provided, but this is often not the case. 

In this instance, foals, yearlings and 

broodmares may be receiving sufficient 

calories from the grass, but insufficient 

vitamins and minerals, thus the diet is 

unbalanced and not fully able to support 

correct development. This was 

highlighted in our own forage analysis 

results at Baileys, and was particularly 

notable for copper and zinc, with 

around 85% of all UK grass samples 

tested being deficient in these minerals 

for all types of breeding and youngstock. 

It is often suggested that grass alone will 

meet a pregnant mare’s requirements 

through the first two thirds of the 

pregnancy, but some simple maths 

indicates that this is not the case. For 

example, a 500kg pregnant mare 

requires a minimum of 100-125mg of 

copper per day. If she consumes around 

10kg of grass in 24 hours (on a dry 

matter basis), and the grass has a 

copper content of 6mg per kilogram, this 

will be providing just 60mg of copper 

per day. That’s a deficiency of 40-65mg! 

The even more worrying element of this is 

that many grass samples will actually be 

lower in copper than 6mg per kilogram, 

with our forage analysis results showing 

levels as low as 1-3mg per kilogram, 

which would make the overall diet even 

more deficient. Minerals like copper are 

vitally important in a mare’s diet because 

they, and other essential nutrients, are 

needed to build the cells and tissues that 

create a foal. The foetus accumulates 

stores of minerals in its liver which it can 

draw from once it is born and growing 

rapidly. Without these reserves, 

developmental orthopaedic diseases 

(DODs) can occur as the foal grows. 

There is also often a reluctance to feed 

foals for fear of causing growth 

problems, with protein wrongly labelled 

as the culprit. It is now recognised that 

it is a high energy (calorie) intake with 

insufficient minerals which can lead 

to these problems, as this creates an 

increased rate of growth without the 

nutrients required to build the tissues to 

support it. This highlights why lush 

grazing alone is not the ideal dietary 

choice for breeding stock, as it will 

typically supply too many calories 

without the supporting nutrients. 

Maintaining a steady rate of growth is 

essential to try to avoid the dangers of 

growth problems, which affect the 

growing skeleton and associated tissues, 

and which could ultimately have an 

effect on a foal’s soundness and ability 

to perform as an adult. 

How can we provide these 

nutrients? 

For mares and youngstock who maintain 

their body condition well on grass alone, 

a specially formulated stud balancer is 

ideal to supply the nutrients that may be 

lacking in the pasture but with a minimal 

calorie content. Stud balancers can also 

typically be used for individuals 

experiencing developmental growth 

problems, and feeding rates will be 

dependent on your youngster’s age, or 

whether your broodmare is pregnant 

or lactating. For those who do require 

some extra help maintaining condition, a 

traditional stud mix or cube will provide 

additional calories. 

Whichever feed you choose, it is very 

important to feed it at the manufacturer’s 

recommended levels to ensure that the 

mare and foal receive all their essential 

nutrients required for correct growth and 

development. Underfeeding is likely to 

cause an imbalance whereas 

overfeeding will provide too many of 

one or more nutrients, creating an 

excess. Neither of these scenarios are 

ideal and could predispose your 

youngster to growth problems. If less 

than the recommended quantities of a 

mix or cube are being fed, perhaps in 

cases where the full quantity might 

supply too many calories, a stud 

balancer can be added to top up the 

nutrient levels whilst keeping meal sizes 

and calorie intake manageable. 

For information and advice on feeding 

any broodmare, stallion or youngstock, 

contact Baileys Horse Feeds on: 

Tel. 01371 850247 

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Feature Article - Equilume 

Shining a Light on Breeding Success: Optimising Health and 

Performance Through the Power of Light 

For successful breeding results, 

timing is everything. As we look 

towards the 2024 season, it is time 

to think about what steps we can 

take to optimise breeding efficiency 

in the spring. Environmental light is 

the most important cue influencing a 

horse’s mental and physical 

well-being. While the equine 

industry has made significant 

advancements in areas like nutrition, 

veterinary medicine, and training 

technologies, the importance of 

adequate and high-quality daily 

light exposure for horses has been 

overlooked until recently. It's not just 

the quality of light that matters but 

also the duration, ensuring that 

horses receive the advantages of a 

long summer's day throughout the 

year. 

How does light affect circadian 

rhythms? 

Like humans, horses need light for more 

than just vision. Special cells at the back 

of the eye respond to blue wavelengths 

of light. As sunlight is naturally high in 

blue light, this serves to regulate internal 

rhythms throughout the horse’s body. This 

system, called the circadian system, 

controls the activity of nearly every cell 

in the body, ensuring the body clock 

stays in tune with the daily light-dark 

cycles. 

Circadian rhythms are physical, mental 

and behavioural changes that follow an 

approximate 24-hour cycle and ensure 

the body clock stays in tune with the 

daily light/dark cycles. These rhythms 

function to coordinate internal 

physiology and behaviour with the 

Equilume stable light systems 

external environment to support health, 

behaviour and well-being. Examples of 

circadian rhythms include sleep/wake 

patterns, eating habits, alertness, 

performance, heart rate, body 

temperature and blood pressure. 

By supporting the horse's internal body 

clock, their natural internal timing system, 

proper lighting helps in maximising 

reproductive activity in mares and 

stallions, as well as maintaining 

muscle tone, promoting a sleek and shiny 

coat, strengthening the immune system, 

enhancing appetite, and positively 

influencing mood and behaviour in all 

horses. 

Exposure to the wrong kind of lighting at 

different times of day plays havoc with 

an animal’s circadian system 

causing it to flatline. The consequences 

of circadian disruption are well-known in 

humans and include sleep disturbances, 

low alertness, impaired performance, 

immune suppression, illness and disease. 

The key to well-being is strong internal 

rhythms driven by consistent exposure to 

biologically effective blue light by day. 

The ultimate goal for stable circadian 

rhythms is to provide horses with lighting 

that closely replicates the benefits of the 

natural day-night cycle in their 

environment. This is essential to establish 

and maintain circadian rhythms ensuring 

horses achieve optimum health and 

performance. 

Light plays an important role on your 

breeding stock’s performance. 

Horses are long-day seasonal breeders 

with a natural reproductively active 

period coinciding with the light-filled 

days of summer. To advance seasonal 

reproductive activity, a switch from a 

short light day to a long light day needs 

to be experienced by breeding stock. 

A normal winter’s day consists of a 

long night and a short day, and a long 

summer day consists of approximately 

16 hours of light and 8 hours of dark. 

The most effective way to bring forward 

the horse’s breeding season is to shift 

the horse’s exposure to lighting from a 

short light day to a long day during the 

mid-winter months. 

This rapid transition in lighting will 

suppress melatonin levels and activate 

reproduction, growth and milk 

production hormones. Melatonin is the 

hormone associated with darkness and 

its levels rise at night. Long nights during 

the winter months result in long durations 

of high melatonin production shutting 

down the mare’s reproductive system. 

Suppressing the rise of melatonin via 

natural or artificial light lengthens the 

day and triggers the start of the mare’s 

reproductive cycle in the spring. 


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Correct lighting can have many benefits 

for your breeding stock. As seasonal 

breeders, the naturally lengthening days 

of spring suppress melatonin and in turn, 

stimulate reproductive hormones that 

maximise fertility for both mares and 

stallions. Once these hormones 

gradually rise over 6-8 weeks of a long 

daylight cycle, they are responsible for: 

• Increased mare and stallion 

fertility 

• Early ovulation 

• Normal pregnancy lengths 

• Optimum foal growth in utero 

In the Thoroughbred sector, early 

ovulations mean the production of 

early-season foals and increases in the 

economic value of young stock. In the 

Sport Horse sector, timely conception 

means less disruption of competition 

schedules, reduced workload managing 

multiple cycles, and increased chances 

of success using valuable semen. 

How lighting affects your Stallions 

fertility 

Stallions too need adequate light 

duration for optimum fertility. While they 

can breed all year long, fertility is 

highest during the longest days of the 

year. Published studies have shown that 

semen volume, sperm concentration, 

libido and reproductive behaviour are 

all positively influenced by the duration 

of light. It is recommended that long-day 

light therapy for stallions also be initiated 

70 days prior to the time of peak 

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important for young stallions facing their 

first breeding season when testes size 

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can be produced. 

Lighting the pathway to better 

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Annual day length changes associated 

with the seasons also impact 

performance in the competition horse. 

Correct management of lighting allows 

horse owners to bring forward spring 

and delay autumn, thereby extending the 

period of peak performance associated 

with summer vigour. Longer day lengths 

are associated with: 

• Improved muscle development 

• Stronger immunity and better 

appetites. Improved behaviour 

and alertness 

• Shining show coats and 

accelerated winter shedding 

Increases in daily exposure to 

biologically effective light can help to 

shed a winter coat earlier in the year, 

as well as maintain the coat condition in 

the autumn months to avoid clipping for 

late-season competitions and 

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We can see the benefits of good quality 

light in the overall health of animals. Not 

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clock to work most effectively, stable 

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key components: blue-enriched light by 

day, gradual light transitions at dawn 

and dusk, and dim red light or darkness 

at night. 

Blue-enriched light that best mimics 

natural daylight boosts horses’ physical 

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Vet Article - Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons 

Managing the 

High-Risk 

Pregnancy 

By Camilla Scott, BVetMed, 

CertAVP(ESM), DACT, MRCVS 

RCVS Recognised Specialist in 

Veterinary Reproduction (Equine) 

Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons 

Live foaling rates are typically 

reported around 80%, meaning 

conversely that nearly one fifth of all 

pregnancies are lost. Fetal growth 

and development are reliant upon 

a healthy uterine environment and 

effective placentation; compromise 

of these may result in fetal hypoxia 

(lack of oxygen), infection or defective 

development. Maternal, placental 

and fetal risk factors such as umbilical 

cord abnormalities, twining, Equine 

Herpes Virus infection and colic may 

result in a compromised pregnancy. 

Ultrasound examination is the single 

most useful technique for 

assessing fetal wellbeing in late 

pregnancy. In mares considered to be 

high risk for pregnancy loss, routine 

monitoring of the fetus, placenta and 

uterus by ultrasound examination can 

aid early detection of any 

abnormalities. Evaluation of 

fetoplacental wellbeing is also 

indicated in mares presented with 

systemic illness, acute abdominal 

pain, premature mammary gland 

development, vulvar discharge or an 

unusual increase in abdominal size. If 

diagnosed early and treated 

effectively, positive outcomes for both 

foal viability and future athletic 

performance can be achieved. 

Diagnosis of the high risk 

pregnancy 

Prior to examination, a past 

reproductive and medical history 

should be taken, paying particular 

attention to any previous problems 

during gestation or any illness 

associated with previous foals. 

A detailed history of the current 

pregnancy including breeding dates, 

previous ultrasound examinations and 

vaccinations also provides vital 

information. 

Physical examination of the mare to 

determine any signs of pain or 

systemic illness, excessive 

abdominal distension, vaginal 

discharge or premature mammary 

gland development will then be 

performed prior to ultrasound 

examination. 

Transrectal palpation will help 

determine fetal activity, 

presentation and volume of fetal fluid. 

Since ascending placentitis (infection 

of the placenta) is one of the most 

common causes of mid to late 

pregnancy loss and premature 

delivery, it is imperative to assess the 

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Vet Article - Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons 

placenta carefully. Transrectal ultrasound 

examination will focus on any evidence 

of early opening of the cervix, purulent 

discharge and thickening or separation 

of the placenta from the uterus, consistent 

with placentitis. A measurement of the 

combined thickness of the uterus and 

placenta (CTUP) will be determined. 

At least three measurements should be 

taken and averaged. (Fig.1) 

the fetal thorax by first visualising the 

fetal ribs, which will appear as bright 

white lines on the ultrasound image. The 

fetal heart rate should be determined 

both at rest and after a period of fetal 

movement. Fetal heart rates typically 

vary between 80-120bpm (Fig. 3) and 

should show a 15-20 bpm increase 

following periods of activity. 

at Rossdales Veterinary Surgeons into 

the use of Oestradiol-17 to progesterone 

ration, alpha-fetoprotein and serum 

cytokines as biomarkers for placental 

health in a UK population of pregnant 

Thoroughbred mares by analysing serial 

blood samples throughout diagnosis and 

treatment of placentitis. 

Analysis of fetal ECGs during late 

gestation has the potential as a practical 

and non-invasive tool to assess fetal 

health, with continuous readings being 

performed easily (Fig. 4). 

Fig 1 - Combined thickness of the Uterus and 

Placenta (CTUP): three measurements all below 

reference range for stage of gestation 

Normal values have been established 

throughout pregnancy,

Vet Article - Rossdales 

Fig 5 - Commonly used therapeutics to treat mares 

with placentitis 

Any administration of therapeutic drugs 

to pregnant mares, however, must be 

considered carefully to ensure they are 

safe for both the mare and fetus. 

Ideally any use of antibiotics should be 

based on bacterial culture and antibiotic 

sensitivity testing, if a sample can be 

obtained. Otherwise the most common 

bacteria isolated from cases of 

placentitis are Streptococcus equi 

subspecies zooepidemicus and E.coli 

and hence a broad spectrum systemic 

antibiotic with the ability to cross the 

equine placenta should be chosen. 

Trimethoprim Sulfadiazine or a 

combination of gentamicin and penicillin 

are commonly used. 

Anti-inflammatory therapy with drugs 

such as firocoxib, pentoxifylline and 

aspirin aims to reduce the production of 

inflammatory products and 

prostaglandins which can cause 

pre-term labour and abortion. 

Anti-inflammatories can also provide 

pain relief and some products will also 

help blood flow to the placenta. 

Progestin supplementation is commonly 

given and in women has been shown 

to significantly improve the outcome 

of women with a history of pre-term 

delivery. Mares are typically treated with 

Altrenogest (Regumate®) which will help 

block uterine contractions, keeping the 

uterus quiet. 

Serial monitoring of high-risk pregnant 

mares is of paramount importance as 

management approaches may need 

to be modified. Determining the exact 

problem in a high-risk pregnant mare 

can be challenging but treatment should 

be aimed at providing effective support 

for the health of both the mare and foal. 

The overall aim is to facilitate a long 

enough gestation length, to allow fetal 

maturation and the delivery of a healthy 

foal. 

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The Treatment Of Foal 

Angular Limb Deformity 

(Ald) And Flexural 

Deformity (Fd) Using 

The Imprint System 

Early detection and treatment is desirable. These conditions are divided 

into angular limb deformity (ALD)and flexural deformity(FD): 

ALD– deviation from the true alignment of the foal limb. (This is not 

limb rotation – untreatable by the farrier.) These conditions may be 

present at parturition and could be congenital, or are acquired as 

the foal develops, often when the foal is growing rapidly. 

Classification: angular limb deformities are described 

as either valgal– where the deviation occurs lateral to the axis of 

the limb or varal where deformities occur when the deviation is 

medial to the axis of the limb. (Greet T.R.C. 2000 AAEP) This can 

occur at any of the joints of the limb but predominantly the fetlock 

and carpus or tarsus (knee or hock). 

The point of deviation is at the physis (growth plate) and not the 

articulation. These are located at the distal end of the radius at the 

knee and tibia at the hock. At the fetlock there are physes, both 

above and below the articulation at the distal end of the large 

metacarpal and the proximal end of the proximal phalanx (long 

pastern bone). These deviations can affect one joint only or more. 

Cases may arise which are carpal valgus (medial deviation of the 

Joint) and fetlock varus (lateral deviation) simultaneously resulting 

in ‘zig zag legs’. A foal born with ‘windswept’ limbs has valgal 

deformity in both the tarsus (hock) and fetlock in the one limb and 

varal deviation in both joints in the other hind limb. 

Flexural deformity: either ‘apparent contracture’ of the flexor 

tendons, where the foal stands on tip toe with the heels off the 

ground or flaccidity – looseness rendering the foal unable to keep 

the toe on the ground with the fetlock low or on the ground. 


1.Windswept hind limbs before treatment 1

Farriery Article - British Farriers and Blacksmiths Association 

In affected foal’s flexural flaccidity is 

usually present at birth whereas flexor 

contracture may be present at birth, but 

often develops at a later stage such as 

during a growth spurt. 

Farriery treatment: ALD may be 

carried out in tandem with veterinary 

drug and surgical interventions such as 

periosteal stripping or stapling or 

screwing one side of the growth plate 

in more severe cases. The first line of 

treatment is hoof trimming to counter any 

perceived misalignment of the limb. It is 

worth noting that many neonatal 

(newborn) foals stand ‘A’ frame and 

appear slightly carpal valgus; this is 

‘normal’ for them. As they develop and 

broaden in the chest, the limb will also 

straighten up, as with lateral rotation of 

the forelimbs. So frequent trimming of 

one side of the hoof ie carpal valgus 

– trimming the lateral side - is advised. 

With carpal varus, trimming of the 

medial hoof wall may be all that is 

required to bring the limb back into axial 

alignment. When this is ineffective then 

additional intervention in the form of 

adding material to the low or close side 

to create more depth and side extension 

puts material where the foot needs to be, 

in doing so re-aligning and correcting 

the limb deviation. 

Shoe or extension only? 

In most instances of ALD there is little or 

no need to apply a full shoe to the foot, 

only an extension to one side or the 

other. Where a shoe is useful is when a 

large, say, lateral extension needs to be 

applied to a developing foot, it provides 

overall stability and less hoof distortion. 

Hoof prep: The hoof needs trimming to 

optimum shape, the sole cleaned 

carefully, removing and exfoliating 

tissue. The side of the hoof which is to 

receive the extension needs the file 

running over it to remove all periople in 

the attachment area before Imprint 

UltraFast Adhesive and Hoof repair 

/ extension material is applied. Most 

cases treated are resolved in one, two or 

seldom more than three sessions. 

Club Foot - Acquired Flexural Deformity: 

Possibly a disparity of growth between 

bone and tendons. So called ‘Ballerina 

Syndrome’ refers to a foal which stands 

on tiptoe, heels off the ground. This 

condition can develop rapidly; the Deep 

Digital Flexor Tendon (DDFT) is primarily 

involved. 

Where the Superficial Digital Flexor 

Tendon (SDFT) is affected angulation 

at the fetlock is lost, this is more likely 

to cause knuckling over at the fetlock 

due to its insertions at the pastern joint. 

This is difficult to treat by farriery. If the 

heels are on the ground and the pastern 

upright, the SDFT will be affected only 

2. Imprint Lateral and mdeial extension foal shoes 

fitted 

3. Immediately improved posture. 

4.Windswept condition resolved 

and veterinary intervention required. 

The various stages of club foot are 

clearly defined in ‘Foal to Race Horse’ 

chapter 5 by Simon Curtis, which ranges 

from an upright hoof with a broken 

forward hoof pastern axis, stage I to IV, 

heels off the ground, and the hoof liable 

to knuckle forwards. These cases induce 

leverage at the toe, causing the lower 

hoof wall to be pulled away and lesions 

around the white line develop. The tip of 

the pedal bone presses on the sole 

creating pain and increasing the 

likelihood of tendon tension as a 

response to the pain, not dissimilar to the 

laminitic. 

Farriery Treatment Once the condition is 

beyond trimming alone then toe 

protection, both solar and around the 

wall is desirable. Adhesive is applied to 

the cleaned sole excluding the frog, and 

onto the dorsal wall. This is followed 

immediately by modelling the Imprint 

Hoof Repair over the same areas. A thin 

skin is created beginning towards the 

heels maintaining the anatomical shape 

and concavity of the sole; towards the 

toe the material is made thicker, creating 

a wedge. The toe extension length is 

governed by the pastern; it is extended 

forward to create straight phalangeal 

alignment. 

As many foals have an ‘A’ frame stance, 

it is not uncommon to create a toe 

extension oriented dorso-medially. 

The confirmation of the necessity of this 

would be evident because the inside 

toe would be worn excessively, as 

well as some degree of medio-lateral 

imbalance. The heels of the foot are not 

constricted and the material has some 

flexibility. The completed job should 

position the foal with the heels on the 

ground or within 10 mm at most. The 

foal should be comfortable. Often the 

heels will drop quickly due to the sole 

protection newly in place, alleviating 

pain in that area. 

Flexor Flaccidity: This condition is 

most common in the hind limbs but any 

can be affected. Premature, weak or 

very large foals can present like this 

at birth. The toe will be raised off the 

ground and the pastern at a low angle 

or lying along the ground with the 

fetlock on the floor in more severe cases. 

Many will firm up within days or in a 

week or two without farrier intervention. 

When severe or not recovering after a 

couple of weeks, caudal/palmer heel 

extensions are likely to be required to 

assist the toe to the ground and raise the 

pastern angle. 

Treatment: These extensions need to 

be well attached as there is substantial 

leverage brought to bear on them, so a 

shoe or all over attachment to the hoof is 

desirable. 

Foot Preparation: As described 

earlier, the bulbs of the heels may be 

sore from weight-bearing instead of the 

soles, so care not to cover or pressurise 

them is important when fitting the 

extension. The length of extension 

required is enough to mechanically 

achieve the objective. An Imprint foal 

shoe at least as big as the foot or larger 

is selected. It can be easily downsized, 

but having one with extra length begins 

the heel extension. The extension is 

prefabricated onto the shoe before 

fitting. As with the previous procedures, 

these cases are usually resolved within a 

relatively short time. 

References: Greet T.R.C. 2000 AAEP 

Managing Flexural and Angular 

Limb Deformities. 

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Feature Article - NAF 

Nutrition through Weaning 

Supporting the Mare and Foal 

Kate Hore. RNutr (Animal), R.Anim.Technol (Cert). Head Nutritionist at NAF 

Table 1: Body Condition Scoring 

Horses. (Right image) 

Note – Do check which scale you are 

using, as there is also a 1-9 scale. They 

are both suitable, so just be clear as to 

which one you’re working to. 

Optimising their dietary 

requirements through weaning 

ensures both mare and foal come 

through the process fit, well, and 

ready to go forward to their next 

stage. 

Dietary considerations – the Mare 

Differing nutritional factors can have 

opposing effects on mares through the 

weaning period, particularly for those 

at pasture. As milk production drops, her 

energy and nutrient requirements are 

lower which potentially means she will 

need little, or no, concentrate feed. As 

research shows dry matter consumption 

by lactating mares is around 2.4% 

BW1, it is possible for good quality 

pasture alone to meet, and even exceed, 

energy and protein requirements. For 

these mares, supplementing with a 

broad-spectrum vitamin and mineral 

supplement to ensure essential 

micronutrient requirements are met is 

advised2. 

Conversely, weaning often coincides 

with a drop in both pasture quality 

and growth rate. Further, if the mare is 

receiving concentrates then it should be 

remembered that the pre-weaning foal 

could easily be eating 1-2kg per day 

of mum’s ration. Both of these factors 

reduce dietary intake for the mare. This is 

particularly relevant for the rebred mare 

where weaning is likely to be 

coinciding with that stage of gestation 

where demands increase. 

Therefore maintaining the mare through 

weaning is somewhat of a balancing 

act, between reduced requirements as 

lactation drops, and increased 

requirements through pasture changes 

and gestation. 

Some managers may withdraw all 

concentrate feed in order to decrease 

milk production at weaning. However 

there is no evidence to suggest that feed 

restriction alters milk production, and 

as any sudden feed withdrawal may 

negatively impact nutrient uptake by 

the foetus, this practice is not advised 

particularly for pregnant mares2. 

Mares should be monitored regularly 

to allow small, gradual changes to their 

diet as and when necessary. Body 

Condition Scoring is a great way to 

judge how each individual is responding. 

We recommend the 0-5 scale (see Table 

1), with an aim to maintain your mare at 

a scale of 2-3, Moderate to Good. 

Dietary Considerations – the Foal 

As with the mare and, indeed, all equine 

diets, the most important factor for 

feeding the foal is to make changes 

gradually, which allows the complex 

microbiota of the hindgut to adapt. 

Weaning is stressful to the foal both 

psychologically and nutritionally3. 

Psychological stress through separation 

from their dam, and nutritional stress 

through removal of milk from their diet. 

In turn, any digestive stress can further 

impact psychological stress along a 

pathway known as the ‘Gut-brain-axis’ 

(GBA). Discussion of which is outside 

the remit of this article, but essentially the 

GBA is a multi-directional pathway 

between the brain and gut, whereby 

stress in the brain can impact the gut 

microbiome, and dysbiosis (imbalance) 

in the microbes can strongly influence 

brain and behaviour4. For this reason, 

gradual changes are the order of the 

day. At least one month prior, foals 

should be introduced to the concentrate 

and forage feeds they will receive as 

a weanling2 to allow for adaptation, 

whilst also supporting a steady growth 

curve. All precautions should be taken, 

including monitoring pasture quality, 

forage intake and concentrates, to avoid 

large fluctuations. 


CONDITION SCORING 

Feature Article - NAF 

Your guide to a healthy horse 

Score Condition Neck Back & Ribs Pelvis 

Danger at risk Ideal at risk 

0 

1 

2 

3 

4 

5 

Very Poor 

Poor 

Moderate 

Good 

Fat 

Very Fat 

Marked ewe neck. 

Narrow & slack at base 

and on either side of croup 

Ewe neck, narrow 

and slack at base 

Narrow but firm. 

No crest (except stallions). 

Firm neck. 

Slight crest. 

Marked crest, wide & firm. 

Folds of fat. 

Tight skin over prominent ribs 

Backbone, sharp & easily seen. 

Ribs easily visible. 

Skin sunken around an easily 

visible backbone. 

Ribs just visible. Croup well 

defined, some fat. Backbone 

covered, but easily felt. 

Ribs just covered, but easily felt. 

No gutter along the back. 

Backbone covered but felt. 

Ribs well covered, 

need firm pressure to feel. 

Gutter along backbone. 

Ribs buried – can’t feel. 

Deep gutter along a 

broad back. 

Angular pelvis – skin tight 

Deep cavity under tail. 

Rump sunken but supple skin. 

Pelvis & croup well defined. 

Deep depression under tail. 

Rump flat either side 

of backbone. 

Slight cavity under tail. 

Covered by fat & rounded. 

No gutter. Pelvis easily felt. 

Gutter to root of tail. 

Pelvis covered by soft fat – 

felt only with firm pressure. 

Deep gutter to tail. 

Pelvis buried – can’t feel. 

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Weaning can be a time of decreased 

voluntary intake, most likely linked to the 

stress discussed, which inevitably tends 

to be followed by a period of 

compensatory growth. This should be 

avoided as it is recognised as a risk for 

developmental orthopaedic disease 

in growing horses5. Emerging new 

research is even beginning to establish 

links between early microbiome health in 

foals and future race performance and 

placings, putting further emphasis on 

good gut health at all times6. 

One strategy to avoid a drop in 

appetite is to ensure their forage source 

is consistent and of good quality, as 

horses will consume more of high quality 

forage than poor2. 

Gut support for Weanlings 

One particular area of digestive health 

we need to be aware of is ulcers. Equine 

Gastric Ulcer Syndrome (EGUS) has 

long been recognised as a particular risk 

for, and an important cause of morbidity, 

in weanling foals7,8. Most likely linked 

to both the stress, and associated drop in 

feed intake of weaning, all approaches 

to minimise stress through the process 

should be considered. 

Targeted nutrition can support the 

maintenance of a healthy stomach 

environment through the process. 

Specifically around the weaning process 

itself it can be useful to provide 

additional support via syringe 

nutrition where it is indicated, we can see 

administration to ensure that it is taken. naf-equine.eu/uk 

how the right nutrition can help mares, 

Prebiotics, which provide fuel for the foals and, therefore, their managers, 

microbiome, and live probiotics to through the potentially stressful process 

support the hindgut microbes are 

of weaning. 

recommended. However, it is important 

to ensure the product is from a reputable 

company, only using the legally 

registered live probiotic yeast 

Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is 

approved for use in horses with research 

indicating a role in the stomach as well 

as proven benefits in the hindgut9. The 

literature shows some incidence of 

diarrhoea in foals following probiotic 

use, but this has only been seen with 

strains of the genera Lactobacillus or 

Bifidobacterium, neither of which are 

approved for use in the UK or EU10. 

Therefore beware the new ‘wonder 

product’ arriving down your drive with 

unknown contents, and instead insist on 

using registered, accredited nutritional 

experts with experience in the field. 

Going forwards with weanlings, we 

recommend targeted gastric 

maintenance as part of their daily diet. 

Antacids are recommended, and 

alongside ensure the product also 

contains a pectin-lecithin complex, which 

research shows is beneficial in reducing 

number and severity of EGUS in horses9. 

Conclusion 

By applying the basic principles of good 

quality forage and fibre, making 

changes gradually and using targeted 

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of the digestible energy intake and apparent 

absorption of macroelements in pasture fed 

lactating Thoroughbred mares. N Z Vet J. 50, 

182-185 

2. Geor R.J et al (2013) Equine Applied and 

Clinical Nutrition. Pub: Saunders Elsevier 

3. Normando S et al (2022) Behavioural and 

hormonal effects of two weaning situations in 

trotter foals. Jn Vet Behavior. 47, 99-110 

4. Destrez A et al (2019) Dietary induced 

modulation of the hindgut microbiota is 

related to behavioural responses during 

stressful events in horses. Physiology and 

Behavior (202) 94-100 

5. Donabedian M et al (2006) Effect of fast vs. 

moderate growth rate related to 

nutrient intake on developmental 

orthopaedic disease in the horse. Anim. Res. 

55(5) 471-486 

6. Proudman C (2023) Results of a big cohort 

study of foals from birth to 3 years old; 

microbiome, immune status and health 

outcomes. 11th European Equine Health & 

Nutrition Congress, Ghent. 

7. Becht JL & Byars TB (1986) 

Gastroduodenal ulceration in foals. Equine 

Veterinary Journal. 18(4) 307-12 

8. Heweston M et al (2018) Diagnostic 

accuracy of blood sucrose as a 

screening test for EGUS in weanling foals. 

Acta Vet Scand. 60, 124 

9. Vokes J et al (2023) Equine Gastric Ulcer 

Syndrome: An update on current knowledge. 

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