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March News 07
We had a great trip with our first outing in our newly painted lorry
which we got back at last. Conan got rosettes with all his four
ponies and with Lovely he was joint first in the under 10's and won
the ABC. On Wednesday the 7th we took
Cancun VDL and
Cordoba VDL to the stallion inspections in Cavan and as far as I
know the both were classified S1 with Cancun getting the 'P' (the
higher status for stallions that the judges particularly like).
Saturday the 10th Richard took
Cancun VDL and
VDL Arkansas to
Cavan Show, the first show Richard has ridden in since October 2005!
He just jumped them both in the 1m class, Arkansas had a double
clear and Cancun spooked at the double for a stop but otherwise
jumped well as it was his very first show.
St.Patricks
Weekend So many things are
beginning to happen on the weekends, we have to make choices which
to attend. This weekend was Cavans' two day pony show with a
qualifier for the Louth County which Conan was aiming for in the
under 10's. This he achieved with a 3rd on Lovely on Sunday. The
ponies all went very well showing us that these expensive lessons we
keep having for Conan is helping him a lot (along with Daddy's
training too when Conan listens!). The experts, in the study of
sports, maintain that the most important age of learning is between
the ages of 8 and 11, It is this learning period that determines
their full potential in the long run. This refers to any sport as
far as I understand, be it ballet, gymnastics, chess etc. It will be
interesting to see. Anyway it went well. The picture here left,
shows the three novices waiting for their class ;Jack, Limited
Edition and Charlie. We got the lorries sign writing finished on
Friday, just in time for the show. This was done by 'Navada Signs'
and they did a fine job. Going to this show ment we had to skip the
Midland Connemara Pony Stallion Parade in Mullingar which was
regrettable as we had hoped to take
Westside Mirah
there. Now I find that next w/e the Clifden Stallion Parade clashes
with a show we want to go to in Broadmeadows. Jack needs to get
enough points to upgrade into 'C' as he needs to get into the ABC
classes. To do this he needs about 20 more points before the end of
April. It sounds far away but before we know it, the stud season
will get going, and our time will no longer be ours. It looks as
though Richard, Conan and the Ponies will go to Broadmeadows and I
(Heather) will go to Clifden with
Westside Mirah
for the Parade.
Don't forget Cavan EC is holding their Stallion Parade this
Wednesday the 21st, where we intend to do a stand and just parade
Westside Mirah
and Clover Flush.
Hope to see some of you there.
The Parade went well and we also brought VDL Arkansas and Cancun
VDL. We only found out on the day that we could bring Cancun VDL as
the rule not allowing SIP registered stallions had been changed.
This ment we had an awful rush to wash Cancun and have him ready too
too leaving ourselves no time to plat. This only looked bad with
Arkansas as his main goes on both sides but it was more important to
let people see them.
23rd March. We had the bad news today that
Ard VDL Douglas
is not coming back this year. Douglas has become so popular in
Holland, also VDL want him to do the Olympics too, so they have
decided to keep him. We had shook hands with them for him to be here
for this year, but at the end of the day, he is not ours. This is a
shock for us particularly as the case is still going ahead as
regards his approval. Maybe if Douglas had been approved as he
should have been, his fees earned would have encouraged VDL to keep
him over here with us and maybe not take him back at all. You only
have to be in our situation to know how that feels.
On a good note; We are negotiating with another of our clients for
an International Showjumping stallion to take Douglas's place. But
firstly we have to get his X/Rays sent over and checked with the IHB.
After that we will let you know. He is not a young horse and young
horses like Douglas can always be exciting, but he has already
proven to be a great sire, so breeders should be very pleased. It is
lovely how chances come by.
This week end we are heading down to Clifden for the Connemara Pony
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to listen to the lectures on conformation, watch 24 stallions giving
a jumping display and on Sunday parade
Westside Mirah.
He was in such great form in Cavan that he should be well up to the
trip. I don't know if I am though but my Mother said today, that she
would join me for the long journey. My Mother, Margo Dean was
responsible for my love of horses. She has been breeding them (with
us now) for over sixty years, we have a lot to thank her for. Here
is a picture (right) of me as a young girl sitting on my first pony,
'Ashe Grey', now famous in various breeding lines. At that time I
could not understand why my lovely white 13.2 pony, was given this
name, so I called her 'Snow White'.
I'm home again, Clifden was lovely and Westside Mirah was in great
form, he paraded me! He was the only stallion to get a round of
applause, I felt very proud to be with him, thanks to Eric Walsh for
sending him to us.
Our new stallion this year is called
'Jumbo Jet'. He
is by the famous Concorde. He was ranked 10th of the top older
horses in Holland last year so he is one of the good ones. He
showjumped Internationally (before injury) and has sired an
International showjumper. He has also sired many dressage horses.
Quote from the Leading stallions 2003 states; "The percentage
of Jumbo Jet's offspring that do really well in showjumping is very
impressive" I have just started up his page for you to see,
I have more to put in yet, more pictures hopefully.
April News '07
Cordoba VDL (now
IHR S1) has just headed back to VDL on this first Monday and
Jumbo Jet will be
arriving on the return trip. Conan jumped his two ponies at Ross
House on Sunday the 1st, they went well. Charlie had two double
clears and Jack one as he knocked one in the second class. Tuesday
we are taking Charlie with Conan to a X-Country rally with the Pony
Club, it will be interesting to see how she goes in this sort of
outing, it will be a first for us.
The X-Country went the best. Could not believe how good and well
behaved Charlie was. She never looked twice at any of the jumps and
was so calm and easy, Conan was delighted. We also did the finals at
Cavan with all of them going well only being a bit unlucky. Jack
clocked the fastest time in the C+D finals by two seconds! but one
down. He finished 4th in the under 10s with Lovely but had her
'first ever' stop in the 128 Grand Prix, so we feel something is not
just right with her. Probably she was not in form as she had put on
weight, we cut her food down and she was just not feeling herself.
Jumbo Jet arrived but to our dismay he has a problem behind which is
unlikely to pass vet inspection and will therefore have to go
straight back home. One just can't get too upset about these things
anymore, but it was a bit of a shock and a big disappointment. I
will leave his page for a week before I take it off the site as he
is a lovely horse. There is this possibility of another very good
horse, we are having a meeting this next week and will know then.
The season is underway with mares arriving, while our mares, now
overdue, are still holding on to their foals. The first pair are two
weeks over already.
15th
April. Took Mirah
Mania to the Connemara Inspections in Mullingar today and he
gained full approval, a great flag to add to his jumping pedigree
and ability. Here is a picture of him I took there. I heard
afterwards that he was the smallest of the 70 or so, colts and
stallions inspected that day! He's a good 13.2hh (138cms) so it
shows the need for the smaller pony.
In the morning before we left, three mares arrived from England
visiting Maximum Clearance
to breed eventers. And they should as they are top mares from 'Preci
Eventers Horses'.
The following morning I was rung at the last minute to be one of the
inspectors for the Connemara mares and geldings on the 16th, as one
of the inspectors had put his back out that morning. Judging was
very interesting and I saw some lovely ponies.
While all this was going on, the other evening our poor little
Connemara mare 'Garryhinch Cinderella' who is two and a half
weeks overdue, choked on her evening feed of nuts (which she has
been getting twice a day for ages). Richard fed her about 7pm
infront of the house and the next moment there she was, with froth
coming out of her mouth and both nostrils. She was gagging and
starting to sweat. The vet came and gave her a relaxant but did not
want to dope her because of her pregnancy. There was no change
during the night and the next morning we had our usual vet arrive,
who gave her the dope this time, and put a tube down her throat to
see where the blockage was and if it would shift, it was way down
close to the stomach. When she removed the tube Cinderella had a
nose bleed just to make maters worse. A cold hose held to her head
soon stopped that, thank goodness. Now there seemed nothing more we
could do for a while. Another relaxant injection was given that
afternoon but still she was no better by night fall. It was now over
24 hours and we were getting very worried, no drink, no food and her
heavy infoal. In the morning it would be intravenous fluids, or an
operation. But thank goodness it cleared in the early hours and she
is tentatively eating grass and lots of sips of water by 7am. I
think she is quiet sore. I offered her a gruel but she was not
impressed. Now we just have to watch her that she doesn't develop
phenomena, and that the soreness from the probable inflammation in
her throat goes away.
Our
good friend 'Marily' sent us this picture of Douglas at VDL's
Stallion Parade held recently. You can see why they want to keep
him. This is not a national parade, this is VDL's own parade of just
their own stallions, and you can see from the picture the interest
breeders have over there. Dear old Douglas.
Friday 20th April 10am NEWS JUST IN.
The new stallion to join us at Ard Cherrymount Stud is
Luidam. He will be arriving next Thursday as Billy
Twomey and his owners have decided to retire him from International
competition. He is a great horse representing Ireland throughout the
world in Nations Cups ridden by Billy Twomey. He
jumped the double clear round for Ireland to win the Aga Khans
Nations
Cup in 2004. The only stallion to stand in Ireland who has ever done
this.
Our charge for sending semen around
Ireland has had to go up for this year, due to rising costs. The
charge is now 40 and this will bring it to your nearest train
station on week days. Alternatively it can always be picked up here
at the stud, just book with Richard on 086-2489970.
Just looking around the internet
and it is interesting to see the
Stud Book Ranking with the World Breeding Federation
Tuesday 24th
Luidam arrived looking
lovely, and shiny, so I took a picture. More quality than we
expected and trotting him up, he has a great step. We are getting a
lot of bookings so it looks as though we are going to have a very
busy season ahead of us. Its looking good for most of the other
stallions too, as many have progeny starting to show form, which is
a great plus.
Richard has now had five sleepless
nights resulting in five foals so far. Ard Caramel (by Ard Ohio) had
a very exciting smart dun colt by Douglas (Richard wants to call him
Golden Syrup!). The same night Garryhinch Cinderella had a black (to
turn grey) filly by Westside Mirah (which I want to call Snow White,
after the pet name for her great great grandmother which was my
pony, really named 'Ashe Grey' (pictured March previously)) This
foal was four days short of twelve months in utero which was
probably why it arrived a bit 'ratty' like! Its pretty head and some
time should improve all that. Then a couple of nights later a bay
colt out of our Golden Cliff mare, followed by a black filly out of
our Cavalier mare, both by Douglas, all correct and big. Today,
Wednesday, after morning work, teasing mares, Conan's lessons with
Ian Fearon in Mullingar and doing up for the night Richard headed up
for an early night in a 'real bed' (instead of a camp bed in the
yard between foaling boxes) while I got a chance to update this.
Then probably the next night the next mare will be more imminent.
May
News '07
It's now the Friday the 11th. The
stud is very, very busy ad Richard and I are finding ourselves
finishing our day between 11 and 1 am some nights!. The guy we had
helping us do the stables in the morning was so unreliable we had to
let him go, always late and regularly not turning up. All our foals
have been born, I am going to put a new page showing the band of
brood mares with information, and their current foals which will all
be for sale. Last week end, Richard left Conan, myself and the two
ponies in Cavan for their first outdoor three day show (as he had to
go back to manage the stud). Jack jumped in his first ABC with just
a pole down. A few red rosettes but generally no luck even though we
were pleased with how they went. The weekend of the 5th we had a
double page spread in The Irish Field Newspaper that came out very
well.
The
season is now in full swing. Here is a picture of Richard out
teasing with Mirah
Mania. Poor Richard managed to get kicked a few days ago, right
on the shins, which is now going black and blue. It doesn't stop
him, just slowed him down a bit! I felt so sorry for him. It was
actually Mania who did it when he got excited with his first mare.
He didn't mean to get Richard but these things can happen.
We have a new page
'Mares' which
will show you our broodmare heard; what foals they have and who they
are covered by. Showing
'this seasons
foals' that will be for sale, probably at the Cavan and
Goresbridge venues. It gives the breeding and a brief description on
each of the mares and a picture of the young foals, enjoy. There
will be a few more pictures still to come as I just got a new Nikon
camera and if only I could get more time, I would love to use it!
June
News '07
Friday 2nd A new addition to Ard Cherrymount Stud; a three
year old son of
Ard VDL Douglas hopefully to be named 'Dougalier'. Richard
purchased him during the week and he has since passed a full
vetting. I say 'full' because now stallions have to have 18 x-rays
to be eligible for full approval with the IHR so once these have
been taken they can accompany him if we wish to stand him as a
stallion. He is out of a Cavalier mare, well related and just rising
three. When Richard came home I could not believe how similar he was
to Douglas when he was three, he just a different face and not so
dark a bay.
It will be fun to see how he progresses over the next few weeks as
he hasn't done very much yet and loose jumping will be new to him.
Talking about loose jumping, we see that the 3 y'old qualifiers are
starting in about three weeks time. We have only just taken in a
couple of our fillies, in the hope that we can get them ready in
time, leading anyway! we didn't get much time to do any of that
yet!!!
Its the 2nd week on June and the numbers of mares arriving is
matching last year, surprising, as last year had been our busiest
season so far. We had to put our three year olds out again as we
needed the stables for mares giving us little choice anyway we were
not getting the time to work them, maybe next week. We have some of
our three year old fillies covered as we find it better not to try
and do too much with then at four which is very tempting to do when
you get going with the. We also got Ard Sugar Daddy back home after
being away for seven weeks to be broken, as again, we just had no
time to do him ourselves. Unfortunately, though he looked
well, he was too nervous to accept me getting up on him! It
obviously did not go to plan so we have put him out to 'chill out',
get his teeth done and then get going with him again. We think he is
going to be such a star for lots of reasons. Talking about a star, I
forgot to tell you. You may have noticed one of the horses I had
Evented and had for sale on this site was called Ard Solo, Well, he
was sold to Vere Philips and had his name changed to Hide and
Seek. Just just recently he finished 'Best of the British' at
Badminton Int. 3 Day! where he finished 9th overall. He was supposed
to be by Regal Sting but when we tried to trace up his dam, we
head that he was actually by a, then 2 year old son of Regal Sting,
bred by a man who did a lot of trading and just sold them on, mostly
as youngstock. So that was the end of that.
We tried the young Douglas colt. It was so funny. Even though he
moves like an amazing athlete, changing legs every tern, balanced
playing and kicking the stars with fluid power. His first run down a
little double we put up in the arena was like watching a bad
thoroughbred. Richard and I avoided eye contact as there was money
at stake here and as it was only Richard that had travelled off to
see him I knew how he was feeling. So around we sent him again
whereupon he fumbled over it again...I think he did the 2nd part by
leaving the ground off all four legs together, as though he was
avoiding a blowing crisp bag. Now we had to console each other and
point out the merits of owning a ' very nice looking horse with a
lovely temperament, "Don't worry love" I said to Richard, when all I
really wanted to do was scream at him. "maybe he is just being
babyish". With trepidation we made a little parallel for the 2nd
part and set him off again. Then to our relied it all started to
come together. The way he can play started to show in his jumping.
Our relief was immense. He started to look very scopy, obviously
very green and with a big engine behind he just had to work out how
to do it. All he needed was our patience, now he just needs the
time.
A list of leading Irish sires of Event Horses has been published in
the Irish Field this week end (10th June) and Cruise On is lying in
4th place for horses in America, 2nd if you are talking about
'living' sires, piped by his Dad Cruising.
For those of you with an interest in horses coat colours and
what your mare may breed to a certain colour of stallion, you should
find this page very interesting. It also gives you the details of
where you can get the DNA tested for colour inheritance.
The site is called www. horsetesting.com and it links to a 'Colour
Calculator' I think it is great fun but the hardest thing to do
first is to distinguish what colour your horse actually is!
This is great
- here is the related site that helps us know our horses colour
www.equinecolor.com - I am off to do that now myself.
Its the end of June now and I have not been entering much here, it
has just been so busy. We had a surprise visit from a customer who
fell in love with Mirah Mania. They wanted a good looking Connemara
stallion that could jump and he was what they wanted. When Richard
said that they accepted our price I have to say I shed a few tiers
as I had such dreams of Conan and Mania jumping to the top. I just
wish we were one of those business people who had a big profit
making company and just did horses for fun, we would then defiantly
have said "no". I don't know how much longer he will be with us but
he hasn't gone yet.
July
News '07
The weather is awful. We have two lovely French students staying;
Mark and Guillaume. Guillaume has been here for four weeks and it
has rained every day! Mark hopes to be here till August so I hope we
get a fine day before that. Conan has been doing very little with
his ponies but we hope to get to shows again soon, as does Richard
with some of the stallions. Conan has been doing some Pony Club
things though, here is a picture;
We have just agreed to purchase a coloured colt. He is only a
yearling but has been tested homozygous tobiano and homozygous
black. I love him because he has two beautiful blue eyes (which I
think looks really 'cool') and lovely markings. He is by the champion coloured stallion
''Free Spirit' a son of the great 'Jumbo', the UK based sire of so many great
eventers, especially this year.
Monday 9th July Conan started his mini Pony Club Camp. Here
on the stud the rain is becoming very depressing and mares are
beginning to be effected; not coming into season etc. We have just
over 60 visiting mares at the moment and new bookings still coming
in. Three of our own mares are due to be checked soon and if they
are not infoal I think we will leave them. We may try our Connemara
again as she is 19 which would not be a good time to miss her. And
we have just sold her lovely filly. With so many horse on the place
the wet is causing the grass to be just 'walked into the ground' and
changing fields becomes more rapid. I do hope it gives us a break
soon. Then at the end of this week we have the Cavan Pony
International with just Jack and Charlie. Richards shows were
cancelled when he did plan time to take the stallions so hopefully
next week.
Tuesday 17th July. Richard took Cancun to his first show at
Ross House today and got his first points with a double clear in the
90 and the 1m. Abbervail had a double clear in the 1.10m too. Over
the week end our last three mares were all scanned infoal, 16 out of
16. To top that, Conan finished 6th in the finals of the Cavan Home
Countries International in the under 10s with Jack. He was very
brave, as the week had started with a few mishaps where he ended on
the floor three times! Now he is happy to wear his body protector
and is very pleased with Jack.
August
News '07
I have not been updating this, probably because I feel I should be
doing the jobs I don't enjoy first; like my accounts on Douglas. On
this I have to go back over the years and dig up all the accounts
for our legal battle to get him fully approved. The other day we
heard the good news that the Douglas case is to be heard in the High
Court on the 5th of December (this year!)
As for the news; Conan has been doing well with his ponies. Lovely
won the ABC at the Ross House Finals and Jack was third. Limited
Edition (the little coloured) is jumping her double clears and
Conan's friend Killian has been Jumping Charlie. She actually goes
better for him and I think we have done an exchange for a pony he
has, also called Charlie but the male kind. Killian stayed here for
a week getting lessons from Richard, it was great fun with Conan
riding more than he ever does.
Richard has jumped at a few more shows and
Cancun VDL always seems to
goes clear. VDL Arkansas and Abbervail are also going well with double
clears, bar the final were Richard tried to take a very tight turn
in a very fast jump-off. We have sold a few more of our youngsters
including Ard Duplicate which we had decided not to sell !
We are looking forward to a break by visiting the Dublin Horse Show
so there will be little else going on here for this week
at least.
The Dublin Horse Show was very enjoyable. The highlight for
us was to see the 4 y'old by
Ard VDL Douglas
become the Reserve Champion in the same finals Douglas won when he
was 4. This was Douglas' first crop, Douglas also sired the winner
of the Balmoral 4 y'old Jumping Championship earlier in the year
too. For Dublin the horses have to qualify and qualify again during
the week. In the Championships the horses are then ridden over a
course of fences by an International rider who speaks over a
loudspeaker on their findings at the end. This horse was bred by
Vincent Loftus. We had taken him once loose jumping in Cavan in the
Summer but due to having just been broken and riding up to the day
before he was tired on the day and did not show a 'flash' even
though he jumped well and did not qualify proving that young horses
are not always easy to judge. Both
Douglas,
VDL Arkansas and
Cruise On had
placings throughout the show with their progeny but the exact
results I will have to check.
Over the last two weeks we have sold a number of our youngstock just
coming of age. A 3 y'old filly by Douglas infoal to
Loudam who will be
travelling to the UK. Two Connemaras travelling just North of us
along with one of the Douglas filly foals. Ard Sugar Daddy looks to
be heading to the US and a Douglas 4 y'old will be staying in County
Meath. We then did an exchange; Charlie Girl for Cheeky Charlie.
Between Conan and his friend Killian (who showjumps with Conan) so
the new member of our 12.2hh gang is a bay 4 y'old with over 40
jumping points.
The shows are going well for Conan. In Roscommon Agriculture show he
won the ABC with Lovely Silver, The others divided the C+D. Jack was
doing a very controlled round in the ABC untill Conan decided to let
him off rather fast at an upright, which resulted in Conan on the
floor none the worse for wear. With the body protector still sitting
in the lorry tack box! I vowed he would wear it from now on.
Thursday 16th August I had the great honour to be a judge at
the Clifden National Connemara Pony Show.
It was wonderful. Each class finished with a winning line of
beautiful ponies, excelling in both type and movement. In the
stallion class it was a crime to send any of the back line out of
the gate. It was lovely to see the bone and quality in this class. I
can only see the Connemara Pony continuing to improve in the near
future. It was especially great to see that the winner of the 3
y'old stallion class, also the winner of the 3 y'old loose jumping
final the previous day. A real achievement for Mick Rabbit his
owner/breeder.
The
Connemara Pony Sales the following day had a huge turnout with
lots of quality ponies. Good prices throughout. I did find a pretty
2 y'old filly to take home as one does! Pictured here when she
arrived home.
Tuesday 21st August. The loose jumping finals, prior to the
sales, was won by a Westfalian stallion by Cornet Obolenshy and the
runner up was a VDL Arkansas filly owned by Alan Wheeler, two
fantastic jumpers. There was one Ard VDL Douglas that jumped well
but was just out of the placings. It was a full brother to the 4
y'old that did so well in Dublin, I feel he could do well in the sales on
Wednesday.
Saturday 25th August. Conan won the 128 Under 10 today, at
the Mullingar National Pony and Young Rider Championship. It was so
exciting. Richard and I were so pleased because Conan rode ever so well
and even though he went very fast on Lovely Silver he still kept it
smooth and stylish. His round was early on in a time of 20.33. With
about 50 in the class there with some of the well known ponies doing
a time of around 21. Near the end a time of 20.65 went into 2nd
place and Conan kept his lead. A great boost for Conan. Sunday
was a surprise as we found out when we arrived at the show with
just the two novices, that Conan had qualified Lovely for the 128
ABC. A quick phone call found our friend Katie at the yard doing her
horse, who was able to bring Lovely along in her box just in time
for the class. It was great to see lovely going well again at this
level with one down in the second round which just put her out of a
placing in 7th. Had the pole stayed her time would have won the
class. He also finished 7th on Kilmaddy Cheeky Charlie, the 4 y'old
in the 128 CD final. By the time we got home we were all exhausted.
Sale time for our
foals will be 4th and 5th October,
Cavan Equestrian Centre; 6 foals by
Douglas, a
yearling by
Douglas and our 2 y'old piebald colt by
Irco Lhee which has
grown into a fine big horse.
Away in France and away in the West of Ireland - I will let you all
know when I am back on the week end of 15th - news then.
I'm back, France was great and very interesting. Richard and Conan
came too but when I was judging they had a great time at Future
Scope, a place I would love to go some day. At the show the classes
were not so big this year, I gather this is due to the EVA but still
the top few ponies in the big classes would equally compete with
ours, but type did tend to diminished down the line. Then back in
Ireland and straight into four days of CP inspections. In the
midlands there were a larger number of big ponies compared to the
west. Many nice ones to see but Rockmount had some extra special
colts shown, and it had the largest numbers. The last day was held
in Clifden where it was nice to see that there are still some
smaller ponies to be found among all the 14.2's there are today!
September
News '07
Sunday 23rd Sept. Maximum Clearance died this morning. He had a
massive hart attack, luckily Richards was with him. We were up early
getting ready for a show and Richard noticed Max had not eaten his
supper and was standing with his tail to his hay rack looking a bit
off colour. He called the vet who was heading over and as Richard
was leaving the stable Max took a jump forward and fell to the floor
and that was it, he was gone. Every day he was getting out for most
of the day and was in great form, his coat was good even thought he
was a bit old in himself, he still played about. It was great that
his last day was so warm and sunny where he could stand by his
friend in the next paddock, we will miss him very much. He was also
was such an underrated sire, he bred great foals which I am sure we
will hear a lot about them the future.
Conan and the ponies manage to jump most week ends with the ponies
and Cancun VDL has
been making up points regularly over the last few weeks between Ross
House and Broadmeadows. I will have to get some pictures.
October
News '07
1st October; Richard brought the foals in for the sales this
coming week. He brushed them and put rugs on them...that was fun!
They have got so big and are getting woolly too. (I will try and add
more tomorrow.)
Oct 4th and 5th Cavan sales went well . We sold Ard Hilda (Ard
VDL Douglas ex Cloverhill Girl) for 9,400 bay filly pictured
below, Ard Exclusive (Ard VDL Douglas ex Killagriff Limsey Riza)
for 7,600 brown colt pictured below, Ard Toffie (Ard VDL Douglas
ex Ard Caramel) for 5,200 and Ard Eclipse (Ard VDL Douglas
ex Ard Silhouette) for 5,100.
We had some other sales recently; Ard Sugar Daddy is off to the
States, Highdell Tatianna is going there too (she is a 3 y'old
Ard
Ohio infoal to Luidam). Ard Hawkeye is going to England to stand
as a stallion and showjump as well.
We have also added a few to our heard; Firstly we found the 12.2hh
Registered Connemara we have always wanted for Conan to showjump.
She is called Mundon Fern, she is 5 years old and just broken. We
also bought a 14.1hh steel Connemara mare, riding and going well.
Also an 11 year old brood mare that won in Clifden and is very well
related. Then Richard purchased a 3 year old Connemara gelding 13.2
which turned out to be a granddaugher of Ard Laurie, a mare we bred
years ago.
And lastly, I purchased a piebald filly foal which Richard was not
too pleased about, as he did say we were selling all our
foals! but as she had 'Ard Grandpa' on her sires side and 'Ard
Allez Cat' on her dams side therefore it was hard for me to
resist - she was lovely, having already been Champion foal at
Strokestown Show against all foals, not just colourds. I will have
to see if we keep her as she would be fun to show next year.
Cancun VDL goes
for his IHR inspections this coming week (maybe 17th). He has been
going really well at the shows so I do hope he gets approved.
November
News '07
Its the 13th of November today and as you can see the news is rather
far behind. I will just tell you that Cancun VDL
is still classified as S1 and I think we will have to upgrade him
in performance before we represent him again, as he is a lovely
horse. He has been very consistent in his showjumping gaining the
required points in a very short time. I have a very detailed article
form a Dutch magazine all about his breeding and when I get it
translated I will put it all on his page. An
Ard Ohio gelding won the Cavan International 4 y'old
Championships last Sunday. We have one Douglas foal for sale and a
brood mare infoal to Clover Flush, please email us if you are
interested as they have to go before the Winter.
23rd Nov Our last foal is now sold but next week are a number
of our studs progeny available at the Cavan Sales this coming week
January
News 2008
Happy New Year to you all
Just to start with we have a picture here right, of a nice Ard Ohio
gelding for sale, jumping 1.20 easily. He is 16.2hh 6 y'old . He is
owned by Ed O'Sullivan 086-8364880 and he is asking 20,000
Febuary
News 2008
I have another offering for sale pictured below, This time a
yearling colt by Ard VDL Douglas, dam by Diamond Chin. His 3 y'old
full brother is very highly thought of with VDL in Holland. He is
offered this week in Cavan Horse Sales and his price is 5,000
Please call Stephan 087-8255688
March and April
News 2008
We have now entered the stud season with mares arriving and our
mares foaling. We have had three by Luidam so far; Surprisingly
three bays! Here is a couple of pictures of them before they are a
week old (left two ex Cavalier mare, right Ard Ohio mare);-
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