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Listen to the Hoof Beats from Welsh enthusiasts around the world … sending us their latest… Pat Holmes, Heather Hill Farm, California, still can't get over the thrill of a half share in long admired & now "Royally" winning cob mare Sydenham Forget Me Knot, by Llanarth Lloyd George…. sent by breeder Ann Wheatcroft to Sianwood Stud to be broken and trained by John James, Forget Me Knot was ready to show in the spring… highest placed cob in every Mountain and Moorland class shown in, won her Welsh cob class at every show, qualified for Horse of the Year Show and won at Royal Welsh and Centenary shows… Grand Finale was Pat's October trip to watch FMK at HOYS win her class of Welsh section C or D…. what fun to own & show a Cob half way around the world & bring lovely foals home to California …. Lascaux Welsh Cobs http://www.icehouse.net/lascauxwelsh announces two C foals arriving from UK December 16th … palominos *Popsters Mr. Bojangles (Synod Armstrong x Parvadean Bo Peep) and *Popsters Kismet (Synod Lady Jasmin x Parvadean Lotta Bottle) … join "cousin" & Replay grandson *Popsters Mr. Moffatt… "P. Lotta Bottle" & "P. Bo Peep" being full sibs by Synod Replay … Jenny and Keith Parsons coblynau@sympatico.ca attended both Royal Welsh and Centenary shows this summer…visited old friends, watched Cob stallions running out, purchased colt foal, Avonvalley Dow Jones to outcross with Derwen Reality daughters… Dow Jones arrives in Canada spring 2003 & may be first Avonvalley cob in North America… Helicon Buccaneer (GlanNant Epic X GlanNant Vela), CHJA 2002 Lg. P/H Ch. & carried Sarah Mahany to Best Child Rider at 2’6”at AZ… Southern Welsh Assoc. welcomes new MS residents & CA transplants, Suzan Stevens and Laura and Jessica San Diego... exhibitors from 3 states competing at SWA Bronze shows, Dec. 14 & 15, Trenton, FL included Dwight Hester AL … 8 more 2003 WPCSA Bronze shows scheduled in FL: SWA Feb. 8, Dragon’s Lair March 30, SWA April 12, April 13, DL May 24, SWA Oct. 11, Oct.12, DL Nov.9… more year round fun in the sun with SWA's Double Gold Show, Knoxville, TN, July 26-27… Bronze show points do count… Nov. 2002Canterbury Bronze Show points put Minyfford Megastar (WPCSA year end Ch. Cob Engl. Pl., Cob Pl. Dr. & overall Trail) over the top for Reserve Ch. Cob Stallion… Susan Gallod http://www3.mb.sympatico.ca/~sstepney reports *Nebo Calonnog (Nebo Daniel x Tyngwndwn Lady's Delight) now in California with Richard Gearhart to stand at Larken Welsh for the 2003 breeding season…. Sec D mare Gallod Fair Miss Wales (*Nebo Calonnog x *Gallod Welsh Maid) leased to Tina and Annie Beamer, Washington, for Annie's performance mount…. Becky Francis, Oakemede Farm (USA-Eq Steward & breeder of Welsh cross bred hunter ponies) promises that she, the "lads", Wayne (Caer Wydr Gary Owen x Caer Wydr Grenadine, by L. Gay Grenadier) & L vis (Rollingwoods Easy as L x Caer Wydr Lilith, by L. Gay Grenadier), and mares will be back in Texas by spring, never to leave again … WPCSA & USAEq Welsh judge, intercollegiate judge & showring tyro Molly Rinedollar is starting 2003 off with a bang – opening new Helicon Show Stables facility at Parker, CO, where Welsh & partbreds well represented by winning performance get of Gayfields Vida Blue, GlanNantCountry Roads, GlanNant Epic, Helicon Corsair, Rambur Seven, and Smoke Tree Silver Dragon… reigning among Helicon Show Stables 2002 (open competition) is Helicon Black Opal (WPCSA reg. as Rambur Princess Leah, by Sally Davidson's CC Fury) … USAEq Zone 8 Ch. Sm. P/H, top 1/3in sm. o/at Pony Hunter Finals & AZ Circuit Ch. Sm. P/H… Helicon recommends Mountains and PlainsWelsh show … everything from pet pony obstacle to hunter to stock seat… Kerry Geyer, Mistwood Park Stud, South Australia has lots of news from "down under" …Mistwood Lucy, retiring to mare band, wound up successful show career as Supreme Section B exhibit at the Adelaide Royal Show 2002…more honors include Reserve Champion Section B at the SA All Welsh Show , second in the Australian Saddle Pony High Points Award in the Led Mare, Ridden and Versatile Pony sections… placing sire Rivington Plush 4th in the Sire Awards… 2 Mistwood foals to date for 2002 season, a brown Section A colt, stunning, very typey and moves to die for , first foal by junior stallion Glen Lewis Gumnut (Bambury Tarragon x Loch Sloy Moonshine) & out of Hazelmere Lucy (Baledon Diplomat x Fairway Saffryn)…. Section B filly by Rivington Plush (Panteg Gamblers Luck x Pirrililla Pamela) x Cefn-on-Parc Lady Luck (Langtree Cabaret x Cefn-on-Parc Playmate), being retained to take Mistwood Lucy's place showing… overdue TB mare in foal to Rivington Plush (Section B) for Mistwood's first partbred foal… Mistwood mares reorganized to concentrate on preferred lines welcome Section B black mare Stuart Lee Bella (Sir Percy of Paxhall x Fairway Englyn by Persie Concord Imp), put to Rivington Plush for eagerly awaited 2003 foal… partbred Welsh gelding Warrandale Hamish by cob stallion Barnon Mikardo x TB mare replaces Mistwood Lucy as Nathan’s new mount… a wonderful choice… enjoys jumping and pony club…Nathan looks forward to eventing and jumping with him next year… Marshelle Keville, Bailiwick Ponies, home of Farmore Flamboyant, AWR Premier Sportpony Stallion, Yuba City, Ca. www.bailiwickponies.com keeps us posted on Half Welsh doings … her half Welsh filly, Bailiwick Garden Party a bay filly by Bailiwick Beyond Belief (Sec. B by Talybont Quicksilver) out of a Dutch WB mare Oriana by Ostwind, tied for the American Sportpony foal futurity Champion with a purebred Welsh…. information at ASP website www.americansportpony.com … Sarah Jane Martin, Seabreeze Welsh (Texas), USA-Eq steward, former USDF Executive Director, now programming consultant for USDF, doing the dressage pony thing reports 1st for Delight's daughter and 3rd for Seabreeze Starstruck (RosMel's Dark Star x Caer Wydr Rapunzel) at USDF region 9 Sport Pony championships… both mares scoring high on movement… Starstruck and Seabreeze Encore (RosMel's Dark Star x Caer Wydr Sonnet) had a Florida encounter with Celia Evan's Smoke Tree Silver Dragon for late 2003 foals… Mike Breznia's tip on a GREAT story featuring two Welsh stallions & some part-breds… read all about it online at http://www.auctionforaiden.org… Gretchen Aitken, Oregon, hails 2002 as a year of changing directions… sales of several ponies formerly key to breeding program, exciting new imports ... 2000 Sec. B stallion *Telynau Jacobite, by Eyarth Rio arrived first, March 2002… kudos to Gerald & Jackie Verkuyl, Goldhills Welsh, California for producing and showing him so successfully… firsts every time out, Junior Championships, Section Championships and Reserves, finishing 1st US show season as Reserve Supreme… eagerly awaited first foals arriving Spring 2003 with next season off to devote to getting mares in foal… next came chestnut yearling but nearly up to UK height *Holyoake Anastasia, FP's first female import & already a champion in England… US debut in 2003. … final 2002 import -- Royal Welsh winner, palomino *Wedderlie Mardi Gras, f. 2001, by Royal Welsh winner, Eyarth Beau Geste, expected to 13 to 13.1 hands, to be shown 2003 with first foals expected for 2004…another Sec. B filly to arrive March 2003 from UK… Family Partners looks back on 2002 as a grand year of change but every inch for the better & to the future with great anticipation… New Welsh and crossbred pony hunter breeders, Dr. John and Mary Ellen Payne and son, Neill, Foxwater Farm, Thomasville, GA building a breeding herd have acquired B filly, RosMel's Silver Mist (by Rosmel’s Notorious), crossbred colt, Avallach's Last Call by Avallach’s Irish Whiskey, and broodmares A Twist of Society (TB), RosMel's Touch Me Not (GlanNant Dagwood, Half Welsh) and Harmony Rainbeau (Cymraeg Rainbeau - B), all in foal to Country Roads… plus, broodmares leased from Vicki Monroe, FL, Merrydale Mandolin (Courtash Karnival/Warmblood cross, Devon Filly Champion & Overall Reserve Champion Crossbred Pony) and from Pam McGlynn in WI, Danlynn’s Fire Opal -A (Smoke Tree Tempest X Gayfields Saffir Blue), Danlynn's Peppermint Twist-B (GlanNant Epic x Helicon Heavenly), ¾ Welsh Helicon Hey Day (Farnley Sparkler X Pine Lane Holiday), and Helicon Tapestry-B (GlanNant Epic x THI Bit O Honey)… with daughter Tara having shown Lord Fairchild to 1977 AHSA HOTY, Lg Grn P/H, performance ponies are a family tradition … Country Roads will stand at Foxwater Farm spring 2003… his GA get to be nominated to the new Georgia Pony Breeders Futurity, open to Georgia foals only….Deb Brown-Moon’s HP Country Edition 2002 WPCSA Natl. Ch. in three divisions – Half Welsh Stallions and Mares, Half Welsh Adult Hunters, and Half Welsh Adult English Pleasure… topper of the year: notice in Winter 2002 Welsh Review about Gail Thomson, Gayfields Welsh, getting judges card…could overseas judging be in the cards? … Tamara Howard promises BIG news but hasn't ponied up yet… just wait for the next round of Hoof Beat… REMEMBER…. we can't print it unless you send it! |
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