2008 NEWS
December 27, 2008
rain
HAPPY
(almost) NEW YEAR, everyone! We are very excited about our
coming foals in the new year, and looking forward to the proven
crosses we have on the way! Our first foal is due March 20th,
out of *Holyoake
Sonique, one of the best broodmares we have ever
owned. This foal will be a full sibling to
Clanfair Martina,
Clanfair Malibu
Barbie and
Clanfair Keepsake! We can't
wait!
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
NEWS! NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!
We are pleased to announce some
excited news regarding
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras!
We are now offering a "Dream Come True"
guarantee on foals by Mardi Gras. You simply tell us
in writing what your dream foal would be at the time of booking,
and if you do not have your dream foal, you may try again at
half price!
Click here for
more information on our exclusive "Dream Come True" Guarantee!
Also, we
are pleased to offer a SHOW INCENTIVE for 2009 for
foals sired by
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras! We will award a
CASH PRIZE of $500 to the Mardi Gras
offspring who ends the season with the most WPCSA points,
accumulated during the 2009 show season. Both purebred and half
Welsh are eligible!
Click here for
more information on the *Wedderlie Mardi Gras Show Incentive!
Custom foals! Have you admired our
herd of outstanding
imported broodmares? Have you admired our beautiful
imported stallions?
We are offering a custom foal option, where you may choose both
sire and dam. You pay a discounted price of $5000 for your foal,
with half paid at the time of reservation, and the balance paid
when the foal is healthy at 14 days old. We guarantee a live,
healthy foal at weaning, or we will repeat the cross for you!
This is a fabulous opportunity to take advantage of our
carefully crafted breeding program, at a fraction of the cost.
Click here for
more information on our custom foal program!
Please
e-mail us if we
can answer any questions about any of the above!
December 22, 2008
rain
Points
with the Welsh Pony & Cob Society of America have been finalized
for 2008, and we are delighted to congratulate Carrie MacWhorter,
owner of the *Wedderlie Mardi Gras daughter Goldhills
Makebelieve Princess, who is NATIONAL CHAMPION for 2008!!!!
Congratulations and great job, Carrie!
November 8, 2008
downpour
Well, the rainy season has officially started here! Today we are
currently being deluged with what feels like rain that will
never end! The day dawned bright, beautiful, warm and sunny --
but it didn't last!
We've been busy
with fall tasks here around the farm, dragging and mowing
fields, rotating pastures, etc. I caught this lovely photo of
Gary dragging the mare pasture one morning a few days ago, and I
thought I'd share.
We've had beautiful fall colors this year!
Here are our yearling and two year
old fillies, enjoying a chat with Gary last week. They are so
friendly that the only way to get far enough away for a picture
is for them to find someone else to visit with!
All but one of these lovely Section B Welsh girls are by
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras.
From left to right they are:
Smoke Tree Mimosa (for sale -
not by Mardi), Clanfair Laurie Ann (sold),
Clanfair Queen Anne's Lace,
Clanfair Pixie Rose,
Clanfair Champagne
& Roses and
Clanfair Malibu Barbie.
We believe that LOTS of room to
run, play and grow is very important for youngsters, so these
girls are currently out in a 40 acre field just growing up. They
are so delighted with every visit and can't wait to all get
attention! We are currently playing the "whose turn is it" on
our show team plans for next year and having a hard time
deciding between these lovely fillies!
Yesterday was an exciting day! We
were unable to attend the last show of the season in Southern
California ourselves, but *Wedderlie Mardi Gras was well
represented by Clanfair Autograph and Goldhills MakeBelieve
Princess. Auto and "Tiara" were pinned Champion colt and
filly, respectively, and Auto went on to be pinned Western
National Reserve Grand
Champion, while Tiara was pinned Grand Champion under the
Holiday Welsh judge! Auto is just a yearling and Tiara is a 2 year old. We
are very proud of their success and offer our hearty
congratulations to Kim Boyd, owner of Clanfair Autograph, and
Carrie MacWhorter, owner of Goldhills MakeBelieve Princess!!!
In 2005, the first
foal crop by
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras arrived. One of the very first
foals, and the first purebred filly, was born at Mt. Ridge Welsh
in Utah, and belonged to Dr. James and Melody Ashman, out of
their exquisite imported mare, *Millcroft Java. For over a year
after the filly was born, I kept Jim's phone message about her
arrival on our phone machine! It was SO exciting! He said she
was the most beautiful foal they had ever had, and was an
exquisite palomino filly! Since the day she was born, I have
wanted Mt. Ridge Latte! Well, the Ashman's recently contacted us
and asked if we would like to be her new owners, so we are
extremely excited to welcome 3 year old filly, Mt. Ridge Latte!
Thank you so much to Jim and
Melody for allowing Latte to come and be part of our family! We
are very excited about bringing her out in the show ring as part
of our 2009 show team!
Here are some photos of Latte at 2 years old:
She's absolutely gorgeous and we are so excited to have her
here. Her dam, *Millcroft Java, is by the same sire as
*Holyoake Sonique's
dam, Millcroft Rosette. We note a very strong family resemblance
between Latte and our yearling filly
Clanfair Malibu Barbie, out of
Sonique!
They are very similar, especially in the head -- both of them
have absolutely exquisite faces!
September 30, 2008
We have just had great news from
Debra Landrum in Louisiana, regarding her yearling half Welsh
filly by our *Wedderlie Mardi Gras. Debra writes that Mardi Gras
Trinket was pinned DOUBLE GRAND CHAMPION at the Central
Nationals this past weekend! As just a yearling, that is a
terrific accomplishment! Congratulations, Debra!!!
Debra kindly shared the photos
below with us of Trinket at the show, and one lovely
conformation shot after she had arrived home. We are so
delighted with her success!!!
Mardi Gras Trinket is a lovely example of the stamp that
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras
puts on his foals!
September 15, 2008
hot and smoky
Well, the summer is finished, the
kids are back to school, and fall is definitely in the air here
at the ranch. The mornings and evenings have that bite that say
that the rainy weather is not too far off, and I see a few
yellow leaves in the walnut orchard already. We have our barns
stuffed with hay in preparation for winter and are looking
forward to things turning green here again as the weather cools.
We've just returned from one of
our favorite shows of the season, the Brookside Welsh/Pacific
Coast Classic held at the Brookside Equestrian Park in Elk
Grove, California. The weather for this show was absolutely
lovely this year -- much better than past years when we thought
we would surely expire from the temperatures!
We had an absolutely TERRIFIC
show!!! Definitely one of our best ever. It was very enjoyable!
Here are the ribbons we won at the
show in front of our stalls.
We are extremely excited to report
that our lovely imported Section B mare,
*Holyoake Anastasia
has completed her points for her Legion of Merit!!!
An "LOM" is achieved by winning a total of 1500 points, with at
least 500 in halter and 500 in performance, and the balance
coming from either halter or performance.
After her
importation from the UK, where she had won several championships
and a WPCS medal as a yearling, Anastasia had a lovely season in
the US as a two year old, winning many points in-hand, and being
Supreme Champion on several occasions. As a 3 year old, she
began her performance career, competing under saddle in English
and Western Pleasure, and in harness in both Pleasure and
Carriage driving, where she found much success. As a three year
old, she also toted then 7 year old Anna to a nearly undefeated
season in the leadline classes up and down the west coast. After
that, Anastasia had three years off just being a mom, producing
Clanfair American Hero, Clanfair All About Me, and Clanfair
Autograph.
We left Anastasia open for the 2008 season in hopes of finishing
her points. She had not been ridden or driven even once since
her three year old year, so we were absolutely delighted to
discover that that she retained absolutely everything, and came
back to work like she had done it yesterday. In fact, throughout
this entire show year, she has only been ridden a handful of
times at home between shows, and not driven at all -- a fact
which has not kept her from winning numerous driving
championships throughout the season, including at this show
where she was Pleasure Driving Champion and Carriage Driving
Reserve Champion! She also was Reserve Grand Champion Section B!
Anastasia will now be retired from
the show ring to continue her broodmare duties -- at which she
excels. She is a super producer and we look forward to the
success of her son, Clanfair Autograph for Sterling Creek Welsh
in California, and daughter, Clanfair All About
Me, who we have retained! And we hope for more just like
them!
After
a long show season last year that involved more than a few miles
on the road and culminated in the 2007 National Championship, we
gave Section B stallion
*Wedderlie Mardi Gras
the year off to just hang out and "be a pony". We felt that he
had more than earned some downtime after being shown every year
since he was a yearling. He's had a relaxed, happy summer full
of mares, toting 11 year old Anna around on rides, and just
hanging out around the barn. However, he's seemed a bit sorry to
see us load up and go to shows without him (he definitely knows
the "pre show routine"), and so kind of on a whim, I decided to
enter him at the show. He clearly has nothing to prove, and we
weren't out for points or anything in particular. I just still
happen to think he is THE most beautiful pony I've EVER seen,
and I hate leaving him at home! So, he merrily hopped into the
trailer and proceeded to win DOUBLE Supreme Champion at the
show!!! That's about as fun as it gets in the world of showing!
And I was doubly thrilled that he came out of the pasture and
back into the show ring with such a huge bang!
The Mardi Gras daughters,
Clanfair All About Me
and Clanfair
Martina also had a great show. They are pictured
below -- MeMe on the left, and Martina on the right. They are
3/4 sisters out of
*Holyoake Anastasia and
*Holyoake Sonique.
Martina was Junior Champion and
MeMe was double Reserve Junior Champion. It was fun showing them
both together.
Clanfair All About Me
(*Wedderlie Mardi Gras x *Holyoake Anastasia)
Clanfair Martina
(*Wedderlie Mardi Gras x *Holyoake Sonique)
The two year old Mardi Gras
daughter, Goldhills Makebelieve Princess, was Reserve Grand
Champion and Reserve Supreme Champion! Congratulations to her
owner, Dr. Carrie MacWhorter!
Goldhills Makebelieve Princess
(*Wedderlie Mardi Gras x Goldhills Mystique)
Gary's little Section A mare, SRW
Silver Bells, also had a wonderful show. She was Grand Champion
and Reserve Grand Champion Section A. Gary was thrilled!
So the show season winds down and
the ponies are growing winter coats already. We have been
blessed to have another wonderful and amazing year with our
ponies. We achieved our goal of completing Anastasia's LOM,
though we did not attend many shows this year. I'm always sad to
see the show season come to an end -- the Welsh shows are so
much fun, and we enjoy visiting with the other breeders and
exhibitors so much. The overall friendliness of the folks
involved in Welsh is definitely one of the many charms of the
breed. We are very fortunate to call our biggest competitors
some of our very best friends -- and that really makes for a
good time!
August 16,2008
HOT
We just
received the happy news that our homebred 2 year old Section B
Welsh filly, Clanfair
All About Me, won her class, was Champion Filly
and then Grand Champion at the Montana Welsh Pony show
this weekend! We are very excited! Thank you to Kristi and
Cassidy Gates for doing such a nice job handling her!
August 13, 2008
Welcome
to our newly made over website! We are thrilled to present our
Welsh Ponies and Welsh Pony breeding program to you in a
beautiful and easy to use format. If you are a regular visitor
to our web site, we think you will be pleasantly surprised at
the faster load times on the new pages.
It has been a lot of work, but we
are very pleased with the results!
We have just gotten the exciting
news that Clanfair Silver Wish, a homebred Section B Welsh
gelding just sold for $38,000 at the Pony Finals Auction! Silver
Wish was sired by our very first import, *Telynau Jacobite, by
Eyarth Rio. Rio figures prominently into the pedigrees of many
of our ponies, and much of our breeding program is based on the
Eyarth bloodlines.
We would like to congratulate
Silver Wish's consignor who obviously did a lovely job bringing
him up from the time she purchased him as a weanling, and
congratulations to his new owners! We wish you every success
with him in the show ring!
July 23, 2008
warm
We are having a very busy summer, but haven't been to many
shows. We are in the middle of putting up a new hay barn at the
new farm -- the hay there is currently stacked in the field.
Fortunately we've had no summer rains! But that has cut into the
summer projects we usually plan around the home farm. We hope to
get the barn finished in the next few weeks, and then get back
to our regular routine around here, which will include getting
some of the youngsters, namely Clanfair Margarita and
*Hilin
Eira, going under saddle. We also need to get updated photos and
do foal videos of this year's wonderful group of babies.
We took a day off from barn building yesterday and took some
footage of two of the colts -- Clanfair Myrlin and
Clanfair
Indiana Jones. I was able to snap some particularly nice still
photos of Myrlin with my camera. He is QUITE the handsome young
man!!! Once I get my new camcorder sorted out, I'll have some
very nice video to post of both of them!
Clanfair Myrlin at 1 month old -- 2008 Section B colt
(*Wedderlie Mardi Gras x
*Skellorn Mystical)
I also finally got some nice photos of my new filly,
*Mynach
Miss Daisy, though I still don't think these truly do her
justice. *Eyarth Eragon is also on the "needs photos" list as
soon as we have time.
*Mynach Miss Daisy -- yearling Section B filly
(*Eyarth Beau Geste x Mynach Mimosa)
I can't believe how fast the summer is zipping by. I already
feel a hint of fall in the air in evenings when I go out and
feed grain!
We've had mixed results with getting our mares in foal this
year. Some of them just do not seem to be cycling normally.
*Holyoake Anastasia in particular has given me fits this year --
first coming into season for two weeks, then never again. I
think I've given up on her for this year, and will just try and
get an early start next year. Of course it is frustrating, as I
had so looked forward to another foal from her.
On a happier note, we have checked *Holyoake Sonique, *Skellorn
Chantilly Lace and *Russetwood Romance in foal to
*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras. *Waxwing Garland has been checked in foal to
*Holyoake Copper-Field. I'm very excited about all of these
upcoming foals!
Clanfair All About Me showed at the American Nationals in
Syracuse, New York, and I am pleased to report that she was
Reserve Junior Champion under both judges! I was extremely
pleased, but unfortunately there were no pictures of her there.
She is heading to a couple more shows across the country, and I
am counting the seconds until she is back home and safe in her
stall again. I REALLY missed her. I can't wait to get her and
her 3/4 sister, Clanfair Martina, back together again. My lovely
golden girls.... of all the years we've been breeding, these two
fillies really are IT for me. And a lot of that has to do with
their personalities. Not that they are not lovely and beautiful
(they are!)
-- but they are both so very, very sweet and will do anything to
please. It just does not get better than that!
June 27, 2008
Sunny and hot
We are nearly done with our haying -- and it has been quite a
marathon this year! Fortunately, our barn is stuffed full of
beautiful, green grass hay, and we have an entire year's worth
of feed put up, with lots of beautiful hay left over to sell.
You just can't beat that!
We have also been delighted with the birth of our last three
foals by *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras -- all of which arrived earlier
than expected! The last three mares were due between June 29 and
July 6th -- but foaled between June 12 and June 22nd.
Goldhills Imagine That went first, giving us a beautiful
chestnut colt with a tidy blaze and three stockings. He's quite
the little charmer!
Goldhills Imagine That and 2 week old
Clanfair Indiana Jones
Then, on June 17th, we'd been off baling hay all day -- but when
I did my evening chores I realized there was an "extra" palomino
foal down in the mare pasture. I'd just checked the previous
night and decided that *Holyoake Sucura looked like she'd go
another week! Suprise!!! She had an absolutely GORGEOUS palomino
colt with a beautiful blaze -- and a number of socks/stockings
yet to be determined! In all of the busy hay season, I haven't
gotten any new pictures of him, but here he is at one day old.
*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras x *Holyoake Sucura
This gorgeous colt is a full sibling by blood to
Clanfair All
About Me and Clanfair Autograph.
And finally.... *Skellorn Mystical had an absolutely STUNNING
chestnut colt on June 22nd. He's really something VERY special
-- I'm extremely impressed with him. Here is a picture of them
taken today at 5 days old.
Clanfair Myrlin at 5 days, with dam
*Skellorn Mystical
That concludes our foaling season for 2008! We ended the year
with 6 colts and 2 fillies. I really prefer the percentages to
be reversed, but each of these foals is so lovely that I am not
disappointed in the slightest.
More pictures and updates when we finish with all of the hay!!!
May 28, 2008
raining
We just returned from our second show of the season, a double
silver show in Walla Walla, Washington, put on by All Welsh
Enthusiasts. We had a wonderful time, and everyone made us most
welcome. It was a beautiful drive and a wonderful show venue. It
was well run, didn't go too late, the facility was beautiful and
we thoroughly enjoyed ourselves!
*Holyoake Anastasia had another wonderful show, winning her mare
class under judge Colleen McSorely, who went on to pin her
Champion Mare and Grand Champion Section B! Annie then went on
to win the Ridden Pony class handily, and then won the Division
Championships for both Carriage Driving and Pleasure Driving, as
well as English Pleasure! She also garnered good ribbons in
Western Pleasure, even though we don't really think she is the
ideal Western Pony -- she tries hard anyway though! We don't
believe that Welsh Ponies should slow their gaits to match how
Quarter Horses are shown, thus we generally do not fare as well
in that division. She also won 3rd in Trail -- having not done a
single trail class obstacle since she was a THREE YEAR OLD! We
were VERY proud of her! She was just "on" all weekend, and
continues to improve and gain polish. As she had not been worked
at all, since she was three year old (she's now 7, and has been
on maternity duty for three foals in a row!), until these past
few weeks, we are extremely pleased with how well she is doing!
She's really an amazing mare. We feel so fortunate to have her.
The *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras youngsters also showed well, with 2
year old Clanfair Martina winning double second in her filly
class, and 3 year old Clanfair Traveller winning a second and
fourth in a very competitive and good sized gelding class.
Gary's Christmas pony, 3 year old Section A mare SRW Silver
Bells, an Asgard Silver Dollar daughter, won her good mares
class under both judges, was Champion Mare under both judges,
then was Reserve Grand Champion Section A! Gary was just
delighted with her! Eleven year old Anna, who has done all of
Silver Bells' under saddle training, also rode her to a 3rd, 4th
and 5th in the Jr. Western Pleasure division! This was her first
time being ridden at a show, so we were all just tickled with
how well she did!
In other news, *Holyoake Sonique has
been checked in foal to *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras again for 2009! We love
the foals this fantastic mare has produced with Mardi, so we are very
excited to see what round FOUR of this cross brings!
*Waxwing
Garland was also checked in foal to *Holyoake Copper-Field.
We think this cross is going to be spectacular, and we are
hoping for a keeper filly! Garland's 2008 colt by Mardi Gras is
nothing short of spectacular.
We also had *Skellorn Coral Rose checked -- and she is indeed
"just fat" and not pregnant, which is really too bad, as I just
adore her filly from last year. So that means we have three
mares left to foal now -- *Holyoake Sucura,
Goldhills Imagine
That and *Skellorn Mystical. All three are big and round and we
can't wait to see what we get! Still a bit of a wait though, as
they are not due until the end of June/beginning of July. We'll
keep you posted!
May 12, 2008
cold, grey
We have been having the strangest weather here in the Pacific
Northwest this spring! Case in point -- one weekend it was 87
degrees, the next weekend we had two inches of snow! Neither of
which were seasonable! It mellowed a bit last week, and we had a
couple of really pretty spring days. But otherwise, it has been
pretty cold. However, this week is predicted to get to 91
degrees on Thursday. Unbelievable!
Well, foaling season is in full swing! We've now had 2 lovely
fillies and 3 beautiful colts -- with three mares, maybe four,
left to go. I can't decide if *Skellorn Coral Rose looks
pregnant or not (she would be due June 13). She is quite round
-- but then again she's been eating plenty of spring grass, so
it is hard to say. She was vet checked in foal early on, but of
course as breeders we know that an early check does not always
equal a foal. I absolutely love her 2007 filly, so I'm crossing
my fingers that she is pregnant and not just fat!
The "for sure" mares left to foal are
*Holyoake Sucura,
Goldhills Imagine That and
*Skellorn Mystical. I'm very excited
to see what all three of them will have! It is hard to wait
patiently. Sucura is due at the end of June, and the other two
girls are due the first few days of July, so we have a bit of a
break for now.
Here are our three most recent beauties:
Click here to see all of our 2008 foals!
This past weekend, we made our way to the Oregon Welsh Pony
Society's spring Gold rated show in McMinnville, Oregon.
McMinnville is where the shows used to be held years ago, and it
is where we first began showing Welsh Ponies, so it was really
fun to be back there in that extremely familiar setting!!
We had a great show, and it was just a really nice weekend with
good company and lots of success. You just can't beat that!
Our two Mardi Gras youngsters, Clanfair Traveller (3 year old
gelding) and Clanfair Martina (2 year old filly) made their show
debuts on their first trip away from home. I was so proud of
them -- they took the whole show scene and commotion in stride
like they had always done it, and showed themselves off
beautifully. It was a LOT of fun!
Clanfair Traveller
(*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras x Mardan Gypsy Rose)
3 year old Section B Welsh Pony gelding
Traveller won his big, competitive class of mature geldings!
Clanfair Martina
(*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras x *Holyoake Sonique)
2 year old palomino Section B Welsh Pony filly
Martina is probably my most favorite of ANY foal we have ever
raised. She was born loving me, and it is quite mutual. She is
just maturing into the most gorgeous filly and I am so excited
about showing her this year and on into the future. She is the
most fabulous combination of both of her parents!
Martina was first in her big fillies class and
OVERALL YOUNGSTOCK CHAMPION! It was very exciting!
*Holyoake Anastasia
(Holyoake Fire Sprite x Gunthwaite Tamara)
7 year old Section B Welsh Pony mare
We imported Annie as a yearling, and she was undoubtedly one of
the best choices we have ever made. She has a long list of
illustrious accomplishments garnered as a 2 and 3 year old, but
has been off on maternity leave for the past 3 years. Our goal
is her individual Legion of Merit, so we left her open for this
season to resume her show career for the year. After literally
not being ridden or driven even once for 3 years, we were
absolutely delighted to discover that she had not forgotten a
single thing!
Annie had a great first show, making a big dent in the points
she needs! She won her huge mare class under two judges, and
then went on to be double Reserve Grand Champion! We were
thrilled!
She then did us proud in the performance classes, competing in
Ridden Pony, English Pleasure (Junior and Senior), Western
Pleasure, Pleasure Driving and Carriage Driving! She won top
ribbons in every class and was Reserve Division Champion for
both the Junior and Senior English Pleasure divisions! What a
pony!
April 5, 2008
cold and rainy
WELCOME TO THE USA!!!!
*Eyarth Eragon
(Carwood Orpheus by Carwed Charmer x Eyarth Zsa Zsa)
2007 Section B Welsh Pony colt
For many years we admired the get of the famous Eyarth Zsa Zsa:
Royal Welsh Champion Eyarth Rio (herd sire at the Telynau Stud),
Royal Welsh Champion Eyarth Beau Geste (sire of our *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras and herd sire at the Waxwing Stud), Royal Welsh
winner Eyarth Mowgli, Royal Welsh winner Eyarth Sophia, many
time champion Eyarth Tomahawk and many more.... In our eyes, Zsa
Zsa is one of the greatest producing Section B mares of all
time.
When we had the pleasure of visiting the Eyarth Stud in the
hills of North Wales in 2004, I asked Jessie to be on the
waiting list for a foal from Zsa Zsa, who was 21 years old at
the time. At that time, I thought there was little chance it
would ever come to pass -- though I certainly hoped! This past
summer, I received a most welcome e-mail from Jessie and Joe
informing me that Zsa Zsa had had a lovely colt and was I
interested in purchasing him...... well, we did!! And he arrived
this past Friday -- and he is even better than we had
anticipated!
What a TREASURE he is, and we look forward to his great
contribution to the Welsh gene pool in North America. Thank you
Jessie and Joe for entrusting us with Zsa Zsa's last foal. We
could not be happier to have him. We offer our deepest
condolences on the recent loss of Zsa Zsa -- truly one of the
Great Ones and truly the end of an era....
Eyarth Zsa Zsa
1983-2008
We also are thrilled to welcome
*Mynach Miss Daisy
(Eyarth Beau Geste x Mynach Mimosa)
In 2006 and 2007 a most stunning Section B filly was shown at
the Royal Welsh. We were completely smitten by Mynach Miss Prim,
who was pinned Reserve Supreme Champion in top company, and
twice Youngstock Champion. I don't know when I've ever seen a
filly that beautiful. Just breathtaking. I suggested
(repeatedly) to Tom Best at Waxwing that she might like to come
live in America, but despite my suggestions, she remains in
Scotland! However, Tom graciously offered us the 2007 filly from
the same cross, and in our continued quest to bring TOP quality
Section B females to our breeding program, Miss Daisy has
arrived!!!
A daughter of the great Royal Welsh Champion Eyarth Beau Geste,
she is ultra typey with an exquisite head and neck, huge, deep
body and huge hindquarters. She is also quite a LOVELY mover! We
are VERY smitten with her, and offer our heartfelt thanks to her
breeder Miss Margaret Gethin, and Tom Best and David Blair at
the Waxwing Stud for choosing us as her new owners. We hope that
this spectacular filly does all of us proud here in the USA!
The importing this time around was a bit of a challenge, with
moments of despair that the ponies would ever come home, thrown
in for good measure. But at long last they are here.... and so
much better than I could have even hoped for. They were most
definitely worth the wait!!!
We will have updated photos of the new faces here as soon as
they don't look like they were just drug all the way around the
world and back! They are quite spectacular in person!
In the meantime, I have new photos of our two new foals!
The filly, Clanfair Keepsake,
*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras x *Holyoake Sonique, at 2 days old.
Click here for more photos!
The colt Clanfair Corvette,
*Wedderlie
Mardi Gras x Akasha Cream, at 3 days old:
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April 3, 2008
sunny and beautiful!
What a beautiful day for a new baby!!!
*Holyoake Sonique presented us with an absolutely darling
chestnut filly -- her THIRD filly! -- by **Wedderlie
Mardi Gras.
She is SUCH a doll!!!! And she was born at the very polite time
of 1 pm!
Here is a screen capture from our web cam of her napping.
Pictures to follow soon!
April 2, 2008
sunny
We are delighted to welcome a beautiful chestnut Section B colt
by *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras and out of Akasha Cream. This lovely
boy came all chromed up with a big blaze and three tall
stockings!
Akasha had made a huge jump in her milk test number last night
-- more than any mare I've ever tested -- so I ended up waiting
up all night thinking "any minute". She finally had him at 5:55
am this morning! It was a long night!
He's lively and adorable and already has Mardi's pretty neck. I
expect him to be a nice mature size at 13.1 to 13.2 hands. :-)
Here he is at 5 hours old. :-)
March 16, 2008
wet
Today we bid farewell for the show season to Clanfair All About
Me, who will be spending the summer showing on the east coast
with Maye Show Ponies. We have long wanted to send a pony to
them, but just didn't have the right one -- until now. We hope
she will be very successful with the Mayes, but boy are we going
to miss her! The barn feels very empty already...... If you see
her at any of the Welsh shows in the east this season, please
give her a kiss on the nose from me!
In preparation for her trip, we took some photos yesterday in
between rain showers. She is still growing and maturing, though
I am extremely pleased with how she looks. She was a July foal,
so is at a slight disadvantage over the earlier youngsters.
However, she is a lovely, lovely girl, and exactly what I look
for in an ideal Section B female.
In my batch of photos, I noticed a shot, which looks soooo
similar to a picture I took of her sire, *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras,
sometime back. Can't you see the family resemblance??!!
March 9, 2008
Beautiful and sunny!
Lots of catching up to do!
Though the first day of spring has not yet officially arrived
according to the calendar -- it is most definitely spring here
in Oregon!!! The grass is lush and green, the sun is shining and
the ponies are shedding like CRAZY!!
I took this picture of *Holyoake Anastasia out enjoying the
sunshine a few days ago. She has shed her winter coat so quickly
that she hasn't grown in her summer coat everywhere yet!
Since I got a new camera in the fall, I've just been itching for
better weather to take pictures in! So Annie got to be the photo
subject for the day! I'm trying to get my new camera figured out
so that I can impress you with my photo skills when the new
foals arrive!! ;-)
Speaking of new foals -- *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras' second foal of
the season has arrived! A beautiful chestnut filly out of a
Thoroughbred mare. Her name is Tuesday Morning, and we think
you'll agree with us that she is absolutely lovely! Here she is
at just a couple of days old -- and doing that "Mardi pose"
already! Congratulations to the Perrys at St. Louis Equestrian
Center!!! They are soon expecting a second Mardi Gras foal -- we
can't wait to see what they get!!
In mid February, when the weather here was still "so-so", we
headed to sunny Stockton, California for the Welsh Pony & Cob
Society of America Annual General Meeting and awards
presentations. WHAT FUN!!! We had an absolutely fantastic time
visiting with all of the pony folks from all over the country!
There are so many really wonderful people in our breed. It was a
great break from the farm work to get away and enjoy ourselves
for a few days. And it sure didn't hurt to have Mardi Gras being
named National Champion and receiving our awards! Lots of fun!!!
At the beginning of February, I went and took one of the
wonderful reproduction seminar weekends from the great people at
Equine-Reproduction.com. I had taken one of their weekends
before, but it was super to go again and refresh my memory and
hear all the latest. It is a super information packed weekend,
and I found that taking it a second time was well worth it, as I
think I suffered from information overload at times the first
time around! If you ever have the opportunity to take one of
their seminars -- whether you are a mare owner or stallion owner
-- it is WELL worth the time! Highly recommended!!!
I had been a bit worried about the drive from our farm in
Oregon, down to the reproduction seminar in California, as we
had had a LOT of snow (for us!) in the days previous. In all the
years we've lived here, we've never had this much snow! And it
just kept coming down! Mardi Gras had a chance to do double
duty, and was in charge of pulling the feed wagon down to feed
the mares and fillies -- a job he definitely enjoyed! Here are
some photos of him working in the snow! Yes, even National
Champions have to work for a living. ;-)
We are now coming to MY favorite time of year: FOALING SEASON!!!
We have a number of mares in foal, the first of which is due on
April 1st. Mardan Gypsy Rose is first up, and she is HUGE! But
then she always is! She has big, fancy foals, and we are looking
forward to seeing what she produces for us this year. We have
retained her previous two -- but plan on offering the 2008 model
for sale. Also due in the same time frame is Akasha Cream. She
is the dam of the cremello filly we had in 2006, Clanfair China
Doll, and the 2007 chestnut filly, Clanfair Make A Wish.
January 25, 2008
COLD
It has been very, very cold here, with some days not even
getting above freezing. I know if you live in one of those "cold
climates" you're probably snickering -- but we think that is
pretty cold in these parts!!! Icy water troughs, hoses and
buckets, cold fingers and toes and dreams of spring!
But spring isn't too far off now -- "our" first foal of the year
has arrived for one of our mare owners! Our biggest
congratulations to Lisa Love on the birth of a beautiful
palomino colt by *Wedderlie
Mardi Gras! Lisa has big plans for this little guy -- and we
are all very excited about him!
Here is "Puppy Love" on his very first morning -- around 12
hours old.
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