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New Forest Enthusiasts Show 6/6/10 Our two lovely yearlings had a good day! Moortown Daybreak qualified for the Chaps Champs 2010 by coming 2nd in a very strong mixed 1,2,3yr old Chaps Qualifier, beating Moortown Honour into 3rd who behaved beautifully at her first ever show!
Moortown Daybreak by The Scoundrel Moortown Honour by Copybush Chiron
Chaps South East Regional Show 9/5/10 Harry's offspring had a fantastic day!!! The very strong and large mixed yearling class was won by his daughter "Maysmoor Isn't She Lovely" out of a Welsh Sec D owned and bred by the Cuming Family. Moortown Daybreak by Harry was 3rd, and Moortown Tallulah Too by Harry won the mixed 2yr old class! Then "Maysmoor Isn't She Lovely" went on to become overall Youngstock Champion!!!!!
"Moortown Dodger" a lovely 2yr old gelding by "The Scoundrel" out of the same mare as "Moortown Frilly" has a brilliant outing at the North Wales Chaps Regional Show yesterday 2/5/10. He won a very strong mixed 2yr old class (qualifying for the 2yr old Finals at the Chaps Champs) and went on to be Reserve Youngstock Champion. Welldone Laura see you at the Chaps Champs in Sept!!!!!!!
"Moortown Frilly" Wins RIHS Qualifier at Crofton Manor 28/3/10
Frilly 2nd in HOYS Qualifier at Midlands last week! So near!!!
Frilly (4yrs) with rider Vicki Myronidis have qualified for the RIHS at their first attempt! They have been out 3 times under saddle and have won each time!! The first at Keysoe (res champ) in February, the 2nd at Towerlands in March and yesterday ay Crofton Manor winning the qualifier! Its a testament to Vicki and Justines hard work, skill and dedication! She was broken by them just before Christmas 09 so they have achieved a great deal!! Its a great partnership and we look forward to the rest of the 2010 season. Goodluck Vicki and Frilly keep it up!!!!!
"Frilly" wins again at the South of England Spring Show RIHS qualifier, welldone Vicki!!
"Frilly" 6th in HOYS Qualifier at BSPS Winter Champs (4th time out!!)
Frilly has achieved 4 wins out of 5 in her first Ridden season!!
Justine Armstrong Small
We are thrilled that Moortown Frilly our highly successful 4yr old Traditional filly has been taken on to produce under saddle by Justine and Vicky. We are more than pleased and know that she couldn't be in more capable or experienced hands. We await the 2010 season with great interest!!
National Foal Show
Congratulations to Kirsten and Steve for their success at this years National Foal Show. "Abbeywoods Opium" the first foal from Heiland Tallulahtoo by Hollyland Faytino won the under 14.2hh Filly Class and went on to become Coloured Champion! We recently bought her mother to add to our Broodmare herd, so we hope she will produce some super offspring for us too!!
NPS Foal Show 2009 Results
The Scoundrels foals 1st and 2nd in the Open Coloured Foal class!! We were thrilled that two of Harry's offspring were placed 1st and 2nd in a very strong class of ten. 1st was "Carry On Tiffin" by The Scoundrel out of DeDe, a Welsh Cob x TB (by Eternal Quest) bred, shown and produced by her owner Sally Fox, she behaved brilliantly and was a credit to Sally. 2nd was the homebred gelding "Moortown Moonlight Shadow" owned and shown by his owner Sharon Lee. He had been handled, castrated, and halterbroken within the previous 3 weeks and behaved very well! Sally then entered Tiff in the Show Hunter Pony Class and won that too, not bad for the first time out!!
"Tiffin" with Sally "Moortown Moonlight Shadow"
"The Scoundrels" Stud Season 2009
Harry had an incredibly successful stud season this year covering 40 mares in total, 36 being visitors and AI's. We would like to thank all our clients old and new and wish them all the best for 2010.
AI Success for 2010
We are delighted and incredibly thrilled to announce that Moortown Indecision is infoal for 2010 using frozen semen from Weggs Powder Mountain and that our other lovely broodmare Cullintra Star is infoal using chilled semen from Country Top Dollar. As usual we do all our AI's without the use of a vet. Thanks to the AI expertise of Sue Carden from West Kington Stallion Centre, and the timing decided from teasing with "The Scoundrel" we have kept up our 100% success record!! We have AI'd using chilled semen for the last few years but this was the first attempt at using frozen semen without veterinary assistance for Sue and us. Everyone including our vet thought we were wasting our time but they had to eat their words when scanning proved we had cracked it and she was safely infoal!!!!!! We are really excited and can't wait for them to arrive next Spring!
Heiland Tallulahtoo
Many thanks to Kirsten and Steve for letting us buy this lovely young mare. She sadly suffered a freak accident which has finished her showing career so we look forward to having some lovely foals from her.
Chaps Championship Show Sept 09
As usual we really enjoyed our 3 days at Arena UK!
"Moortown Elijah" our much loved orphan foal was 2nd in the Trad/Native Foal Class!!
"Moortown Tallulah Too" our lovely Traditional yearling Filly by "The Scoundrel" was 2nd in the Yearling Trad/Native Final and took it all in her stride!
"Moortown Frilly" our gorgeous homebred 3yr old Traditional Filly was 3rd in the Trad 3yr old Finals.
"Freyas True Passion" our Trad Broodmare successfully Graded and was 4th in an incredibly strong class!
"Cullintra Star" our super quality Broodmare was 3rd in the Large Broodmare Class.
Royal Cornwall Show 4/6/09
"Moortown Frilly" our lovely homebred 3yr old Traditional Filly won the very strong Mixed Coloured Youngstock Class. She was the only Traditional forward and had some extremely well bred youngsters behind her in the line up, we were thrilled with the result!
Thanks to Country Farm Stud
The late Holmesley Tinkerbell 2nd won the Broodmare Championship at last years CHAPS Championship Show and Country Farm Stud kindly offered a free covering to one of their stallions as a prize. They have very kindly extended their generous offer to the Reserve Champion Mare our lovely "Cullintra Star", it was a hard choice with their wonderful selection of top class stallions but we have finally decided on Country Top Dollar. We would like to thank Karen Raine for her generosity in sad circumstances and look forward to a beautiful foal next year!
Orphan Foal "Moortown Elijah"
Tinkerbell although desperately ill managed to give birth to Eli on the 19th March 2009 at Endells Equine Hospital Salisbury, tragically Tink was put down the next day. The colt was almost a month premature but showed great determination to survive from the word go! He was born with no suck reflex, limited sight and was far from normal, he was fed by tube for the first 2 days and then began to suckle from a bottle. He had violent head shaking movements so feeding wasn't easy. He came home a week later being fed every hour day and night! He gradually improved and is now 95% normal and Im sure will be 100% before long! My friend Olivia lent me a gorgeous donkey called "Friendly" to keep him company but sadly the donkey was terrified of the foal!! We were eventually given a lovely old TB mare as a foster belonging to Mrs Charlotte Giles called "Angel" Sadly although having only lost her foal that night she didnt really develop any milk and although she took to the foal brilliantly has been unable to feed him. She is a lovely mare and lives up to her name!! She is out with him in the field and does her best to keep him under control and is hopefully teaching him some important horse behaviour!! He is being fed 2/3 hourly now (still by bottle) but we are battling to get him onto drinking from a bucket, he's thriving but we are all exhausted!! He is now 6wks old and last week Horse and Pony Magazine came down and are doing a feature on him to come out in their July/Aug issue!! He's a real character, a dreadful timewaster and has become part of the family!! My grateful thanks go out to everyone who has helped particularly Ad and Pat who have both done more than their fair share of night time feeds!!
Eli in hospital 4 days old At home 7 days old Eli at 2 weeks
With the aptly named "Angel" Eli at 4 weeks!!
"Holmesley Tinkerbell 2nd"
It is with great sadness we have to announce the loss of this fantastic mare, she foaled last night (19/3/09) giving birth to a skewbald colt foal by the Champion graded traditional stallion Hoodwink. Although desperately ill she managed to hang on long enough to foal, her son is 4 wks premature but making good progress under the expertise of the vets at Endells Equine Hospital, Salisbury. Tink was Champion Graded with the BSPA and CHAPs and was CHAPS Broodmare Champion in 08 at the Championship Show. She was a truly lovely mare and we will all miss her. RIP Tink, thanks for everything.
"Moortown Dodger"
The Scoundrels first yearling colt to ever be shown had a fantastic first outing for his owner Laura Gray of Preston. He went to the Trailblazers Show at Osbaldeston Lancs 28/2/09 and had a brilliant day!
1st in the Traditional Class, 2nd in the Youngstock and went on to be Reserve Inhand Champion
Congratulations Laura!
"Hoodwink" our lovely Champion Graded Traditional Stallion has found a fantastic new home with Lynn Shimwell in North Yorks, where he will be shown and will stand at stud. Lynn can be contacted on 07817452812. We wish her every success with him and look forward to seeing him in the ring!
NPS Foal Show Kingston Maurward November 2008 Results
"Moortown Temptation"
1st Open Coloured Foal 2nd Sports Horse Foal
"Moortown Tallulah Too" 4th Open Coloured Foal
CHAPS CHAMPIONSHIP SHOW ARENA UK AUGUST 2008 Results
A very successful Chaps Champ Show!!
"Holmesley Tinkerbell 2nd" Broodmare Champion & CHAPS Star Graded Champion Mare
"Cullintra Star" Broodmare Reserve Champion and CHAPS Graded at Star Level
"Moortown Frilly" 2nd in the 2yr old Trad/Native Finals and 2nd Reserve Champion Trad/Native Youngstock Championship. 1st Premium youngstock evaluation.
BG Aquisition our dearly loved old TB stallion was put down in June aged 20yrs. He left some super offspring behind him and we will miss him.
The Scoundrel wins at Grafton Park Horse Show 08
Harry took part at Grafton Park in March, his first show as a graded stallion, and won his inhand class amongst top class company and went on to be CHAPS Inhand Champion.
Dual Champion BSPA Grading Success March 2008
We attended the BSPA Grading at Cholwell in Devon on the 30th March 2008, taking Hoodwink our recently acquired Traditional stallion and Holmesley Tinkerbell II our Large Native mare.
We were thrilled to hear that they had not only both passed their grading but had gone on to be Champion Stallion and Champion Mare!
"Hoodwink" our recently discovered new Traditional Gypsy Cob Stallion successfully graded with the BSPA on the 16th March 2008 and was CHAMPION STALLION we are delighted to now be able to show him in BSPA show classes and hope to put him forward for the CHAPS grading later in the year.
"Holmesley Tinkerbell" our super Large Native mare also successfully graded with the BSPA in March 2008 and was CHAMPION MARE (80% score) we look forward to some super offspring from her.
My lovely 15.1hh 4yr old Piebald Traditional Cob Stallion "The Scoundrel" successfully graded with the BSPA October 2007 and went on to gain his CHAPs Graded status in Nov 07. My grateful thanks to Richard and Jodie!The icing on the cake is that he has been proven HOMOZYGOUS so will only produce coloured offspring!
CHAPs Grading in Cumbria Nov 07 BSPA Grading in Cambridgeshire Oct 07
Ridden and shown impeccably by Richard Telford Ridden and shown impeccably by Jodie Lister
"Prince Romany" my 15hh CHAPS graded stallion was sold to Titi and Christer Paullson of Stall Herkules in Sweden in 2007 we wish them every success with him.
In 2001 my broodmare "Bounty" produced very strong and healthy twins by my TB stallion "BG Aquisition" They were born unaided and fed naturally without any human assisitance!! They became real celebrities, on all the news channels on TV, and had a whole page of the Daily Mail to themselves!!
They are now rising 6, the coloured colt Moortown Miracle has had a very sucessful showing career including winning at the New Forest Show as a 3yr old, the bay is now owned by New Forest Agister Robert Maton and is used daily in his work in the forest.
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Roberta (Bob) my invaluable old broodmare was sadly put down in March 2007 aged 20, she will be much missed and impossible to replace. She leaves many super offspring behind her so her line lives on.
"Bob" "Moortown Ohio" Roberta x Our Nellson
