HHO 2012 Foals

Maesfen,

Looks like you have a proper middleweight in the making. Substance and quality - few of those about nowadays. AA
 
I know nothing !!! just happen to like proper hunter bred types, and although I love looking at the foal photo's and cooing over them, lightweights and warmbloods just don't float my boat.

There was a Crosstown Dancer hunter gelding for sale a while ago, my OH hid our cheque book ! I have agreed to go on holiday this year on the understanding our mare can go back to Archie next year !
 
Well 2 wonderful hours later and I think I've fallen in love with them all;) - been watching the breeding forum all year and didn't even spot these pics (DOH):o so it's my ambition now to be able to post here in a month's time (god willing)!!!:)
 
TART said:
Well 2 wonderful hours later and I think I've fallen in love with them all;) - been watching the breeding forum all year and didn't even spot these pics (DOH):o so it's my ambition now to be able to post here in a month's time (god willing)!!!:)
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Good luck with your awaited for baby.

I bred my first one last year and I can honestly say it gave me more worry and more pleasure than anything else I have done with horses - and I have done an awful lot. By the time she had the foal I was an exhausted wreck, I had driven my vet and the stallion owner to distraction and god only knows what the mare thought of my antics of checking her every nano second.

Wonderful experience and when I am pottering around on my homebred in my retirement I will look back with immense satisfaction and pride. Despite the OH telling me I was a miserable irritable old bint for months !
 
Oh Adorable Alice what lovely words & thoughts:)OH is as excited as me but less stressed (men seem to have a switch off button) can't wait but can't help worrying - keep fingers & toes crossed please and if 'magic' happens there will be some pics here soon xx:):)
 
AdorableAlice said:
I know nothing !!! just happen to like proper hunter bred types, and although I love looking at the foal photo's and cooing over them, lightweights and warmbloods just don't float my boat.

There was a Crosstown Dancer hunter gelding for sale a while ago, my OH hid our cheque book ! I have agreed to go on holiday this year on the understanding our mare can go back to Archie next year !
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We're two of a kind then!
What a spoilsport your OH was but I like your bargaining powers, lol!

perlino said:
Gorgeous foal Maesfen - love the purple belly too!!!
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Thank you, I'm blown away (or would be if I wasn't so heavy!) that so many seem to like him, it means a lot. I'm always a bit trigger happy with the spray!

AdorableAlice said:
Hands off Wagtail, I saw him first !! You are looking at HOYS middleweight champion 2018, then he will go on to be a Masters horse in a big country.
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Wow, that's something to live up to, I might send him down to you to take him there!

tristar said:
the htobago x java tiger mare's filly is to die for! i want!
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I love this filly too, so excited for my Tobagoling due soon.

TART said:
Well 2 wonderful hours later and I think I've fallen in love with them all;) - been watching the breeding forum all year and didn't even spot these pics (DOH):o so it's my ambition now to be able to post here in a month's time (god willing)!!!:)
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I do hope so Tart and that all goes well for you both.
 
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Maesfen, I have worked out how to do pictures, only taken 8 months. Here is the hunter that is injured at the moment.

And here is my Archie baby girl, who is one next week.
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The pictures are a bit big.
 
French !! I am ashamed to say.

When I lost my draught heavyweight show hunter in 2004 I searched for another to no avail and I did not feel experienced enough to go to Ireland. I enjoy a bit of dressage so I bought Leo from Oldencraig Equestrian Centre in Surrey and decided to give up hunter showing.

His proper name is Foxtrot Du Mesnil he is by Qyou De Longvaut. The grandsire line is a bit special with I Love You being his grandsire, I Love You is by Alme. - not that I know anything about foriegn horses - I looked them up and they seem to have been to a few Olympic Games !

The dam line has British breeding, his dam was Palme Du Mesnil and she was by St Brendan. Leo is on All Breed Pedigree site and his bloodline goes back for ever.

Leo was a showjumping working stallion in Holland when Oldencraig bought him and I was told he was gelded aged 8 and re trained as a dressage horse.

I bought him and downgraded him and we had lots of fun with him, he's got about 150 points. By 2007 he just blossomed and I decided to try him locally. He was unbeaten and seemed to love it so I registered him and he never looked back. If you google his name most of his results come up. The judges just loved him as long as they rode him properly ! He is schooled to medium and we did have a few judges in find the half pass button.

He has beautiful paces, not flambouyant, just straight and correct, manners and balance to die for and boy can he lay down and gallop.

I am short and fat so my friend rides him for me. I think hunters look better with a man on board and of course, the coat can be used at championship evening judging - lovely !

Interestingly, only one judge ever got his breeding right, Selle Francias, French TB.

He is as kind as a Christian and throughout his 9 months in his barn his outlook has never changed. He started rehab a month ago but got really sore and hot feet. He was shod yesterday and should have walked this morning but its peeing down and blowing a gale here. His last blood test has shown a borderline cushing positive, but I am not going to get upset by that, I am hoping when he leads a normal life with turnout and exercise his bloods will be more normal. He is not showing any signs at all of cushings. All I want him to do is be sound to hack and enjoy his days in his paddock under his favourite oak tree. He owes me nothing.
 
Lol, I can't talk as Dotty's grandsire was Dallas who was a SF!

Doesn't detract from what a very nice horse he is though and he sounds to have given you a lot of pleasure, what owner can ask for more than that?
 
Pure bred ID foal (Pamela) by Cressingham National Silver (Spyder) Ex Arbrook Beauty (Ginge) born 29/04/12, will go grey

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tristar said:
the htobago x java tiger mare's filly is to die for! i want!
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Thanks tristar! Her breeder (the wonderful Becky Paterson at Black Isle Stud) is very pleased with this match - already has a virtually identical 2yo full brother to this filly, and the dam is booked back to H Tobago yet again this year.:)
 
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If this works, this is my Archie filly at one week and one year old

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the 3rd picture is the dam

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I will eat my hat if I have go this right.
 
Was it tasty your hat?! Glad you've fathomed it out now nowhere will be safe.
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Alice is scrumptious, really like her a lot. Good job there's two years between them else how on earth would you manage showing both her and mine?
 
Maesfen said:
Was it tasty your hat?! Glad you've fathomed it out now nowhere will be safe.
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Alice is scrumptious, really like her a lot. Good job there's two years between them else how on earth would you manage showing both her and mine?
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I am just searching for the Rennies. I am too old, fat, stiff and lame to show anything anymore !

Alice has been bred to carry me slowly, very slowly, after hounds in my retirement.......but then again she might be a maxi cob ! Thought you might like her. She wouldn't be everyone's cup of tea but like you, I like bone, depth and plenty of it.

She can only go in ISH youngstock classes and she won't hold her own against the others. I plan to take her to our farmers show for a bit of experience in July then chuck her back out and see what she is like at 2.

Built like she is I could put her on dragon drivings site as ready to drive ! She will be one on 11th May 12.
 
vicijp said:
First foal for my stallion Aeroplane arrived 11:30pm last night. A colt out of Indeed To Goodness, making him a half brother to Grade 2 placed Harry Topper. Got up within 10 mins but took until just gone 4am to suck - much more interested in eating haylage.
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Congratulations! So exciting to have the first foal by your own stallion!
 
Maesfen said:
I keep forgetting to put pics in here and also keep forgetting to look in here; not a good move TFC!
Anyway, meet Mannie. Born 20th April by Maurice Minor (ID) out of Maesfen Dots (Bazaars Texas x Mandalus Thyme) He's a proper cheeky monkey as you'll tell!

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What a splendid, handsome chap!
 
Here's the very latest photo of this filly:

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Awwww so cute, How big will she make ?

The stallion mine is getting 'up close and personal' with has a bay and chestnut gene. Mine is bright bay as is her father, trying to track the mother down to see what colour she is (Irish TB but never raced). A mare similar to mine threw a Chestnut last year so who knows :confused:

She's having her swab and blood done next Tuesday then in a couple of weeks away we - well she - goes.
 
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