Mayhill

The only Mayhill offspring I have seen was a stroppy mare!! She was a lovely looking horse with bags of talent but just had attitude, she would jump beautifully one day then the next day she'd throw her toys out the pram!!
 
When I younger my mum had a ex advance eventer grey mare who was by mayhill, she was lovely but grumpey but thats a mare for u.
But like I say went up to advance.
 
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The only Mayhill offspring I have seen was a stroppy mare!! She was a lovely looking horse with bags of talent but just had attitude, she would jump beautifully one day then the next day she'd throw her toys out the pram!!

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Lol- snap! We had one in livery for a while and she was quirky but very talented
 
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When I younger my mum had a ex advance eventer grey mare who was by mayhill, she was lovely but grumpey but thats a mare for u.
But like I say went up to advance.

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Ditto a few years back I was schooling a mare from mayhill lines she had completly scared her owner, lots of hard work needed but extremely talanted and IMO would have gone far if the owner did not just want her to hack out.
 
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They are brutes!

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Not all of them! we bred 3 colts out of our mare ( mind you she is a very good, extremely talented and genuine mare).All 3 are big good looking horses. The first is with Phillip Dutton in USA and is at 3*. He is very talented, good in all 3 phases and also competed successfully at dressage. He was cheeky though.
The 2nd one was lovely looking, all the ability in the world but a bit of a thinker and more backward thinking.
The 3rd one we still own and he is 5 and going eventig this year with JP Sheffield. He has a good brain is very trainable and extremely bold.
I do think the mare has had a lot of influence though. In the wrong hands Mayhills are not the easiest, we are lucky in that we have had professionals produce ours.
 
i have had alot to do with them and with him in the past. it seems to me that if you have a decent damn whose genes outweigh his you get something that might be talented. like primmores pride for example.
but in my experience many of them are rather weedy, dont have great legs (and dont stand up to eventing at a high level) and are what i will call sharp. I am not going to argue with the form of the good ones but when you consider how many mares he covers the percentge of those cant be that fab.
 
I think you are absolutely right in that the dam is influential. I think we were lucky because we have a good mare with generations of competition blood in her background.
Mayhills are definately better in the hands of professionals.
 
Yes he was an awesome stallion. The Bleekmans turned down a lot of money for him ( the Germans wanted him). If he hadn't tragically died we'd have used him again.
I think a lot of talented horse have something about them which makes them special, however in the wrong hands they can 'try it on' and get the better of the lesser riders.
He didn't have that many mares in comparison to stallions such as Primitive rising and Criminal law (in their hayday they had around 100 mares plus).
 
Quirky! I have a mare by Mayhill, amazing jumper, crap on the flat, bucks like f***! Shes now retired after putting me in hospital. Her full sister is the same, very opinionated and needs careful handling, put her owner in hospital too. Both out of same mare who went to intermediate level eventing. There is talent there but they are not the easiest. Sharp.
 
I had a two year old Mayhill filly, she managed to injure herself twice in the field - very badly - she basically ripped her foot off on the hay feeder, she had surgery and then did exactly the same thing again. Each time we got to the clinic she would jump from the top of the ramp - she just did'nt seem to have any sense of self preservation. We broke her at five, due to her injuries. Although she was very talented she was as sharp as s**t and even though we are a professional yard, we decided not to breed from her but to put into the embryo transfer programme as a carrier. I would not go for this line again and given how much eventing has changed its far easier to use a warmblood stallion with sane progeny on the ground.
 
Embryo transfer? Maybe not such a good idea. If she is as bad as you say, considering that she will be the foal's role model for the first 6 months.
 
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