Foal update: The mares are keeping me on my toes

I’ve always slightly blamed myself for Snelsmore Nightingale losing her first foal last year; I wasn’t there for her and have never forgotten it. This year she didn’t help me make up for it and with no warning and no udder to suggest she was ready to foal, she popped out a baby all by…

Great Shetland Society Breed show

Four trophies and a huge pile of rosettes from the Shetland society breed show. So pleased with our ponies, four first, two seconds, three thirds and a fourth place. Reserve Miniature Champion and Best Opposite sex  for Snelsmore Mystique. Overall Miniature Yearling Champion for Snelsmore Rembrandt

Napoleon sets sail to a new adventure

It was a tough decession to split up our two geldings Snelsmore Nelson and Snelsmore Napoleon. So it was lovely to see Napoleon with his new owner’s looking so good and enjoying himself at Royal Welsh and knowing Nelson has settled into a new life with King as well. Love happy endings  

Foal Update: Better luck for Libby

It only seems like yesterday, but it was two years ago that Snelsmore Libby aborted her first foal. Libby had waxed up and things seemed to be normal, it was soon very obvious she had a problem and her filly foal was far to young to survive the birth, so we gave her a year…

Foal update: Sundance and Sienna

Kirstall Acacia is very much a loner in the herd, so I wasn’t surprised when she decided to give birth quietly in the field one evening when nobody was around to watch apart her best friend Luna. As usual early in the morning sleepy eyed, I glanced across at the foaling camera by my bed…

April: Foaling at the stud

Foaling started here at Snelsmore rather unexpectedly on the 7th of April. It was a sunny morning and luckily I noticed Snelsmore Nymph, a maiden mare, giving birth in the field with her friends. Once her little piebald daughter, Scarlet, was strong enough we moved them to a more suitable field where Nymph could quietly settle…

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Snelsmore Juniper has been placed show ring as a youngster but in more recent years she has been at stud. Juniper has already bred three foals and has been running with Merrylees Satchmo this summer, believed in foal for 2016. As well as a super mum, Juniper has the right temperament to make an excellent…

Buster

As well as the Shetland ponies we have a homebred show jumper called Catch the Beever, better know around the stables as Buster. On the fourth of July 2007 we had been showing at Royal show, Stoneleigh, having already had a great day winning the Championship, we weren’t to know our day was too get…