Stud News

The sky is the limit for Amy, Galaxy and Starburst

Mardlebrook Galaxy has been a great mare to us all at Snelsmore. Bought from Reading Sales as a foal, she has produced many successful offspring for us and has now moved to a new home with Amy. We’re hoping she...

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...

Royal Three Counties Show: A bouncing foal, runaway chicks and a double clear

Unfortunately we missed the South of England show waiting for Snelsmore Illianna to foal. Typically she hung on to the early hours of this morning to give birth to a little filly. Never mind it all went well and we...

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 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...

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,...

Looking for a pony why not check out our for sale page

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....

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...

Queenie’s found a new friend

Lovely to have pictures of our ponies we have sold, Snelsmore Queenie settled into her new home  

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Happy New Year to all the followers of our stud

With Christmas celebrations over it’s time to look forward to 2015. January’s wet weather is making life hard on the farm at the moment. I cant wait for the spring time! Last year’s foals are maturing nicely into yearlings with...

Merry Christmas everyone!

All of us here at Snelsmore would like to wish everybody a very “Merry Christmas and a happy New Year.” During the Christmas celebrations, things here on the farm are pretty normal, our work has too continued. I remember last...