Clausholm Stud - Welsh Mountain & Welsh Ponies

Clausholm Stud

Welsh Mountain & Welsh Ponies

Life on the Meadows

Fynsk Juni Show

At the first Summer Show held this year, Llanarth Welsh Poppy was shown to get her first Danish Champion titles. Poppy is the dam of our Rhydspence Squire and belongs to the Kroggaarden Stud, which purchased her two years ago.

At the same show our throphy got a new house as the sec. C yearling filly Chopin Money Penny was elected Overall Supreme Champion. Congratulations Marianne Nyberg with this lovely filly.

Cwrtycadno Sadwrn on visit

Sadwrn is the choice of stallion for Kenwoods Virginia and her daughter Clausholm Vitara by Rhydspence Squire. Supreme champion and bronze medal winner Cwrtycadno Sadwrn is by the super sire Cwrtycadno Cymro out of Polaris Columbine from the famous C-line of the Polaris Stud.

Performance Success

Marie & Clausholm Jutlandia

Awaiting the rosette

Katrine og Stengaardens Dena

Ups......

Marie and Clausholm Jutlandia (Mollegaards Don Pedro x Greycott Josie) are very good in collecting prizes. The last two weekends 2 1st prizes in dressage and a 3rd prize in show jumping has been enclosed in the collection - well done!! Sister Katrine and Stengaardens Dena (Clausholm Dutch Design x Frisias Nathalie) also joined the competitions, but a few other things happend.....

Everybody on Summer Grass!!

Sceptical Norwegian Cobs

Who is there?

Want to fight?

On the move....

Nordjysk Young Stock Show

We only supported the local young stock show with one entry as the other youngsters were off to their Summer grazing areas. It was a very well supported show judged by Mr Robert Jones of the Pontsteffan Stud. Sarkens Waleria was behaving nicely, got a good score and a 1st premium for quality.

Success for Clausholm Performance Ponies

Katrine and Marie riding Clausholm Jutlandia (Mollegaards Don Pedro x Greycot Josie) and Stengaardens Dena (Clausholm Dutch Design x Frisias Nathalie), respectively, are winning 1st and 2nd prizes every weekend in show jumping and dressage. Very well done!

Stallions at Stud 2010

Due to more room in the calendar Pendock Mantovani, Telynau Souza and Rhydspence Squire will be available to visiting mares in 2010. Please contact us for further information.

Last Foal Arrived

In the beginning of April Clausholm Duchess foaled a lovely bay/grey filly. A bit weird to have finished the foaling season at this time of the year! Photos will arrived asap.

Claushom Viking Graded in Norway

Stine & Viking on the move

Being judged on hard ground

Showing off = movement

Loose jumping

Performance tested

Graded

In the Autumn we leased Clausholm Viking to Norway. To be able to use him for breeding purposes he need approval in Norway, which mean being shown and hopefully graded in Norway. So during the Winter he has been trained for this grading weekend in the middle of March. This time in Norway usually means either sunshine or snow, and I did see both as Saturday was very nice with sunshine and positive degrees and Sunday was initiated with a minor snow storm!! The team of judges were Kari Anne Indrebo, Stein Langørgen and as advisor Mrs Gill Wright for judging the larger ponies - anything except shetlands. Saturday was a busy day as all the ponies was shown on hard ground, judged for conformation, loose jumped, vet checked, loose jumped and performance tested, and you had absolutely no idea of the result in the late afternoon. Sunday was initiated with another inspection for confirmation with all the judges invited and finally in the afternoon the results were known. Viking was graded with very good marks, and he will now be available for Norwegian mares at the Northwind Stud. Congratulations to the Northwind Stud and we look forward seeing the foals next year.

The Performance Ponies

Clausholm Jutlandia & Marie

Stengaardens Dena med Katrine

Clausholm Lord Joker med Sofie

New Arrival...

First sec.A foal arrived in the middle of March - a super bay/grey filly foal by Pendock Mantovani out of Reekse Hoek Desi.

First 3. Generation Clausholm Foal

Slightly earlier than expected the first foal arrived. As Clausholm Silica was in Wales last year to be successfully shown by the Zonneweide Stud she was covered by the Royal Welsh Champion Paddock Sahara. The result was visible this week as a super filly foal was born. Unfortunately, we still have plenty of snow and especially ice so it is a bit dangerous to take them further than the stable floor. We hope it will disappear as soon as possible so we can do a few photos of her.

News from Viking and Jutlandia

Clausholm Viking

Clausholm Jutlandia

We just received greetings from Clausholm Viking (Rhydspence Squire x Kenwoods Virginia) and Clausholm Jutlandia (Mollegaard Don Pedro x Greycott Josie), who are out on lease. Clausholm Viking just is in Norway with the Northwind Stud and is produced for the grading show, which he has to pass to be able to produce stock in Norway. Passing a grading for a 4-year-old colt includes a ridden/driven display to certain versatility of the ponies for breeding. Viking is backed, and is a very easy ride - like sitting in a sofa - and loves being used is the message! We are looking forward seeing him at the grading in March. Jutlandia is on lease to be ridden by Marie, who is quite keen on show jumping and luckily Jutlandia loves it as well. Marie and Jutlandia will attend their first competitions in show jumping this Spring, and the we will keep an open eye for the results.

Dutch Stallion Show 2010

Roetsenests Santa Fee

Shore Brooks Hot Gossip

Lucifer

Wildzangs Golden Mark

Dynod Young Dragon

Cobmels Syndod Haf

Brouwershaven Diamond Hit

Good Looking

As always, I would say after more than 10 visits, the Winter break was held at the Dutch Stallion Show. As usual there is a large amount of entries and definitely the largest stallion grading show for welsh ponies in Europe. There must have been around 140 ponies to be inspected for grading and approximately 60 to obtain a premium. The ponies are judged with catalogues and by three Dutch judges. First day all entries for the grading show will be inspected and selected before being seen at hard ground and a veterinary inspection. The number of ponies to continue are drastically reduced, e.g. for the mountain ponies there are 35 entries, 17 passes first inspection and 5 are graded on day two.

The 3-year-old sec.A Roetsenests Santa Fee (Springbourne Glide x Nebus Serena) was not only graded but also champion sec.A and overall supreme champion of the show. Reserve champion sec.A was Shore Brooks Hot Gossip (Shore Brooks How Ever x Shore Brooks Heaven) who was among the older ponies to get a premium. The best young sec.B was Lucifer (Breeton Dai x Cottrell Lucinda) whereas the champions for sec.B was found among the older Bs. Champion was Wildzangs Golden Mark (Linde Hoeves Elegant x Wildzangs Roswita) with Bekvelds Dave (Breeton Dai x Woldbergs Song) was reserve champion sec.B. Among the Cs were no new additions so the older Belgian owned and bred stallion Dynod Young Dragon (Gwenllan Guti Goch x Dynod Model) with the Dutch bred Cobmels Synodo Haf (Fronarth Lucky Strike x Washingpool Hafwen) as reserve. There were only one cob present, which was not graded so no champions in this section. Several Dutch riding ponies with approx. 50% welsh blood attended the show and 5 of them qualified for the performance test, which has to be passed before grading. So no champion was selected, but the pony with the best trot was Brouwershaven Diamond Hit (Wengelos Ricardo x Felicity). For the "real" WPBRs the champion was Cindys Chevy TG (Coelenhages Promise x Cindy) with Good Looking (FS Golden Highlight x Dornröschen) as reserve champion.

As usual there is loads of ponies to look at or judge, and there is also a chance of disagreement with the judges, but luckily there is room for the opinion of many, and we will possibly return next year.

Also Snowy Greetings from Clausholm Viking in Norway

In the beginning of January we got New Years Greetings from the Northwind Stud, which has leased the colt Clausholm Viking for 2010. He seem to enjoy the cold and snowy Winter in Norway with the WPBR friend.

Shortly, after this greeting Viking was shown at the New Year Show. He got a 3rd prize and was awarded a gold medal for quality in the class for older stallions of all pony breeds. The winner of the class, the riding pony Magic Dancer H, was also awarded the title Best in Show to the Northwind stud's Crescendo - congratulations Bitte & Stine.

Even More Snow...