This year has been a challenging one for those of us in Canterbury with earthquakes and snow.
Although it has been tough, we have also had some lovely highlights with the horses.
My first horse trial season with Hewston went well and we ended up winning the South Island One Day training trial. He is a lovely horse to have around and a pleasure event.
Stanhopes Magician (Marty) is coming along nicely under saddle, I love riding this boy. We have been taking things slowly and enjoying beach rides and the start of some jump schooling.
The biggest highlight has been the first crop of Stanhopes Magician foals on the ground. We have been rapt with all of them. All coloured so far, lovely leggy types with great bone and movement. There are photos of them all on our web site www.colouredwarmbloods.co.nz or if you are a facebook fan we have some on our 'Magic Coloured Warmbloods' page.
We had a lovely coloured filly out of the quality Brillant Invader mare who reminds me a lot of her dad. Cheleken Indy has had a very leggy pinto colt foal who is the biggest to date and has a gorgeous white face mask, so we have called him Magic Masquerade. There are several outside mare that have had stunning foals and there are more to come in the new year and we look forward to seeing them.
We are also excited that our beautiful 3yr Whats Colour (Tomtom) filly is confirmed infoal to Stanhopes Magician via frozen semen on the first try. So a guaranteed colour foal for her next year.
Also the lovely Brillant Invader mare is back in foal to Stanhopes Magician via frozen and will return to her owners after weaning, and I am sure will have another stunning Marty foal for them.
Unfortunately I was kicked by another horse (not one of mine!) while riding Stanhopes Magician and have broken my leg. (Marty was extremely good while trying to dismount with a badly broken leg and in a lot of pain). After 12 days in hospital and 3 surgerys I am now home but not able to walk for 3 months. So sadly all handling foals, riding and competing have all had to go on the back burner. It also means no horse trial season in the autumn for me either!! Not to mention our three kids on holiday for 8 weeks and I am not able to drive them anywhere! Challenges..!! I am so grateful to all family and my lovely friends who are helping out and making things work.
We wish everyone a great Christmas and some down time, and all the best for 2012.
Stanhopes Magician and Emma Steel
Monday, December 19, 2011
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Middle of the year already!
Time seems to be flying by..... and the snow has arrived!
The end of the Horse Trial season was May and my young TB Archie did very well up in the NI with Matt and Vaughn. The idea being to bring him home and carry on eventing with him.. as it turned out I am still not that brave on the eventing front even though he did very well at the two events I took him to recently. As hard as it was I decided to let him go. The up side is he has gone to a great home that had watched and wanted him for some time. I will enjoy seeing him out and about and hopefully still doing incredibly well as he really is a very talented chap!
As it happened an ideal horse came up very quickly after Archie left that will give me the confidence and fun that I think I need at my age! So we now have Hewston in our paddocks and he is just gorgeous. It is great to have a gentleman around with all the young horses.
It was nice for my 12yr old son to ride Hewston the other day and I was able to ride Stanhopes Magician (aka Marty) on his first hack out beside him. I am really enjoying riding Marty - he is such a character and is always first up in the paddock with something to say!
The Mares are looking bigger and we look forward to October when Millie (Brilliant Invader TB) is due, and November when Indy is due... both infoal to Marty so a really exciting time for us.
Well the earthquakes seems to have settled down but now we have the snow... making feeding out hard and riding almost impossible - I said almost!!
The end of the Horse Trial season was May and my young TB Archie did very well up in the NI with Matt and Vaughn. The idea being to bring him home and carry on eventing with him.. as it turned out I am still not that brave on the eventing front even though he did very well at the two events I took him to recently. As hard as it was I decided to let him go. The up side is he has gone to a great home that had watched and wanted him for some time. I will enjoy seeing him out and about and hopefully still doing incredibly well as he really is a very talented chap!
As it happened an ideal horse came up very quickly after Archie left that will give me the confidence and fun that I think I need at my age! So we now have Hewston in our paddocks and he is just gorgeous. It is great to have a gentleman around with all the young horses.
It was nice for my 12yr old son to ride Hewston the other day and I was able to ride Stanhopes Magician (aka Marty) on his first hack out beside him. I am really enjoying riding Marty - he is such a character and is always first up in the paddock with something to say!
The Mares are looking bigger and we look forward to October when Millie (Brilliant Invader TB) is due, and November when Indy is due... both infoal to Marty so a really exciting time for us.
Well the earthquakes seems to have settled down but now we have the snow... making feeding out hard and riding almost impossible - I said almost!!
Monday, May 30, 2011
April, May...winter!
As we head into winter, things settle down on the breeding front.
We have had one major change, our lovely colt Stanhopes Magician aka Marty is now gelded. Having collected more frozen then we could ever use I decided that I really did want him as my up and coming sport horse. It was a hard decision but the right one. He is now very happy and hanging out with the other boys about to continue his riding education. I will take him slowly but hope to have him out and about at small things in the summer. Needless to say, he will be available via frozen to outside mares. We also hope to have our other colt, Magic Fluke (Whats Colour) who is homozygous for the pinto gene available to a limited number of outside mares in 2012.
We are looking forward to the spring when we have 2 Marty foals of our own and several quality outside mares also due to him. We did sell our lovely Pintado Desperado/Broadway Aly mare to a great family that are big pinto enthusiasts so we know she will be very well looked after. She is infoal to Marty and due in September so this will be Martys first foal.
We have leased a lovely Brilliant Invader mare who was a competitive Intermediate eventer in her time. She is a beautiful leggy mare and she is infoal to Marty and we are excited about her foal due this spring.
We only had one foal to wean, the lovely Magic MacPherson aka Elle, and that all went well and she is now with her full sibling Magic Moments. They are quite a pair together and get on really well. Both are by Whats Colour and are homozygous for the pinto gene - lucky us!
My TB Artwork has been doing well eventing with the help of Vaughn Jefferis and rider Matt Gilmour. He went up north for another stint and won Woodhills prenovice, and was 5th at Taupo 3 Day event prenovice championship class - great results and now lovely to have him home. I now have to get on and ride him!
I hope everyone survives the winter and we look forward to the spring!
We have had one major change, our lovely colt Stanhopes Magician aka Marty is now gelded. Having collected more frozen then we could ever use I decided that I really did want him as my up and coming sport horse. It was a hard decision but the right one. He is now very happy and hanging out with the other boys about to continue his riding education. I will take him slowly but hope to have him out and about at small things in the summer. Needless to say, he will be available via frozen to outside mares. We also hope to have our other colt, Magic Fluke (Whats Colour) who is homozygous for the pinto gene available to a limited number of outside mares in 2012.
We are looking forward to the spring when we have 2 Marty foals of our own and several quality outside mares also due to him. We did sell our lovely Pintado Desperado/Broadway Aly mare to a great family that are big pinto enthusiasts so we know she will be very well looked after. She is infoal to Marty and due in September so this will be Martys first foal.
We have leased a lovely Brilliant Invader mare who was a competitive Intermediate eventer in her time. She is a beautiful leggy mare and she is infoal to Marty and we are excited about her foal due this spring.
We only had one foal to wean, the lovely Magic MacPherson aka Elle, and that all went well and she is now with her full sibling Magic Moments. They are quite a pair together and get on really well. Both are by Whats Colour and are homozygous for the pinto gene - lucky us!
My TB Artwork has been doing well eventing with the help of Vaughn Jefferis and rider Matt Gilmour. He went up north for another stint and won Woodhills prenovice, and was 5th at Taupo 3 Day event prenovice championship class - great results and now lovely to have him home. I now have to get on and ride him!
I hope everyone survives the winter and we look forward to the spring!
Saturday, March 5, 2011
Jan and February and Earthquakes!
We have been very lucky here not to be too affected by the latest earthquake to hit Christchurch. Our thoughts and hearts go out to those that have lost loved ones.
All our horses are ok luckily. I was just about to get on Archie to have a lesson with Vaughn J when it hit and I was knocked off my feet. Oblivious to the devastation happening in Christchurch city, and being so used to big aftershocks we carried on with our lesson. We were all in shock when we heard the news afterwards.
The beginning of the year involved scanning mares, collecting off Stanhopes Magician and a bit of showing and dressage.
Magic Fluke went to the Pinto SI show, shown by Nikky Dalley. They did well to take Champion Pinto Youngstock Inhand from some nice competition.
Archie aka Artwork went to the SI dressage champs and did well in the prelim classes against some very fancy warmbloods, even placing 2nd on 74% in one class - not bad for a TB! He has also been out competing show jumping and cross country schooling with the great Lucinda Green. I am planning to run him pre-novice this season and if all goes well head to Taupo 3DE in May... we shall see.
Stanhopes Magician aka Marty has had a busy time collecting for fresh and now frozen. We now have a lovely stock of good quality frozen semen which is great news. We now can continue with our plan of gelding him so he can be my competition horse in the future. Very excited about that!
This coming season we now have 3 mares of ours confirmed infoal to Marty. I have leased a lovely intermediate event TB mare by Brillant Invader who is infoal to him so cannot wait to see that combination. We also have our lovely mares by Pintado Desperado and Cheleken Kickback confirmed infoal to him. There are several quality outside mares also confirmed, so it will be a very special time to see them all in the spring/summer this coming year.
So for those of you that are wondering, this coming breeding season we will be offering limited abouts of frozen semen to Stanhopes Magician.
We will also be looking at training Magic Fluke (who is homozygous for the pinto gene) to collect depending on his maturity and developement. So will keep you posted on that front.....
We also had the good results that our latest Whats Colour filly is confirmed homozygous for the pinto gene, just like her full sister! So it was not a hard decision to decided not to sell her!
Till next time, take care.
All our horses are ok luckily. I was just about to get on Archie to have a lesson with Vaughn J when it hit and I was knocked off my feet. Oblivious to the devastation happening in Christchurch city, and being so used to big aftershocks we carried on with our lesson. We were all in shock when we heard the news afterwards.
The beginning of the year involved scanning mares, collecting off Stanhopes Magician and a bit of showing and dressage.
Magic Fluke went to the Pinto SI show, shown by Nikky Dalley. They did well to take Champion Pinto Youngstock Inhand from some nice competition.
Archie aka Artwork went to the SI dressage champs and did well in the prelim classes against some very fancy warmbloods, even placing 2nd on 74% in one class - not bad for a TB! He has also been out competing show jumping and cross country schooling with the great Lucinda Green. I am planning to run him pre-novice this season and if all goes well head to Taupo 3DE in May... we shall see.
Stanhopes Magician aka Marty has had a busy time collecting for fresh and now frozen. We now have a lovely stock of good quality frozen semen which is great news. We now can continue with our plan of gelding him so he can be my competition horse in the future. Very excited about that!
This coming season we now have 3 mares of ours confirmed infoal to Marty. I have leased a lovely intermediate event TB mare by Brillant Invader who is infoal to him so cannot wait to see that combination. We also have our lovely mares by Pintado Desperado and Cheleken Kickback confirmed infoal to him. There are several quality outside mares also confirmed, so it will be a very special time to see them all in the spring/summer this coming year.
So for those of you that are wondering, this coming breeding season we will be offering limited abouts of frozen semen to Stanhopes Magician.
We will also be looking at training Magic Fluke (who is homozygous for the pinto gene) to collect depending on his maturity and developement. So will keep you posted on that front.....
We also had the good results that our latest Whats Colour filly is confirmed homozygous for the pinto gene, just like her full sister! So it was not a hard decision to decided not to sell her!
Till next time, take care.
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