Magic Colour Warmbloods

Spring, summer.. Xmas 2011

2011-12-19T00:05:00.000-08:00

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.

Middle of the year already!

2011-07-26T03:06:00.000-07:00

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!!

April, May...winter!

2011-05-30T12:15:00.000-07:00

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!

Jan and February and Earthquakes!

2011-03-05T22:17:00.000-08:00

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.

Happy New Year!

2010-12-30T21:01:00.000-08:00

We hope everyone has had a good 2010 and we wish everyone a fantastic 2011.
We ended the year by having Karen Livingstone come and take some amazing photos of Marty aka Stanhopes Magician and all his achievements from 2010.
To see more of them have a look at our facebook page :
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Magic-Coloured-Warmbloods-NZ/131599390194220

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Christmas almost here!

2010-12-15T11:07:00.000-08:00

As we approach Christmas fast things have finally slowed down this week with the horses. Archie arrived back yesterday after his North Island stint with Vaughn Jefferis and Matt Gilmour. Great experience for him and he ended on a great note coming 6th in a prenovice class at Puhinui. He did a lovely dressage for 4th place, lovely clear xc, and then took the last rail in the show jumping. It's great to have him home and I look forward to getting on him.

Johnny aka Stanhopes Johnny Magic went to his new home yesterday, sad for us to let him go but he has gone to the best home and I will see him a lot which makes it easier. Johnny turned into a lovely safe guy to ride who moves really well and has a lovely show hunter style jump. We wish Johnny all the best.

Marty has been collecting via AI at Astek stud and has become very quick at it! All mares we have AI'ed this season have taken first pop so that is great news. We are hoping to get some frozen taken shortly.

Our new foal, Elle aka Magic McPherson is another stunner, very leggy and athletic girl with a very bouncy trot. She will be like her full sister Magic Moments and will be at least 16.2hh.

We wish everyone a fantastic Christmas and holiday break!

November so far..

2010-11-14T17:34:00.000-08:00

We have just survived another Christchurch show - taking both the boys; Stanhopes Magician aka Marty and Magic Fluke aka Luke. Marty got reserve champion inhand warmblood youngstock which was nice, with the judge saying that if he had trotted out properly (without showing off his manhood!) he would have gone one better. The following day both colts went which was an interesting dynamic in itself!. With Marty taking out Champion Youngstock Male Pinto for the 3rd year in a row. With Luke coming Reserve Champion to him. Marty then went one better and took out Supreme Pinto Inhand - great team effort and great results. I was lucky to have Nikky Dalley leading Luke and Bert Elstob handling Marty who did a great job, thanks guys!
That night Cheleken Indy decided she would foal, so we had a lovely show day foal - a very leggy bay and white pinto filly by Whats Colour/Tomtom. Gorgeous foal that is very athletic and seems very sweet natured like her Mum.
After 2 days at the show and then up all night with foaling, I got on a plane to go and see my eventer in the north island at his first horse trial up there. It was a great weekend, very full on with 6 horses, 2 riders and me as groom!! Archie is doing well and looked a wee star. I look forward to seeing him again at Richfields and Puhunui Horse Trials shortly.
Marty has served 2 of my mares via AI and both are confirmed infoal first pop so that was also another excitement and gives us something to look forward to next year.
After such an amazing month so far unfortunately we had some sad news. Martys first foal due this month unfortunately did not make it. All very sad for the mare owner and mare but they are keen to try and again and we hope for better luck this time.

Magic Flukes first show

2010-09-26T00:59:00.000-07:00

Big day for Magic Fluke aka Luke. First bath, truck ride and first time away from home. He was very well behaved and Nikky Dalley did a fantastic job of showing him off. He came away with Champion Youngstock Pinto which was very exciting. We were very proud of him especially his behaviour throughout the day.

September already

2010-09-22T13:12:00.000-07:00

We seem to have lost September dealing with the earthquake here in Christchurch. We had quite alot of damage to our house and have only just moved back in. We seem to be getting used to the aftershocks now. The poor horses were a bit spooked but have come through it ok.
We have had the first Horse Trial of the season and Archie the young TB won his training class which was very exciting.
The breeding season is pretty much on us and Delta will be scanned shortly and be one of Martys girls. Indy is due with her second Whats Colour/TomTom foal on the 5th November so we are holding our breath for another stunner like Magic Moments (Mo).
Martys first foal is due on the 1st November to an outside mare so we are all waiting to see what pops out of Tash's lovely mare.
We have also got a lovely mare on lease for this coming season - she was a very successful intermediate event mare herself and is by Brillant Invader who is one of the most successful TB jumping sires in NZ - so very excited about that and she will be another of Martys girls.
Little Luke, last years foal has got his first show this Sunday so will hopefully get some photos and keep you posted!
Good luck to all those with competitions coming up and all the best to our Christchurch earthquake friends!

August roundup

2010-09-01T15:36:00.000-07:00

We had a great weekend with Vaughn Jefferis here training us all. He is a great trainer and we are already looking forward to his next visit. Johnny our almost 4yr had his first jump school and he seems to be quite talented which is very exciting!
I have been taking Marty out to Bert Elstobs for a few educations inhand as Bert has kindly agreed to lead him at the Stallion parade on the 12 September.
Back into busy season with the Horse Trials about to start , breeding and showing season almost apon us. All very exciting and exhausting all at the same time!

Stanhopes Magician Stud Card

2010-08-15T01:21:00.000-07:00

Stanhopes Magician (2007)
registered NZPH and NZ Warmblood Association

Bred for performance with proven international bloodlines

by Stanhopes Diddicoy - german warmblood (via frozen AI)

out of TB Cyprus - intermediate event mare

At just 3years of age he has had incredible success inhand including:

2010 Pinto Inhand Horse of the Year
2010 Pinto Inhand Champion Youngstock HOY
2010 and 2008 SI Pinto National Show - Supreme Champion Inhand of Show, Champion Youngstock, Supremen Champion Inhand Horse
2008 and 2009 Canterbury A&P Champion Pinto Youngstock Male
2009 Champion Warmblood Show - Champion inhand Youngstock Male

Breeding lines include Ico, Sinaed, Gotthard and Gottward (famous 'G' line). Stanhopes Diddicoy himself is the only coloured horse to compete, and be placed prepresenting Great Britain in international dressage. His offspring are excelling in eventing and showing. Described by the Warmblood Facts File "has world class show jumping blood on both sides of his pedigree'

Cyprus, NZTB competed successfully at Intermediate Horse Trial level with 45points. By Musical Phantasy who is the sire of several advanced eventers in NZ including Clifton Classic.

Stanhopes Magician has a sensible temperament, great moving and is international quality avaliable to a limited number of selected mares this breeding season.

Stud Fee $1400 incl booking fee.

For more details Ph Emma Steel
021 884 156 or 03 344 0369
http://www.colouredwarmbloods.co.nz/

Stanhopes Magician

2010-08-03T01:29:00.000-07:00

Breeding season is getting closer...we are working on getting a new page on our web site for our young stallion Stanhopes Magician. Keep an eye out for it. It should have his pedigree, show record, photos and breeding agreement. He will stand via AI to a limited number of mares this season as he is not quite 3yrs yet! His first foal is due 5th November so that is hopefully very exciting for us and the mare owner! We are also after the support from our facebook friends aiming to take him to the Christchurch Stallion Parade on the September 12th. So might see you there...

August 2010

2010-07-31T03:29:00.000-07:00

Starting to get busy for us here. We are getting organised to stand our colt Stanhopes Magician (aka Marty) to outside mares via AI. All very exciting and a new chapter for us. We have had positive feed back from the article in the August Horse & Pony magazine and some bookings for Marty which is promising.
Stanhopes Johnny Magic is coming along nicely and is in light work and is proving to be a very sensible chap with talent which is great. The young TB Archie is now back in work getting ready for the spring horse trials. He has come in alot more settled and showing what a talented quick learner he is. Nikky is helping handle and hopefully get the weanling, Magic Fluke ready for his first show in September all going well.

We have the super Vaughn Jefferis coming back in 28/29th August so I am also busy organising that clinic. So along with the hard feeding twice a day, mucking out and all the other bits and bobs, it is all go! It is great to see the sun.... long may it continue.