British Breeder Magazine, February 2021
The most anticipated issue of the year, our February British Breeder magazine includes the Stallion Catalogue for the Virtual Stallion Event, to be held on 10th, 17th and 24th February. Visit our website for webinar registration details. Plus features on top breeders, veterinary insight, and much more.
The most anticipated issue of the year, our February British Breeder magazine includes the Stallion Catalogue for the Virtual Stallion Event, to be held on 10th, 17th and 24th February. Visit our website for webinar registration details. Plus features on top breeders, veterinary insight, and much more.
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Studbook - News<br />
Romanno Spotless - Photo Jasmine Punter<br />
The competition season may have not yet<br />
begun but <strong>British</strong> Riding Pony breeders<br />
are looking ahead to an exciting <strong>2021</strong>.<br />
Deborah Walton-Smith updates on plans<br />
for the eight year old bay <strong>British</strong> Riding<br />
Pony mare Romanno Spotless, bred by<br />
Jennifer Gilchrist. Ness , as she is called<br />
at home started her eventing career in<br />
2020 with wins initially at 90 cm level<br />
and finished the season of limited outings<br />
(due to the first lockdown) with two top<br />
three placings at 100 cm level.<br />
With the confirmation that the <strong>2021</strong><br />
eventing season will not start before<br />
the beginning of April plans have<br />
been slightly modified to include lots of<br />
hacking , schooling and a few online<br />
dressage competitions organised and<br />
run by Horse Events.<br />
Once eventing restarts the main focus<br />
for the season will be to consolidate<br />
her outings at 100cm level and then<br />
to move up to <strong>British</strong> Eventing novice<br />
level towards the end of this year. If all<br />
progresses smoothly Romanno Spotless<br />
will be aimed at FEI pony trials in 2022<br />
Ness is a daughter of the impeccably<br />
bred Stanley Grange Regal Heights<br />
who stands at stud again this season<br />
at Romanno Stud in Scotland. He<br />
demonstrates the true versatility of the<br />
<strong>British</strong> Riding Pony having sired ponies<br />
that excel in every discipline from<br />
showing to show jumping.<br />
Di Nicholson reports that her homebred<br />
NPS Licensed Stallion Dibynn Status<br />
Symbol is planning on gracing the<br />
dressage arenas when lockdown<br />
permits. He is currently working at<br />
Novice at home - but will start at the<br />
bottom as he has to get acclimatised<br />
to being ridden at show venues. Status<br />
Symbol has previously been extremely<br />
successful in the show ring winning<br />
many show hunter pony breeding<br />
championships.<br />
His sire Tiger Attack was a many time<br />
champion in the show ring but has also<br />
proved his worth in the eventing field<br />
and his dam Dibynn Status View is a<br />
1.20m showjumper, novice dressage<br />
and top show horse. Dibynn Status<br />
Symbol’s first foal is proving exciting and<br />
moves well enough to follow in his sire’s<br />
footsteps. Di is expecting two foals by<br />
him this year.<br />
Heronsmill Tiger’s Eye & Polly Cochrane in training<br />
for their BE debut. Photo - ESP Photography<br />
The first out of Dibynn Chic Flic. She<br />
is a half sister to a multiple champion<br />
Medium dressage and showing pony,<br />
and a multiple champion working hunter<br />
so a foal very much destined for the<br />
performance world. The other foal will<br />
be out of Dibynn Miss Congeniality -<br />
herself very successful in the show ring.<br />
Sally McMillan of Heronsmill Stud<br />
is breeding HOYS champions and<br />
successful sports ponies using the very<br />
best <strong>British</strong> Riding Pony bloodlines.<br />
She tells us that Heronsmill Tiger’s<br />
Eye (Roseberry Special Occasion x<br />
Copybush Eye of the Tiger) is continuing<br />
to develop his new partnership with<br />
ambitious young jockey, Polly Cochrane.<br />
Polly and Rocky hope to aim at BE<br />
events this year as Polly turns 12. They<br />
have been making the best of the current<br />
situation with XC schooling, Arena<br />
Eventing and jumping and dressage<br />
lessons with their trainers. This is a<br />
partnership to watch out for.<br />
Dibynn Status Symbol is set to move from the show<br />
ring to the dressage arena. Photo - 1st Class Images<br />
Sally also has a maternal half brother to<br />
Rocky, Heronsmill Tiger Moon (Castle<br />
Knight x Copybush Eye of the Tiger).<br />
He is now a yearling and was bred with<br />
the aim of producing a competition/<br />
event/ WHP, his dam having produced<br />
Tiger’s Eye and current Cuddy champion<br />
Heronsmill Tiger Lily. His sire is a Class<br />
1 Connemara by Fredericksminde Hazy<br />
Match, one of Ireland’s leading sires of<br />
sports ponies.<br />
The addition of M&M blood is at the<br />
foundation of the <strong>British</strong> Riding Pony<br />
studbook and breeders are successful<br />
enhancing their programmes in this way<br />
again today. Well established breeders<br />
such as Hightopps, Wytchwood and<br />
Lesmore studs have all used a mixture<br />
of Welsh Section B and Connemara<br />
stallions on their beautifully bred <strong>British</strong><br />
Riding Pony mares in the last few season<br />
and we look forward to seeing these<br />
youngsters gracing the show ring and<br />
sport arenas in the next few years.<br />
Sacha Shaw<br />
20 | BRITISH BREEDER
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