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PONYMAGAZINEAUSTRALIA

PONY MAGAZINEAUSTRALIA

Volume 2 Issue 2March/April 2015

A Passion For Ponies

Koora-Lyn Telstar

The Arabian Influence on the Pony Breeds

Plus more...

ADULTS AND PONIES SPECIAL

Pony Profiles

Stallion Profiles

Pony Magazine Australia~Volume 1~Issue 2


Pony Magazine AustraliaMarch/April 2015EditorBrooke [email protected]

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COVER PHOTO:Our March/April 2015 Cover Photo is Amy Morel and her lovely pony Rosewood Little

Braveheart. See their story in our Pony Profiles.


ADULTS AND PONIES ISSUE

MARCH/APRIL 2015CONTENTS

Editorial

BUSINESS PROFILE:Petite Performance Ponies

FEATURE: A Passion for Ponies

PONY PROFILES:

Rosewood Litle Braveheart

Cleopatra Hope

Koora-Lyn Telstar

HOOVES IN HISTORYVolume 6

The Arabian Influence on the Pony

Skowronek

Photo: Equine Excellence Magazine

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Another Easter has come and gone, I hope that Easter Bunny found you all! This issue has been a great one to write and research, I got to speak to some really lovely, inspirational people.

This issue aims to show that ponies are not just for the kids. Adults too can enjoy ponies and they can actually be quite good for confidence, with their smaller size. Anybody who owns or rides a pony knows the cheeky-ness and stubborn nature that can only come from a pony. In saying this, they are great teachers and can do anything that the bigger horses can do, as this issue’s stories will demonstrate.

Next issue we will celebrate one year of Pony Magazine Australia and have some great prizes in the works and lots of competitions so don’t miss out! We are also offering all adverts at half price, plus free Stud Directory and Ponies For Sale adverts, so there is no better time to get on board.

I would like to remind everybody that we welcome expressions of interest for stud or pony profiles, we always love to print your stories. Without our loyal readers there would be no magazine.

Please enjoy this issue of Pony Magazine Australia.

Brooke PurcellOwner/Editor

~BUSINESS PROFILE~


Petite Performance Ponies

Petite Performance Ponies is located in Lara, Victoria and run by Trelawney Dewe. It was established in 2013 and focuses on training and campaigning ponies and horses for the Olympic disciplines for both adults and children.

Trelawney aims to produce transparent training programs for ponies and to provide the client with regular feed-back on how their pony is progressing. “Being 5’1’’ and 48kg I am much smaller than many trainers and well suited to working with ponies,” says Trelawney.

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for more information

~BUSINESS PROFILE~


Petite Performance Ponies is able to prepare and campaign ponies for owners who do not have small riders, yet want to see their pony out competing. Ponies can be campaigned in a number of disciplines including Dressage and Show Jumping.

Petite Performance Ponies caters for a variety of needs and situations, including campaigning of ponies both short and long term, improving edu-cation, and also dealing with tricky behaviours. Petite Performance Ponies also offers riding lessons and can aid individuals in finding and purchasing a suitable horse or pony. Trelawney helps both riders and their ponies and in the future aims to continue to develop her team and the services that they offer.

For more information you can contact Trelawney at [email protected] Or on 0422 675 581 And you can find them on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PetitePerformancePonies/

~FEATURE~


A Passion For PoniesJodie Barton’s love affair with ponies started with a fine little stallion named Acheron Priceless, also known as Danny, a son of Rosanree Capricorn and Rhyl Precious bred by Sue Walsh. At the time they were competing there was no Pony Dressage yet, and so they were competing up against the bigger horses. This they did with much suc-cess, beginning a prosper-ous and joyful career.

“We competed against the big horses, Priceless was such fun. In my career with him training with the talented Vicki Roux we competed in both Showing and Dressage for many years,” says Jodie. The pair won over 60 Championships in their ca-reer together, as well as about 20 trophies, numerous Reserve Championships at Royal level and EA Dressage and they also won Runner Up Ridden Welsh Pony of the Year twice. “I guess you could say Danny got me addicted to Welsh ponies,” Jodie says.Priceless then went on to teach Jodie’s three children to ride and competed successfully with her daughters, being selected on the EV Young Rider

Above: Jodie and Acheron Priceless (Ros-naree Capricorn x Rhyl Precious)

Photo:Equine Excellence Magazine

~FEATURE~


Dressage Squad and competing at State level. Jodie remarks, “He is still going strong at 24 with a friend of mine, showing her daughter the ropes,” she describes him as ‘an absolute gem.’

Jodie then went on to do a stint with the Warmbloods, but described it as being heartbreak after heartbreak, “I decided that as I was jumping on the kid’s ponies still to tune them up how much fun they were, I’d forgotten!” “So much less stress, cheaper, and I was braver on them.” From here on in Jodie focused on the ponies, Dressage being her passion, “I love the training, the achiev-ing,” she says,”I have successfully trained and broken in many ponies, predominately Welsh as I am passionate about this breed. I love their character. They are inquisitive, hardy and do anything to please.”

Jodie has had various experience with the ponies, from coaching riders to breaking (and falling from) Shetlands. “Being short, it was inevitable I was going to ride ponies. The joy I have with them some will never understand, but finally after all of the heartbreak I realised what I was meant to do, train ponies,” she explains, “With the ponies I

“Being short, it was inevitable I was going to ride ponies. The joy

I have with them some will never understand, but finally af-

ter all of the heartbreak I realised what I was meant to do,

train ponies,”

Jodie and Acheron Priceless at their last competition together, Priceless was 20

Photo:Equine Excellence Magazine

“With the ponies I have never really found the

same difficulties as I had with bigger horses.”

~FEATURE~


have never really found the same diffi-culties as I had with bigger horses.”

After being on the verge of giving up the competitive scene, Jodie finally found her dream pony. Amaranda Swiss Chalet was purchased in July 2014. Chalet stood as a stud stallion at Wyann Stud for a number of years prior to being gelded at five, “In a few short months he has brought me back from almost wanting to give up,” says Jodie, “He blows my mind every ride, he is quite hilarious at times. I love his spark.” Jodie and Chalet competed to-gether for the first time in November 2014, where they won the ridden class and went Reserve Champion Open Pony. From here they competed in a number of unofficial Dressage Days with scores in the high 60s and then went on to take out Preliminary Championship at Barastoc and also the Newcomer Dressage Pony.

Jodie attributes her success to her coach Julie Fairway, “Without her I wouldn’t be winning!!” Jodie praises, “She’s been my rock, and the most wonderful friend and mentor.She trained with Carl Hester in the UK so has the most beautiful soft way of training.”

Recently, Chalet and Jodie won both of their tests and the Preliminary Pony Championship at the Boneo Park Au-tumn Dressage Championships. This was his fourth Championship in a row, from four competitions. Jodie says,

Below: Jodie and Amaranda Swiss Chalet “In a few short

months he has brought me back from almost wanting to give up.

He blows my mind every ride, he is quite hilarious at times. I love

his spark.”Photo: OZ Dressage Adam Fawcett

After being on the verge of giving up the

competitive scene, Jodie finally found her dream pony. Amaranda Swiss

Chalet was purchased in July 2014.

~FEATURE~


“I am having a fabulous time! Riding should be about joy, harmony and yes usually a lot of hard work. Chalet is my dream pony, I’m really looking forward to our future and what it may bring, the sky is the limit!”

Above left: Jodie and Amaranda Swiss Chalet training

Above: Jodie on a pony that she broke in and tained, Thalaba Blue

Style.

Left:Acheron Priceless with Jodie’s daughter Tonaya

Barton

“Chalet is my dream pony, I’m really looking forward to our future and what it may bring, the sky is the

limit!”


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~PONY PROFILES~


Rosewood Little Braveheart

Amy Morel has only just started competing her pony Rosewood Little Braveheart this season but has already tasted success in and out of the ring. The relationship that has been forged between this pair is one that every girl aims to have with their pony.

Rosewood Little Braveheart is known as King at home and was purchased by Amy from Water

~PONY PROFILES~


Horse Lodge who had purchased the pony as a nine year old stallion. King was very quiet and well-behaved as a stallion but was gelded so that their daughter, Grace, could ride him at Pony Club and One Day Events. Grace and Braveheart competed with much success together.

Amy has been riding under Gaylene Brown for over ten years, and just this season began campaigning King. Their first show together was Morisset Show, where the pair were awarded first Led Pinto Gelding Under 14 Hands High, Champion Led Pinto and second in Ridden Pinto. “My most memorable moment with King was winning Champion Led Pinto at Morisset Show 2015. I almost cried, it was our first show togeth-er and I went out on the day with no expectations, just to have a fun day. He was so well behaved and I feel truly blessed owning him,” says Amy of their first show. From here, Amy and King went to the Maitland Show, where they were awarded Best Marked Pinto, second in Best Presented Pinto, first Led Pinto Gelding Under 14 Hands High, Champion Led Pinto Gelding, and went on to be named Supreme Champion Pinto.

Amy and King’s bond is a special one indeed. “King is so special to me because he is truly a one person pony,” explains Amy, “No one else is able to catch him in the paddock apart from me.” “He has some trust issues, but through spending lots of time with him and a kind hand he has grown to respect and trust me. I will never part with him.” Amy describes King as cheeky, an attribute common to all ponies. The pair aim to continue to show in breed classes and also venture into Dressage.

Amy and Rosewood Little Braveheart winning Supreme Champion Pinto at Maitland Show 2015.

~PONY PROFILES~


Cleopatra HopeCleapatra Hope spent the first part of her

competition life competing in the Dressage arena against the Warmbloods and larger horses, before it was

discovered she was eligible for Pony Dressage. From here it has been onward and upwards for team Cleo and

owner/rider Belinda Russo.

Cleo was broken in by Glenn Pearce of the successful Team QEB in Jimboomba, Queensland. She is the third generation owned by Belinda, who also owns her dam and granddam. Cleo is by the lovely Jaybee Leuwin and from an Anglo Arabian, Prima Bella Hope, whose dam Babe’s Hope was given to Belinda on her 16th birthday.

After competing for some time against the Warmbloods in the horse classes, Belinda’s long-time coach Jacqui Huppert of Team QEB last year brought into question Cleo’s size and whether maybe she was a pony. So Belinda got her measured, and stand-ing at 147.95 centi-metres, it turned out that she was! “The days of competing against huge Warmbloods had come to a triumphant end,” says Belinda.

Cleo and Belinda have

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come along in leaps and bounds in their career, “Her strength and willingness to please nature made learning the more advanced movements quite easy,” says Belinda, “Most of the movements we treat as party tricks. She gives a little, we reward and then she really clues on.” Belinda describes Cleo as being constantly on the ball, a great attribute in a Dressage pony, “The most special thing about Cleo is her sensitivity, everything I do in the saddle must be precise,” Belinda adds, “At times she can be too sharp, but that’s how we want her, always waiting and asking when.”

The pair are currently competing at Elementary/Medium level Dressage and have many wins under their belt. “Our most memorable day was at a two star Dressage Day, she won both Novice classes and took out the highest percentage trophy rug and prize money, that was a good day,” says Belinda. She also got come favourable comments from the judges, including “what a super pony,” from Mary Seefreid.

Last year Cleopatra Hope was also named a Greenacres Performance Ponies 2014 Pony Leaderboard Finalist at the Dressage Queensland Awards Night.This year Belinda is aiming towards the National Pony Dressage Championships.

Hope as a foal being watched over by her dam

and granddam

~PONY PROFILES~


Koora-Lyn TelstarKoora-Lyn Telstar is a striking example of the

Australian Pony; cheeky, loyal and demonstrating that strong body that makes the breed so versatile. He has been

highly successful in the show ring with his owner Shirley Ross and the pair are heading towards a career under saddle in the near future, in which they will no doubt

excel.

Koora-Lyn Telstar is a four year old stallion by the well-performed sire Koora-Lyn Acclaim, a multi-Supreme Champion who needs no introduction. His dam Koora-Lyn Amberstar (Bido Telstar x Barolin Amberluka) has produced numerous progeny for Koora-Lyn Stud. Shirley made the trip to Sydney to view the 2010 drop of foals at Lyn Hohlweck’s Koora-Lyn Stud and says that it was Star’s quiet nature that sealed the deal on his purchase. Star is a full brother to Koora-Lyn Amber Jewel and Koora-Lyn Amber Song.

Shirley has shown Star in hand since his purchase, travelling around Northern New South Wales and Queensland. “I must say though when he turned three his behaviour wasn’t always good in the showring, he has been known to rear and be pushy, too worried about the mares around him,” says Shirley, “In saying that though, most of the time he behaves quite well for a stallion.” Shirley describes his antics at Kyogle Agricultural Show two years ago, “He reared up 16 times in the ring. When the judges put the Champion ribbon in him I was really embarrassed to accept it. I probably shouldn’t have.”

Despite his cheeky antics

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on occasion, Star is much loved by his owner and has shown that he can be a gentleman in the ring, “One of my best memories was at my local show Murwillumbah last year when he was an utter angel in the ring winning Champion Australian Pony and Champion Saddle Pony,” Shirley says fondly, “He really deserved those wins as he was such a good boy.” Shirley puts a lot of emphasis on behaviour and manners in her ponies, “Winning ribbons is not important to me but the behaviour of my pony stallion is. If we go out into the ring and get a second or a third and his behaviour is great I am so happy. If we go out and get a first and his behaviour is atrocious I am not happy.”

Star and Shirley have amassed many wins in the pony rings, including Champions at Youngstock Shows in Queensland, as well as Supreme Stallion at Alstonville Agricultural Show. But it is the connection that they have that is important to Shirley, “We have a connection between us,” she says, “I can call him from anywhere and he comes running. I know he looks to me for security.”

Shirley broke Star in as a two year old, with guidance from a friend. They are having regular dressage lessons and are looking at a future in ridden classes and Pony Dressage, “My dream with Star would be to compete in Pony Dressage eventually and ride him in his ridden classes at shows,” says Shirley. Shirley may also stand Star at stud in the future.


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HOOVES IN

HISTORYDocumenting the history of ponies in Australia.


~HOOVES IN HISTORY~Volume 6

HOOVES IN HISTORY~HOOVES IN HISTORY~ Volume 6


The Arabian horse is a breed known for its beauty, stamina and rich oriental history. They are also known for their prepotence as breeding stock, strongly passing on their characteristics through the generations. This can be observed in a number of modern breeds, including ponies. Quite a number of Arabian stallions and mares have stamped their influence strongly on a num-ber of the pony breeds. Here we will focus mostly on those recorded, as there were no doubt earlier influences as well.

For as long as they have been used in civilisation, Arabians have been utilised to improve the quality of stock. Their refinement, beauty, stamina and intelli-gence has been long sought after, with westerners seeking out the most prized of the desert horses. These horses were used to improve their own stock, one of the most famous examples being the Thoroughbred, but in fact most breeds are known to be of Arabian descent.

THE WELSH BREEDS

The glorious grey Dyoll Starlight was the modern grandfather of the Welsh Moun-tain Pony. Few ponies fail to carry a line to this great little pony. His dam Dyoll Moonlight was thought to trace back to an Arabian stallion turned out with the Mountain Ponies of the Vaynor Hill area of the Brecon Beacons. Her mane and tail were said to have been of silky consistency, in comparison to the coarse hair of the true mountain pony. Her owner Mr. Meuric Lloyd, breeder of Dyoll Star-light, described her as an Arabian in miniature, and these characteristics were passed on to her son and still survive generations later in the large dark eyes, tiny curved ears and big, wide nostrils that are now set as characteristics of the breed.

Lady Wentworth, who was the daughter of the famous Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt of Crabbet Park, owned Dyoll Starlight in his old age. She was no doubt at-tracted to his Arabian qualities and used his blood quite dominantly in her own Welsh Mountain breeding program. She also bred Arabian cross Welsh Ponies, which she described as the most beautiful ponies in the world. Sadly her ponies were something of escape artists and so this part of the stud did not last very long, such a loss to the pony world as her Welsh stock were just as beautiful and

THE ARABIAN INFLUENCE

full of quality as her Arabian horses.

Though not the same as Arabian horses, a Barb horse also made his way into the stud book in the early days when the Section B was in need of resurrection. A number of foundation stock were allowed to be upgraded and amongst these was the stallion Tan-Y-Bwlch Ber-wyn, whose sire was the imported Barb horse Sahara. His dam Brynhir Black Star was by the Dyoll Starlight son Bleddfa Shooting Star and passed on the true pony characteristics, blended with traits clearly Oriental in nature. He had quite a profound influence on not only the Section B Welsh Ponies, but also the Welsh Mountain Ponies via such stock as Clan Pip and Traharne Tomboy, and also his via his grandson Coed Coch Blaen Lleuad.

Another Section B of Oriental descent to be allowed into the main section of the Stud Book was Craven Cyrus. Cra-ven Cyrus was a quality little pony, once again the successful cross of an Oriental stallion over a true pony mare, in this case the mare being Irfon Lady Twilight, a Dyoll Starlight daughter. His sire was a stallion by the name of King Cyrus, whose stock to breed on appear to be isolated to this fine little pony stallion. King Cyrus was bred by Lady Wentworth of Crabbet Park and by her world renown Skowronek and out of a daughter of Mesaoud in Kibla. Craven Cyrus would go on to have a pronounced impact on both the Section A and B Welsh ponies, as well as the Riding Pony. He was described as one of the finest sires of children’s riding po-nies of his time. His influence is strong-ly represented through the Downland Ponies, his daughter Lady Cyrus pro-ducing Star Supreme, and son Craven Greylight producing Craven Sprightly Twilight. This pair were mated to pro-


duce the beautiful Downland Love-In-The-Mist. Downland Love-In-The-Mist produced her own collection of great po-nies, amongst them Downland Chevalier, Downland Romance, Downland Misty Morning (dam of Downland Manchino), and Downland Water Gypsy (dam of Downland Mohawk), just to name a few.

Reeves Golden Lustre was another stal-lion originally entered in the Part-Bred section of the Stud Book but upgraded to the main purebred register when a few stallions from foundation stock clas-sified mares were allowed in. His dam Ceulan Silver Lustre was another horse of Crabbet Arabian parentage, her sire being Incoronax, a stallion by the su-perb Raseem, and from the Skowronek daughter Incoronata. He was originally mainly used to breed Riding Ponies, however when he was allowed into the main section of the Welsh Stud Book his popularity with the Welsh ponies in-creased.

THE BRITISH AND AUSTRALIAN RIDING PONY

The elegance and beauty of the Arabian has contributed significantly to the Brit-ish and Australian Riding Ponies. Bwlch Valentino, grandfather of the Riding Pony, was by a stallion whose dam was part Arabian. Probably Bwlch Valenti-no’s most influential son, Bwlch Zephyr, also traced back to the Arabian Mootrub (sire of the great endurance horse Shahzada*) via his dam. The lovely little show mare Pretty Polly, who also made a name for herself as a broodmare, was by the charming little Arabian Naseel, a stallion who sired a number of suc-cessful show ponies and made his way into the Riding Pony Stud Books quite dominantly. Naseel (Raftan x Naxina, by Skowronek) was bred at the Hanstead


Stud of Lady Yule and of Crabbet lines. Another stallion bred here to influence the Riding Pony gene pool was Samson, by Count Dorsaz and from Samsie (out of the same dam as Naseel). Samson’s daughter Norwood Delilah produced the stallion Cusop Dignity, who had quite a significant influence. He was the sire of Cusop Anita, who produced the great Sandbourne Royal Ensign*. Another son of Naxina, Grey Owl, was also to leave his mark on the Riding Pony Scene, particu-larly through his granddaughter Sarnau Midnight Star. Sarnau Midnight Star’s daughter Midnight Miss Mink was the dam of the famous Wingrove Minkino (by Bwlch Zephyr), who was the leading sire of children’s ponies in the 1980s and can be found in many lines here in Australia.

AUSTRALIAN PONY

The foundation of the Australian Pony has been covered in previous issues, but a few Arabian horse of influence are worth mentioning again. The imported purebred stallions Rakib* and Rikham*, both grey, were imported to Australia from England. Rakib* was pure Crabbet blood, while Rikham* was high per-centage, and both traced back to the influential Skowronek. Edward Hirst of Springmead Stud used both of these stallions on his pony mares and it is through these Springmead Ponies that they can be found in modern pedigrees. The famed endurance horse Shahzada*, another import, appears in pony pedigrees, in par-ticular via his purebred grandson Zadaran, sire of the influential stallion Desert Star.



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SKOWRONEK(Ibrahim x Jaskolka)"The lark"Purebred Arabian Stallion born 1908 or 1909.

When Lady Wentworth took over the Crabbet Arabian Stud she used mostly the lines established by her parents Wilfrid and Lady Anne Blunt, with a few exceptions of horses that she introduced. One of these was the ethereal Skowronek, one of the most influential sires in the Arabian breed.

Skowronek was bred at the Antoniny Stud of Count Joseph Potocki in Poland, in the midst of the war. His year of birth was 1908 or 1909, depending on the source, and he was sired by the famous Ibrahim, and from the Rymnik daughter Jaskolka.

The impression that one gets is that Skowronek was not held in any special regards in his own country, and his two full brothers appear to have disappeared into oblivion, having been sold to the Caucases Mountains. It was simply by chance, or fate if you will, that this glorious stallion got the chance to make his mark on the modern Arabian. It just so


happened that American-born Mr. Walter Winans was visiting the Potockis to hunt game on their private animal park and he showed interest in a team of Part Arabian harness horses. Potocki refused to sell the harness horses, but offered him a purebred stallion as a compromise. When Mr. Winans returned to England in 1913, he took with him a five year old Skowronek whom he used as a hack and also as a subject for a number of his bronzes (Mr. Winans was an artist and Hackney exhibitor). The next year he was sold on to a Mr. Webb-Ware, where Skowronek was again used as a hack.

By 1919 Skowronek had again been moved on and this time found himself in the hands of H.M.V. Musgrave Clark of the famous Courthouse Arabian Stud. Here he was used as a sire for the first time, and he also captured the eye of the famous Lady Wentworth of Crabbet Park. Lady Wentworth, intelligent and witty as a fox, was far too clever to let her rivals know that


she wanted the horse. She used a go-between and after negotiations, Skowronek turned up at Crabbet. The year was 1920 and this little stallion was about to change the entire history and shape of the Arabian breed.

Now Lady Wentworth was well-known for the creation of the type that was known as the ‘Wentworth Super Horse.’ These horses were bigger than the average Arabian, with good bone and well proportioned. Skowronek was barely larger than a pony, yet what he lacked in size, he made up for in quality. His characteristics added something to the Crabbet horses that none but the most talented breeder could have foreseen. Within a few generations Lady Wentworth was able to add size back into the horses, using the blood of her larger horses such as Rijm and Riffal.

Skowronek was a charming little stallion, his shoulder was exceptional, his hindquarters strong and smooth, and his type was that of a fairy tale horse. He stamped his type strongly on his progeny, of which he had 47 recorded purebred Arabians and a number of part breds. With his beautiful type, one can imagine what a superb cross he would have made over Welsh ponies and Lady Wentworth used him over a number of her Welsh mares but one can understand her saving him mostly for her purebreds.

Skowronek lived out his life at


Crabbet, producing Champion after Champion and long after his death his legacy lives on through his bloodline which is dominant in not only Arabians, but through numerous other breeds. His influence has spread worldwide, from Australia and New Zealand, to Spain, Poland, America and Africa, just to name a few destinations where his progeny and descendants were exported.


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