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LATEST PHOTOS
Home Bred Leyhills Bertie
Lyon (Ffrica of Forglen x Whitefield Lord Anthem)
Owned and Ridden by Anna Wilson
Who says they can't jump!! - that was his first lesson!!!
Ffrica of Forglen at
The Royal Show 2006
Cloverdene NPS Area 17
- First Time Out
Drumpark Leah - very
successful at PUK Winter Champs
Lochlands
Banjo at Leicester County 2006
Ffrica of Forglen and
Emily Flynn PUK Summer Champs 2005
Lochlands Banjo May 2006
"who says highlands
can't swim"!
Ffrica of Forglen and
Emily Flynn
NPS AREA 17 2005 "Full
Concentration"
Drumpark Leah and Katy
Marriott Payne
NPS AREA 17 2005
"Marvel of Mawbray"
One to watch for 2006!
Will be out and about with Kathry and Alice LLoyd
ARCHIVES
EMILY WITH FFRICA OF FORGLEN AND ALICE
WITH THE LATE SUE VARLETS GUINIVIERE OF WHITEFIELD
MEET THE PRINCESS ROYAL AT NPS CHAMPIONSHIPS
2006 - NOTICE FFRICA IS GIVING A ROYAL NOD!!!
Banjo Champion at Bucks
County 2006
"Rose-Marie of Sunnyneuk"
1st Bucks County 2006
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FLYNN FAMILY SEASON!!
Ffrica
We had a lovely time as usual with her. She won her
silver medal (and Em only had junior card in her pocket)
- oops! She had two 2nds and a 3rd in her HOYS qualifiers
and various wins in between. Our ponies did not go out
very much due to the dreaded GCSE's. On reflection,
the day we thoroughly enjoyed was taking Ffrica to HPEC
South show with my 9year old niece. They won the turnout
and 2nd in jnr handler with her tiny jockey beaming
from ear to ear. Just puts things into perspective,
you would have thought we had won olympia. Ffrica had
some very good placings at PUK Champs and has only been
lightly worked since due to concentrating on new pony.
We took her out to Patchets at the weekend where she
duly won the Llanarth and NPS Open. She truly is a superstar.
Debbie was trying to wean her off us and found us a
beautiful pony called Dunedin Megan. Didn't work though,
cos Ffrica is staying for next year!
Leah
We have had a fantastic time as Leah has started jumping.
She is so trusting and nothing phases her. She was champion
ridden highland at HPEC Southand won the handy pony.
She also won two dressage tests in with the warmbloods
and was put on Pony Club Dressage team. I loved watching
people when we bring our hairy highland out of the lorry
as they smile kindly at us then she finishes on a score
of 70.1. Leah had a 2nd and two 3rds at PUK summer championships
and she paid for our diesel! She has also been out once
in the last couple of weeks and won and qualified BSPS
Restricted and Open Winter Champs. Her present job is
nannying the newly broken ponies out hacking.
Megan
How lucky we feel to have this beautiful pony for next
year from a conversation Debbie had 6 months ago with
Anne Mitchell (her breeder). She has been to two shows,
qualifying for PUK Junior, Open summer 2007 and NPS
Open 2007, then a fantastic 9th at HOYS.
The intention was for us only to have one pony as Emily
is at school 6 days a week. If you are friends with
Debbie, you end up very poor with three fantastic ponies.
Wouldn't change anything for the world though.
Debbie's Boot Camp for Teenagers
Emily stayed with Debbie and had the most fantastic
time helping and riding her growing selection of ponies.
She enjoyed it so much, I had to take her back again.
I can highly recommend this to any Mums as Emily was
in bed asleep by 8.00pm for the first few days she was
home.
Wishing everyone a happy, safe time with their ponies
for the coming months.
Lochlands Principal Flute
jointly owned by myself and Frances McWilliam has returned
for his Winter holiday. It is hoped that he will be
produced in hand for the 2007 season.
Lochlands Banjo has finished
the season with a high. He was 2nd in the Olympia at
Bucks County and was Ridden Champion at Thame County
qualfying for the 2007 NPS Silver Medal Rosette final
and the Templeton O NEal. He is now going to concentrate
on workers through the Autumn and has recently completed
Stowe Sponsored Ride where he jumped everything he was
put at!!
Well Well done to Emily Flynn and their new purchase
Dunedin Megan. they finished a brilliant a brilliant
9th at Hoys and spend the winter forming a great partnership.
Ffrica not to be outdone went out for the first time
since August at Patchetts by winning both the Llanarth
and NPS Open winter qualifiers.
Welcome to Rignell Brora 3 year old fill by "Brig
O Doon of Whitefield" who has been with me over
the last few weeks trying to loose a bit of weight!!!
- she is one of life's good doers!! She at last looked
presentable enough to take to Thame where she was second
.
She will now Winter out with Rose-Marie of Sunnyneuk
and hopefully she will use up all that stored excesses!
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Wow what a busy period
it has been! along with its highs and lows.
Disappointment allround when Salinadene foaled early
losing her colt foal. It was born alive but never got
going. You never really get to the botton of these cases
but as farmers always say "where there's livestock
there's dead stock". However Salina if fine and
currently playing granny to Dark Maiden of Kildavie's
Fill foal which was only born one day before the highland
breed show in Scotland. Will have pictures on site as
soon as I can get a good one!!!
Salinadene
- twenty one years and still looking like she could
win Olympia.Unfortunately her colt foal was born dead
so she is doing somethinga little different for a while
- nothing too stressful just a poddle or two!!
with so many judging and stewarding appointments it
has been difficult to get out and about showing myself
so was really pleased with reseve youngstock champion
at East Anglian Natives with 3 year old "Rose Marie
of Sunnyneuk". She is now settled in foal so that
was her one and only outing this year!
Cloverdene is riding well and again had her first outing
at NPS Area 17 in hand as she has not been shown before!.
Was delighted with two thirds have to say it was a bit
hairy at times and she was a bit of a figgit infront
of the judges so could not expect any higher placing.
Am delighted that Sharon Flynn will be taking her on
for her novice year in 2007.
Leyhills Bertie Lyon now owned by Anna Wilson hs returned
to be broken and what a star he has been. Tken everything
in his stride and returns home just before the New Forst
Show - so best of luck to Anna and look out for him
doing some winter ridden novice classes.
Emily Flynn must feel luck is just not on her side.
She still has Ffrica of Forglen on loan for this season
and has knocked on the door so many times in the Hoys
qualifiers!. Second at West Midlands Stallion Show,
Third at Lincoln and Second in a huge class at The Royal
- each time missing out by just a mark or two! - However
its not all about Hoys and both Ffrica and Leah have
qualified for a number of the Championship Finals at
NPS and PUK so fingers crossed for them.
Lochlands Banjo has been his usual consistent self -
He represented the Highlands at the Breed Display at
the Royal - though he nearly melted in the heat!. He
has qualified for the Kingsford and PUK junior final
with Katie Ramsden and well placed in the couple of
Hoys classes he did capably jockeyed by Janine Modder..
More news after the Champs!
Drumpark Leah - very
successful at PUK Winter Champs
FEBRUARY 2006
Write this whilst still
recovering from todays Colt licensing!! where I had
to endure being bitten to death whilst running 20 metre
circles!!! -up and down the menage and final a huge
lunging session to get the heart beat up - god knows
whose!!!!!!!!!! Anyway passed with flying colours so
that's good!!!!!
x x x x
Welcome
home Banjo
Yes the boy is back!!!. Lesley Jolly is officially his
new owner but has kindly allowed him to be here. He's
going to learn to jump!!! with my new groom Katie who
joined the team in January. Will also do a few of the
bigger shows!!!! but all in all will be doing a multitude
of jobs!!!
Unfortunately due to personal circumstances Nikki Murray
has had to sell Leyhills Bertie Lyon who now passes
to Anna Wilson of Hants. All the best to her - believe
she is just about to break him - he'll be any easy one
Two mares from Ballinton have settled in really well
with great individual characters and am looking forward
to foals but will have to wait until June!!!
Am currently breaking in Cloverdene - going far too
well at the moment- so won't say too much more at the
moment - report next month!!!!!!
Promise to try and keep the site regularly updated -
quite difficult in the winter months so have saved it
up for now!!!!
x x x x
Salinadene and Dark Maiden
of Kildavie have safely arrived and are a pleasure to
have around.
Both these mares are
twenty years old and are in great spirit, scanned in
foal so fingers crossed!!!!!!!!!!.
For those of you who
are not familier with these mares they have been great
breeding mares for Scot McGregor at Ballinton and I
am really happy to have them down here.
October
2005
This
is a very quiet time of year for me. The youngsters
are enjoying being turned away in 10 acres and I am
preparing the yard for the coming Winter Months. However
all will change after Christmas with both Leyhills Bertie
Lyon and Cloverdene needing to be broken!
Lochlands
Principal Flute is growing on well and fingers crossed
he will be licensed in the Spring ready for a select
few mares in 2006.
FFRICAS NEWS
This season has gone so quickly.
Ffrica went to her 2nd RIHS QUAL. At
Newbury Showground and duly won! She then went off the
stud for five weeks, being wined and dined and despite
every effort came home extremely rounded and then scanned
not in foal! Sorry Deb, we tried so hard not to look
happybut Emily is besotted with the kindest pony ever,
this meant we could keep her even longer. In our true
professional style, her keep fit training was bareback
hacking thru the river and riding out with Emily's friends.
We took her to Iver Horse Show where
she was 2nd and Reserve Champion in a huge confined
novice class.
On to NPS champs. We had not had the opportunity to
do any Junior classesso entered the qualifying class
of 34 ponies which they duly won. They were 4th in the
Junior Final the next day.
The Highland Pony show was on the last
day and Ffrica was pulled in top in the open and went
down to 4th after the ride judge had ridden her. We
were all tired but happy and she lounged around for
the week before PUK Champs.
Emily realised she would have to rein back. We unsuccessfully
tried conventional methods which would have been good
if we were training her to dance on her hind legs, but
unbeknown to me Em went out at 7.30pm one night and
called me out an hour later. Ffrica would now rein back
in a headcollar! According to Em you just sit on bareback
and feed carrots from on top.
We arrived at PUK an hour before the Kingsford Final,
did our five minutes warm up and won it! The pair of
them had a fantastic time in the evening performance
although Ffrica was like a woman possessed before she
went in, she was so perfectly behaved, we were so proud
of them.
We can't thank you enough Debbie for letting us have
her and the best news ever is although we said we were
going to hide her when you wanted her back, you letting
us keep her for next year.
DUMPARK LEAH
Drumpark Leah ridden by Katy Marriott-Payne
We now have Leah and watched her having
an amazing week with Katy Marriot-Payne at PUK. She
won a huge Novice Class, 1st Reserve Champion and 2nd
in a very strong open class. We bought her home from
PUK. She is an absolute pleasure to have around. To
have one easy pony is brill but to have two is way beyond
our wildest dreams. Although we have only had her just
over a week, we took her to a show and she got her Kingsford
Ticket for 2006, did not bat an eyelid at the carriage
driving, steam ralley and fair all going on whilst she
was in the ring!
Hope we haven't gone on too much. We
have met the loveliest people and thoroughly enjoyed
every outing this year.
Herts County 29th May
Leyhills Bertie-Lyon (pictured below)
2nd in youngstock section to the very
nice Iona of Conway.
Brungrange Steffanie won her section
and went reserve overall
Good day for highlands!!
Ffrica of Forglen qualified for the
Royal International Horse Show Mountain and Moorland
Ridden section
at BSPS Area 8 Newbury
Drumpark Leah qualified for the NPS
Picton Final in her first ever outing under saddle ridden
by Katy
Marriott-Payne at NPS Spring Festival and went Reserve
Champion
Rose-Marie of Sunnyneuk won her inhand
class at NPS Are XI this saturday (14/5) and went Reserve
Champion
FFRICA of FORGLEN
FFrica of Forglen having great success
with Emily Flynn.
They have qualified for the Kingsford
ridden and Junior ridden Summer Champ Finals at PUK
Newark and Notts.
I believe they have the highland bug!!!!!
NEWS FROM THE VERY FABULOUS FFRICA IN
THE FLYNN CAMP
Ffricka is the most gentlest, kindest of ponies to fly
the flag for her
breed.
She has had a very busy easter holiday, wearing her
Pony Club hat for the
rallies and numerous hacks down the river for a picnic
with Emily and her
friends. This is one of her most favourite outings as
food is her favourite
hobby.Apart from being a total superstar at home, they
are having a
wonderful time in the ring.
We took her to Keysoe where she won the Llanarth and
was 2nd in the
Kingsford. Next on to BSPS 16 Spring show where she
was 4th in the open and
2nd Dalkieth Junior M & M in some huge classes.
On to BSPS 15a where she
was 3rd in her first RIHS qual. with the highest confirmation
marks of the
day and a good ride mark inspite of doing a "highland
trip" in her show.
Emily thinks she was too busy gazing at a rather hansom
Section D stallion.
Ffrica is a most endearing pony and has built up her
own fan club in our
area (not many highlands here).
No wonder Nikkie, who owns her son Bertie Lyons is so
excited at the
prospect of him coming out under saddle next year. He
seems to have the
temperament and looks of his Mum! Fingers crossed and
watch this space.
Ffricka is having a quiet month just exploring the rides
around here as
she is due to visit Sara Hirds beautiful stallion ............
Ffricka and Emily are going to try some sidesaddle (this
should be
interesting). Keep you posted as we are going to drag
Debbie along!
Take care.
Flynn Family (all newly converted Highland
people)
Well done to Frances McWilliam and her
ridden mare "Mountain Rowan of Craigie Loch"
who is with Matthew Lawrence this season. They took
the first of the Royal International Qualfiers at Hartbury
and went Champion.
This will definitely be a combination
to beat this season!
WANTED
14 - 14.2 4/5 year old Mare or Gelding
broken or unbroken. Must be show quality. Super private
home awaits where the right pony will not spend its
life dragged round the show circuit but will go dressaging,
pony clubing, hacking and fun!!
"who says highlands can't swim"!
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