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Brightwells Royal Welsh Sale 2002

Record Prices at £500,000 Welsh Sale

A four-year old Welsh Section C stallion made the record breaking price of £14,500 at Brightwells Royal Welsh Sale. Overall sales of Welsh ponies and cobs totalled nearly half a million pounds.

The four-year old Welsh Section C Stallion, Uphill Tom Thumb, created a record at Brightwells Royal Welsh Sale when he sold on the second day for £14,500. Tom Thumb, who has no show ring experience but staghunted with his Okehampton based owner, Cathy Pearse, was offered at a reserve of £2,000, and was bought by St Clears based Alan Pearce for an overseas client.

Dave and Cathy Pearse bought Tom Thumb's dam, Balimou Bizzy Lizzie, for £100 and paid £200 for his sire, Windwillow Viscount, who has now been sold on.

Overall sales were encouraging, with 163 of the 216 animals offered the first day selling for an average of £705. The Part-Breds and geldings averaged £1,273, almost £400 up on last year. More than 40 lots went to overseas buyers. In total, 533 animals were sold for £485,979. The average price was equal to the highest average ever (£911 in 1990) and the 84% sold is the highest figure over the 38 years of these Sales.

Performance animals were in demand at the sale, where the top gelding figure of £6,500 — almost double the previous record price for a gelding — was paid for Lady Forwood's six-year-old Section D, Mowcastle More Magic.

More Magic, whom Lady Forwood bought at this sale as a yearling for £700, was broken in by her husband, 77-year-old Sir Peter Forwood, and has been ridden to many successes this year by their daughter, Jane Weller.

Among their achievements in 2002 were winning the ridden gelding class at the Royal Welsh Show, the open class at the P(UK) Winter Championships, and the Woodhouse M&M Championship and Dressage competition at the NPS Championships.

Included in the prize for the latter were dressage lessons with Carl Hester, which will be taken up by More Magic's new owner, Anna Ernsting of Ross-on-Wye.

The top young Cob was Jones Brothers and Gwyn and Nicola Jones's two-year-old colt, Fronarth Telynor-yr-Ail. He was bought for £6,200 by Ann Daunt, of the Maestir Stud, Melton Mowbray, and will later be gelded as a riding horse for her granddaughter.

The Synod Stud's Section C consignment of one colt and seven filly foals fetched £22,824, averaging £2,853 each.

Dr Wynne Davies

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