Brightwells Royal Welsh Sale 2003

BRIGHTWELLS ROYAL WELSH SALE
of Welsh Cobs, Welsh Ponies of Cob-type and Welsh part-breds.
Royal Welsh Showground. 17, 18 and 20 October 2003.

The increased trade experienced at the auctions of Welsh Mountain Ponies, Welsh Ponies section B and their part-breds continued at the Brightwells Royal Welsh Sale, of Section C, D and their part breds, where the Sale total was Ł530,100 (up from Ł358,938 in 2001 and Ł485,979 in 2002) with the highest average figure ever of Ł978 for the 542 lots sold.

Fronarth Esther

The section D mare at Ł8,500 was the nine-year-old Fronarth Esther by Derwen Desert Express out of the 1999 Royal Welsh champion Fronarth Boneddiges and the section C was the seven-year-old sired by Synod Roger who was Royal Welsh champion five times and she sold for Ł6,500.

Two records which were broken this time were for brood mares, both black and both bought by Kath and Angelo Panayiotou of the Kalistalodge Lodge Stud, Burnham, Buckinghamshire.

Synod Rosie’s Angel

The Fronarth/Blaengwen consignment of 14 from the Jones Brothers and Gwyn and Nicola Jones and sons totalled Ł36,700 (averaging Ł2,621) and the Synod consignment of 7 from Cerdin, Doreen and Amanda Jones totalled Ł20,033 (averaging Ł2,862). Fronarth Stud already hold the section D filly foal record of Ł7,500 (Fronarth Valmai in 2001) and Synod Stud have the overall section D record (stallion Synod Robert Black Ł11,000 in 1999) and section C foal record (Synod Relegance Ł11,000 in 2001).

Part of the Synod consignment

Top of the Sale at Ł9,500 was the section D yearling colt Blaengwen Wayne Rooney (also from the Fronarth/Blaengwen consignment) and he was sold to Mr Graham Schofield of the Dearne Valley Stud, Mexborough, South Yorkshire. Interestingly exactly 25 years ago at the Llanarth Sales (the fore-runner of the Royal Welsh Sale) Mr Schofield paid double the previous record (1,800 gns) for the yearling colt Trevallion Flash Jack who has turned out to be one of the most successful sires of all times. In the meantime Mr Schofield has become one of the leading exhibitors of Welsh Cobs in harness, culminating with the 2001 Horse of the Year Show Welsh championship with Gwynfaes Sion driven by Janice Clough.

Horeb Undeg

Top-priced section D colt foal at Ł3,500 was Julie Evans’s Haighmoor Deio and he was bought by Fronarth Stud who had bred his sire Fronarth Victor, a son of Fronarth Boneddiges. Two filly foals sired by the 2002 Royal Welsh champion Gwynfaes Culhwch were outstanding examples of the progeny of this young sire; Horeb Stud’s Horeb Undeg sold for Ł4,600 to Sandra and Peter Watkins of the Triad Stud in Clwyd (who also bought last year’s top lot Felinmor Custom Maid) and Gwynfaes Stud’s own Gwynfaes Gwendydd sold for Ł3,200 to Frenchman Dr Etienne Stevens. Fronarth Stud’s filly foal Fronarth Amazing Grace sold to new breeder Mr Wiederker of Switzerland for Ł3,600.

Photo left Horeb Undeg

Torrent Duchess

Ridden animals also were in good demand, the four-year-old mare Torrent Duchess sold for Ł5,200 to Mr Berrow of Lymington and the geldings Broughton Disraeli and Danaway Amber Flash fetched Ł3,800 and Ł3,500 to Pat Burnie of Aberdeen and Mr Green of Lightcliffe, West Yorkshire.

Photo left Torrent Duchess

Laurtom Golden Spark

The top section C stallion was the seven-year-old Laurtom Golden Spark which had been bought for Ł1,250 on the 2000 Brightwells Spring Sale; he was consigned by Irishman Mr Caddoo and he was bought by David Broster of Huddersfield for Ł4,500. The four-year-old Talyllyn Abel went to Maria Axberg-Fagerling of Sweden for Ł3,000. A very promising palomino colt foal Parvadean Gold Top sired by the harness and ridden winner Parvadean Lotta Bottle sold for Ł2,000 to Caroline Sutton of Wincanton. Amongst the Synod consignment was the delightful bay filly foal Synod Sweet Celina for which Carol and Stuart Crutchley of the Caerddaniel Stud, West Midlands paid Ł3,100.

Photo left Laurtom Golden Spark

A Welsh part-bred gelding also broke the record when the five-year-old George by Maesmynach Cymro Coch sold for Ł5,100 to Mrs Chapman of Chipping Norton and another of similar bloodlines, the six-year-old True Grit sired by Maesmynach Welsh Flyer fetched Ł3,100 from Mark Digby of Blaenycoed, Carmarthen.

A total of 34 were sold for export, 11 to Germany, 9 to France, 3 each to the USA and Holland, 2 each to Sweden, Denmark and Belgium and 1 each to Norway and Switzerland.

Wynne Davies

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