The Welsh Pony and Cob Society
Cymdeithas y Merlod a'r Cobiau Cymreig

Brightwells 55th Annual Fayre Oaks Sale 2008

Royal Welsh Showground
27^th and 28^th September 2008

Whilst the economic climate had an adverse effect on the lower-priced animals, 499 ponies were sold for a Sale total of £364,595 representing a satisfactory average figure of £730. Figures for the top-priced ponies kept up well, the top price of £11,000 being equal to the record figure achieved in 2006.

Top of the Sale at £11,000 was Scott Arrowsmith’s nine-year-old ridden section A gelding Rosmarche Huckleberry bred by Helen Myers in Carmarthenshire and sold to Mrs Whitfield of Pelton, Co Durham. Huckleberry is sired by Penual Mark who was top of the WPCS sire ratings for five years and died in 2006 aged 29 years. Huckleberry had qualified for the Horse Of The Year Show and was sold with the proviso that he remains with his ten-year-old jockey until after the Show. Mr Arrowsmith bought the two-year-old section B colt Annandale Court Jester (£3,600), the three-year-old section B gelding Hilin Chilo and the section A foals Brynseion Little Crusader and Brynseion Heulyn.

Top of the section A breeding ponies was also a Penual Mark son, this was the eight-year-old chestnut stallion Friars Golden Mark consigned by Luke Brown of the Pontgam Stud . Golden Mark has been a consistent prize-winner and his progeny have also been good winners. He was sold for £5,200 to Miss T Coppins, Selling, Kent.

Friars Golden Mark sold for £5,200
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

Mrs Betty French of the Forlan Stud has often commanded top prices for her black section A’s; this time her four-year-old black mare Forlan Caprice was top female, sold for £4,200 to Miss L Curbishley of Congleton, Cheshire. Caprice was sired by Eppynt Superstar  out of Bronycoed Charm. Mr Lyndon Morgan-Foley of the Bronycoed Stud consigned six including the thirteen-year-old stallion Dyfed Playwrite sold to Jack Bowerman of Ebbw Vale for £4,000 and the elegant home-bred twelve-year-old bay mare Bronycoed Prima Donna sold to Graham and Tina Archer of the Saethydd Stud for £3,600. Prima Donna is a full-sister to Yaverland Delight (five years older) reserve overall champion from record entries at the 1997 Royal Welsh Show.

Forlan Caprice - Top Female, sold for £4,200
Photograph by Betty French

Dyfed Playwright - sold for £4,000
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

Bronycoed Prima Donna - sold for £3,600
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

Two other section A mares which sold for £3,600 were Idyllic Stud’s nine-year-old  former Eastern WPCA youngstock champion Idyllic Tallulah and the twelve-year-old Heniarth Yabadabadoo. Tallulah is sired by the brilliant sadly-missed sire Pendock Legend (same sire as Penual Mark) and she was bought by David Hodge, top Shetland pony breeder from Okehampton, Devon. Yabadabadoo was bred at the Heniarth Stud, Carmarthenshire, sold to Holland and now retuned to Charles and Wendy Frank’s Sunwillow Stud where her dam Sunwillow Yasmin, g-dam Sunwillow Quest and g-g-dam Sunwillow Bernina were bred. Bernina, foaled in 1968, was one of the best mares ever to grace the Welsh Stud Book. Under-bidder on Yabadabadoo was Gary Atkinson of  Trindon Village, Co Durham who bought the eleven-year-old bay mare Rhydgwillim Dolly’s Way (£2,100), the dun filly foal Glyncoch Lili Fach (£2,100) and the four-year-old liver chestnut mare Friars Glimpse of Glory, an absolute bargain at £500.

Idyllic Tallulah - sold for £3,600
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

Close on their heels at £3,500 were another two nine-year-old mares, the home-bred dun Weston Vanity bought by Mrs Ellis-Jones of Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth and the grey Pinfold Spring Melody sold by Mr Sandy Anderson of the Thistledown Stud and bought by Scottish “Horse and Hound” correspondent Dorothy Dawson of Lothian.

The chestnut two-year-old filly Springbourne Christiana, sired by the twenty-two-year-old top sire Springbourne Caraway sold for £2,700 to Mrs Lister of Cleckheaton, West Yorkshire.

There was good demand for filly foals, Alan and Jan Pearce’s palomino Glyncoch Little Jewel by Castellau Snowtrail sold for £3,000 to Holland; Cerdin and Doreen Jones’s grey Synod Princess Royal by their top young sire Synod John Peel sold for £2,900 to Mr Williams of Bodorgan, Anglesey; Gwyn Berry sold the chestnut roan Betws Gwynt by Nantdywyll Pererin to Jane Goodhead for £2,500 and Carol Jones sold the palomino Weston Miss Perfect by her new stallion Hillam Little Drummer for £2,100 to Caroline Thompson of Rhydcymerau who also bought the palomino colt foal Blanche Medallion (£800) and the chestnut filly Ceulan Cassie (£1,100).

Mrs Ellis-Jones also bought the top section B at £5,500; this was the well-known many-times champion three-year-old colt Melau Morocco sired by Eyarth Tayma out of Moelview Crystal by Eyarth Tomahawk. Morocco was 3rd overall and best youngstock in the Rhydspence National Championships this year. A nine-year-old Eyarth palomino stallion was second-highest at £5000; this was Eyarth Thowra, son of Eyarth Zsa Zsa (dam also of Tomahawk) consigned by Greg Stables of Banffshire, Scotland, he returned to Scotland bought by Mrs Hadden of Kincardineshire.

Melau Moroco, Top Priced Section B - sold for £5,500
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

Top section B female at £4,000 was the four-year-old home-bred grey West Yorkshire  champion Paddock Porcelain consigned by Bernard and Maureen Butterworth and she went to Mr O’Sullivan of Co Cork, Ireland. Her dam Paddock Pretty Polly was section B female champion at the 2001 WPCS Centenary Show whose sire, Paddock Camargue was Royal Welsh male champion in 1991. Les and Lorraine Partridge consigned the delightful home-bred dark bay yearling filly Rosedale Myfanwy sired by Rosedale Oberon and she went to Mrs Berrington of Sileby, Leicestershire for £3,000.

Paddock Porcelain - sold for £4,000
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

When David and Eirian Williams went to Australia they were very taken by a bay filly Westonpark Musk Rose which was of the same bloodlines as their own Moelgarnedd ponies in Bala and they subsequently imported her. Having plenty of her progeny now at the Stud, they offered the bay two-year-old son Moelgarnedd Llewelyn and the chestnut daughter, the filly foal Moelgarnedd Tulip. Llewelyn sold for £2,500 to Lisa Perrott who has sections A, B, C and D at her Ty Golau Stud in St Brides Wentlooge, Cardiff and now has enough section B mares to warrant having her own stallion. Tulip’s trotting in the outside grass ring was breath-taking and she must be the bargain of the section B’s at £850.

Top ridden section B at £4,800 was the chestnut four-year-old gelding Akadame Scimitar who was ridden in the sale ring by Christopher Davies of the Daukester Stud. Scimitar is full-brother to Daukester Simon who has been highly successful under saddle and it is prophesied that Scimitar will be equally successful for his new owner, Mrs Rogers of Newgate Street, Hertfordshire.

Akadame Scimitar - Top Ridden Section B sold for £4,800
Photograph by Robert Jones

84 animals were sold for export, 39 to Holland, 22 to Denmark, 11 to Ireland, 6 to Sweden, 4 to Germany and 1 each to France and Norway. 

Report by Dr Wynne Davies

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