WELSH PONY WEEK-END OF SALES
Royal Welsh Showground, Builth Wells. 24th to 26th September 2004

Brightwells Auctioneers offered 652 Welsh mountain ponies, Welsh ponies section B and Welsh part-breds at the Fayre Oaks Sale held on the Royal Welsh showground on 24 and 25 September. This was followed on 26 September by the Dispersal Sale of 49 Polaris ponies on behalf of the executors of the late Countess of Dysart, Grosmont, Abergavenny.

The £7,000 Fayre Oaks record price for a section A achieved on the 50th Anniversary Sale last year was equalled twice this time with two mares from the Yaverland Stud of the Hon Mrs Sheila Monck, Isle of Wight.

These two mares were the five-year-old grey mare Castellau Valeta bred by David and Jean Prichard of Llantrisant and the ten-year-old home-bred palomino mare Yaverland Cherry Blossom. Castellau Valeta, which had been purchased as a foal at Brecon Market for £500 was bought by Mrs Ceri Fell of the Brynseion Stud, Stoke Poges and Cherry Blossom was bought by Mr Henrie Leeuwenhaag of Rossum, Holland. The Yaverland consignment of 16, which included 10 foals, totalled £30,450.

The next largest consignment were 11 lots, including 5 foals from David, Lorna and Cerys Reynolds’s Springbourne Stud and they realised a total of £10,430.

22 lots, including the two Yaverland mares were sold on the Friday evening “High Flyer Sale” and they sold for £58,800 averaging £2,700. The top section B on the “High Flyer Sale” at £5,300 was the three-year-old liver chestnut colt Moelgarnedd Calipso from David and Eirian Williams’s Moelgarnedd Stud in Bala, Gwynedd. Calipso, who was reserve supreme at the Welsh Pony and Cob Society National Championships, was purchased by Mr Joss Owen of Llangeitho, Tregaron.

Three of the top prices outside the “High Flyer Sale” were received by vendors from the Cardiff area. Mrs Anne Prosser of Peterstone Wentloog sold the three-year-old section A gelding Putwell Golden Boy for £3,800; Mr Eddie Tamplin of Rudry sold the home-bred palomino three-year-old section B colt Griashall Valentino for £3,300 and Miss Phillipa Gay of Barry sold the five-year-old dark cream section B gelding Cottrell Amaretto for £3,000. There was a buoyant trade for geldings, 10 section A, 10 section B and 5 part-bred geldings sold for over £1,000. Putwell Golden Boy had been bought as a foal at Hay-on-Wye from his breeder, Mr Bill Pounder of Pencoedcae, Pontypridd for £50.

Mrs Sabrina Johnson of Lampeter also received £3,000 for her ridden nine-year-old section A mare Gorfelyn Honey Roan which had been placed in M&M HOYS qualifying working hunter competitions.

Top part-bred was the brown yearling colt Small-Land After Dark; winner of four first prizes he was sold by his breeder Mrs Rosemary Rees to Mr Robinson of Llwydcoed, Aberdare for £2,500.

In all, 412 ponies sold on the Fayre Oaks Sale for £339,341 with 14 going to Holland, 7 to France, 3 to the USA, 2 to Denmark and 1 each to Canada and Switzerland.

There was considerable world-wide interest in the Dispersal Sale of the Polaris Stud which the late Countess of Dysart set up in 1962 using the most successful bloodlines obtainable at that time.

The top price of the Sale, £3,300 was paid by Mr Thompson of Derby for the six-year-old chestnut section B stallion Polaris Euros whose dam, Polaris Elsie, sold for £1,400, is also dam of this year’s Royal Welsh male champion Polaris Elmer. Euros’s sire, Horsegate Spark was bought by Miss Fiona Leadbitter of the Thornberry Stud for £2,000.

Two mares which topped the section A’s at £2,600 were the thirteen-year-old Polaris Lynette sold to Dutch breeder Mr de Kanter and the eight-year-old Polaris Ulissa sold to Mrs Jill Williams of the Glebedale Stud, Abergavenny.

The late Countess would have been very pleased with the condition in which the ponies were presented for the Sale and they totalled £55,800 averaging £1,139.

Dr Wynne Davies. Publicity Officer,
Welsh Pony and Cob Society.
Tel:01443-224317; fax:01443-223911.
 

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