The Welsh Pony and Cob Society
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Fayre Oaks Sale 2007

Royal Welsh Showground
15^th and 16^th September 2007

The Brightwells Fayre Oaks Sale of 707 Welsh mountain ponies, Welsh ponies section B and Welsh part-bred ponies was a resounding success, 505 (71%) of the ponies selling for £466,640 which represents an average of £924.

After 49 Sales at Fayre Oaks Farm and the Cattle Market in Hereford, Brightwells decided to move the 50th Anniversary Sale in 2002 to the Royal Welsh showground and the improved parking and seating are greatly appreciated by the vendors and purchasers. The provision of an outside grass ring has resulted in a better supply and standard of performance / potential performance animals, subsequently reflected in the priced realised. The £466,640 and £924 average is a far cry from the £1,669 total and £22 average of the 1954 Sale!

156 lots sold for over £1,000 and 57 over £2,000. 62 ponies were sold for export: 22 to Holland, 13 to Denmark, 6 to Germany, 5 each to France and Ireland, 4 to Norway, 3 each to Sweden and Finland and 1 to the USA.

Top of the Sale at £10,500 was the section A yearling colt Colne Turbo, winner of 11 first prizes and four championships; he was consigned by Mrs Ann Overton-Ablitt of Colchester and bought by Meirion Davies and Richard Miller of the Heniarth Stud, Ferryside, Carmarthenshire. Turbo is sired by the North Wales-born Nantdywyll Telor out of the former Royal Welsh winner Colne Tatiana.

Colne Turbo - sold for £10,500
Photograph from Brightwells

Three other section A stallions sold for over £3,000, the thirteen-year-old Winneydene Gwyn Emrys, champion of the International Show in 2000 sold for £6,000 to William and Philip Lewis of the Rhydyfelin Stud, Colwyn Bay and the fifteen-year-old Bengad Rumex who was placed under saddle at the 2005 and 2006 Horse Of The Year Show also making £6,000 to the Nevin family of Tewkesbury. Henrie Leeuwenhaag, who was the under-bidder on Colne Turbo, brought the four-year-old palomino Shamroklake Desert Cobra from Holland and he sold for £3,400 to Gemma Oman of Stockton-on-Tees. Desert Cobra is sired by the South Wales-born Ceulan Cariadog who also sired this year’s Royal Welsh winning junior brood mare for Mr Leeuwenhaag.

Winneydene Gwyn Emrys - with Mr Phillip Lewis of Rhydyfelin Stud - sold for £6,000
Photo by Dr Wynne Davies

Bengad Rumex - Sold for £6,000
Photograph from Brightwells

The seven-year-old Clements Mayflower and the three-year-old Forlan Honey Royale were equal tops of the section A females, both selling for £4,500. Mayflower, who has qualified under saddle for the 2007 Horse Of The Year Show was bought by the Alford family of Culompton, Devon. Honey Royale, sired by Eppynt Superstar, was consigned by her breeder Mrs Betty French of Chippenham and bought by Mrs Drury of Stevenage.

Forlan Honey Royale - sold for £4,500
Photograph from Brightwells

Two mares, the eight-year-old Lippens Honeybunch and the seven-year-old Eppynt Sequel came in next at £4,000 each. Lippens Honeybunch, daughter of the Royal Welsh reserve champion Yaverland Delight, had been bought by the vendor Mrs Elaine Ferguson of Whitley Bay on the 2005 Sale and this time went to Mrs Cynthia Trodd of the Romany River Stud, Chipping Sodbury. Honeybunch’s sire Fronbach Canny Lad was one of the “bargains” of the Sale when bought for £450. Jane Bugler and Jo Claes of Pontyclun, who have a talent of spotting promising foals, bought Eppynt Sequel at Brecon for £32 and she was sold to Ilona Pykalainen of Finland, again at £4,000.

Eppynt Sequel - sold to Finland for £4,000
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

The three-year-old filly Cosford Wishes consigned by Paul Brightwell of Ipswich sold for £3,500; she had won at three major Shows and her sire Knodishall Gwillym is also the sire of Sunwillow Irving the second-highest priced stallion on last year’s Sale.

Frances and Sally Goggin of Dowlais had £3,400 from Mr Hunter of Poole, Dorset for their six-year-old Penboeth Lowri and Henrie Leeuwenhaag paid £3,200 for Mrs Robina Mills’s two-year-old filly Rookery Suzie having paid £6,000 for her “niece” Rookery Sound Of Music in 2005.

Top section A colt foal at £3,600 was Friars All Gold who was sold from the Friars Stud, Neuaddparc, Capel Bangor, Aberystwyth and was bought by Mrs Heather Ellis-Jones who lives in the same village at the Old Vicarage! Weston Stud, Welshpool, Powys sold their colt foal Weston Idris by their exciting new stallion Idyllic Idris for £2,400. The Weston consignment of six foals was very special and totalled £7,900.

Mrs Betty French reached for the clouds for the second time when her black filly foal Forlan Cheeky Girl, sister to winners in Sweden and the USA, topped the fillies selling to Ed Gummery of Bedford for £3,000. Leading Shetland pony breeder David Hodge of Okehampton, Devon paid £2,800 for Tawelfan Looby Lou a filly of a very attractive roan colour and the under-bidder O G Evans of Llaniestyn, Pwllheli consoled himself by buying two of the Weston fillies at £2,000 and £1,200. Brian Davies of the Briolen Stud, Bangor sold the bay filly foal Briolen Dana for £2,700 and also sold her grand-sire on both sides, the thirteen-year-old Penwisg Pirate for £2,500.

Forlan Cheeky Girl - sold for £3,000
Photograph by Betty French

There was good demand for broken-to-ride section A geldings. The thirteen-year-old Penwayn Ryan, who was born on the Brecon Beacons, bought for £140 at Brecon Market and went on to win the £1,000 Supreme at the 2003 Horse Of The Year Show fetched the highest price of £3,500 and went to Mr Darton of Hertfordshire. The three-year-old Tyfel Regal, consigned by Patsy Gibbons of Rhydcymerau, Llandeilo and three-quarter brother to her Royal Welsh winner Lacy Sylvia, sold for £2,600 to Mr Bowen of Crundale, Haverfordwest and the seven-year-old palomino Weston Sunny Boy sold for £2,500 to Richard and Jean Evans of Llanilar, Aberystwyth.

The top section B males and females all had Dutch connections. Top male at £4,700 was Tracey Landon’s six-year-old stallion Wildzang’s Remulus, bred in Holland and his parents were also both bred in Holland. The thirteen-year-old Eyarth Caliph was bred in Corwen, then went to Holland where he has been used at stud, under saddle and in four-in-hand team driving and now goes to Mrs Tolliday’s well-established Dymock Stud in Shropshire for £3,500. The Hoeke family’s two-year-old colt Tollhouse Flashman sold to Holland for £240 at the 2006 Clwyd Sale, came back to Fayre Oaks and was sold to Miss Stevenson of Soberton, Hampshire for £2,600.

Wildzang's Remulus - sold for £4,700
Photograph from Brightwells

Hoekhorst Juliette - sold for £3,400
Photograph from Jeanne de Later

The Hoeke family also topped the section B females with their home-bred two-year-old filly Hoekhorst Juliette sold for £3,400 to the Wilson family of Gelligaer who specialise in children’s riding ponies. Welsh Pony and Cob Society president Mrs Elizabeth Mansfield sold her four-year-old mare Rotherwood Honeymoon, double grand-daughter of Royal Welsh champion Rotherwood Honeysuckle for £3,300 to Miss Berrington of Loughborough. Mrs Wallace of County Durham sold her four-year-old mare Oakville Charm, sired by Carwed Charmer who was Royal Welsh champion three times to Mrs Heywood of Swanmore, Hampshire for £3,000. Robert Hensby’s filly foal Laithehill Soloist, whose brother was sold to Australia on last year’s Sale was top section B foal at £2,500 and went to Mrs Mindel of Arkley.

Laithehill Soloist - sold for £2,500
Photograph from Brightwells

Catrin (13) and Lowri (11) Reed of the Tyngwndwn Stud, Llanon, Ceredigion won 37 first prizes last year riding their section A Gweundir Dafydd and section B Rhydspence Russet and now requiring a larger mount for Lowri, bought the section B gelding Rhydspence Rhys for £4,000.

Rhydspence Rhys - Ridden by Gemma Tooze - bought by Tyngwndwn Stud for £4,000
Photograph by Dr Wynne Davies

The Small-Land Stud, Meidrim, Carmarthen topped the part-breds last year at £9,800 with the yearling colt Small-Land Tapdance and repeated this achievement with the two-year-old colt Small-Land Mooncoin by the same sire Small-Land Maytino. Mooncoin sold for £9,500 to P Brookshaw of Oakham, Leicestershire.

Small-Land Mooncoin - sold for £9,500
Photograph from Brightwells

Wynne Davies
Publicity Officer, Welsh Pony and Cob Society.

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