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7th & 8th October 2006. A larger than usual 536 lots were entered for the 2006 Hay-on-Wye Sale which necessitated having to be extended over two days with 256 lots on Saturday and 280 on Sunday. Foal shows were held prior to the Sales, for section A foals on Saturday and sections A and B on Sunday, the judge being Mr Eric Jones of Monnow Stud. The 256 lots on Saturday were made up of 160 sold in the grass ring and 96 in the market ring while Sunday’s lots comprised of 185 on grass and 95 in the market. The Saturday market sale included 26 lots from Roger Davies’s Hafdre Stud which was established over 100 years ago and was being reduced due to loss of winter grazing. The Hafdre consignment sold for a total of £7,215 with a top price of £610 for the thirteen-year-old bay mare Hafdre Ithwen bought by Dutch breeder Harold Zoet who bought 6 of the Hafdre ponies. In all 22 ponies were sold to Holland and 4 to Norway. The top price of £2,300 was paid by Mr Snelling of Warnford, Hampshire for John Harries’s four-year-old section A stallion Hope Andrew who is the fifth generation descended from the foundation mare Hope Duchess foaled in 1964. Next highest price of £1,600 was paid by Mr Lister of Castlerea, Roscommon for the four-year-old section D gelding Cwmcylla Commander bred by the Wilson family of Hengoed who are now in the top league of British lead-rein and first ridden ponies. The Dark family from Gower received £1,500 for the black and white yearling filly Login Pokahontis who did not travel far to her new home with Mrs Cartwright of Cross Gates. The Dark’s other entry, the four-year-old chestnut section D mare Llangennydd Actress fetched £1,000 to go to Hilde Solberg of Norway. Also from the Gower was the top foal, Williams Bros’s bay section A filly Crimond Caprice by Maescwm Roscoe; she sold for £1,500 to Ian Stansfield of the Rosegarth Stud in Wakefield. The second-highest foal was another bay filly, Cerdin and Doreen Jones’s Synod Pimms, grand-daughter of the noted Synod Pink Puff, who sold for £1,200 to Linda Atkinson of Middlesborough. Tom Orrey reduced his Gydros Stud to four mares when he moved to Llanon in Ceredigion; he is now increasing his Stud and bought some mares on the Fayre Oaks Sale and at Hay added the twelve-year-old Dyfed Gwen Again sold by Diana Thomas for £1,200. The same figure was paid by John Evans of Dukestown, Gwent for the four-year-old chestnut roan mare Trefedw Cariad whose dam Penwayn Laura is a full-sister to Penwayn Ryan the supreme champion pony at the 2003 Horse Of The Year Show. The four Blackhill foals by Blanche Gwillym were very impressive selling for a top figure of £1,150 for Blackhill Imogen a grey filly foal sold to Dutch enthusiast Henrie Leeuwenhaag who bought another four palominos. The filly and colt foals Blackhill Izzy and Blackhill Impulse looked promising riding prospects and each sold for £700. Top of the section B’s at £1,100 was the beautiful black yearling filly Brockabye Delilah by the successful sire Boston Bentick out of a daughter of the noted Downland Dabchick. Delilah was bought by Mr Clarke of Risbury, Herefordshire. The last of the eleven on the sale to fetch £1,000 or more was the three-year-old bay section B gelding Polaris Golden Sovereign bred by the late Countess of Dysart. Sovereign was bought by Mrs Pinkney of Brecon. 47 lots sold for £500 or more. 460 of the 536 catalogued were forward, with 411 selling for a total of £98,676 representing an average of £240 (£258 on Saturday and £223 on Sunday). Report by Dr Wynne Davies.
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