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Hay on Wye Brightwells Autumn Sale

6^th & 7^th October 2007

There were 539 Welsh section A’s, B’s, C’s, D’s, WPB’s and unregistered ponies entered for the 2007 Autumn Sale with show classes for foals, section A’s on Saturday and Sunday and section B’s on Saturday judged by Mrs Sue Keylock.

The winners of the foal classes were:

Saturday section A:
1. Leafycroft Mercury (colt, £750 to Jack Bowerman, Ebbw Vale)
2. Cilycwm Little John (colt, £110 to Mr Curtis, Truro, Cornwall)
3. Tyllwyn Planed (colt, £520 to O G Evans, Llaniestyn)

Saturday section B:
1. Bronheulog Hennessey (colt, £300 to Harold Zoet, Holland)
2. Dolfeinog Queen (filly, £200 to J S Lever, Cheshire)
3. Priestwood Royal Doulton (colt, £120 to G Price, Hay-on-Wye).

Sunday section A;
1. Blackhill Jinks (colt, £800 to Per Aschan, Sweden)
2. Blackhill Joyful (filly, £420 to Paul Brightwell, Cosford Stud)
3. Talsarn Rebbecca (filly, not sold).

There was an excellent attendance and good demand for the better quality animals, one (Mr Eddie Tamplin’s eight-year-old section A ridden mare Blackhill Blueberry) sold for £1,000 or more on Saturday and twelve making this figure on Sunday.

The top price of the Sale of £2,600 was received by John Harries of the Hope Stud for his nine-year-old section D black stallion Gwenllan Brenin Du, a grandson of the 1998 and 2003 Royal Welsh champion Gwenllan Sali. Brenin Du was bought by Cemaes Evans for his famous Cathedine Stud. John Harries also sold a piebald part-bred filly foal Hope Fleurette for £1,700 to Mr Willis of Hampshire.

A section A palomino filly foal Glyncoch Brandy was equal next highest at £2,000; she was bought by Gill Farrow of the Waitwith Stud who had sold the chestnut section A stallion Bengad Rumex for £6,000 on the Fayre Oaks sale.

The same figure was received for the three-year-old black section D filly Pennal Roseanne sold to Mrs Edwards of Highbridge, Somerset. Close on her heels at £1,900 was the bay section C filly Foal Synod Galina, sold by her breeders to Lynne Crowden of Painscastle, Powys. The nine-year-old black section D mare Eldon Jo-Jo sold for £1,720 from Mrs Parker of the Royalpark Stud to Mr Tucker of Goytre, Pontypool.

The Dark family of the Tymorlais and Login Studs sold a two-year-old piebald part-bred colt Login Lucky Lad (50% section D) for £1,500 to Mr Collis of Fordingbridge, Hampshire. The six-year-old black section C gelding with the splendid Welsh name of Hendremynydd Bendigeidfran, who had won in M&M working hunter pony competitions, sold for £1,300 to Mrs Moseley of Leyton, London. Jack Bowerman sold his thirteen-year-old bay section A mare Edwyns Royal Ruby for £1,150 to Mr Hunter of Poole, Dorset.

Three others to sell for £1,000 were Rod Lewis’s home-bred eight-year-old grey section A mare Cwmmeudwy Silver Sonnet bought by Jo Claes and Jane Bugler of Pontyclun, the four-year-old palomino section A gelding Bethel Osian sold to Mr Barnes of Wimborne, Dorset and the bay three-year-old section D filly Ridgehill Erika sold to Mr Dunbar of Airdrie.

22 animals were sold for export, 15 to Holland, 2 each to Belgium and Germany and Denmark and 1 to Sweden.

Wynne Davies

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