Snelsmore Matilda
Snelsmore Matilda has been sold to a new home in France.
Matilda’s affectionate nature and outward going character makes her the perfect pony to help her new owner, Dominique, start up a new adventure and animal farm.
Matilda will be staying here at the stud a little longer to be covered, giving Dominique time to organise new arrangements for Matilda and two young Shire horses also purchased in England.
I wish them all the best in the future.
FOR SALE: Cracker
Our lovely 7 year old gelding pony Cracker is currently for sale. We have been bringing him on for a while and he is now ready to go to a new loving home. At 14hh, he is a super all-round working hunter type with an excellent temperament. He’s schooled and a regular to show jumping and xcross country. As well as this, he’s very easy to clip. box and shoe, and save in traffic. Nicknamed ‘Dave’ by our son, he is an honest and fun pony that would suit any rider. Please don’t hesitate to email us if you know of anyone who would be interested in giving him a try.
Gelding Class Sponsorship
We are pleased to be giving lovely rosettes to the highest placed geldings in several classes at the Southern, Wessex and the South Downs Shetland group shows again this year. We are hoping this might encourage gelding owners out there to get into the show ring and have some fun. We would love to hear about your results, perhaps send us a picture of your geldings on Facebook.
Farewell to Donabi Bluberry
We are sad to announce that our lovely Donabi Blueberry has passed away this week of old age.
Blueberry was the first Shetland pony we bought from Reading Sales in 1995 along with a stallion Firth Sunny Glen. This partnership produced our first foal Snelsmore Raspberry; little did we know at the time she was the start of our relationship with Thimbley & Shorland, selling ponies at Reading Sales.
Blueberry was a wonderful foundation mare and we have a lot to thank her for. She will be sadly missed.
Show Tack
We have been working hard this winter on a new range of show tack, based on our knowledge of shetlands and the tack we already use ourselves. We will be starting with leather head collars in three sizes, in-hand show bridles and rolled show slips. All of these will be available to purchase before the start of this year’s showing season. For more information please don’t hesitate to contact us or keep watching our site.
New Website – What a surprise!
A few weeks ago on Christmas day, my Secret Santa left me a little white envelope under the tree. Worried it was a balloon ride or go-karting, it was such a relief and surprise to see that a new website had been built for me by Stuart and Gemma.
Six weeks of hard work has gone into it and I hope you like it as much as I do. Have a look around; there’s lots more information about all of our animals and I am now able to update my news more often. I would love to hear your comments on our new email, info@snelsmore.com.
Jackie.
Tobiano Homozygous
Snelsmore Nightingale and Snelsmore Odakota have both been tested positive as a Tobiano Homozygous, this means they carry the TT gene. Having this gene enables them both to guarantee 100% colour regardless of mate, with a strong possibility of also passing this gene to their offspring. Both ponies are out of Croft Bluebell and by Snelsmore Jasper.
Naturally we are very pleased with this partnership and look forward to next year’s outcome.
Snelsmore Mercury
We are really pleased that Snelsmore Mercury has recently passed his voluntary Vetting and has been sold to stand in Switzerland.
Happy Christmas
We would like to wish all our friends and visitors to our site a very Happy Christmas and a prosperous New Year.
New Snelsmore Tack Range
As part of our natural expansion we are now able to offer various tack for Shetland Ponies. We will continue to expand on this range so if you would like to purchase any of the stock, please click on the tack for sale page.
