Royal County of Berkshire show; Soaked with a smile

A lovely end to what turned out to be a rather wet Royal County of Berkshire show. With the morning sun disappearing to the forecasted heavy rain, we simply had to soldier on regardless. Snelsmore Versace won his yearling class. Snelsmore Uno and Cliff winning the Junior Championship and Cold Ash cup for the Best…

With a name like Weasley, he’ll always be special.

This year, all our names begin with W, so when a tall, bright ginger boy was born, my daughter told me he was only to be called Weasley. Born out of our lovely Molly, the name resonates even more to the family many love from the Harry Potter world. Weasley takes on the characters of…

Website update: Check out our new page.

Its that time of year again, weaning and the pony sales seems to come around so quickly, we have entered ponies for the society sale at Hereford and Reading sales this year. You can find more details of Snelsmore Ulrica on our new Hereford sales page. Our Reading sales page is still in working progress…

HOPE Summer Festival: Career change for Quaffle.

Fabulous day at HOPE Summer Festival at Weston Lawns. Snelsmore Ulysses won his Two/Three-year-old class and Reserve Miniature Shetland Champion. Snelsmore Sophia was third in the Mare/Stallion class, so pleased with her, she is maturing into a beautiful pony and definitely becoming a favorite of mine. While later her older full sister Snelsmore Quaffle was…

Snelsmore Ulrica

Snelsmore Ulrica will be offered at Hereford Shetland pony sales on the 30th of September, lot number 125. For more information click green text box …….. Ulrica is a beautifully bred blue and white filly, registration no BE1505, born on the 21st of May 2017 by the proven sire Merrylees Talisman out of Snelsmore Opal….

Paula and U-Genie

What a very long, but great day for Paula and Snelsmore U-Genie at Hope Best of the Best show. First two and three year old shetland old class, first coloured shetland class, Junior Champion receiving a gold award, Reserve Coloured Champion and a silver award. Having already won lots of fabulous rosettes & sashes Paula and U-Genie had…

Snelsmore Harmony

Harmony has now joined Joshua and the students at Tom’s Farm. She is enjoying her much pampered life at the city farm set in the middle of London. Lovely article about the farms good work in the Country smallholders magazine.

The Shetland Performance show: Smiling faces all round

While many shows seem to be declining in numbers or even worse stopping all together, it was lovely to see so many beautiful ponies at the Shetland Performance show. The vaccinations didn’t stop people turning up to this event, in fact this shows seems to be getting more popular every year. There were some tough decision…