SPSS-graded Small Sports Horse filly

• Sport Horse
• Appaloosa
• Filly
• 2 years

• To make 15/15.1hh
• Gold award at the BBF Futurity last month (part bred native)
• Bred to make a higher-level RC all-rounder

2023 small Sports Horse filly to make 15/15.1hh.

Home-bred to make a higher-end RC all-rounder, Widgeon Hill Ceilidh was awarded Gold at the recent British Breeding Futurity as a part-bred native. Despite being only two, she is already an SPSS graded mare, on top of the SPSS Youngstock Evaluation Premium status she was awarded as a yearling.

Her breeding is unique: Ceilidh is by the Highland pony Balmoral Sport, out of the SPSS-graded and ApHC registered mare Chamfron Chipita, who is herself from very versatile American Appaloosa and Quarter Horse bloodlines, including a good dose of TB.

Her dam was never competed consistently or frequently due to my lack of time and energy, but nevertheless evented up to 90cm, did SJ, arena eventing, hunter trials, County-level showing (spotted and Foreign breed classes), dressage (only to Novice but she would easily have gone further with a more competitive rider than I), was borrowed for PC dressage teams and was also approved for para riders to use in RDA dressage competitions. I anticipate that Ceilidh will be capable of doing the same range of activities, and more.

I originally bred Ceilidh as a retirement pony for me, but have reluctantly accepted that as a quick-thinking, athletic and intelligent small sports horse she is far more suited to an experienced amateur competitive rider (maybe a mother/teenager share?) to produce and later excel in RC competitions, than the laid-back more-whoa-than-go conveyance I need in the hope of riding into my 70s!

The right home is very important. I am looking for a home experienced with youngsters and groundwork: Ceilidh needs a kind, consistent handler who can reinforce respectful boundaries. She is a friendly and affectionate filly who comes to call, loves being groomed and pampered, and once she feels secure in you as a leader she tries very hard, and learns very quickly. She needs a “doing” home, she will not be the kind of horse you can only ride once a week (another reason she isn’t right for me) and I have a strong preference for a home who intend to compete in their chosen discipline(s) when the time comes. I am also keen that she has a home that can offer her daily turnout with equine friends.

Ceilidh could also be a versatile broodmare providing a total outcross to produce either sports ponies (I’d love to see what she would produce crossed to a Welsh Section B), capable RC all-rounders, or she could be crossed to a TB or warmblood for a larger, higher-octane sports horse with a dash of hardy sensible native pony blood.

With regard to colour genetics, Ceilidh is a bay dun appaloosa: any offspring would have a 50% chance of being spotted and a 50% chance of being dun (higher if bred to a dun and/or spotted stallion) and would be eligible for an SPSS passport. Please note, she has one blue eye and one brown eye so if you can't stand horses with blue eyes, swipe left!

? Registered and passported as a part-bred Highland pony
? Eligible for over-stamping by the UK ApHC as a part-bred
? SPSS graded in the main mare studbook
? Up to date with everything, good to trim feet, groom, bath, lead, tie, load, travel, catch (have I forgotten anything?)
? Happy to stand on the lorry at events
? Been to several large county shows and behaved beautifully, including at the Royal Welsh as a yearling
? Has been for a few hacks in hand with a ridden horse and behaved very sensibly
? Used to dogs, cats, and poultry underfoot; has been turned out next to sheep and cattle
? Lives out 24/7 (rug optional), but stables happily prior to shows and events.
? Open to vet, and I am happy to supply her veterinary soundness mark sheet from the recent Futurity (or find it in her Whickr advert!).
? Herefordshire

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