Welcome to all folk browsing through our website for 2010. We hope you enjoy your visit. After 10 years of depressing seasons, which has maintained stud breeding as a real challenge, what a blessed Christmas present and positive start to the current New Year, to receive some worthwhile falls of rain! I think we are all praying that this coming decade may herald in a return to good seasons.
I have to congratulate a number of show competitors for a splendid performance in presenting and showing Kamilaroi Riding Pony stock with much success at major events. Joh Bailey & Maia Murray; Helen & Phillip Smith & Kristy Hall; Tanya Charters; Bernadette Billsborough; the Judd Family and the Fleming Family have achieved some great results. It is epecially heartening to hear that a number of Kamilaroi ponies have performed well at the Pony Club Championships & gymkhanas for their young riders, as ultimately I consider that is what breeding ponies is supposed to be all about. Last but certainly not least, I have to thank Anthony Mountney for the professional presentation and training that has gone in to our colt, Kamilaroi Lord o’ the Manor. Liz Mansfield of Rotherwood Stud in England has his sire Peter Pan and his maternal grandsire, Strinesdale Matador in her stud and she assures me that is a great cross. With his impeccable breeding, I am considering leasing him to an approved stud home.
The results that have been received from crossing Bell Boy over the Windsong mares this season have exceeded all my hopes and aspirations for this season’s foals. They are a distinctive type of riding pony with great elegance.
Unfortunately the old truism ‘Time and tide wait for no man”, is starting to become a reality and this year I have to make some hard decisions regarding the future of Kamilaroi Stud and my beloved ponies. They have given me so much pleasure over the past few years and although I no longer compete, I look forward to observing other folk competing and campaigning them. Best wishes to everyone and their horses for the 2010 year.
Happy showing and successful breeding! Regards to all from both of us.
Judy and Malcolm Field
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We are a small to medium Riding Pony Stud located in the North West of New South Wales, at Pilliga, situated half-way between Narrabri and Walgett. Our stud commenced about 1987, with the purchase of Australian Stud Book fillies, bred at Bereen Stud at Barraba, and sired by the Rotherwood Commander stallion, Menindee Commissaries. Having admired the quality of the imported Riding Ponies, 1989 saw the addition of another Rotherwood Commander mare, Kirreway Levane, in foal to Carolinas Cats Whiskers and purchased at the Kirreway sale. Acting upon the advice of the great studmaster Eric Dudley in 1990, a colt was purchased from Kirreway stud, by Carolina’s Cats Whiskers, with the dam being the highly performed Kirreway Lullaby. This colt Kirreway Windsong proved to be the best purchase we have ever made. Other brood mares within the stud were joined to the Kirreway sires, Rotherwood Acrobat (Imp.) and Syon Splendor (Imp.) and stock purchased by Small Land Mascot (Imp.) and Roslayne Blue Peter (Imp.).
Resulting progeny have been joined to the highly performed young stallion Syon Royal Portrait (Imp), Courtland Boy Blue (Imp) and Ninfield Minks Supreme (Imp). Another special addition to the broodmare team has been Mats Magic of Astral (Strinesdale Matador (U.K. X Silkwood Spring Thyme s.o.d. Rotherwood Windswept Imp.), plus the addition of fillies by Urubula Regal Promise from Willowcroft stud. Many of the broodmares have been joined to Windsong to produce quality youngsters of great temperaments and exceptional movement, consistently winning at agricultural shows and a number progressing through to wins at Horse of the Year events and Royal Shows. A feature of the Windsong progeny is that most of these performers can be safely shown by children.
In 2006, the 3 year old colt Mandaley Bell Boy was purchased from Ian and Susie Stewart to join to Windsong mares. Bell Boy had enjoyed a great show season culminating in being awarded Champion stallion or colt at Adelaide Royal in that year. His dam is Furzey Mostly Mink (X Syon Royal Portrait) and his sire Owendale Percival (dec.) is also the sire of the successful young stallion Fernleigh Fine Print, standing at Kolbeach stud. Bell Boy is producing fine-boned true riding pony types. His dam Furzey Mostly Mink is a successful broodmare as she has also produced Maximus of Astral and Mandaley Pure Silk. Among his many awards, Maximus has been National Ridden Riding Pony Stallion of the Year while Pure Silk has capped off a very successful show year in 2008 to recently be awarded National Champion Ridden Riding Pony in 2009.
Mats Magic of Astral produced an outstanding colt by AI in 2007, to the highly successful U.K. sire Rotherwood Peter Pan, and was rejoined to this sire in 2008 producing another quality colt, very much in the mould of his famous sire. The oldest colt Kamilaroi Lord of the Manor has been successfully campaigned by Anthony Mountney and we are considering leasing him to an approved stud home. We have also joined some of our Galloway mares to our young ASHS stallion who is producing quality types with outstanding temperaments.
The last ten years have proved to be extremely challenging due to the extreme seasonal conditions of drought, however with vastly improved outlook for the start of 2010, we are optimistic of improving seasons for our equine friends and as a benefit for all breeders. Visitors are always welcome to visit and browse through our horses and join us for the inevitable “cuppa” and a great bonus is that we can now boast a bitumen surface road right to our front gate.
