Welcome to all folk browsing through our website for 2011. We hope you enjoy your visit. After years of depressing seasons, which has maintained stud breeding as a real challenge, 2010 heralded in a change and we were so amply blessed this spring and summer that we ended up with floods. We were slightly inconvenienced but blessed compared to folks in the north and south of eastern Australia and our hearts go out to those folk who have endured the catastrophic events that have caused such grief and hardship and loss of valuable livestock. I think we are all praying that this coming decade may herald in a return to good seasons without such extreme weather events.
I have to congratulate all those wonderful show competitors for a splendid performance in presenting and showing Kamilaroi Riding Pony stock with much success at major events. 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.
Bell Boy has produced another lot of quality progeny this season especially over the Windsong mares. They are a distinctive type of riding pony with equisite heads and elegant front lines and some of his fillies and in particular, the colt from Lyric, I consider to be outstanding.
The stud reduction is starting to become a reality and I have made the hard decisions regarding the future of Kamilaroi Stud and my beloved ponies. As can be viewed on the Horses for Sale section there are still a number for sale, however the available saddle ponies, all the 2 and 3 year olds and some broodmares with foals have been sold. Saying goodbye to some of those productive broodmares that are so much part of the history of Kamilaroi Stud has been difficult but I know they are going to good homes. As stated in the Welcome to Kamilaroi Stud, I have retained a trio of younger galloway Windsong mares that are my favourites and some wonderful old mares that were the former mounts for my granddaughters are retired in the paddock with dear old Windsong. I am also retaining a very small number of younger mares in partnership with the Young Family of MCARTHURPARC Stud.
Bell Boy has been leased to an approved stud home with the Judd Family at West Wyalong for 2011 and 2012, however I have retained frozen semen from this great young sire and we have a number of mares joined to him for this year. Our young stallion Kamilaroi Lord of the Manor has also been leased to Shaun Hardy and Damien Judd at Moore Creek near Tamworth, plus the lovely natured Windsong colt ‘Song o’ Flame’ out of our wonderful old child’s mount Flame of Splendour has also found a new home with Prisilla and Tony Cuell. Three outstanding fillies have been leased to wonderful client homes with Vanessa Hartge at Swan Hill, Vicky Fleming at Walgett and Lee Woods-Traynor at Moree. The colt ‘Celebrity Showcase’ has gone to join ‘Fantasia’ at Filou Lane stud in Victoria. His new owner Filipa Marshall has plans for this elegant fellow as a future sire and Filipa has also purchased Barbados and her Windsong filly and Silhouette a black Galloway yearling filly by Bell Boy. Leonie Livingston has acquired the sweet little brown filly ‘Chandelair of Stars’ and her full sister the grey mare ‘Lullaby Song’ while Portrait of Kamilaroi has gone to Coonamble to join her full brother at Taylor Hind’s stables. The Wilkinson family from Gunnedah report that they are extremely happy that ‘Scarlett Ribbons’ is going to be a very suitable child’s mount. It has been difficult to say goodbye to some of my favourite mares and their progeny but they have gone to caring homes with Academy of Splendour and her colt going to the Judd Family at West Wyalong, Mats Magic of Astral and her filly joining the Young Family’s Macarthur Park stud at Moree and Prisilla and Tony Cuell have acquired Vanity Fair and Nightingale and their fillies and the young gelding, Bronze Bell, has gone to the Finlay family, all of Narrabri.
The ponies have given me so much pleasure over the past twenty five years and although I no longer compete and will be breeding on a much smaller scale, I look forward to observing other folk competing and campaigning Kamilaroi ponies. Best wishes to those folk who have purchased Kamilaroi ponies and to everyone and their horses for the 2011 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 old saying “Time and Tide wait for no man” has caught up with Kamilaroi Stud and with no one to succeed as studmaster, I have made the difficult decision to make a considerable reduction to the breeding stock within the stud. Our faithful old Windsong, now at 20 years of age will stay retired in the paddock with his old mate K. Vain Star, as this duo have produced a remarkable 16 foals in 16 years and all have proved to be great ponies. Joining them will be a small number of the granddaughters outstanding old mounts that we could never sell. I have retained 3 younger Windsong Galloway mares for the immediate future, one K. Symphony is a full sister to the very successful gelding Song of Spring, another K. Bewitched is a daughter of Rockview Pandora (a former Galloway of Year in W.A.) and K. Memories which is a full sister to another successful mare K. Dreamtime. Another trio of successful younger mares will be retained in partnership with the Young Family’s Macarthurparc Stud. I have already sold some of my very successful brood mares and I have two more for sale that come from champion families plus two younger Windsong mares that also have great bloodlines from their mare lines. These mares are for sale with quality foals at foot by Bell Boy and Windsong and are rejoined. Bell Boy has produced quality progeny from Windsong mares, even beyond my expectations and I will reluctantly be leasing him for the 2011 breeding season, under the terms that I will still be able to access services for a couple of mares. Despite our reduced numbers, in the future visitors are always welcome to visit and browse through our ponies 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. Due to an illness, issue, we have brought Lord of the Manor home from Renley Park where he has been leased and we are hoping and praying for a speedy recovery for Renee. He is currently leased and standing the season with Shaun Hardy and Damien Judd at “Moorlands”, Moore Creek near Tamworth.
A number of mares and foals have been sold with one successful brood mare available with a positive test to Windsong and two young brood mares for sale with positive pregnancy tests to Bell Boy. Bell Boy has also been leased for the current season to the Judd Family at Wyalong and we are retaining frozen semen.
