Tullow Stud

14/08/2024

There is something magical when horses star in the Olympics.
A horse delivered the flag in Paris and 24 years ago they opened the show in Australia. 🦄

20/07/2024

Thanks for “clarifying “ everything. 😂

The Olympics provides a competitive opportunity unlike any other in the eventing space, due to some differences both in format as well as how medals are determined at the end of competition. We did the legwork

14/07/2024

Champion olympique à Rio 🥇, Thibaut Valette, écuyer en chef du Cadre noir de Saumur porte la flamme olympique jusqu'au Président en ce 14 juillet 🤩

📸 Benoit Lemaire / IFCE

10/06/2024

Fond memories still of Melbourne Cup 2013, when we were asked to organise 6 Irish Sport Horses to accompany the arrival of The Cup, down the Flemington straight and into the winners enclosure, to commemorate this first historic International winner.

03/06/2024

Interesting, anyone prepared to comment 😊

A Theory About Horse Boldness---

This is a painting by Heather St Clair Davis, a former neighbor, friend and horse breeder who grew up in England and later lived in Windsor, Vermont.

Heather had a royally bred Thoroughbred stallion named Portrait Painter, by Native Dancer, I think, and out of a mare by Princequillo, and later Heather also began to breed Dutch Warmbloods.

Back in the long format eventing era it was common to see some big and somewhat drafty looking Irish cross horse blasting boldly around Rolex or Burghley or Badminton, while a more breedy looking warmblood cross would get halfway through and end up stopping out.

I remember asking Heather her theory about that, and here’s the gist of her reply---“Back when I was a kid, (she was born in 1937) so many people hunted. They wanted horses that would go. If a horse wouldn’t follow hounds, they wouldn’t breed from it. This was true in England and Ireland. Farmers often hunted the same mares they used to work the fields.

But over in continental Europe, those horses were bred to be obedient in the menage. They waited for the rider to tell them what to do. So I think there were two different attitudes built into our horses and their horses.”

So there’s one explanation from a top horsewoman who knew bloodlines, although, granted, this was from at least 30-40 years ago, and breeding has changed since then.

02/06/2024

Traditional Irish Breeding and so good to hear Chris Ryan’s commentary at Millstreet explaining to the worldwide audience that the Irish Draught in fact carries a high percentage of TB.

Another Irish win!

🥇 Sam Watson With Ballyneety Rocketman [ISH][TIH] (IRL) win the CCI4*L at Millstreet International Horse Trials.
Ballyneety Rocketman is a graduate Go For Gold sale- don’t miss your opportunity to attend this year’s sale on 11th to 13th November 2024.

Ballyneety Rocketman (ISH) – 2014 gelding by Diamond Discovery (TB) out of Ballyneety Macrocket (ISH) by Errigal Flight (ISH). Breeder: James Hickey. Owner: Hannah & Sam Watson

17/05/2024

Lovely photo of Delia’s granddaughter bred by Paulank Sporthorses. Scarlett is now with Kristy in Scotland, seen here enjoying themselves at Gleneagles.

16/05/2024

Brought tears to my eyes, what a lovely tribute.

The Purple Poppy Horse Coat, made up of 930 poppies donated from all over Australia, was meticulously crafted by a dedicated group of social crafters in Kalinga at The Community Place. The materials used, including purple yarn, buttons, and embellishments from The Nest, along with poppies donated by volunteers and girls from The Exchange Program, were carefully put together over 140 hours.

This beautiful creation was then donated to the Redlands RSL museum as a tribute to the animals that served in war, in collaboration with the AWAMO (Australian War Animal Memorial Organisation). It truly was a heartwarming community project.

12/05/2024

OK I know I’m a bit biased😂 😂 but there were a few of those fancy moving horses at the top of the dressage leaderboard that didn’t make the trip.

TIH stands for Traditional Irish Horse ( TB crossed with ID or Connemara)

‘I went out with a lot of pressure – one of the fastest horses here at Badminton, blah, blah. But he was incredible. He couldn’t have gone any faster. He burst himself for me. He’s one of those amazing Irish horses that gets better and better as he goes on. We nearly gave up with him as an 11-year-old and he’s now 13 so it shows that he really wants to do it. He loves this part and can’t gallop fast enough.’

Meath's Sarah Ennis giving her reaction after a brilliant Cross Country round at Badminton on Saturday with the Caroline Widger-bred Grantstown Jackson (ISH)[TIH], saw them rocket up the leaderboard to fifth place ahead of today's Show Jumping.

Photo: Irish Eventing Times

BREEDING
Grantstown Jackson (ISH)[TIH] – 2011 gelding by Clover Brigade (ISH)[TIH] out of Winning Lass (TB) by Right Win (TB)[IRL]. Breeder: Caroline Widger. Rider: Sarah Ennis (IRL)

10/05/2024

Great old video

09/05/2024

Interesting to hear Boyd Martin on Badminton TV, giving the Traditional Irish Horses a good wrap but then saying how hard it is to find them now!! His comment being current ‘Irish breds’ being mainly Dutch bloodlines.

09/05/2024

Looking forward to a weekend in front of Badminton TV!

“I continue to put my faith in the TIH breed. I hope more riders & breeders continue to do the same. We are over the toughest point regarding the sport’s perception of what an event horse is. Riders are coming back to us.

They have tried to carry the dressage horses around five-stars, but now they want the natural cross-country stars back”

The ever quotable Sam Watson in this weekends excellent article on the TIHA AGM by Susan Finnerty in The Irish Field.

📷 EquusPix Photography

05/05/2024

Congratulations Tash and Eamon.

Now that’s a smile!😊

A great result for Tash and Tullows All or Nothing with a second placing in the Combined Training Open Section at Lancefield PC.

So good to see both horse and rider out enjoying themselves, Tash says it’s 22 years since her last CT event and today she led the dressage with her best score ever plus a clear SJ round, just a few time faults saw the pair drop to 2nd place.

As for “Eamon” who’s rising 20 it looks like he had as much fun as his jockey!
Photos courtesy

21/04/2024

More info coming through regarding the brumby cull.

01/04/2024

Congratulations to all those making their thoughts known 👏👏👏

20/03/2024

And today some news from New Zealand.
We look forward to following the progress of this young man along with his full brother in Australia.

19/03/2024

Some happy news today, with congratulations going to Asha and ‘Fionn’ (out of Tullows Drama Queen ) being selected for the WA Dressage Youth Development Squad.

👌👏👏👏

18/03/2024

RIP Gala Performance.

The very first foal that we bred out of a TB mare that we had bought to sell on. “Lucy” was a maiden mare and we were novice breeders so under guidance from super vet Dr Andrew Turner we chose to send her to a nearby smaller stallion TB Gala Reign.
Who would know that the resulting little black filly would go on to become a foundation mare for Debbie’s hugely successful Aspen Way Stud????

Thank you Debbie McKay for the love and care that you gave to “Rosie” for over 30 years!

16/03/2024

News of “Dora”

Lovely photo received today from Fiona of
“Tullows Rich n’Royal” (Conqueror King x Richmondlea Delia) along with her two daughters, 2 year old Rémi and the latest filly both by Flagmount Léopold.

10/03/2024

Some more recent photos of the Australian Brumbies due to be slaughtered.
Culling when necessary I understand, but wholesale aerial slaughter? There has to be another way!

If we were still in Australia then we would join the group of protesters heading to the area to try and call a halt to this and to pull the Government into line!!

From the far side of the world it’s a little hard to always grasp both sides of an argument but it is encouraging to see that this information is reaching around the world. Maybe it’s time for some of these Animal Protection Groups to do something worthwhile.

PS I don’t often jump on a bandwagon but this disgusts me!!!

07/03/2024

So this is happening now!!! Aerial shooting.

21/02/2024

Latest news from New Zealand’s Trevalda Stud with Derrynasagurt Silver off to join Trevalda Mountain Duke (out of Richmondlea Delia) at Tir Na Nog Stud.

We wish Jeremy and Jess great success with continuing the wonderful Irish Draught bloodlines in New Zealand.