Based on Cheshire/Shropshire Border UK
Breeders of quality colourful and trainable Sporthorses
Home of Donatello our Knabstrupper Stallion
Proudly producing Spotted Sport Horses from Knabstrupper, Warmblood and Irish Sport Horse lines.
Jago is starting to look like the loved horse again that he is. Takes a long time to get weight back on stallions in breeding season.
He’s found himself the perfect new humans and he’s still entire so looking forward to seeing lots more Jago’lings in the future.
But for now he’s being given the time he needs to recover from past traumas and he’s coming on in leaps and bounds, super chilled boy again :)
The golden boy will be magnificent again
They are getting so grown up
And Moon, grey hyperpigmentation or going to be dark bay! Time will tell
Look how spotty Belita’s face is even on this first shed ❤️
Look how liver Banksy’s new coat looks ❤️
Just moved to a fresh field and on my way to move the feeders out of the field when I had to stop to catch the fun
I like this one mum, she can visit again.
Yes Donny but you are yet to meet a mare you don’t like !
Jessie’s lovely Halona Mazel-Tov aka Fergus (Tawnydun Jonjo (connemara stallion) x Halona Matilda).
Really pleased with him, what a fabulous cross that’s was - the one that was supposed to be a filly for me 😂
I was very tempted by a third time lucky in breeding myself Connie x filly but decided as I am not often lucky, to just buy one, hence little Efy you will see knocking about in the photos with Marnie (both will be my future riding horses). At the moment Efy isn’t particularly looking like she’s going to make the height unfortunately but she has Irish Draught breeding as well as Connie (the fabulous Gwennic de Goariva) and Tb, and everyone is telling me to sit tight and wait for the ID late growth spurt to quick in, not convinced but we shall see!
The lovely Halona Golden Jingles, owned by Abbie, such a beautiful part bred Arab girl
McFilthy himself, getting ready for another collection, he’s been a popular lad this year.
I do believe he is starting to varnish out now 😭
I do hope he doesn’t loose his funky markings altogether as I do love them.
Thank you Lauren Buckley for these lovely photos of Chloe and Zambezi ❤️ 💕 💗
So today I was going to get some up to date photos of Donatello, as all these are of him as a three year old and he’s really filled out and looking mega now.
But we had a lot of rain last night and he’s obviously wallowed, made a pillow out of p**p, so I called it off as didn’t have enough shampoo to get him looking half respectful!
So here he is again as a three year old!
I just love how neat he is over a fence.
Just because this makes me smile 😊
Just look at Halona Adelaide (Donatello x Halona Fiasco) now ❤️
Great photo Lexi, love her
Super pleased with all Donatello’s stock, they are all so correct, but then so is he, and we only breed from girls with super conformation too.
Our motto in life, is trying to breed correct animals to give them a pain free existence as long as possible, and hopefully less heartbreak for their owners in the process. Whilst nice pedigree and colour is a super bonus, conformation and good clear genetics is always top of the list, hence why we have done so much DNA health testing. Unfortunately some unethical people will just breed from anything with a uterus and testicles without any real concern of what is produced and the life (potentially short and painful) they are setting them up for.
I am certainly not one for thinking horse breeders should be licensed, that will just turn it in to an admin job instead of as much care for the horses, but I do feel strongly that something needs to be done to stop all the unethical breeding that takes place.
Conformation, temperament and clear genetics has to be the top of the list for any ethical breeding.
Can’t wait until they all start coming out under saddle
Wow, super proud of this pair
Well done Chloe and Halona Zambezi (Donatello x Make It Count aka Evie) at Spotfest
The spotted beasty did amazingly at Spotfest today.
1st Open Spotted horse youngstock🥇
1st Open youngstock 🥇
Champion Open spotted horse🏅
Then 2nd Reserve Supreme Champion🏆🏆... as a yearling!! Come on! 🤩😮👌🔥🎉
Far too hot you’d think!
Look at Kadu now, matured fabulously, about to be started under saddle
These three are such fun.
Rummy the bay yearling spotty botty gelding is available, only because he’s the wrong s*x for me. His mum is now my riding horse and she’s super fun.
Donatello x Kings Master
Foal snaps
Well well well! Ice scanned in foal today with a 10 day pregnancy, I was expecting her to be on Day 15 but she doesn’t really show in season so it was a guess - i inseminated her 16 days ago!!! How’s that for super s***m!
More happy customers with heart beat scans flooding in now. So lovely to see.
Some customers chose not to use Donatello this year, when they found out I did my own collections, despite me assuring them I am fully trained in collection and semen handling, as well as AI.
Well the results are talking for themselves , with all but one mare getting in foal on first attempt, the one that didn’t, on her 14-15 day scan was already ready to ovulate again and therefore short cycled due to fluid/being dirty!
Three more outside mares to scan this season.
But late customers still more than welcome, Donny is still firing on all cylinders 🙂
Looking forward to seeing all the spotty botties next year
How stunning is this photo, just lovely.
Here we have Kiara Bella from Donatello’s first crop, out of Evie, so full sibling to Zambezi and Stormzy.
I do have to apologise to owners of the first couple of crops as most of them have gone well over what I estimated already, it’s always a bit of a guessing game but even more so with the first few crops out of a young stallion until you know what he produces.
Oh well, always better bigger than smaller I say, nothing worse than trying to cram yourself in on one that you feel too big for, that’s why I always err on the side of caution and don’t make huge and possibly unrealistic claims like a lot of breeders.
Last prance and dance for Lomi and Donny before Lomi left for her new home today. Good luck with her and all her offspring Sam.
Sad to see her go
Look who’s popped back on the radar, love getting updates but it’s even more special when they had fallen off the radar.
This is the lovely Halona Touche, by Tosca and out of Halona Talulah, so a half sibling to my lovely Marnie by Donatello.
Thanks Iain for getting in touch, looking forward to following your journey together
The last foal of the season, Banksy has now found himself another home, eventing this time, can’t wait to see them all out competing one day.
Below is the yearling gelding Rummy aka Halona Rumour Hasit who is all we have available now, I’ve always wished he was a filly so I could keep him, he’s a smashing friendly lad and a great character.
Will do a proper advert for him next week but do get in touch if you are interested
Halona Banksy (Donatello x VDL Douglas )
To make 16.1hh+
This cracking lad is back on the market through no fault of his own, he had a fabulous show jumping home lined up but due to the purchasers serious car accident she is having to put a hold on her all hopes and dreams for a number of years, we wish her well in her operations and recovery.
This lad is a weight carrying type but is also very light on his feet with super self carriage and conformation. He could go on to do any job.
He is our vets choice of the year, out of this years crop.
Both mum and dad have incredible feet, conformation and strength wise.
His mum competed successfully (winning machine) in Ireland at SJ up to and including 120cm by 6 years of age.
I have video of her making 145 look easy.
Very reasonably priced to the right home
Belita and Banksy
Two year old Flash Harry out on more adventures and being such a dude!
Jago’s grandson this one, Donatello x Halona Itza Goodun - fourth generation Halona :)
Wow , so lovely to see all these offspring of Jago’s under saddle now.
This is Halona Kathmandu, out of my ex-racer that I had loads of fun on, On the Map aka Mappy, so full brother to Itzy - Halona Itza Goodun
Thanks for the photos Charlotte
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Just moved to a fresh field and on my way to move the feeders out of the field when I had to stop to catch the fun
Far too hot you’d think!
Belita and Banksy
This is only Zambezi’s second outing and a county show no less, there were three spotties in the class and Zambezi was the only one placed. You are doing an amazing job with her Chloe, I hope you had a great day.
Someone slept through the hay arrival and woke up thinking he was an abandoned child 😂
Sovanna
Beautiful Moon, isn’t she stunning!
I forgot to do the two testicle video of Banksy when he was born and it’s not easy when they are older, but here hopefully you can see the top pointing up towards it belly and it moves back as I lift the leg, and the bottom one lying across his leg
Halona Banksy , suppressed leopard colt
A very sweet moment this morning despite Ice being in discomfort as her uterus started to shrink back
Beautiful Halona Flash Harry (Donatello x Halona Itza Goodun), a beautiful chestnut leopard in all his glory
There is one foal every year that’s just far too bold and would climb all over you if you’d let them, last year it was Rummy, this year it’s Sovanna, you know when they start wagging that tail that you are in trouble!
Beautiful Kiara Bella (Donatello x Make it Count (Grafenstolz)) - isn’t she fabulous. Full sister to Zambezi and Enchanted Storm, out of the same mare as Airs N Graces
Halona Belita, this filly is a little powerhouse, mum made her step out beautifully for the camera
Halona Wombat a super elegant and bold filly
Halona Stormzy (Donatello x Grafenstolz) To make 16.1 + Quality correct and mannerly colt Will be regularly wormed and see the farrier (he’s had both already, so important to keep them growing correctly and healthily)
Beautiful Belle and the new boy
Forgot to share this precious moment the other day, Sovanna shortly after birth
It’s been a long night with this one. She was quick to her feet but it soon became apparent there wasn’t a lot else going on, no sucking reflex, no bonding with mum, no looking for milk. This is our first dummy foal since the Madigan Squeeze has been discovered, so at two hours old I gave it a go. Straight away afterwards she started chatting to mum. Within twenty minutes of it being over the sucking reflex was in place. And about ten minutes later she sort of started looking for the milk but not that strongly, so I bottle fed her 600ml of her mums colostrum and walked away for two hours. Came back and she was still looking on stable walls. So I held her alongside mum again, which isn’t easy as she a big strong foal and by this time mum was also getting stressed, Anyway with the help of honey on the teats, I managed to hold her long enough until she latched on whilst I helped her balance. I walked away again for an hour and came back once I saw her on her feet and to my joy she went straight to the right spot (although still only interested in the one side and nipple) and I took this little video to remember the relief I felt. It’s been a Long week with the Faker known as Fiasco and an even longer night with a no longer dummy foal 🙂. But without the Madigan Squeeze it would be a very long week or two and maybe no foal to show for it either. What an amazing discovery for breeders world wide this is. Oh and whilst we are talking about these pair, Fiasco makes me laugh, in between every contractions she looks towards her bum excitingly chatting her to new baby and a look of disappointment when there is still nothing much there. Sorry Fiasco, a lot more work to do yet, bless her she never can wait to greet her baby
And then there was another chestnut filly
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