Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion

25/06/2024

An interesting article on the preservation and history of the Irish Draught Horse

“The purebred Irish Draught is a highly popular choice of breed for equestrian events, especially show jumping, eventing, and dressage. These horses are also used as police mounts, hunting horses, and even for minor league horse racing.”

16/06/2024

Our Major Roche on a hack with Sophie Logan Horse Training

Road ride day for Major the Irish stallion ☘️

22/04/2024

Introducing Jazz another offspring to Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion enjoying his day out at the show. This gelding is 18 Months and going through a bit of a growth spurt standing aprox 15 hands. He has a very cool personality happy to be on his own or in a group. A very good listener and wouldn't hurt a fly. He is 7/8th Irish draft descending from Kingsway Diamond and Colemans Touch from his Dam and Farmhill Highlander and Gildawn Diamond from Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion line

21/04/2024

Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion Standing so proud

21/04/2024

21/04/2024

Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion getting ready for his photo shoot look how calm he is and polite walking with his beautiful tail and letting Sean walk through first. At the end we show you some of his inquisitive personality. Gosh he is just a beautiful stunning stallion standing around 16.2 hands, new blood line to NZ. Will be standing later year. We welcome visits! Call Sean 021 796 510

18/04/2024

Introducing Chante our 18 mth old Irish Draught x Thoroughbred with Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion a descendent of Farmhill Highlander and King of Diamonds and Trudie who is a descendent of Captain Rio and Sir Tristram. This was her first show and she did so well getting 3rd Youngstock. She has a lovely trot and good conformation. She has a lot of character and loves to work. I think she is going to be something special when she develops fully.

Thanks to Dayffd Flye and Dallas Hopkins for all the work you did training the humans and the horses. We really appreciate your expertise and patience.

16/04/2024

Chante and Jazz had an adventure this weekend at the Brecland Show competing in the Hunter/sport horse section with 12 other horse.

Chante got 3rd Young stock and Jazz got 4th.

We are very proud with our 18 month old standing out against some much older and stunning competitors (Spot the Black horse that got second!). This was Chante's first show ... soo proud of Major Roche for producing these fine young horses.

Thank you Dallas Hopkins for the the pics and your support!

17/02/2024

Major Roche arrival from Ireland to NZ 5 years ago such a beautiful stallion!

04/02/2024

Our yearling Irish Draught gelding and filly Jazz and Chante looking sparkling after their first bath thanks to training from Daffyd thank you they stood so well today almost didn’t need lead! Being such a hot day I think they appreciated the cold water

01/02/2024

Meet two new offspring to our fabulous Irish Draught stallion Major Roche. Both foals born just before Xmas to owner Anna Pilbrow… we met these two foals last night … a c**t Teddy with the white nose 7/8th Irish Draught very friendly just wants to be part of the action just look at his solid hind! . We also have the beautiful filly Sage standing amazingly who will be gentle in nature. Looking forward to watching these two grow into fantastic Irish Draught horses! Major is definitely delivering some amazing foals and a 50/50 c**t to filly it seems.

29/01/2024

Beautiful Chante our filly from Major Roche enjoying her new field she’s so charming ah

29/01/2024

Our amazing Jazz Irish Draught from Major Roche enjoying the new freshly cut field. Gosh he is so stunning isn’t he!

13/01/2024

Had an awesome morning with Chante and Tempo our 1/2 Irish Draught and 1/2 throughbred at training with Sarah Blackburn’s training. She said the nicest thing that it was lovely to work with our young ones with no drama and they were so connected to thier humans needless to say our training with them is going amazing … will start hacking (In hand) very soon! and they are turning out to very really nice settles horses who take everything in thier stride! 🙂 can’t wait to find thier forever humans as these horses are going to be amazing! Please come and hav a look if u even just want some horsy time to see what they are like 🙂
Ps pics or from today as forgot to take some 🙂

03/12/2023

To hear more about the Irish Draught Horse and how amazing it is watch this.

Agri Aware's second last stop on the Rambling with the Irish Rare Breeds series saw us take in a trip to Co. Sligo.The purpose of the visit was to see and le...

05/11/2023

Wonderful weekend with Pam at Norton Equistrian with Chante (yearling) and Tempo (2yrs)

01/11/2023

Standing Now - Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion Call John 021 796 510 or [email protected] for more details.

16/10/2023

Major Roche Stallion Standing now for 2023-2024 breeding season. Available via fresh AI. Contact John O'Keeffe or PM for further information

Irish Draught Stallion based in the Clarkville North Canterbury, New Zealand

03/10/2023

Only few days left to vote for our Tessa :)

Tessa from Christchurch RDA, an Irish Draught horse, is very lovely with all riders and takes great care of them. Tessa is very versatile and enjoys doing therapy riding as well as sports & recreation.

To vote for Tessa from Christchurch RDA visit our website - www.rda.org.nz/vote

You can vote for three individual photos, share the love for all our horses! Cast your vote by 6 October 2023.

Christchurch Group Riding for the Disabled

25/09/2023

Jazz Roche (1 yr old offspring to Major Roche An Irish Draught Stallion) standing proud with Sean at the Beclaand show thanks to Mel Moments for the Photo. He's going to be a horse that will take your heart such a cool personality.

23/09/2023

Jazz had his first show today he did a good trott for us ended up getting second

22/09/2023

Funny moment when we took Tempo (2) and Jazz (1) inside the arena for the first time and they saw themselves in the mirror lol

21/09/2023

Major Roche, (Stallion -5 yrs) had a few visitors today and performed nicely for them. Sophie Logan is doing some good training with him. If anyone is interested in AI please PM us as we will be open for AI shortly. If you would like to view Major or his offspring - a 2 yr old and 2 x yearlings please pm or call John 021796510