Balmullo Farm

12/12/2024

Merry Christmas and a very Happy New Year from BalmulloFarm!

11/28/2024

If you give your child a pony, they will want to ride. You’ll buy them the best pony you can find, followed by a helmet, boots and all the other things pony.
You look for a local barn to ride at where you start to socialize with the equestrian community…………And then life as you know it, will end.
Before you know it, they want to show so you find a circuit …..There will be no more lazy weekends watching tv. You will see more sunrises than you ever thought possible.
Every spare minute of your time will be spent hauling campers, horse trailers and horses and enduring a crazy addiction to practice for the next show.
Your house may be a mess, and your car will be dirty. All because you gave your child a pony. Your weekends will be spent freezing or burning to death on a fold up chair. And their weekends will be spent gaining confidence and friends, learning new skills and having fun and getting dirty!!!!
You will be there the day he or she takes the first few steps of canter, the first taste of a jump, first ribbon, first championship. And they will make you SO proud. Other parents will congratulate you, but you feel weird saying thank you because it's not you on the pony, it’s your child. It's everything that they did, they achieved. And right before your eyes, your little boy/girl will be transformed from the baby who bounced around on their rocking horse into an exceptional young horse enthusiast on the hunt for the next pony finals or maybe even the Olympics!
When you give your child a pony , you give them more than just something to ride. You give them a sport, a talent, hope and dreams. Friends, a new family, a place to learn about life, room to grow as a person where they can push their limits, and bravery, and courage, and memories. And they will have ALL of these things, simply because you gave your child a pony.
Because you gave your child a pony, you too will develop new/lifelong friendships, developed solely from the same passion for the sport. You will have a equestrian family because you gave your child a pony.
Then one day, many years from today…they will be in their room and a certain trophy will catch their eye. And they will pick it up and realize instantly that when you gave your child a pony, you also gave them a childhood that they would never forget, at this point, you realize that everything you gave up along the way and sacrificed was totally worth it…..
All because you gave your child a pony📷 📷📷
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11/28/2024

These two beauties would like a new home for Christmas! Both are 18 mo old Connemara/TB’s by the fantastic eventing stallion, ( now retired), Foothills Field Marshall. Balmullo’s Sunnyside Up, a filly, is on the right. Balmullo’s Billy Bob, a gelding, is on the left. Tractable and personable, they have been well handled since birth. They should mature 15-15:2hh. For more information, 352-538-0125, Located in Richmond, Va.

10/31/2024

Alexandra and Katie, world’s cutest unicorn, had a great time trick or treating. Katie says she likes oat cakes better than tootsie rolls…. They get stuck in her teeth.

10/18/2024

These two beauties, Connemara/TB’s, are looking forward to finding their forever homes! Balmullo’s Sunny Side Up is a filly. She is on the left, the one with the little star. Balmullo’s Billy Bob, a gelding, is on the right.Both 16 months old. Well handled and personable. By Foothills Field Marshall. $5000.

08/02/2024

Emmy (Balmullo’s Celtic Memory by Ard Celtic Art) shows off her budding new area of expertise. Ably ridden by Summer Fraughnaugh.

07/28/2024

Alexandra,Summer and I took Gracie ( last photo) and Emmy ( all other pony photos) to the Region III Connemara show this weekend… all had a super fun time. Summer did all the riding, amassing an armful of ribbons…..I saw many old friends, too, which was even better than the ribbons! Emmy is Balmullo’s Celtic Memory (Ard Celtic Art X Balmullo’s Irish Moss [ by Foothills Field Marshall]) and Gracie is Tullymors Gracie Gray ( Tullymors Mountain Shadows X Tullymors Kiss of Sun).

07/21/2024

Summer having a few words with Emmy about their dressage test tomorrow…..

07/02/2024

This is Belle Dawn aka Minnie who I imported from Ireland many years ago and sold a few years ago. Still looking great!

06/13/2024

Bruiser’s latest baby, a c**t o/o Silverhill Angel, Irish-bred, imported Connemara. Asbury Foxtrot, name pending! Bred by Dierdre Hay.

06/02/2024

Congratulations to Summer Fraughnaugh and Tullymor’s Gracie Gray for their 2nd place finish ( with a whopping 80% in dressage) in the Keystone Farms combined test today.

05/17/2024

What a difference 4 years makes! Balmullo’s Celtic Memory by ArdCeltic Art X Balmullo’s Irish Moss (by Foothills Field Marshall)

05/10/2024

Sunny has decided it’s time Billy was halter trained!

04/11/2024

In Richmond, Va

04/07/2024

These are two exceptional 1/2 TB yearlings by the Connemara stallion Foothills Field Marshall. Sunny, a filly, is on the left and Billy, a gelding, is on the right. Both want to be your next competition partner and best friend forever!

04/07/2024

04/04/2024

Tullymor’s Gracie Gray spent last weekend at college! Hollins College. She competed in a hunter show ridden by Juliana Guggino. They were the only pony and came in 4th out of 23! Congrats to Juliana and Gracie! Photos taken by Jordan Atwell-Purcell.