Diamond Road Arabian Stud

31/12/2024

Happy New Year To You! May 2025 be filled with all the love and fulfilled dreams you can muster.

Pictured: Palma El Ameira (Ecaho x Pilica).

23/12/2024

Nahlouria (Vesuvio x Fazenda Za'jarne) - sending all her love around the world for Christmas. Enjoy the break! :)

12/12/2024

2024 C**t by Atticus ENB (El Nabila B x Om El Benedine) from Neytiri (Al Kha-zar x Clifton Park Nefisa). He is absolutely gorgeous. Chestnut or grey? My eyes are turning inside out looking for those telltale grey hairs.

09/12/2024

Ray of Light turns 20 years old today - where does the time go?! I'd love to see photos of his babies in the comments - he has 79 registered foals now, and a few more yet to be registered. He is still the only cremello I have ever bred, which upon reflection is rather odd. Hopefully next year I will get my long-awaited cremello filly, however I'll need to find the right mare first.

Ray of Light is celebrating today with a new round bale and a beautiful bay lady.

PC Elsa Marchenay Photography (who is amazing and you should book her right now before the summer is over)

01/12/2024

She is a cheeky one! 2024 palomino filly by Ray of Light from Amaki’s Impasshan.

28/11/2024

Last week saw the birth of this beautiful palomino filly, the first for us since 2018. She is sired by Ray of Light and is from the National Champion Amaki's Impasshan (SK Shakla Khan x Amaki's Impeccable).

My joy at her birth is tempered only by the sudden loss of her mother, who passed away later that day, despite her valiant efforts to care for her foal. It is a sobering moment when one accepts that the focus now has to shift to the foal, rather than the mare you have known for twenty years.

Only the day before, our neighbour and friend Nell Marshman had lost her foal during birth, and so the decision was made to try our palomino with her huge warmblood mare of nearly 17hh. My initial fear of this huge mare soon turned to relief, and the foal was suckling within only a few minutes.

My attention could then turn back to her mother Tink, who fought so bravely and despite the best of veterinary care, she did not make it. She was a wonderful mare, never any trouble and always happy to do anything that was asked of her - she will be missed. Her daughter is just the tonic for both Nell and myself, and Nells beautiful and loving mare Adele.

24/11/2024

The next one on my photography journey, Diamond Road Peridot (Amaki's Perlino On Ice x Bluegrass Dantielle by BPL Dante).

A faithful companion - she enjoyed the Pony Club Christmas Party Bush Ride this weekend, and was perfectly behaved as always. So much so in fact that she has won over a new fan in the form of a rider who took a turn on her...and has now decided to get back in the saddle more often, so long as she is riding Peridot. So glad I have extra room in the float! I love sharing the horses with other people.

Peridot is also the dam of two very well performed geldings, Imposing Legacy (by Ray of Light) and Diamond Road Valentuno (by Vesuvio).

https://diamondroadarabians.com/horses/diamond-road-peridot

18/11/2024

The very beautiful Djamila Nadira (DP A***n El Jamal x Nehima), one of our lovely broodmares and dam of two fillies.

Tail female to Naazirah (Mustafa x Naadirah) through Neshika (by Neshan).

Djamila has a yearling daughter by Titanium (Ekstern x Funkia) who is currently available and in Victoria.

04/11/2024

Palma El Ameira - the next horse in my bid to photograph them all by the end of 2024.

Sired by Ecaho from Pilica, she is a full sister to famed Polish National Champion Mare Palmeta.

Palma has produced for us one filly and two colts, and she is again in foal to Titanium FX (Ekstern x Funkia by Gazal Al Shaqab) for 2025.

PC David Gillett

25/10/2024

Nahlouria

Sired by Australian National Champion Vesuvio (Azteq LBA x Valouria) from QLD Challenge Champion Mare Fazenda Za'jarne (Everon Park Ramah x Sabtah Nahlah from Clifton Park Nefisa)

16/10/2024

It's a cold and wet day here on the farm, and I wonder if a questionable little someone is going to give me a hard time again coming in for the night...

C**t by Atticus ENB (El Nabila B x Om El Benedine) from Neytiri (Al Kha-zar x Clifton Park Nefisa).

14/10/2024

Impossible Princess DRA

Buckskin 93.75% Half Arabian Mare by Vesuvio (Azteq LBA x Valouria) from Amaki's Impre'Vu (Amaki's Va'Reign x Amaki's Golden Imp), who is a maternal half sister to Ray of Light.

12/10/2024

Happy Weekend Everyone!

NAHLOURIA by Vesuvio (Azteq LBA x Valouria) from Fazenda Za'Jarne (Everon Park Ramah x Sabtah Nahlah from Clifton Park Nefisa).

09/10/2024

Here is another of my beauties…Djamila Nadira.

Sired by DP A***n El Jamal (MF A***n el Tessa x Ella Noura) and from one of my all-time favourite mares Nehima (Nazzai x Neshika). Djamila is the only descendant of Neshika in the stud currently, she represents her family with great femininity and grace.

Djamila is the dam of two fillies, and I am looking forward to more in the future.

08/10/2024

I was supposed to have one of my favourite photographers come out this weekend, but I couldn’t find anyone to help me so we postponed. So feeling sorry for myself, a couple of days ago I took photos of a few of the girls anyway, rattle in one hand, camera in the other.

Netifa Al Maas (Abha Omani x Neytiri).
Rising two year old filly, a granddaughter of my most-loved Clifton Park Nefisa.

Netifa has inherited all the style and flair of her parents, most notably the big trot that Abha Omani of Redwood Lodge Arabians is admired for. I am looking forward to her future

PC David Gillett

24/09/2024

How exciting to see Ellen and Nilo (Simeon Sahron x Sabtah Nahlah) promoting the upcoming Watagans Endurance Ride in the Newcastle Weekly. Is there anything this wonderful gelding cannot do?!

The Hunter Valley is synonymous with equine beauty… and there’s no better way to experience that first-hand than on the trails.

10/09/2024

It's funny sometimes the journey you go on with a horse. When Nejilah (RHR Heir of Marwan x Neytiri) was born, there were many qualities that I really liked about her, but we didn't really gel on a personal level. A daughter of my favourite mare though Neytiri (Al Kha-zar x Clifton Park Nefisa)...I held onto her. I did consider selling her, almost did once...it didn't work out, which in hindsight was a gift. And then...something clicked with us.

She was part of my show team when I started showing again, and she did pretty well which made me happy. She was started under saddle, and I was kinda scared to ride her and put it off for many months, until a trip to Kosciusko National Park was planned and I just had to get started.

Nejilah was far from well behaved in the park, and at times I almost left her there, however by the end of it, we were a team. The year since has been filled with many adventures together, and the bond I have with her now is one like no other - not more, not less, just different and unique.

She cannot wait to get on the float and go, she is always the first to cross a river, to investigate something new, to boldly make her way through the forest with everyone else behind her.

On more than one occasion, she has inspired people riding other breeds to comment on her bravery and willingness - one day perhaps they might comment on her being quiet and compliant, but we are far from that yet...which suits be perfectly. She flies her Arabian flag proudly, a regal purebred mare who loves and protects her rider. What more could one want?

PC Elsa Marchenay Photography

03/09/2024

Calling out to international equine repro vets! Would you like to spend the breeding season working in a wonderful veterinary clinic on the mid north coast of NSW? Amazing beaches, great people...its all here if you are the right person.

My vet is looking to hire someone amazing for the season, so if you have ever thought to travel to Australia for work and couldnt make it happen, now is your chance.

Please share this everywhere, and for any vets wanting more info, please PM me and I will send you the details.

Pic for attention. PC Elsa Marchenay Photography