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Rathowen Free Spirit (Kolbeach Freedom x Rathowen Sepia Shadings)

To Be Shown by E. B. Lodge (Andrew Buckley, Sam Heald and Julie Tayler)

(Lorelle Mercer Photo 2008)

 

2007 Foals

Lorelle Mercer has been busy and has photographed the 2007 foals, and we will post some of her photos as soon as we can.  For anyone wishing to view the foals they can be seen on her web-site www.lorellemercer.com.au  (stud visits - rathowen stud.)  She has done a lovely job.

Rathowen Robed in Red (Kolbeach Freedom x Rathowen Lady In Red (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Rathowen Russet) - pretty chestnut filly, white stocking and stripe. (below).  Good mover.

                                                             

 

Rathowen Narissa (  Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.)  x   Portia (Jan Murray) ) -bay filly, white star and snip, one white foot behind. Should mature 13.2 - 14.2 ( Photo below)  Lovely nature. Good mover. (SOLD)

        

Rathowen Narissa

 

Rathowen Sage ( Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Salieri Girl (Salieri x Jambon Picnic (Lunchtime)) leggy  chestnut colt, star and two white sox behind. To make galloway. (Photo below)

                                          

Rathowen X-Factor (Courtland Boy-Blue (Imp.) x Kirreway Xina (Carolinas Cats Whiskers x TB (Piccolino) ) a leggy chestnut filly with a white stripe and stocking, sister to the very successful and good producing sire Rathowen XL.  Looks to be small galloway in the making (photo below). Very good mover.

                                                  

 

SOLD:  Smart bay colt with white stripe and two white sox, from Royalwood Reflection (Syon Royal Portrait (Imp.) x King's Cover Girl (King Cyrus)). By Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.)  Looks very promising, and can move well.

                                          

                     RATHOWEN RICOCHET  (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Royalwood Reflection)                             

 

 

 

         SOLD

 

 

 

 

Another day, another filly.  This time to Radway Royal Sonnet (Imp.) (Sandbourne Royal Ensign (Imp.) x Brights Merry Music (U.K.)dam of R. Sommersette, (exp. NZ), R. Saxony, R. SummerHayes, R. Song and Dance, R. So What, R. Saratoga, R. Song Sung Blue, etc.  First foal from her by Kolbeach Freedom and she's a cracker.  Mind you, we're getting a bit confused with all the chestnut fillies.... (at three weeks old)  

      

                       ......And at three months old - Rathowen So Free  (below)

                         

You win some, you lose some. The old adage of "you got livestock, you got deadstock!" is so true.  We don't know whether our "Flu" resulted in problems, not so much from the Flu itself, but the high temperatures and the deep-seated coughing can't have done any of the pregnant mares much good.  Old Skye, dam of Rathowen Storm Warning, Rathowen South Wind, Rathowen Starstruck, and the good producing Rathowen Out of the Blue,  etc., slipped a big black colt early in the piece, and Bite the Boss aka Wishful Thinking in her show days, produced a similar colt - very beautiful but with a cord twisted as you've never seen.  Our thanks to John Parbery of Hawkesbury Equine Veterinary Centre for managing to get the foal out,dead,of course, but leaving the mare unscathed.

It looks as if Shades has also slipped - she looked enormously in foal, but suddenly deflated as the flu did the same thing.

Rathowen Sepia Shadings (Langtree Valentine x Shades of Rathowen) - To Kolbeach Freedom - chestnut filly foaled 30.11.07  Very nice. Will be 12.2, by the look of her.  Stripe, two stockings and a sock. Show quality   

       

Rathowen Free Spirit foaled 30.11.07  at 5 days old.  (Kolbeach Freedom x Rathowen Sepia Shadings

    

Rathowen Free Spirit at 5 weeks old.

          

At three months                                                          Nearly a yearling                        Foal Show

Little Girls grow up - "TINKERBELL" (Free Spirit)

"Rathowen Free Spirit" otherwise known as Tinkerbell has gone to Andrew Buckley, Julie Tayler and Sam Heald of EB Lodge to be prepared and shown.

 

Rathowen Russet (Chippenham Architect x Kizmaha's Alzena) (dam of Rathowen Scarlet Ribbons (Supreme RP Exhibit Brisbane royal, and Champion Large Pony Hack for the George Family), Rathowen Lady In Red, Rathowen Red Ruffles, Rathowen True Blue (WA), Rathowen Russell (Q), Rathowen Rustic, Rathowen Rudyard, Rathowen Dudley etc. - To Kolbeach Freedom - his first foal and a bay filly up to Russet's normal standard.  Stripe, two long sox behind, two small in front. Show quality.

            

Rathowen Ruby Red foaled 27.10.07  at 1 week old (Kolbeach Freedom x Rathowen Russet)

   

At six weeks

 

                          

Rathowen Ruby Red at three months old.

                                                              

Foal Show - Supreme Riding Pony, Supreme Arabian Derivative, Supreme Part Welsh, Supreme Exhibit of Show

2006 Foals

 

Foaling finished,  the last two weeks ago a nicely marked bay colt from Springs - Rathowen Soprano of Spring (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Kirreway Soloist) by Imperial Falcon.  Very pretty, lively and energetic, with a lovely personality to make about 13.2.  He will be called Rathowen Sprightly, and will be eligible for three registrations, RPSB, Arabian Riding Pony, and Partbred Welsh, as well as Australian Saddle Pony. He is a bit of a miracle boy because Mum had the dreadful choke which resulted in five weeks at Werribee University Vet. Hospital, and surgery to remove a five inch plug of dried and tangled grass etc., from her oesophagus. 

                           

Rathowen Sprightly (Imperial Falcon x Rathowen Soprano of Spring {Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.)})  FOR SALE

Considerations of Rathowen (Philos) (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Thoughtful Miss. This is her first foal - a liver chestnut filly by Penmarric Killarney.  She has been given the stable name of Thistle.

                                                     

Rathowen In Contention (Thistle) (Penmarric Killarney x Considerations of Rathowen {Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.)}

 TouchStone (Courtland Boy Blue x Rathowen Trinket (Rathowen Bandolero)) presented us with a sensational leggy bay filly by Penmarric Killarney already nicknamed Tabitha , which looks like will be a big galloway.

              

Above  - Rathowen TouchWood -  Filly foal from Touchstone of Rathowen by Penmarric Killarney " Tabitha". (Photos taken at 3months by Ian.)

                                  

More photos of Tabitha taken by Lorelle.

 Old reliable, Radway Royal Sonnet (Imp.) (Sandbourne Royal Ensign (Imp.) has produced a stunner, a very elegant bright chestnut filly, tasteful white stripe and one half stocking behind - sister to Rondelay, Blueprint, Somersette (exp N.Z.), Song Sung Blue (dec.), Saratoga, Sorrento, Saxony, Song and Dance, and So What.  She will probably be called SummerHayes. Sonnet will probably  go back in foal to Kolbeach Freedom for a first foal by anything other than Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.)

 

Above - Filly foal from Radway Royal Sonnet (Imp.) (Sandbourne Royal Ensign x Brights Merry Music)  by Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) "SummerHayes".

At One year old

Miss Tasmania, nicknamed Taz, whose correct name is Glenrowan Diffinity (King Lodge Court Jester x Westmoor Dignity) gave us a nearly black good sized filly by Harry, which has been called Davinia.

 

                       

                       Davinia (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Glenrowan Diffinity).  At one year old.

 

 

2005 Foals: (Now 2 y.o.)  

 

 2005 foal from Rathowen Out of the Blue (brown mare, 14.1) (Courtland Boy Blue (Imp.) x Kirreway Skye (Rotherwood Acrobat (Imp.)  In foal to Langtree Fame and Fortune.  Last Foal Rathowen Beyond Blue – Champion N.S.W. State Titles and winner Riding Pony Show.   Foal born 30.10.05 - Leggy tall bay filly, no white, probably small galloway .SOLD  

Rathowen Blue Moon  (Langtree Fame and Fortune x Rathowen Out of the Blue). (shown here as foal).

                                         

                                                         

Rathowen Blue Moon - now 2 years old.

                                                                                    SOLD

2005 foal from Kirreway Skye (black mare approx.14.3) (Rotherwood Acrobat (Imp.) x Downland Jacinth (Imp.)) To Courtland Boy Blue . Dam of Rathowen Storm Warning, R. Out of the Blue, R. Skye Blue (Exp. N.Z.), R. Sky’s the Limit, R. Dark Skies, R. South Wind, R. Shining, Trentlyn Sasha, Rathowen Missouri, etc. Bay or brown filly, Rathowen Starstruck, foaled 24 November, 2005, white star, blemished from fence accident. AND WILL STAY IN THE STUD.

Rathowen Starstruck (Courtland Boy Blue x Kirreway Skye) (blemished and retained).

 

 

                             

Rathowen Marionette, as yearling. (Photograph Lorelle Mercer). SOLD.