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YOUNG STOCK
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.
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