RATHOWEN  STUD 

RIDING PONIES,  ARABIAN RIDING PONIES,  

GALLOWAYS

COURTLAND  BOY-BLUE  (IMP)

      ( Whalton Touch o’ the Blues X  Oakley Gay Royal)

                                  (photo Roger Fitzhardinge)

Email:   rathowen@bigpond.com 

Rathowen Stud, which has been functioning for over forty years, came into being purely by accident.  Not being easily able to find what we wanted, which, at the time was a very tall Purebred Arabian suitable for Open competition, we decided to try to breed it, an objective we found easier said than done, but without its challenge we would not be where we are today.  Yes, we have changed direction a little, wandering from the Purebreds to the Derivative side of the Arabians, and adding Riding Ponies and Arabian Riding Ponies to our breeding objectives, and infusing Welsh of what we saw to be the right type, when it was possible.

We are located at Tennyson, just outside North Richmond in New South Wales, on a pleasant hundred acre holding, with another sixty five acres at Ebenezer.  Our original interest was Arabians,  but the Open Ring presented the greatest frontier, so Riding Ponies was an obvious variation on this theme, particularly with the advantage of classes for Arabian Riding Ponies being so popular .  Most of the bloodlines have a high-percentage Welsh blood as well which presents the possibility of multiple registrations.

This page was last updated on 15/01/2010 .     

  from  1 April 2006