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Sussex, New Jersey

Casmaran Welsh Cobs   and Cross Creek Section B Welsh Ponies

Our mares are our treasure. Bred to either of our B Stallions, produces a concentration of Criban Victor blood .... conformation, bone, beauty and ABILITY of the true WELSH pony.
These are PROVEN bloodlines for performance and an asset to any breeding herd, you will NOT find a preponderance of T-bred or Arab here.

Bristol Solara

Bristol Safire

Stallions available through the cooperative efforts of Sara Bloomer, Zachary Shields, and Glenda Armstrong

Sara 973-670-2578

Email Sara at welshponiesandcobs@hotmail.com

2007 & 2008 New Jersey All Pony Show Champion Welsh Pony - All Sections
 

 B42148

(Bristol Encore x Bristol Safire) Linebred Criban Victor and Cusop Sheriff

(GlanNant Cadence ^LOM x GlanNant Cranberry)

Linebred Criban Victor and Cusop Sheriff

'Razz' needs no introduction if you are a follower of performance ponies. His sire, GlanNant Cadence, has produced Champion after Champion. This last colt of Cadence is no different. Four square with excellent bone, substance and size his get on the ground are lovely examples of Welsh performance ponies.

FOR SALE or LEASE
Cross Creek Ember

Two of our mares ... Evans Dark Wisdom & GlanNant Fairytale

WE ARE STARTING A PROGRAM OF 'CUSTOM BREEDING'. PICK A STALLION, PICK A MARE AND THE RESULTING FOAL IS YOURS.
This is a fantastic way to add bloodlines to your herd, and make your next performance star. All while being hand picked by you! Please feel free to call or email with any questions.

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GlanNant Bard       GlanNant Cadence        Bristol Victorio       Bristol Last Tango

(GlanNant Ballad - GlanNant Sonnet)

Other very notable offspring of Cusop Sheriff are GlanNant Cadence, GlanNant Banbury Cross, GlanNant Barddes, GlanNant Easter Story, GlanNant Eventide, GlanNant Honey Bee, GlanNant Idyll, GlanNant Lady Bug, GlanNant Polonaise, GlanNant Saga, GlanNant Serenade, GlanNant Sonata, GlanNant Tango, and Lithgow Wishnik, all successful breed and performance ponies in their own right and producers of Champions in all disciplines.

Findeln Blue Danube, sired by GlanNant Limerick, produced such offspring such as Gayfields Vida Blue USEF Leading Sire #1 in 2003 and 2004 and Top Four 7 other years. Cloe Olympian also by Limerick has been Top Ten Sire 6 times.

GlanNant Ballad sired the 1998 Pony Hunter Finals Champion Touch of Frost. Ballad’s son, GlanNant Bard (out of GlanNant Sonnet, the Puff daughter imported in utero) was National Welsh Supreme Champion and many time Grand Champion and Champion in hand as well as showing successfully under saddle and standing in the USEF Leading Sire list for many years. Bard in turn sired GlanNant Skipper who was also a Welsh Supreme Champion, and, shown as Believe In Magic, was Champion Medium and Reserve Champion Overall at the 1999 Pony Finals. Skipper's son Helicon Corsair has been WPCSA Half Welsh #2 Sire of the Year, top third in USEF Leading Pony Hunter Sires several times, and the sire of an American Sport Pony Site Champion and a winning event pony! GlanNant Mariner, also by GlanNant Bard, is the sire of Maranatha Tapestry a well known welsh sire in the pony hunter discipline, along with his sire and his paternal greatgrandsire GlanNant Ballad who have sired many Pony Finals Champions, ponies who are still competing today. GlanNant Ballad was also the sire of Tapestry's dam!

GlanNant Cadence, by Cusop Sheriff and out of GlanNant Rhyme whose dam was Puff, is a multi-Champion in halter, under saddle, over fences and driving. He is a USEF Leading Sire and has sired USEF Champions. These lines have proven to be a wonderful performance gene pool.

May 14, 1978 - January 13, 2004

Proven Sire of Champion halter and performance ponies AND
of SIRES OF USEF CHAMPIONS

USEF 2008 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #107

USEF 2007 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #113 with 758 points

USEF 2006 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #74 with 2382 points

USEF 2005 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #29 with 7638 points

USEF 2004 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #47 with 4491 points

USEF 2003 LEADING PONYHUNTER SIRE #30 with 7336.5 points

Bard's offspring have been winning since the 1980's; in 2008, five  years deceased, Bard has five sons and grandsons
listed in the USEF Leading Pony Hunter Sires and Leading Welsh Pony Sires ~ Mariner, Tapestry, Sunray, Tom Thumb, & Corsair.

Bard's Sire, GlanNant Ballad - 2007 USEF #7 Leading Welsh Sire and 2007 USEF #176 Leading Pony Hunter Sire

BELIEVE IN MAGIC (WPCSA reg. (GlanNant Skipper)  (by GlanNant Bard) Sire of Helicon Corsair

TREASURE ME  (WPCSA reg. Cross Creek Sterling Silver) by GlanNant Bard

MILLBROOKS MISTOFFELEES by GlanNant Bard

GLANNANT MARINER by GlanNant Bard
2007 USEF #4 Leading Welsh Sire and 2007 USEF #138 Leading Pony Hunter Sire

GLANNANT SUNRAY  (by GlanNant Bard)  Sire of Precious Cargo
2007 USEF #47 Leading Pony Hunter Sire

MARANATHA TAPESTRY (by GlanNant Mariner) Sire of High Hopes Spitfire and Kiss Me Kait
2007 USEF #13 Leading Welsh Sire and USEF 2007 Leading Pony Hunter Sire #84

 HILLCRESTS TOM THUMB  (by GlanNant Bard) Sire of Mr McGregor
2007 USEF Leading Pony Hunter Sire #79

CASMARAN WELSH LEGACY (by GlanNant Bard x Kressley's Talaria) Ch. Pony Hunter

CASMARAN MAGIC SPELL (by GlanNant Bard x Liseter Brillian Topaz)

We had Bard for 25 of his 26  1/2 years. Bard was a unique stallion ...... very intelligent and extremely athletic.
When the girls were young they would play in his stream, along would come Bard and stand in the deepest part pawing and splashing until all were soaked. When he heard our truck coming down the road he would run to greet us. Bard was also very full of himself, at shows he trumpeted to everyone who passed his stall and would stand on his hind legs to improve his view of surrounding stalls, he was quite the show off. As quiet as he was at home, away he was high spirited and audacious, and always looking for fun. One time he got loose at a show which was fun at first, but when he realized that he didn't know where to go he ran to an empty stall, stuck his head inside and waited for someone to rescue him. Sara, eight at the time, was the closest ..... a man said to her "watch out little girl, wild stallion". She said "he's my wild stallion", walked up took the reins and led him back to his stall.
We can never express how grateful we are to Mollie Butler and GlanNant Farm for giving us the opportunity to spend 25 years with this outstanding 'character', we will miss him always.

Our Bard daughters are being started under saddle, and will be bred to our newly acquired Section B stallion Clanfair Eclipse. Eclipse is a Champion in halter and has been started under saddle. He is linebred Criban Victor from some of the best halter and performance stock in the United States. Eclipse is true to the Welsh Breed Standard.

Our last day with Bard - January 13, 2004 Midlantic Equine Clinic

Preservation Breeding

I was speaking with a 91 year young farmer, Harry Hubacek, on August 10th, about livestock and breeding.
Though failing physically, Harry is still very 'with it' mentally and remembers information from the 1920's when a child in Fort Lee, NJ.
The oldest son of a dairy farmer, who was also the son of a dairy farmer, Harry's word struck me as simple truth ............. he related
"You don't inherit your strengths and faults from your parents, no, you inherit them from your grandparents and great-grandparents, and going back even farther.

The same with the animals, there are a lot of things you do not know because you are too young; but in the early 1900's there were things going on in Europe
and many animals were exported to the U.S. This was done because the people, the farmers, didn't want to lose their breeding stock.
With the cows, like the Ayshires, they were sent here with papers, and our farmers bought them and used them and bred them to keep them pure.
My brother and I bought several which were imported. Later on many of the well to do farmers in Europe bought the youngstock back, and that is how they kept them pure.
Over there you were told how to breed your livestock, but the farmers knew to keep them pure.
Yes, it happened to much of the livestock over there, horses and cows, pigs and even chickens.
It was, political, you know. They wanted to produce more you know, and bigger and better........ but the farmers knew what produced better so they preserved their bloodstock.
You have to do that with your crops too, the hybrid seeds do not produce true, you have to keep your old seeds, they produce true."

The observable phenomenon of hybrid vigor stands in contrast to the notion of breed purity. However, on the other hand, indiscriminate breeding of crossbred or hybrid animals may also result in degradation of quality.

Our Welsh ponies and cobs are not registered Sportponies, nor do we have any interest in pursuing that route. Sportponies are bred to resemble and perform like horses. See the breed description for Sportponies below.

What is a NorthAmerican Sportpony?

A NorthAmerican Sportpony is a pony in the general range of 13.2-14.2 h that looks and moves like a small horse, capable of competing in the Olympic disciplines of Jumping, Dressage, and Eventing, as well as in Driving. It is not your traditional Thellwell type of pony, but rather is much more athletic and horse-like in appearance and ability.

Welsh are not Thelwell type ponies, nor should they look and move like horses. Welsh ponies and cobs are unique in themselves, bred for many generations to a higher standard for conformation, movement, beauty and disposition.

As the Sportpony Breed Standard encompasses differing conformation, movement and type principles for the various disciplines in which they compete,
and is open to all ponies conforming to sport horse type, it is obvious that the sport horse and pony standard contradicts the unique though multifaceted qualities of Welsh ponies and cobs bred to the Welsh Breed Standard.

Our goal is to breed Welsh ponies to the WELSH Breed Standard.
Welsh ponies lived the Olympic disciplines of jumping, dressage, eventing and driving for centuries before those 'sports' were invented, in fact those "sports" aptly describe Welsh pony & Cob lives.
If  we go to a show and enter one of our Welsh in a Sportpony class and place...... well, good for them, but it certainly is not our priority.
The Welsh Pony Breed Standard is here, click on this sentence.

There obviously is a market for a pony sized horse, we recognize and respect that there are individuals desiring those qualities.
However we want our Welsh ponies to LOOK like Welsh ponies, MOVE like Welsh ponies, have the bone, body depth, and conformation that Welsh should have,
and have the disposition, the look of eagles, and the stamina that the Welsh breed has been noted for, for centuries. It is for these characteristics that so many other pony breeds have based their lines on,
American Crossbred ponies, Sportponies, POA, Welara, and even many American Shetland ponies.

A Welsh should look like a Welsh, not a crossbred, thorobred, warmblood or arabian. Those that look like or are conformed like other breeds have
absolutely too much horse blood in their ancestry. Check out the various lines of the Welsh breed on the All Breed Pedigree page, or in books and articles. Yes, it will take effort to do this, but you will see first hand
how the human manipulation of the Welsh breed has been taking place all over the world, and how human manipulation is slowly destroying the inherent characteristics
of the true Welsh pony and cob.        Denise

Did you know....

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Influential Section B sire Tan-y-Bwlch Berwyn's sire, Sahara was an African Barb.

In 1565, noted writer of British horses, Thomas Blunderville, stated that horses commonly called “… Barbarians do come out of the King of Tunis land, out of Massilie Numidia, were small, but very swift and durable … which is the cause why we (Britain’s) esteem them so much.” Many people and historians assume Barb horses are Arabian horses. This confusion and misinformation stemmed from the fact that both breeds eventually shared the Arabic culture. Also, their respective names were bluntly misused in literature. In 1875, in his British book “The Book of the Horse”, S. Sidney comments: Every oriental horse, Turk, Barb or Egyptianbred, is called an Arab in this country.” An excerpt from a 1916 Department of Agriculture “Breeders of Livestock Handbook” confirms: “Recent investigations indicate the Barb to have been the real source of oriental blood. A common error results in the use of the term ‘Arabian’ in sense synonymous with ‘oriental’.”
The Berbers from North Africa formed a substantial part of the Muslim armies that invaded Spain in the 8th century, and it seems clear that their Barb horses played a major part in the development of the Spanish Horse, Including the modern version of which is the Andalucian .
The Barb was also influential in the evolution of the Thoroughbred. Horses from North Africa, variously termed Berber, Barb, or Barbary, were imported to the Royal Studs of England from before the time of the Plantagenets. Roan Barbary, the favorite horse of Richard II (1377-99), was one of many horses of the same origin at the king's studs. Barb blood, together with that of the Spanish Jennet, itself at least a first cousin to the Barb, was certainly a predominant element in the Royal "running horses", which formed the base stock for the early Thoroughbred.

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