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Casmaran Welsh Cobs and Cross Creek Section B Welsh Ponies |
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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. |
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Stallions available through the cooperative efforts of Sara Bloomer, Zachary Shields, and Glenda Armstrong |
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Sara 973-670-2578 |
Email Sara at welshponiesandcobs@hotmail.com |
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2007 & 2008 New Jersey All Pony Show Champion Welsh Pony - All Sections |
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(Bristol Encore x Bristol Safire) Linebred Criban Victor and Cusop Sheriff |
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(GlanNant Cadence LOM x GlanNant Cranberry) |
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Linebred Criban Victor and Cusop Sheriff |
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'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. |
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FOR SALE or LEASE |
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Two of our mares ... Evans Dark Wisdom & GlanNant Fairytale |
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WE ARE STARTING A PROGRAM OF 'CUSTOM BREEDING'. PICK A STALLION, PICK A MARE AND THE RESULTING FOAL IS
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(GlanNant Ballad - GlanNant Sonnet) |
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| In 1959 Mollie Butler at GlanNant was interested in importing a bred mare as a
larger riding pony for her daughter, Linda. She asked her good friend Thalia Gentzel to search for such a mare while visiting Wales. A mare, she first saw
in Wales was none other than *Coed Coch Prydyddes aka "Puff", a daughter of Criban Victor and Coed Coch Pluen by Tan-Y-Bwlch Berwyn. Mollie Butler was
interested in the mare but it could not be determined if the mare was in foal or not, but took a chance and it turned out that Puff was indeed in foal to
Rhyd-Y-Felin Selwyn by *Coed Coch Blaen Lleuad (Criban Victor x Berwyn Beauty). At GlanNant Puff went on to have 14 foals, and her daughter GlaNant Sonnet, so fortunately imported in utero, had 16 more-so the original importation of one bred mare resulted in 31 offspring! Puff, elegant from her classic chiseled face to her deep hip and level croup, also had a breathtaking ground-eating trot with tremendous impulsion and a reaching step that seemed never to touch ground! Puff and her offspring also jumped well, which combined to serve them to best advantage in model, hack, and over fences classes. Puff foals, and their offspring, have impacted our show arenas right up to today! Bred to *Cusop Sheriff, Puff produced the sons GlanNant Limerick, and the famous GlanNant Ballad. 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. 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. |
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May 14, 1978 - January 13, 2004 Proven Sire of Champion halter and performance ponies ANDof 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 pointsUSEF 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 Bard's
Sire,
GlanNant Ballad - 2007 USEF #7 Leading Welsh Sire and
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 GLANNANT SUNRAY
(by GlanNant Bard) Sire of Precious Cargo MARANATHA TAPESTRY
(by GlanNant Mariner) Sire of High Hopes Spitfire and Kiss Me Kait CASMARAN WELSH LEGACY
CASMARAN MAGIC SPELL (by GlanNant Bard x Liseter Brillian Topaz) |
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We had Bard for 25 of his 26 1/2 years. Bard was a unique stallion ...... very
intelligent and extremely athletic. |
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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. |
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Our last day with Bard - January 13, 2004 Midlantic Equine Clinic |
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Preservation Breeding |
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I was speaking with a 91 year young farmer, Harry Hubacek, on August 10th, about livestock and breeding. |
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breeders to preserve bloodlines of animals, either of a rare breed, or of rare pedigrees within a breed. One purpose of preservation breeding is to
protect genetic diversity within a species, another is to preserve valuable genetic traits that may not be popular or in fashion in the present, but may
be of great value in the future. Genetic diversity is a level of biodiversity that refers to the total number of genetic characteristics in the genetic makeup of a species. Biodiversity is a broad concept, so a variety of objective measures have been created in order to measure biodiversity. Each measure of biodiversity relates to a particular use of the data. As a consequence, biologists argue that this measure is likely to be associated with the variety of genes. Genotype and phenotype One's genotype differs subtly from one's genomic sequence. A sequence is an absolute measure of base composition of an individual, or a representative of a species or group; a genotype typically implies a measurement of how an individual differs or is specialized within a group of individuals or a species. (see homozygous, heterozygous). Any given gene will usually cause an observable change in an organism, known as the phenotype. The terms genotype and phenotype are
distinct for at least two reasons:To distinguish the source of an observer's knowledge (one can know about genotype by observing DNA; one can know about
phenotype by observing outward appearance of an organism). Natural selection is the process by which favorable heritable traits become more common in successive generations of a population of reproducing
organisms, and unfavorable heritable traits become less common, due to differential reproduction of genotypes. Natural selection acts on the phenotype, or
the observable characteristics of an organism, such that individuals with favorable phenotypes are more likely to survive and reproduce than those with
less favorable phenotypes. The phenotype's genetic basis, genotype associated with the favorable phenotype, will increase in frequency over the following
generations. Over time, this process may result in adaptations that specialize organisms for particular ecological niches. In other words, natural
selection is the mechanism by which evolution may take place in a population of a specific organism. "Breeding stock" is a term used to describe a group of animals used for purpose of planned breeding. When individuals are looking to breed animals, they look for certain valuable traits in purebred stock for a certain purpose, or may intend to use some type of crossbreeding to produce a new type of stock with different, and presumably superior abilities in a given area of endeavor. Purebred breeding Mating animals of the same breed for maintaining such breed is referred to as purebred breeding. Opposite to the practice of mating animals of different breeds, purebred breeding aims to establish and maintain stable traits, that animals will pass to the next generation. By "breeding the best to the best," employing a certain degree of inbreeding, considerable culling, and selection for "superior" qualities, one could develop a bloodline or "breed" superior in certain respects to the original base stock. 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. |
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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.
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, Our goal is to breed Welsh ponies to the WELSH Breed Standard. There obviously is a market for a pony sized horse, we recognize and respect that there are individuals
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Did you know.... |
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Welsh Section B Criban Victor (born in 1944) is the best example of Section B ponies with the "outside" influence of Cob breeding. Champion at Ponies of Britain Show in 1959, 1962, 1965, and 1966 and the NPS Shows in 1956, 1959, and 1960; made a glorious retirement from the show ring in 1969, aged 25, when he won the Section B Championship and was Reserve Supreme Champion of the whole show at Caern. In 1978, his image was included in a series of stamps depicting horses, produced by the Royal Mail. Following his death at the age of 29, his breeder had his head stuffed; and it has since been donated to the WPCS. CRIBAN VICTOR (foaled 1944) was sired by CRIBAN WINSTON and gained his height from his dam CRIBAN WHALEBONE, of Cob parentage. CRIBAN VICTOR spent most of his active life at the Gredington Stud and left a great mark on Section B ponies throughout the Stud Book In volume 1 of the Welsh Stud Book the Welsh Mountain Ponies were allowed to be up to 12 hands 2 inches and every entry had to be inspected and passed, both by an Inspector of the Society and (for stallions only) by a Veterinary Surgeon. Entries amounted to 9 stallions and 273 mare; of the stallions one was grey, the others were dark coloured, mainly bays and browns, of the mares 66% were bay/brown/black, 14% chestnuts, 8% roan, 4% creams/duns and others of unrecorded colour (only two mares). |
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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’.” |
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