October 2009
We’ve had another busy year with a mixture of activities. Cedardell Zanzibar, Hallelujah and Cameo Prospero all had mares to stud in the 2008 season and also produced beautiful foals during the season.
Our foals were:
CAMEO GRYFFINDOR Grey Colt [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Merrie Moon]
CAMEO PALESTINAA Grey Filly [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Primulaa]
CAMEO CHRISTMAS FAIRY Grey Filly [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Ophelia]
CAMEO FELSPAR Grey Colt [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Freya]
CAMEO PAVAROTTI Grey Anglo Colt [Cameo Prospero/Cameo Louizianna]
CAMEO SOMER’S MOON Chestnut Filly [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Elvira]
CAMEO WIND RUNNER Bay Colt [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Wishing Wind]
CAMEO ISOLDE Bay Filly [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Tosca]
CAMEO BIZMARCK Grey Colt [Cedardell Zanzibar/Saracen Sikandria]
CAMEO INDIE SILVER Grey Filly [Hallelujah/Cameo Silver Shell] PURE CRABBET
CAMEO FILIGREE Grey Filly [Hallelujah/Adorable Dancer] PURE CRABBET
CAMEO BONHOMIE Bay Anglo Colt [Cameo Prospero/Society Rose]
As well, Velvet Ribbons foaled a typey grey Pure Crabbet colt by Hallelujah for Lise Hunt of Limbri NSW, and Tropic Zanzibelle had a classic bay filly by Hallelujah, before she departed for her home in Parkes NSW in foal to Emblazon at the end of her lease. Many thanks to Nikki Crisp for the “loan” of this superb mare by Cedardell Zanzibar and from our beloved Tropic Fiona. We had our first ever incident of foal swapping, when our two Pure Crabbet mares Cameo Tosca and Adorable Dancer lay down side by side to have their foals. We saw them with their correct foals at 3 am but by dawn they were cosily feeding each other’s fillies, and it was more than our lives were worth to separate them! So Tosca raised Dancer’s dainty grey filly, and Dancer had to produce enough milk to satisfy Tosca’s big bay girl! We nicknamed them “the stepdaughters”.
We have had lots of visitors including Elizabeth Archer from Worth Stud in the UK, Johan and Annelise Theron of Yentl Arabians from South Africa, and some endurance riders from Thailand. We had two superb photographers, Nicole Emmanuel and Sharon Meyers who photographed our horses out on the hills in their paddocks, in the late evening and at sunrise. In addition, lots of other friends and family have come to share our breezy, hillside property and we have had some grand celebratory lunches and dinners during the year! We hosted a Trail Ride for the Downs Arabian Club which was a lot of fun, and we have also been conducting regular social and training rides from here with friends from the Toowoomba Endurance Horse Riders. Coralie had the opportunity to visit some South Australian and Victorian Crabbet Studs in November 2008 with Brother Peter McIntosh, as well as Geoff and Jen Hawkins’ Pure Crabbet Stud at Werris Creek in August 2009 with Lorraine Currie. And to call on Frank and Elizabeth Staunton of Glen Innes who have a beautiful chestnut daughter of CAMEO ZHIVAGO.
While working at the 2009 Australian Championships in Victoria in March, Coralie was touched to see that though Chip Chase Desert Wind has been gone for some time, his influence is still very much in evidence. His superb son ROBALI DARGEELING, bred by us while his beautiful mother Jadara [Argent/Miraya] was on loan from Alison and Rob Soster, was entered in a number of classes and took home a cluster several Championships and Top Tens. The Reserve Champion 2YO Purebred Filly CHELLEASON WIND FORTUNE [by Gai el Jullyen USA] is from the Windy mare CAMEO WINDSSTAR. She was also Champion at the 2007 Gala Show and the 2007 Challenge Show. As well, Bob Burgess’ lovely 2009 Australian Champion Arabian Pony Filly BRACKNELL WHATABOUTME is a great-granddaughter of Windy, being by Windy’s grandson BRACKNELL LOOKATME, Supreme Derivative Male at the 2009 Queensland Challenge Show.
During the past twelve months we have sold the Crabbet/Polish mare AL DHAHAB HADDIYAH on behalf of Jacquie Webby to Claire McManus and Amanda Chintock of Nanango, gaining some new friends at the same time. We also acquired her full-sister in blood AL DHAHAB AIYET and have leased her to Kathy Saggers of Asab Arabians. A lovely Windy mare CHARMARIAN NIKITA [from the Ruberto mare Santarabia Nafis] had fallen on hard times, but now lives here with us along with her chestnut Silver Mistral daughter. Nikita is a full-sister to Multi-Champion CHARMARIAN RAISULI, and is in foal to Cedardell Zanzibar.
We have sold the young 5YO Anglo saddle mare LARA’S SONG [Cameo Zhivago/New Blossom] to successful young endurance rider Hannah McQueen’s Mum Debra of Kyogle NSW. The Purebred 6YO gelding CAMEO HORIZONS [Chip Chase Desert Wind/Cameo Primulaa] has been sold to Karen and Gregg Fields who sold their previous well-performed gelding CAMEO CARUZO to the Emirates this year.
We have attended as many endurance rides as possible, given that Ken had a “break” in the middle of the season with two broken ribs! SAHALA ABU SIMBEL [Cameo The Wizard/Sahala Afrika Blue by Cedardell Zanzibar] has been to Eidsvold, Widgee and the Sparkler, handled his first 80 km Ride really well with Billie Barron riding him, and hopefully will be an open endurance horse by the end of this season. He hasn’t put a foot wrong all season. CAMEO FAVORITA [Cedardell Zanzibar/Cameo Fifinella] has done two 40 km Training Rides, at Lake Manchester and Imbil, and is ready for an 80 km. Luckily we still have a few left! Ken has been lucky enough to have several fellow Toowoomba Club members to train and ride with. Thanks Jenna and Billie, and Claire. We have enjoyed seeing CAMEO STORMBOY out on the tracks, and to see the exceptional, tall CAMEO HELMZMAN make a careful start to his endurance career for Ken Moir. Have also seen Donna Renaud’s gorgeous boy CAMEO CRUISE bring his solid and consistent endurance career to an end at the age of 16. Interstate we noticed CAMEO AMBROZIA, CAMEO ZANADU, CAMEO PHOENIX and CAMEO FELICIAA in the result sheets. CAMEO FELICIAA attracted the highest price of $46,000 in the Magic Millions Performance Horse Sale, endurance section. She is a full-sister to CAMEO ZINNIAA and CAMEO AZALEAA.
For the 2009/2010 breeding season we welcome back our Pure Crabbet stallion ROYALUND SPARKLING SILVER [Al Borg Jarim/Fenwick Silver Serenade] who produces those horses with the amazingly low heart rates. It will be lovely to see him again, but he WILL be surprised to find we have moved!This will be the last season at public stud for CEDARDELL ZANZIBAR who will be 25 next year. He is in fine fettle, but every year is a bonus now and so we will keep him for ourselves from now on. Congratulations to Caroline Fitzgerald who won a free service to Zanzibar in the raffle conducted to help send Angela Hawks to the World Youth Championships in Hungary. With our own happy memories of visiting Babolna many years ago, it would have been great to go in Angela’s luggage for a return trip! EMBLAZON has his first foals due this season. He is the Zanzibar son out of Magnoliaa’s daughter Primulaa, and he is looking really special right now. The elegant bay Anglo CAMEO PROSPERO is producing beautiful tall Anglos and has quite a fan club already! And we have some exciting foals due by the last three!!
Life is good.
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