Category: Current

Kannan X Captain Clover Aptly named Anna when we bought her  ( bad luck to change a name and all that ), Anna has been with us the shortest time of all the horses here . 5 year old bay mare , a small amount of work done . Previous owner had her scanned in foal to Coolkeeran , a stallion by Corrado . Anna has a fabulous Dam line . Her mum is a full sister to Gabriel Slattery’s , Captains Magic Touch who needs no introduction as a successful grand prix mare herself . We have popped Anna... Continue reading

Clarcon x Hannibal V Overis Z . Ruby is the first offspring of our Via butterfly flip .  Already standing at 16.3 hands she  looks to possess all the attributes to being a successful show jumper. Her family lines are of historical strong jumping backgrounds including, heartbreaker, Casall and Aldaltus. Thankfully she has brought her mothers intelligence and cool , calm nature. She will be produced with us and hopefully we will be updating you here with some exciting progress reports. Continue reading

Hannibal V Overis x Aldaltus Bambi , there is so much to say about her but yet only a few lines in which to do so . She is quite literally my dream come through . I went to buy her off  of two lines in Goresbridge  as a 3 year old to which she was unsold in the ring . I eventually convinced her owners to part with her and home she came. She was extremely difficult and stubborn to work with and break but little did I realise at the time that these undesirable factors were the most... Continue reading

Belle was my first horse that I actually owned . And the first  horse to carry the Via prefix even though there was no thoughts in my mind at that age of a prefix . She was the lucky one to be given the name that came from that famous street in Rome . Via Veneto means the Sweet life and life was and was not sweet with her but she gave me incredible experience especially teaching me the most important factors to producing an horse , Patience and tonnes of it was required here . But like a good... Continue reading

It would never be right to not acknowledge one of the most important equines to grace my life and to grace the life of so many riders some of whom are exceptional established riders on the national circuit  ( we wont mention your names haha . Sutty was a ball of grey and black spotty madness in the form of a 13.2 hand  goliath. He was vivacious , intelligent, devious, tremendous, loving and at all times in his head he was a  class above all equines and more importantly a class above his humans . He had exceptional ability to jump(... Continue reading