 I have just been sent this lovely photo of the four year old gelding Hollybrooke Galaxy (another Coffee Crunch grandson) He is recently backed and has just had his first canter in the school. You can see just how thrilled his two jockeys are. They have been waiting patiently to ride him for the last three years.
As always our mares like to keep us waiting for their foals.  Hollybrooke Crystal was exactly two weeks over due when she produced this enormous colt foal. Photographed at just two days old and still with some uncurling to do. He is a full brother to last year's New Forest Show young gelding champion, Breed Show young gelding and overall gelding champion. He will be for sale at weaning. Sadly Crystal needed the vet twice in the twenty four hours after foaling but all seems well now. Melitta is due this week but doesn't look like foaling yet.
Hollybrooke Barraquito and Millyford Masterpiece not only passed but also had the joint highest marks at the April colt inspections. We also presented a forest bred colt Fly Away, who we bought as a foal off the forest as a companion for Barraquito. We had no intention of keeping him entire but he has grown into a smart pony so we took him for the Breed Society/ Verderers inspection. He has been approved as a potential stallion to run on the forest. All three boys passed their vetting, DNA and pssm tests so are now fully licence stallions.
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would have been twenty five this year and his age had just started to catch up with him. The last thing we wanted was to watch him going down hill so we made the most difficult decision for any animal owner.
On a more cheerful note the Breed Society has just published the results of their annual performance pony of the year competition. The winner of the section for part-beds in 2025 was Trenley Tomorrow. A New Forest TB cross sired by Hollybrooke Tinker. He also won the trophy for the most versatile part-bred.