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 2012 News

13th January - Not a good Friday the 13th for us.  Very sadly, Yellow aborts her foal, a few spot colt, 3 months early and it is born dead obviously.  She has been checked by the vet and, as there appears to be no reason why it should happen again, she will be covered again for a 2013 foal.

11th January - We have a new Gallery page!  Take a look!  We will be adding photos that are sent to us of horses that we have bred as they grow up as well as offspring of our stallions and mares.  Keep checking for additions and do send any photos that you have of our babies!!

We will be doing a catch up over the next couple of weeks and uploading news and information recently sent to us.  If you have any updates that you want to share please email us.

January - We are very happy to announce that Knabstrupper stallion Tresaison Ricochet will stand at stud here for 2012, his first season at stud.  He will stand alongside our own Nobody's Harlequin and will be available AI only, either fresh here at the stud or through chilled shipped semen (UK only).  We plan to use him on some of our own mares as well as offering him to a limited number of mares at a special early booking rate.  See Stallions at Stud page for more details.

2011 News

11th November - The rest of the foals have been weaned over the last week or so.  Only one left for sale now - Hey Mambo! who is a real little mover!  Not looking at her best now of course as she has her winter woollies but a lovely girl underneath it all.

The mares have all come home to their winter quarters now and are safely tucked up in their barns with their haylage away from all the recent rain. Our ground is not suitable for wintering out 24/7 through the winter so we keep nearly everything in during the wet months which seems to please most of them!

Los Lobos went off to his new home with Jane and Simon at the end of October to be eventually produced for Dressage and Eventing.  He loaded very easily into the lorry and had an uneventful trip home where he now rules the roost apparently!!

16th October - It's that time of year again and weaning this years babies has started.  Dare, Jinx and Mia are all weaned.  They settle really well - it's always good to have friends!  Dare (to be called Milo in his new home) and Mia are both off on Sunday 23rd.     We have also sold Hari (Kiwi Harapa) and she will be off to her new home very soon as well.  

15th October - Unfortunately Tilde shows in season so that means that she did not hold in foal on her last insemination.  It's too late to try again now this year so we'll try again next year with her.

1st September - The UK KNN Grading at Usk College, Monmouthshire.  A lovely venue with friendly staff, a long day with a lot of entries considering our fairly rare breed in the UK.  We had 5 stallions forward - two 2 year olds; a 4 year old and two 5 year olds for life grading and performance test as well as mares and youngstock.  A good day with some lovely quality horses.  We were especially proud of our LOS LOBOS who was awarded the highest mark of the day with an overall 9 and a 1st Premium award.  The Judges commented that he was a fabulous stallion prospect and particularly liked his movement and type.  Los Lobos is now sold.

We were also very proud of 2 year old TRESAISON RICOCHET who passed his stallion grading and was given his one year license.  Not only can he really move he also showed what a scopey jump he has!   Yearling TRESAISON HAWAII behaved impeccably and looked fantastic for a yearling, it was lovely to see her looking so well.  It was the first time we had seen Dana's 2011 Harley foal, RUBY ROCKET, and how like her full siblings she is, both in type and personality!  

30th July - Tribal Dance is sold and goes off to his new home all the way up to Cumbria.  He travels very well and soon settles in with his new field mates.  We look forward to lots of photos and news.

July - We have recently been sent photographs of various horses either bred here or offspring of our stallions.......

14th July - Elektra scans with just one foetus with a heartbeat so all is looking good.   A visiting mare also scans in foal to Harley.  She is a purebred Friesian mare so we look forward to news of her foal next year, a first Friesian cross for Harley and possibly the first pure Knabstrupper x Friesian in the UK?

12th July - Huge Congratulations to Tessa Halsall once again with Tresaison Hallmark!  He was evaluated at Writtle College BEF Futurity against lots of 'top names' and came away with a First Premium and Reserve Highest score for dressage!!  See his photographs here!

5th July - More of our mares scanned in foal today - Angel is due to Foxcourt Andante and Elektra scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves but she has twins so one was pinched and we'll scan her again next week to see if she has held the other one. See our Foals Due 2012 page for details and dates.  

9th June - The lovely Temptress goes off to her new home in North Yorkshire and travels well on the long journey.  We look forward to hearing about her progress.

6th June - Lambada is re-scanned and is found to be still in foal and with just a single foetus, she is due 21st April 2012. Magic is also scanned in foal and also due 21st April.  Both these two are in foal to Harley.

1st June - Tresaison Hawks Bay (Harley x Rozel Bay, 2006) win the ridden 5yr old Sports Horse winner and overall Ridden Sports Horse Champion at Suffolk County Show against tough competition.   Tessa did extremely well as the following day Tresaison Hallmark also took his class, Foreign Breeds Youngstock and then also went on to be Champion!  Well done to Tessa and both the boys - fantastic result!  Harley is so proud!!  They now have matching Champion rugs to wear!

1st June - Yellow is scanned in foal to Harley, due 14th April 2012.  Lambada is also scanned in foal but possibly with twins so she is due to be scanned again next week to check again and decide further action.

27th May - Our new brood mare, Knabstrupper Xharmaine Middelsom (Delfi), arrives.  Delfi is a tall girl just 3 yrs old and is a solid bay by Xhamberlain Middelsom. She was imported from Denmark as a yearling by her owner Heidi Wealleans and is on breeding loan to us.  It is planned to get her graded in Autumn 2011.  We think she will suit Harley very well and look forward to her first Knabstrupper foal by him in 2012. 

23rd May - Centaur Reindance is scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves for a pure Appaloosa foal and Rozel Bay is scanned in foal to Harley for a repeat of the super foals she has had before.  Foals due 2012 page to be added soon!

11th May - Last years visitor, Suzie an Irish Sport Horse, foals a gorgeous leopard filly by Harley.  Her owner is delighted with her except for the fact that Suzie went exactly 12 months from her covering date before foaling and gave her many sleepless nights!!

5th May - Magic finally foals and produces a beautiful bay filly with lacey blanket over her quarters.  She is very quick to her feet and knows exactly what to do!  Magic is a super mum and we are able to leave them to it fairly soon.   She couldn't wait to get out the next day and what lovely paces she is proving to have.

4th May - Angel is AI'd using Foxcourt Andante.  A lovely stallion graded SHBGB by Abraham (Old) out of a good TB line.  He has a very good record of producing top quality offspring and we are considering using him on Lupina as well.

27th April - We decide to take the plunge and Heart Throb goes in to the Vet hospital to be gelded.  He is recovering well and will be offered for sale as a gelding to a competition home as soon as he has fully recovered.

24th April - Angel surprises us again and foals without any warning.  She produces a gorgeous chestnut colt with an extended blanket, 3 white socks and a star.  The sire of this foal is the completely stunning Holstein dual purpose stallion Landtanzer, standing at Meadow Stud.  Landtanzer oozes presence as well as masculinity and has been described by many clients, trainers, spectators and fellow competitors as the 'ultimate' stallion type.

21st April - Still no sign of Magic foaling (she was 340 days on the 15th) and Angel has overtaken her by a long way in the bagging up department!!

20th April - Tribe makes a visit to the Vets and comes home minus a couple of things!  He is now offered for sale as a gelding!

11th April - Dana also foals late afternoon for her new owner, Gemma.  Congratulations and welcome to a bay near leopard filly, full sister to our Heart Throb.

10th April - We welcome another broodmare to our herd.  Centaurs Reindance is the dam of Sheer Bliss who we had on loan for a year and full sister to Elektra and who we sold on in 2009.  She is a beautifully bred Grade C few spot Appaloosa mare and will run with Dance With Wolves to see if we can produce another fabulous Appaloosa offspring.  'Dot' has already had two foals by Dancer both of which are excellent examples of sport type Appaloosa and stand well over 16.2hh.

3rd April - After two nights of teasing, Yellow foals at 339 days at 5am quickly and easily.  A super chestnut snow cap colt who is very tall for the normal Yellow / Harley offspring. 

13th March - Yellow comes into a foaling box in preparation for her impending foaling.  She is due 4th April but she has be known (on several occasions!) to be 2-3 weeks early and is bagging up well so we want to be prepared. We will update as she progresses!

28th February - Helsinki goes off to his new home. He loads onto the lorry easily (following some nuts as he loves his food like all Harleys foals!!). He is off to do dressage and jumping which we know he will excel at!  Congratulations Sue - you have a bargain there!

Wishing all our Friends and Customers a Very Happy New Year!!!

2010 News 

We have been a bit lapse in updating the news - sorry!  New items below;

20th December - Didi comes home having been backed and hacked around the lanes.  She will now have a few months off to mature a bit more and then we will continue her education over the summer.  Handi has stayed at the schooling yard to continue her training as she is a year older and much more mature and ready to go on.

21st November - Hawaii leaves us and another to load so easily - these Harley foals are just so confident!!  She has not gone too far so we hope to see her out and about in the future.  Good luck with her Trish!! 

15th November - Didi and Handi have both gone away to be professionally backed.  Didi is 31/2 yrs now and, at 17hh now, is a tall girl already.  She is so sweet and nice natured that she takes it all in her stride.   Handi is our home bred 4 yr old very smart TB filly who will hopefully go on to compete in Riding Horse/ Hack classes.  She would also make a great ladies or teenagers eventer and will be offered for sale once going nicely as, unfortunately she has not grown tall enough for us at 16hh (we do like to ride tall horses!) Watch out for her on or For Sale pages in time to come! 

10th November - This years' remaining foals are now weaned and into their winter barn.  They are all handled, wormed regularly, have had feet trimmed and are happily eating hard feed.  They are all for sale to the right homes at realistic prices!  See our Horses for Sale page.

7th November - All mares come back home to their winter indoor quarters and very pleased they are too!  

1st November - Calista is sold to be produced as a show jumper.  She will be backed and then go to a professional rider to be started before being aimed at the under 18's and under 21's with her new rider.  We wish her every success and look forward to hearing her progress.  She is a lovely mare and we are so pleased that her potential will be realised.

29th October - Howzat leaves for his new home and loads on to the lorry for his long journey to Kent as if he had been doing it all his life.  He has grown into such a chilled boy and the white hairs are beginning to come through already.  We look forward to updated pictures as he matures and changes colour.

20th October - Howzat and Hawaii both weaned.  They are both sold and will go off the their new homes in the next few weeks once they are happily weaned.

26th September - Two more babies weaned.  Helsinki is turning into a very good looking young man and his paces are 'to die for' (a cliche, I know but he really has the most elevated, expressive movement - a dressage star for sure!).   Halia is also weaned - she is such an independent young lady that she doesn't worry at all and has taken it all in her confident stride.

15th September - Sahiba foals a gorgeous black blanket spotted filly but unfortunately she appeared to be a 'dummy foal' and, despite several hours of nursing, vets intervention and feeding by bottle, she died.  When Sahiba has recovered we hope to get her back in work for a while before putting her in foal again in 2011.

11th September - Disney goes off to his home in Yorkshire with Lisa.  He is turning into a strapping lad and has been such an easy horse to deal with in the last few weeks at home.  He has been gelded and will be shown in hand before becoming Lisa's riding horse.

3rd September - Another foal weaned today and it is Tribal Dances' turn.  He is a huge strapping foal standing 14.1hh at his withers and taller behind at only 6 months old. A handsome boy, he will make a fabulous ridden prospect and is still for sale at the moment although I am sure that whoever comes to see him will snap him up!!

29th August - A busy day for us as two of our horses go off to their new homes.  Red first who loaded like a dream and travelled all the way up to Yorkshire without a murmur.  He walked in to his new stable and ate his hay straight away acting as if he had been there all his short life.  Dana then was collected and went off to Staffordshire.  She has always been no trouble to load or do anything with and she goes off to be a riding horse.  Gemma reported that the first thing she did at her new home was get her head down to the grass.  I am beginning to think there is a theme here!!

17th August - Heart-throb and Red are weaned in preparation for Red and Dana going off to their new homes.

5th August - Lupinas filly has come back on the market due to her prospective purchasers change in circumstances - see Horses for Sale.  They are having Simply Red instead so he will go on to do dressage, showing and side saddle with his new owners - what a perfect home for him!

23rd July - Lupina scans in foal to Dance With Wolves so now all our planned coverings are confirmed in foal for 2011.  We have left some mares empty, Lambada will come back into work for a while, Dana is sold and Calista will be offered for sale as she has too much potential as a jumping horse to be just left as a brood mare at this stage.  

2nd July - Two more mares scanned in foal to Harley.  A visiting mare and Kiwi Harapa, our Mayhill Intermediate event mare who was graded into the main stud book of BWB (British Warmblood Breeders), so we are looking forward to that one next year.  

18th June - Rozie and a visiting mare are scanned in foal to Harley - due May 2011.  Still 100% in foal 1st time coverings with Harley! 

12th June - KSGB are now taking entries for the 6th UK KNN Grading.  This year there are two venues, Moulton and Duchy Colleges.  Spectators as well as entrants are most welcome!  See full details here.

10th June - Angel is scanned in foal to Meadow Studs Landtanzer, who was chosen for his type, dual purpose performance and pedigree and his progeny results.  We look forward to this exciting combination next year.

7th June - Magic scans in foal to Harley - due April 2011.  We have a 100% success rate so far, including visiting mares, on first cycle coverings to Harley!  Let's hope it lasts!

26th May - Yellow and Tilde scan in foal to Harley and Dancer respectively.  See our Foals due 2011 for details later.

15th May - Rozie picks a sunny afternoon for foaling and has a pretty chestnut colt, yes, another colt, out in the field.  This one is a very pretty boy with a white blaze, two hind socks and a blanket over his quarters.  He is a bit wobbly at the moment but despite his long spagetti legs he was quick to his feet and following Rozie around in no time.   

7th May - Lottie, our lovely lurcher has a litter of pups.  6 girls and 3 boys.  All brindle beauties, they are 3/4 Deerhound and 1/4 Greyhound and will be for sale to good homes.  Pictures soon - contact us for details if interested!

17th April - We take a trip down to Exmoor Eventing to collect our new purchase... Port Royal, an ID x TB 6 yr old mare.  Not for breeding this time, Mary is as an additional hunter for Dave and I to share and as a replacement for Blossom in years to come as she, unfortunately, is not getting any younger.  Pictures on Our Horses page.

27th March - DaVinci has been sold and goes off to his new home in Gloucestershire.  He is a lovely horse and we will miss him.  He will be available to a limited number of mares in 2010.  Please contact us in the first instance.

18th March - After a lot of thinking we have come to the sad decision to sell our young stallion DaVinci.  He has come home from being backed and is going beautifully but we are so busy that we don't really have the time to bring him on at the moment and do not want to see him go to waste.  He will be offered for sale to hopefully stand at stud as he is the only entire son of the fabulous Bibi Sahiba.  

2nd March - 6am - Angel foals with no signs of impending birth as usual!  Very tall, very beautiful chestnut colt by SHOWMAKER with characteristics (white sclera and stripy feet)  - no spots yet but he will sport a spotted coat in time.  A fabulous dressage prospect - we can't wait to see him out!!  Red is for sale to a competition home.   Pictures on Foals 2010 page.

9th February - Our brood mares are getting bigger by the day it seems!  No sign yet of Angel starting to bag up even though she is due in just under 3 weeks!  Some of the others are showing signs though so it will be anyone's guess at this stage who foals first.

4th February - DaVinci has gone away to be backed.  He settled in very quickly and has impressed everyone with his easy laid back attitude.   

17th January - Another baby leaves us for a new life.....Hollywood doesn't turn a hair on her first journey alone to Warwickshire and immediately settles in her new stable.  She has the typical easy and confident nature of the Knabstrupper and is very like her sire in that respect!  Helen has promised to keep us updated with her progress so watch this space!

1st January - Happy New Year to all friends and customers!!

2009 News

27th November - Diore leaves us to go to her new home as well as Bliss and Maisie (Maybrit) returning to their owner to start/resume ridden careers.  Maisie unfortunately came back into season having been originally scanned in foal, too late to try again so she will now go hunting for the rest of the winter once she gets fit again.  Thanks Steve for the loan of these two lovely mares, we have two fantastic colts to show for it!

November - A busy month for us!  We have now got all our mares and youngsters home from their summer grazing and they are safely in their dry barns under cover.   Some of them are looking decidedly plump as their foaling dates draw nearer - only 3 months until our first is due!  

30th October - Another baby leaves for his new home.  Ricochet (Rubin Star N x Lupina) goes off down country.  He loads like a dream and travelled really well without turning a hair.  He will be presented for his KNN stallion grading in time to come.  We look forward to watching his progress.

18th October - Rolex and Lulu both go off to their new home.  Hopefully they will be out and about on the show circuit next year - look out for them.

24th July - Another scanning session with 4 out of 4 scanned in foal.  Three of which are ours; Sahiba in foal to Harley, due 3rd June; Lupina due to Dancer due 13th June and Maisie due to Harley due 11th June.  See here for details of all our foals due in 2010. 

4th July - We have decided that we really must reduce our mares a little more and have put Lupina up for sale.  See Horses for sale.  She is a lovely mare and her colt by Rubin Star N is simply gorgeous!  I am sure we will regret it the minute she leaves but she is young and has loads of potential as  a ridden mare or broodmare and will be a valuable asset for someone.  Being 100% purebred and a few spot she is a rarity especially in the UK.

26th June - Lambada and Rozie both scan in foal to Harley due in May 2010.

5th June - Calista, our young Hanoverian mare by Contendro, is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due end April 2010.  We really look forward to this super jump prospect!

25th May - Severn Magic, our lovely ex Pt to Pt and National Hunt mare is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 17th April 2010.  We hope to get Magic graded this year meaning her foals by Harley will be eligible for main KNN Stud book.  She is a super, athletic and sound, tough mare who is an ideal match for Harley to produce superb sport types so we look forward to this foal, her first by him.

13th May - Yellow Gram is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 29th March 2010. Yellow is by Ritterstern, a Danish Warmblood stallion who traces back to the great Romulus on his sire line.  She has some great WB and TB lines in her breeding which matches so well with Harley - they have produced some lovely offspring, this years filly being no exception and who can be seen on our Horses for Sale page.

6th May - Unfortunately, Tresaison Amaretto has come back up for sale through no fault of her own. She can be seen on our Horses For Sale page but her owner should be contacted direct.  She is a fantastic event prospect having several good event horses in her pedigree.

5th May -  Tilde and Dana confirmed still in foal, Tilde to Dance With Wolves and Dana to Nobody's Harlequin - both due March 2010.

Husqvarna is no longer a colt so that should put paid to any ideas that he was just brewing about the 'ladies'!! Tragically, we lose Sahara due to complications following castration.  A great shock and horrible loss for us.

3rd May - Lupina foals and give us THE most stunning colt by Rubin Star N.  He is simply gorgeous - what a head! We are looking forward to seeing how he develops.

1st May - Rozie foals late evening, a chestnut minimally marked filly with a blaze and tall white fore sock.  We have been waiting for this foal with trepidation as we lost last years colt to a bacterial infection and her 2007 colt was also very ill.   The Vets think that it is possibly something Rozie now carries (although this is her 12th foal and up until the last two all was fine).  We decided that we needed to be ready this time and so the filly (Hozana) has been on a course of antibiotics since she was born as well as scrupulous hygiene methods.  It seems to have worked as she is a bouncing happy girl although not overly keen on me at the moment because of all the needling she has had to endure!

9th April - Poppy (ex broodmare of ours) foals very easily with her new owner Melanie and produces a huge bay near leopard colt.  Congratulations Mel!!!  Pictures soon.

1st April - Lambada ends this run of foalings with another filly.   A stunning girl, tall and strong and, for some reason, very hairy!! She must have thought we would be having a cold spell and got prepared!  Another leopard but this time a very dark bay base colour. 

24th March - Yellow foals down at a very respectable 7am without much warning at all (as usual for Yellow!).  Another quick and easy birth, this time a beautiful leopard filly and another who didn't hang around to get to the milk bar!  Let's hope that this is how they all are this year.  See both of these foals on our Foals Due 2009 page.

21st March (just!) - Elektra foals a few days early (better than the 3 weeks early last year!) at 00.30 am very quickly and easily.  She gives us our first foal of 2009 and a lovely bay blanket filly. Up and suckling within a very short time, she is a beauty.

15th March - We are very pleased to announce the arrival of another brood mare to our herd.  Pink papered Hanoverian mare Calista by the fabulous jumping stallion CONTENDRO  and out of an ESCUDO 1 mare has been purchased and will be bred to Harlequin before starting her own career under saddle.   See more details about her on our Broodmare page shortly.

30th January - we have another litter of Deerhound x Greyhound pups, unexpected and unplanned but adorable all the same!

2008 News

November - More foals are weaned and Roulette and Storm both go off to their new homes (congratulations Rosie and Katrina) and Maisie's boy goes back to his owner, Steve, to hopefully be sold from there.

Hellovalass has gone to Sue and John Gardners where she will be reunited with two of her offspring - I wonder if she will remember them?  They are now 13 and 14 years old!!  We wish Sue the best of luck with Fluff's 2009 Harley foal, due in May.

14th November - Two of our Broodmares left today for new homes.  Joli Paprika (due to foal 31st March to Nobody's Harlequin) has gone off to West Wales, good luck with her Melanie, and Diva (due 3rd April to Dance With Wolves) has gone further North to Cheshire, good luck Louise.   We look forward to the foal pictures in the Spring!

22nd September - Bad luck (or whatever it is) falls on us again as we lose another horse.  Our 4 yr old TB mare by Kayf Tara suffers a massive brain haemorrhage and we lose her, completely out of the blue.  She was a home bred, the first out of a successful NH mare that we had for many years and had been perfectly healthy up until the point she just dropped dead.   A devastating blow to us yet again. 

12th September - Bibi Sahiba is scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves - due mid June 2009.  

Our puppies are growing rapidly and are now looking for new homes!  Gorgeous, fluffy boys and girls who are loyal pets and great workers! 

Congratulations to Georgina Bowen and Tresaison Splashback who had a successful day at the BApS National Show in August.

18th August - Sheer Bliss is scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves and Maybrit is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin. Both are due at the end of June. 

13th August - Sad news...... Our mini mule, Cefyn doesn't recover from colic surgery and we lose him.  He was only little but such a huge character and he will be sadly missed by all of us, especially Harley who he was great friends with.   

22nd July - Angel is inseminated with semen from the fantastic and very promising young Westphalian stallion Showmaker.   Subsequently scanned not in foal so we will call it a day this year and try again early next year.

21st & 22nd July - Our two boarders foal down with their ET twins.  An exquisite chestnut filly with a blaze and white socks and then a very smart bay colt with one sock.  Their owner Vicky is delighted with them and hopes that they will both be as successful as their mother.

12th July - TRESAISON HOLOGRAM (Yellow Gram / Nobody's Harlequin) does us all proud by winning the Spotted yearling, two and three year old class at Liskeard Show in good company with some very favourable remarks from the Judge who told his owners Amelia and Linda James that they 'could look forward to a very exciting future with him'!

Hologram at Liskeard

Well done to all of you!

2nd July - Skovlys Dana brings us our last 'home grown' foal of the season.  A beautiful bay colt with lacey blanket and spotted quarters.  Another big and well put together lad for Dana by Nobody's Harlequin - this seems a really good match!   We have two more foals due here later this month out of visiting mares, both 'surrogate' mares in foal to Jumbo by embryo transfer.  The dam of these foals is good event mare Tudor Romance owned and ridden by Vicky Tuffs and who completed Badminton 4* last year.

30th June - Hellovalass is scanned in foal to Nobody's Harlequin, due 15th May 2009.

29th June - we have added a further two mares to our broodmare band, thanks to Stephen and Barbara Morris.  They are graded Danish Warmblood, Cranswick's Maybrit (May Sherif) who will be covered by Harley and main book Appaloosa Sheer Bliss (Centaur First Class) who will go to Dance With Wolves both hopefully for 2009 foals.  Pictures and full details on our Broodmares page soon.

20th June - TRESAISON DAVINCI (Bibi Sahiba/Dance With Wolves b. 2006) passes his British Appaloosa Society Stallion licensing.  He is now standing at stud at Burnock Stud in Shropshire and is available by AI or natural covering.

14th June - Angel (Engel v. Birkenhof) foals a gorgeous black near leopard colt out in the sunshine at around 10am having kept us wondering all night!  This is our 2nd by the fabulous stallion Rubin Star N.

9th June - Lupina, our young few spot mare is scanned in foal to Rubin Star N, 100 day performance test champion, due 27th April 2009.

June - Tresaison Dark Wolf wins the Appaloosa Youngstock class at East of England show and takes Reserve Champion Appaloosa.  Well done Tessa!

1st June - Hellovalass has a bay based few spot colt at around 10pm.   We are back on to a 'colt run' now! See Foals Due 2008.  He will be offered for sale.

May - Tresaison Hawksbay comes a very creditable 2nd in the well supported Sports Horse class at Herts County Show and maintains his record of never being out of the first two.

22nd May - Tilde foals a completely stunning bay near leopard colt by Rubin Star N.  He is our first conceived by AI here at Tresaison.  See Foals due 2008.

22nd May - Tresaison Numero Uno arrives at his new home in Perth, Western Australia.  He travelled in his usual laid back manner and everyone on the trip commented on his attitude and character (typical Knabstrupper!)  Helen and Jan are, to use their word, 'ecstatic' now that he has finally arrived safe and sound. 

22nd May - Lupina is inseminated with Rubin Star N semen.

19th May - Centaur Elektra scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves; Yellow Gram scanned in foal to Harley; Poppy scanned in foal to Harley and Tresaison Diva scanned in foal to Dance With Wolves.                 

18th May - Tragically, disaster strikes us again and we lose Rozies little boy.  Following a heartbreaking 24 hours of Veterinary treatment we have to call it a day as his pain and distress was too much to bear.  We await lab results for the cause.

15th May - Rozie foals a few days early and unexpectedly (she never gives any warning!) a lovely blanket spotted colt.

8th May - Lambada is scanned in foal to Harley - due end March 2009.

4th May - Double trouble!  Following weeks of waiting Severn Magic finally foals down 1 year and 4 days after her covering date!  She has a healthy bay filly at 0.15am followed within the hour by Sahiba with a lovely dark dun colt.  See pictures on our Foals Due 2008 page.

27th April - Bibi Sahiba foals down a few days early and gives us another filly.  See here for details.

26th April - Raz (Numero Uno) has landed safely in Australia!  He now has a 3 week quarantine period in Melbourne and then sets out on his very long road journey to his new home.  3 weeks in quarantine in Melbourne and then a long road trip to Perth where his new owners will be waiting for him!

Congratulations Jan and Helen - We hope he does well for you and look forward to all your news!

18th April - Sadly Joker (Yellow Gram's colt foal) couldn't win against the infection that raged around his body and, despite all our efforts and his brave fight, we had to make the heartbreaking decision to put him to sleep.  He will be missed.

1st April - Numero Uno (Raz) leaves us to begin his long journey to Australia.

31st March - at a very sociable 9.15pm Poppy finally foals an adorable and huge bay leopard filly.  See Foals due 2008 for details of all these foals.

30th March - our 2nd foal of the year, still not the one we are waiting for - a strapping and very good looking bay based few spot colt is born out of Yellow Gram and by Harley.

15th March - our first foal of the year arrives - Elektra foals early and unexpectedly but her filly is safe and sound and a real cutie!

2007 News

Nobodys Harlequin progeny shine at the KNN Knabstrupper grading held in England

Overall Best in Show and Best Mare was Tresaison Gracie, a mare owned by Karen Wealleans: 

Photograph © Cliff Astles, Event Photography & Marketing, Cheshire 2007

She is out of our Thoroughbred mare, Rozel Bay, and by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166. 

Best Foal was Tresaison Numero Uno a fewspot Knabstrupper colt by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166 and out of Skovlys Dana KNN 2210:

Photograph © Cliff Astles, Event Photography & Marketing, Cheshire 2007

Nobodys Harlequin fewspot Knabstrupper colt sold to Australia

We are delighted to announce that the fewspot Knabstrupper colt by Nobodys Harlequin KNN 166 and out of Skovlys Dana KNN 2210, that was born on 12th July 2007, has been sold to Australia as a stallion prospect.  It is believed that he is the first Knabstrupper to be imported into Australia, where he will in due time, stand at stud.

Congratulations to his new owners, we wish them every success with him!

2007 KNN Knabstrupper Grading in the UK

There will be two Grading dates for the  2007 KNN Knabstrupper grading;  one in Scotland and one in England.

Gradings will be held at Kingswood EC, Wolverhampton, on 5th October and at Balcormo Stud, Fife on 7th October.

Full information, schedules and entry forms are available on the UK KNN Grading Website:

Closing date for entries is 1st September

Tresaison young stock have been winning in the show ring!

6th April 2007 - Another Fewspot Colt!

3rd April - Fewspot Colt born!

Three new arrivals!

January 2007 - We have recently imported three Knabstrupper mares to add to our herd.  All three horses, a six year old pure bred mare by Norkrons Harlequin and 2 two year old 100% purebred fillies are all few spot making them homozygous for colour and are a valuable addition to our stud.  They have all settled in very quickly and seem to be enjoying the Welsh climate and their new friends! 

2006

2005

Knabstrupper Success at the Paralympics 2004