News and Diary 2006

10th December.... Flydon Seren Syw has left us for her new home in Denmark, arriving on Tuesday subject to the weather!!! We hope she has a nice filly on board for her new owners!

29th November.... On Monday this week I was honoured to judge the Welsh Mountain Ponies at the Royal Welsh Winter Fair. I thoroughly enjoyed judging the large classes of quality ponies and I thought my Champion and Reserve were outstanding on the day. Champion was Crumpwell Blue Lace, the winner of the filly foal class and Reserve Champion was her full sister, the yearling filly Crumpwell BlueViolet. Blue Lace (pictured below) returned to the show on the second day and was Reserve Supreme Champion of the Welsh Sections.

21st November.... We had a nice email from Michel Hoeke of the Hoekhorst Stud in Holland, to which he attached a photo of a painting he had been given for his birthday.

At the top is Hoekhorst Evita, the Bay is Hoekhorst Emily, Flydon Megan is the light grey in the centre and to the right is her son, Hoekhorst Eclipse.

Megan had one other foal, a filly, Flydon Tisian who is currently in Finland (I think!)

12th November.... As nothing seems to be happening with the ponies at the moment, I decided to add a new page for Jill's paintings. Click HERE to find out more

25th October..... A very sad day for Flydon when we said goodbye to two of our old favourites, Caradog and Pioden Wen.

Flydon Caradog (1988 - 2006) has sired many beautiful offspring, a number of which have had great success in the showring, including 2nd/3rd/4th/6th at the RWAS. There are many more as yet unshown and we hope they are equally successful as a fitting tribute to Caradog. He leaves us 3 daughters, Eira, Llwy Arian and Tegan Efydd and one son, Lwcus.

Flydon Pioden Wen (1993 - 2006) has been a fantastic producer, three of her daughters are Medal winners, although she herself was never shown. She leaves us with a daughter, Alarch and two sons, Lwcus and Dyma Fi.

23rd October.... The two yearling colts, Flydon Teigr and Flydon Mab Efydd (photos below as foals) left for their new home with Paul and Mandy James from Bridgenorth. Paul and Mandy will geld them and run them on until they are 3 and then they will be appearing on Horsequest and the for sale page of this web site when they are ready to start their ridden careers.

15th October.... Flydon Oren has left Flydon and gone to her new home at the Calamoor stud in Yorkshire. We wish Sheila a lot of luck and fun with her and a colt foal for next year!!! (that's what she ordered!).

Also today....Flydon Hedyn has gone to Sue and Mike Harris of the Castlemead Stud, owners of his sire, Highflown Japhet.

7th October...... Hay on Wye sale. We were pleased to be able to purchase Algarth Sarason, a lovely 3yr old colt who we have always admired. Sarason is by Flydon Henri ap Pip and out of Algarth Crystal Spirit.

24th September.... Fayre Oaks Sale. Flydon Addewid Aur has a lovely new home with Brian and Jennifer of the Penech Stud. Flydon Ariannydd is also moving North to the Waddington family's Brackenrigg stud as a future stallion. We wish both studs lots of luck and fun with the ponies.

9th September.....Whilst we were off enjoying ourselves at the Menai Sale, Flydon Gwennol, owned by Paul and Mandy James, was at Kington Show flying the flag and winning the barren mare class.

3rd September..... Avon and Borders Association arrived a the stud for a mornings stud visit. It was lovely to see so many familiar faces and we thoroughly enjoyed showing off our ponies! Avon members very generously supported the raffle and we made £38 for Hereford Horsewatch.

31st August....Last show of the season! F. Arian Byw was 2nd in a lovely mare class at Monmouth Show. Today she also had a big photo in H&H!

27th August.... Lovely day! Flydon Arian Byw was 1st In the broodmare class and went on to be Champion at the Midlands Association Silver Medal Show.

16th August.... F. Arian Byw was 2nd in a fantastic broodmare class at Pembroke County. Without doubt the best brood mare class we have seen all year! Photo by kind permission of the event photographer www.Equestrian-Event-Photos.co.uk The actual photo is better quality than this....I think I need a new scanner!!

13th August....In Denmark....Flydon Medi was out and about again! This is the email we recieved today.

Hello,
Just a short news from Denmark from the Danish National Welsh show.

Flydon Medi stood second in a good 2/3 yearling class. She was doing really
good and was showing herself in best Flydon style !! Her mother could be
proud of her daughter. (judged by David Davies)

Greetings from Olesen Family Denmark

13th August.... Avon and Borders Medal Show. F. Seren Aur finished her season on a high note, winning the brood mare class whilst her foal, F. Alaw Aur was 2nd placed foal.

6th August..... We had a lovely day at the National Championship show at Shrewsbury. F. Llwy Arian was 2nd in the barren mare class, her one and only outing this year! Her maternal sister, F. Arian Byw won the mare class and went on to win the Brightwells Championship and Bronze Medal. A great result for her first show as a brood mare. Photos to follow.

5th August..... Tenbury Medal show. F. Eira was 2nd in the broodmare class and her foal F. Eirlys was 3rd. Both have now been turned out to enjoy the rest of the summer, though they are a bit disgusted at the lack of grass!!

30th July...... Had a lovely day at Hay on Wye Show where F. Eira was 1st in the broodmare class and her foal, F. Eirlys, was 2nd in the foal class.

22nd July.......Last foal of 2006! Flydon Heulwen has a lovely colt foal by F. Wyn, Flydon Taran.

13th July... Flydon Arian Byw has a colt foal by Flydon Wyn, line bred to Nerwyn Cadno , called Flydon Tywod Byw (Quick Sand)

10th July.... we received up to date photos of the two Dutch foals by F. Hapus ap Henri. Pictured are Vennebos Playboy and Vennebos Pearly Gem. Thanks Rhode, can't wait to see them! Gem is particularly interesting as she is out of a Nerwyn Cadno mare and we have used F.Wyn (by Nerwyn Cadno) on all of Hapus' full sisters, so extremely similar breeding to our foals. We think she is most like F. Calon Arian.

8th July..... Northleach Show. F. Seren Aur won the Junior brood mare class and the Hinton trophy, while her foal, F. Alaw Aur was 3rd in the foal class. F. Lwcus (pictured below) was also 3rd in the 2/3 year old colt class.

Lwcus has now returned from Adam and Callie Fletcher's to resume stud duties. He arrived home at 20 to 5 and was covering his first mare at 10 to 5!! Thanks go to Adam and Callie for getting his brain off mares and onto showing long enough to have respectable results at 5 shows. His education will hopefully be a good foundation for his future show career when he matures.

3rd July........F. Seren Syw has a filly foal by F. Wyn, Flydon Pefren. All four sisters by Henri and out of Pipsqueak have had Wyn fillies!

Its Nicola with Flydon Meirion (Marlon), just thought I'd send you some up-to-date photo's. This was taken at a show we went to yesterday. I took Katie my daughter, this is her second show and she took Marlon in the bonny pony and got third out of 17. In the picture she has a fifth rosette which we won in best conditioned (out of 18)... she preferred the lilac one so we had to swap!!

I think we should all start a trend and ask for lilac rosettes! Meirion and Katie pictured below.

24th June.....Midlands-in-hand show..... Flydon Seren Aur and her foal Flydon Alaw Aur both had 1st prize in their classes. Seren Aur then went on to be Champion section A, Supreme Champion Mountain and Moorland and Reserve Supreme Champion Mare.

23rd June.....Tamevalley Polka (by Henri) has a filly foal by F. Wyn.....Flydon Dotyn

18th June....Blaenavon Silver medal Show....... Flydon Eira was 1st in the mare class with Flydon Seren Arian 2nd. In the foal class F. Calon Arian was 1st with F. Eirlys 2nd. Flydon Lwcus was 4th in the 2/3 year old colts. Photo below. Out of interest, Lwcus is full brother to Eos.

Also on the 18th.....Lancashire Welsh Pony & Cob Association, Flydon Eos (owned by the Penech Stud) won a very strong Barren mare Class, and was 2nd reserve in the Championship. Eos pictured below.

16th June..... Flydon Lwcus was 2nd at Three counties show in the 2/3 year old colts. Flydon Eos (owned by the Penech Stud) was 2nd in the barren mare class.

5th June....news from France! Flydon Dychan (5 year old stallion) was Reserve Champion section A in hand at the Regional Welsh Show of “Le Lion d’Angers”, near Angers. Photos below, as you can see, he can also jump!!

2nd June......Royal Bath and West Show. Flydon Seren Arian was 3rd in a beautiful mare class.

31st May.....Had a lovely day at Staffordshire County show, where Seren Aur was 2nd in the novice mare class and her foal was 4th in the combined foal class (thanks Hazell for showing her). Photos below, kindly taken by Dora of the Islyn stud (Islyn Havoc was Champion A).

28th May.... Eira was 2nd in the mare class at NPS Area 29 and her foal, Eirlys, was first in the foal class.

28th May....News from Holland. Hoekhorst Emily (out of Ch Flydon Megan), bred and owned by the Hoeke family, was 2nd at a show in Belgium. Good result for a lovely filly!

27th May.... West Mercia Show. We took 2 ponies and a foal as a first time practice outing and Flydon Lwcus was 2nd in the 3 yr old colt class (beautifully shown and produced by Adam Fletcher and Callie Stein). Flydon Seren Aur was 2nd in the brood mare class with her foal best A foal and overall Champion Foal.

20th May.... News from Brovst in Denmark. Flydon Medi won her first class as a two year old for the Olesen family. Great start to her show career.

18th May.... Flydon Seren Efydd has a filly foal by Flydon Wyn, Flydon Rhuban Efydd.

14th May...... Flydon Elonwy has a colt foal by Flydon Henri ap Pip, Flydon Rhys.

13th May....after a short lull, we now have another foal here at home. Flydon Pibonwy has a colt foal by Flydon Wyn, Flydon Cwmwl Llwyd (Grey Cloud)

11th May.... More news! Flydon Lowri, also sold at Fayre Oaks 2004 has had a filly too! This time for the Fielding family, the foal is by Littlestones Silver Buttons.

9th May.... Just had the news that Flydon Cwcw, sold at Fayre Oaks 2004, has had a filly foal by Abbeybells Father Coyne for the Waddington family.

30th April.....and the foals are coming thick and fast! Flydon Seren Aur has a filly foal by Flydon Wyn, Flydon Alaw Aur (Gold Melody)

29th April.... Polaris Harebell has a filly foal by Flydon Lwcus, Flydon Hudol (Magical)

28th April.... Flydon Eira has a filly foal by Flydon Lwcus, Flydon Eirlys (Snowdrop)

23rd April..... Flydon Wyn was 2nd at Avon and Borders Spring Show. He now hangs up his bridle ready for stud duties!

21st April........ Flydon Oren has a colt foal by Highflown Japhet..... Flydon Hedyn. Hedyn is welsh for "Pip" or "small seed", rather appropriate as Oren is an orange!

18th April......a foal at last!! Flydon Seren Arian has foaled, a filly foal by Flydon Wyn, Flydon Calon Arian. Calon Arian means Silver Heart...can anyone spot why we have called her that???

16th April... Took Flydon Wyn to Glamorgan Ass Spring Show where he was 3rd in a strong stallion class.

Also on the 16th.............in Holland......Hoekhorst Eclipse (2yr old colt by Pentyrch Viking and out of Flydon Megan) was Youngstock Champion and Reserve overall under John Russell Gartconnel Stud. Great start to his showng career. Photos below.

13th April....with the absence of foals at Flydon (4 mares now overdue!!) we were pleased to hear that Flydon Hapus ap Henri has his first Dutch daughter. Vennebos Pearly Gem ... born today. Gem is out of Nerwyn Pannwl (by Nerwyn Cadno). Photo below at 1 hour old!

3rd April... Henri has another daughter, out of Springbourne Carmela and belonging to Ian and Caroline Kilford.. pictured below ... it's nice to have foals arriving after the long cold winter!

2nd April......received a photo of Flydon Rosie Glow, section B, taken last summer. Thanks Tony and Heather, she looks really well but she still looks naughty!

1st April.......first show of the season! We took Flydon Wyn to support the stallion class at the Forest of Dean Stallion Show and he finished 2nd, beautifully shown by Neil Edwards...thanks Neil

13th March.... Our first foal!!! F. Pioden Wen has a colt foal, Flydon Dyma Fi, by F. Henri ap Pip born at 11pm. Photo at 1 month...better late than never!

5th March......lots of photos coming in from overseas today! The first is of Hoekhorst Eclipse, a promising 2yr old colt by Pentyrch Viking x Flydon Megan belonging to Michel Hoeke in Holland. Eclipse is going to be shown lightly before carrying out stud duties in 2006.

And the second photo comes from the Olesen family in Denmark and it's Flydon Lili Rhosyn with her filly foal born 6 days ago who is called Møllegydens Lottie!!

27th February....... The start of a new worming experiment at Flydon. I am a great believer in homeopathic remedies and am concerned about the build up of resistance to regular wormers, so we are starting a trial to worm the ponies homeopathically. We have taken a collective dung sample this morning and the worm count was virtually nil so we're starting at a good point. The idea is to monitor it's effectiveness through regular worm counts....so we'll keep you posted!

14th February....Flydon Medi, sold at Fayre Oaks last year, is surviving the Danish winter and growing nicely! Picture sent by her owners Vibeke and Jorgen Olesen.

29th January... and the keen ones have been out showing!!!! Hallows Snapdragon (out of Flydon Rhosyn) was Champion A and reserve Supreme at the Home counties winter woolies show! Well done Terry and Andrea you deserved a medal just for bathing him in this cold!

25th January....more photos from the past! (Everyone must be cleaning out their cupboards!!) This one has been sent to me from Brian and Jennifer from the Penech stud and it's me and Neil Edwards showing Flydon Eira at the Royal Welsh 2004. Her foal Medi is only visible by the legs!!!

20th January... Richard Miller very kindly sent me this photo today. It was taken in 1992 (I'll have to double check that date) when Henri won the class at Glanusk Stallion show and went on to be Champion. Henri is on the far left, 1st prize at Glanusk is blue!

5th January........ And here we go again! A completely blank page! I wonder what the year has in store for us???