2005 News Archive ~ 2006 News Archive

DECEMBER 2007

10 Dec Planning permission is granted for a new 60 x 40 arena and a new access road

6 Dec New broodmare Nadja, a pink papered Trakehner by EH Sixtus, will be joining us in February, kindly on loan from Carol Dent

NOVEMBER 2007

8 Nov Work finally begins on the new stable yard - see here for progress pictures

OCTOBER 2007

20 Oct Nemesis & Contradiction leave Rollestone with their new owner Jane to go to their new home. Good luck with them Jane, I'm sure you'll have many years of fun with your boys!

SEPTEMBER 2007

18 Sept The first E.C.H.A Grading in the UK is held at Centyfield stud and we are pleased to announce that our homozygous tobiano colt Rollestone Inde-Cent, and our fewspot Knabstrupper colt, Angelo af Asgard both graded with very good marks. 2 of our 2007 foals, Edoras & Boromir were awarded foal premiums, and their dams, Olympus Eclipse & Marstacre Bambi graded into the main mare bo.ok. A few pictures of the day can be found here

AUGUST 2007

30 Aug Kharma behaves himself at his first outing, to the BEF Futurity Evaluation at the Grange, Okehampton, gaining a 2nd Premium

13 Aug Marstacre Bambi scanned in foal to Sambertino

9 Aug Despite worries over whether or not we'd be able to get any hay cut this year we managed to cut 70 acres of haylage this week which means at least the horses have something to eat - still another 50 odd acres to cut yet though!

9 Aug Tifany is inseminated with Vangelis semen - many thanks to Colourthyme Stud for going above an beyond the call of duty in getting the semen to us ( an 8 hour round trip overnight!)

9 Aug Arctic Dancing Queen is sold and will go live in the Newforest with her new owner in October when Danica is weaned

7 Aug New cremello WB Aria is scanned safely in foal to Granatnik

5 Aug The new arrivals from Germany arrived at 5am, bright and early - well actually there was nothing bright about me when I was dragged out of bed!! Aria and her buckskin filly Ariella have settled in very well. Pictures of Aria to follow soon

JULY 2007

28 July Bambi is inseminated with Sambertino semen

25 July Elana is scanned in foal to Milky Way

11 July A very brief let up in the rain gives us enough of a window to cut and bale around 20 acres of haylage. Still waiting for a dry spell long enough to cut and bale 100 acres out the other farm though! A picture here of the hay being cut.

10 July News from Germany - Aria was graded into the main mare-book ZfDP and Ariella inspected with a very good score of 7.2. The Breeding director of the ZfDP commented on her impressive paces and good type. Ariella now sports a German Warmblood brand and will receive her German Warmblood (ZfDP) Passport in the next couple of weeks before travelling over to us

9 July 3rd attempt for Nutmeg with Milky Way semen

6 July Elana is inseminated with Milky Way semen - 3rd time lucky? Fingers crossed!

2 July Olympus Eclipse & Marstacre Ballerina II scanned in foal to Hamlet Frydenlund and Mummy's Boy respectively

JUNE 2007

24 June Jemima scanned in foal to Cutsdean of Centyfield and Tifany Gold inseminated with Vangelis semen

23 June Inseminated Arctic Dancing Queen with Milky Way semen

21 June Inseminated Nutmeg with Milky Way semen - fingers crossed it's second time lucky!

20 June Arctic Dancing Queen & Nutmeg scanned not in foal

15 June Marstacre Bambi insemintaed with Sambertino semen

14 June Sonny's Kachina scanned in foal at 15 days to Woodlander Rockstar

Olympus Eclipse inseminated with Hamlet Frydenlund semen

12 June Marstacre Ballerina II covered by Mummy's Boy

7 June Jemima inseminated with Cutsdean of Centyfield semen

Holme Park Kossette scanned in foal to Hamlet Frydenlund - Here's hoping for a nice Kharma clone!

3 June Cocoa scanned still in foal at 28 days - here is the little Cocoa/Milky Way blob!

2 June Nutmeg inseminated with Milky Way semen

MAY 2007

29 May Lozanna scanned in foal to Treliver Decanter and Phantom scanned in foal to Walentino. Lets hope these pregnancies have happier endings for these two lovely ladies

Tallulah is DNA tested and confirmed to be carrying the cream gene

24 May Cocoa scanned in foal to Milky Way

22 May Bringing the 2007 foaling season to a close Bambi foals down a couple of days late - a big handsome bay colt, it's definitely been a colt year!

18 May In the middle of the afternoon Ballerina finally foals - 10 days late. She has had a bad abcess and last night it popped - so perhaps because her foot was no longer hurting her she was able to get down to the more pressing business of giving birth! A beautiful black filly - who will spot out as she grows as she has characteristics of late spotting

17 May Kossette inseminated with Hamlet semen

14 May For those who have been asking Leo basically got himself stuck under a root - we think he lay down and then stretched out on his side, slipping one leg under the root some time in the night. When he went to get up he couldn't and panicked...2 theories from there...Vet says he may have simply been unable to feed and because it was wet and cold and he was on wet ground he died of hypothermia. Or he may have broken his neck trying to get free... Here is a picture of how he was stuck - it's not gory but shows how much of a freak accident it was...you would not have thought that was strong enough to pin a big foal like Leo to the ground, but Chris couldn't lift it off him so it was strong.

14 May Jemima foals in the night, a bright chestnut colt by RID stallion Sandy's Light...This baby does not belong to us, he belongs to Sue Giles, who came up in the small hours to help get the lazy little man up and suckling

13 May It seems some things were not meant to be. Tragically our wonderful coloured colt foal Leo died in a freak accident in the field yesterday, at just 6 weeks old. It's hard to put into words how it feels to lose not just one, but two such special foals. Like Caspar, Leo will be very muh missed here at Rollestone. Here's hoping the rest of the season brings no more sadness

10 May Valmis inseminated by Walentino and Lozanna inseminated by Treliver Decanter

8 May 2 days early Nutmeg foals down - and what a cracker - another BIG Centyfor colt, with some beautiful splodges

4 May Cascade scanned in foal to Rhondeo

3 May (Just!!) 2 Minutes before midnight Eclipse foals and has a smart bay colt

Cocoa and Kachina scanned not in foal so we are trying again this cycle. Cocoa inseminated today but Kachina not quite ready yet

1 May Some good news after the sadness at the weekend. Tifany Gold takes us all by surprise and foals in the field (away from the cameras so perhaps she was shy!) and has a beautiful filly foal

APRIL 2007

29 April It is with a heavy heart that we have to report that we have lost our beautiful palomino colt Valetto Diaz. Tragically he succombed to 'joint ill', and was put to sleep this afternoon at just 12 days old. So friendly and such a handsome young man he will be sorely missed.

26 April Arctic Dancing Queen gives us our first filly of 2007 - a pretty dark bay with her sire Figiel's trademark star!

22 April An exciting new addition to the Rollestone broodmares, Ari is a 6 year old cremello WB currently in Germany who will be joining us in June with her buckskin filly by Lennox at foot. Ari will be covered by Granatnik, sire of Centyfield Figiel and of our 2005 filly Rollestone Lolita

17 April Cocoa returns home from stud

Valmis gives birth to a beautiful palomino colt at 12.30am after a very quick and straightforward labour.

14 April Centyfield Cascade is inseminated with Rhondeo semen

13 April Sonny's Kachina is inseminated with Woodlander Rockstar semen

10 April New broodmare Cocoa (details to follow shortly) is dropped off at stud to be covered by Milky Way

5 April Marstacre Ballerina colicked badly while 4 months pregnant and we very nearly lost her. A scan 2 weeks after the colic confirmed she was still in foal. However at 7 months pregnant she was not looking as big as I would have expected so we had her blood tested by a vet and the results came back negative - she wasn't in foal......HOWEVER....these past couple of weeks I have been looking at her and looking at her and the more I looked the more in foal she looked to me. A manual exam from the vet today (who'd actually come out to jab her into season ready for insemination next week) confirmed that not only is she in foal but that baby is alive (and kicking!) in there!!

3 Apr Holme Park Kossette gives birth to a stunning blanket spotted colt at 1.30 am

MARCH 2007

25 Mar Lozannna produces a big strong coloured colt at 3.15am

18 Mar Chris is now a DEFRA approved AI Technician and will be inseminating our mares this coming season

14 Mar Typical - with both Lozanna and Cascade both due to foal imminently I had to make a choice which to put in the foaling box with the camera in - and of course I chose the wrong one!! Centyfield Cascade gives birth to a coloured colt at 1am this morning, 1 down, 9 to go! More piccies to follow

FEB 2007

21 Feb Centyfield Cascade's DNA test results come back and she is confirmed as being homozygous for the tobiano gene - meaning she will always throw coloured foals

19 Feb 2 in foal mares, Valmis and Tiffany Gold arrive from Czechoslovakia and Germany respectively - More info and pictures within the next few days

10 Feb New broodmare Jemima arrives, a grey TB in foal to a RID stallion. The foal will belong to her current owner, but Jemima will be covered in 2007 for a 2008 Rollestone foal - Pics and info to follow

6 Feb A cremello Warmblood broodmare is bought from Czechoslovakia, also a buckskin sabino Slovakian Warmblood mare - They should arrive in the next week or so...

JAN 2007

1 Jan HAPPY NEW YEAR from us all at Rollestone - here's to a fantastic 2007!