Aragon House Stud

27/05/2024

Taken today. Progressing extremely well with training. Now ready to go to his forever home.

23/02/2024

16/12/2023

Two brood mares available for re-homing as we’re bringing in new lines. One is 16 years old - W line by Weltino - and the other is 16 too by Crusader x Rittmeister. Many foals can be seen by both. Free to 5 star homes with experienced breeders only. contact [email protected]

01/12/2023

Delighted to update you on the progress of our wonderful gelding out of Floriscount x Diamond Hit x Kobalt (Oliver Twist). Now lightly backed and still only rising three, but because of his size we decided to start early. Huge paces, so very strong prospect for professional rider. Huge shout out to Robert Leese Horsemanship for another fantastic effort in preparing and backing this wonderful youngster. POA

18/11/2023

Congratulations to Greg Sims, Stenna Hoener and Aragon House Darcy for qualifying for the UK Nationals. Darcy is out of Dark Glamour(Dejanero) x For Dance (For Romance), and was one of our 2019 crop of foals. Great to see her doing so well.

17/08/2023

Episode 8 … 2021 was a great year for foals. We had 2 c**ts out of our stallion Holme Park Kobalt and 2 fillies out of my friends stallion Debonair. We were thrilled ….oh and my daughters pony who had had an incredibly successful 12 year pony club career came home, only to be put in foal the following day, caught first time (not bad for an 18 year old maiden mare) and delivered us a stunning palomino foal out of the very popular warmblood pony stallion, Popenhoe Picture Perfect ! it was a wonderful crop and it was a particularly special year as wew were finally construction free ad so could get on with our lives.

The c**ts x2 that were born in 2021 are now rising 3 and have been in training with the amazing Rob Leese (Equine Trainer & Behaviouralist) for around 6 months now they are both lunging and long reigning with their tack on. Handled daily, very confident working alone with a fantastic grounding on which they can now start their ridden career.

The bay gelding pictured below is for sale @ £10K unbacked, £12K backed. He is going to be around 172cm once fully grown. He has very big extravagant and expressive paces. His dam Delphinia was by the outstanding sire Floriscont out of a Diamond Hit mare. The chestnut gelding also pictured below is for sale @ £9K unbacked, £11K backed. He is going to be around the same height as the bay. He is out of Rhapsody by Rosenkavalier x Lauries Crusader (same mare that bred that black gelding photo’d in Episode 7 by Devonport). The chestnut is a very confident, laid back and willing chap.

Both geldings will make strong prospects for either amateur or pro dressage riders. They can be seen in full training, by experienced interested parties only. More videos available on request.

17/08/2023

Episode 7 … 2020 was a year of many challenges, whilst we finished the last phase of the build of the stud (the dwelling) we had made the tough decision to move into a caravan even though our children were revising for their GCSE’s. Sadly before they could even start their GCSE’s everybody was sent home and we went into lockdown. I look back now and I think, how on earth did we fit 2 adults, 2 teenagers, 2 dogs, 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs ….and the occasional random wild animals (this is starting to sound like Noahs Ark!) in one 30x12 caravan…..OMG it was hell but we emerged 1 year later having saved a lot of money on rentals and with our sanity whilst in tatters still intact.

So, that saw the final stage of the redevelopment of the stud and I was so worried about the amount of debris and constant flow of traffic, craftsmen, delivery trucks and skips on and off site that we opted not to have foals that year so the girls had a year off. COVID resulted in massive shortages in raw materials and unprecedented inflation in the cost of building materials probably fuelled by their short supply. It became very apparent that COVID x BREXIT together were a deadly cocktail on the cost of new builds. We finally finished in the autumn of 2020. Trying hard to forget the many things that didn’t go “quite to plan” which resulted in a 40% overspend on the build ………….ouch!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Once again, its better not to know what you are letting your self in for until it actually happens but im glad I did it even though it aged us and decimated our bank balance. I comforted myself with the fact that our horses, dogs and children were all safe and well and whilst our dream of living mortgage free was about as far from reality as one can get we were delighted with what we had achieved.

17/08/2023

Episode 6 ….2019 saw a bumper crop of six foals, five of which we presented to the Oldenburg Verband for grading on their UK Tour. Four of the 5 were graded as PREMIUM foals. So it was an incredible achievement and sadly the last time that the Oldenburg were to visit us here in the UK. It is so hard to chose which foal was the most promising so I am going to give a shout out to two. The first was a black c**t by Rhapsody (Rosenkavalier x Lauries Crusador) by a very smart late DeNiro licensed stallion called Devonport. He grew to be a very flashy if not a little cheeky BIG upstanding youngster. He was rivalled by a fantastic bay filly by Dark Glamour (Dejaneiro) x For Dance (For Romance). They both left us in spring of 2022 to go to a professional dressage home with Stena Hoerner in North Wales and have already started competing in their first BD baby classes . This represents a very exciting partnership indeed and it is so wonderful to see them going from strength to strength so early in their careers…..long may it continue

I would like to say a bog thank you to the professional photographer (Sophie Grace Photography)

17/08/2023

Episode 5 …..2018 saw the completion of the remodelled barns. It was a huge task and I am delighted to say, I had absolutely no idea what we were letting ourselves in for when we started. Anyhow, the mares moved into the barns on 2nd December, I remember it well as it was so cold the concrete floors wouldn’t dry and it put pay to the lovely slope we had planned in our stable floors for drainage. Nonetheless the girls moved in to shelter from the cold and snow, and were very grateful. We only had a couple of foals that year as we were so busy building but they were both lovely.

San Summa (San Amour) had a wonderful Filly by Royal Rubin who we called Sabrina and Voltoral (Voltaire) has a jet black c**t by Kobalt. It was our first foal by Kobalt (whom we now own) and we were over the moon. Sabrina who will always be one of our family favourites is now happy in her new home with one of our long standing clients and family friends Kelsey. Sabrina is only 5 years old and got off to a late start due to our workload, but is enjoying a wonderful and varied life up in Shropshire.

17/08/2023

Episode 4…….2017 was a truly landmark year for AHS, after battling with the local planners for 5 years, we finally got permission to redevelop the old grain barns and so we repurposed the site to form a stud complex. Whilst small by comparison to those in Germany, in 2017 we built 8000 square feet of indoor mare & foal accommodation under one roof. It was a huge endeavour, with many high and low moments. But we finally finished just before Christmas 2017 and the mares moved into their new stables in driving snow before we had even finished cladding the walls……yes it actually snowed inside the building. Since then, and with such amazing facilities, we have never looked back. We now have 16 purpose built mare and foal units with 24x7 CCTV and a level of control over the temperature that is particularly useful in the more extreme colder/warmer conditions.

We were less able to have quite so many foals that year as we had very limited facilities. That said, the most notable arrival was a bay c**t (premium graded by visiting Oldenburg Verband) that was born out of our San Amour mare, San Summa and to a wonderful stallion called Blue Hors Farrell (Furstenball, by Furst Heinrich) from a D/W line dam. This particular c**t, named Farramourie (known by his friends as Monty) was purchased by a wonderful family in Scotland, where he remains to this day. His initial training has been very gentle to this point as he is, like his father, a tall boy but he is none the less a wonderful dressage prospect and we very much look forward to seeing him out and about on the dressage scene.

That same year… Aragon House Liana who went on to have a incredibly successful career in both dressage and eventing, competed in the Elementary U25 National Championship and she also qualified for the Scottish Championships at Elementary and Medium.

30/07/2023

Episode 3 …..2016

Yes you‘re asking where 2015 went, we were busy fighting to redevelop our site so we didn’t do much that year. But 2016 saw the arrival of a further 5 smashing foals. The 2nd of which was Aragon House Darcy, a black c**t by our lovely Hanoverian mare Werlinda, out of the super son of De Niro, Danone 1. I have used Danone 1 with a few of my mares and he produces fantastic stock. For me, even though some may say he is a little old fashioned, he will always remain the best son of DeNiro. Werlinda 2016 c**t, Darcy was born in Germany at my friends Gabi & Dieter Pothen’s stud in Haltern en See, he was an incredibly handsome foal (hence the name Darcy after the infamous lake scene in Pride & Prejudice!) and has gone on to have the most amazing life competing to the very highest level (S) dressage in Germany. We were very lucky to have owned Werlinda (previously owned by one of the staff at Klosterhoff’s) for the latter part of her life. She came to us at 14 years of age and gifted us 4 amazing foals over those latter years of her life as a broodmare. She was an amazing mum and will be forever in my heart for being such a kind and forgiving soul to both humans and horses alike!

Darcy has even gone on to become a supermodel.............check this out !!!!!!!!!!!

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