NEWS

Last year proved once again to be a year of ups and downs. The show season was spoiled by the weather, with many events being cancelled and others well and truly ruined by the rain. However, on the plus side, we did have a successful season with the ponies, Kerbeck Night Destiny was well placed under saddle, winning at Ennerdale, our local show, which is always nice. She also did well inhand, and was Champion at Millom and Broughton Show. Just to show how versatile she really is she was also placed in the Fell Pony trotting races and enjoyed a Pleasure ride as well! Just before he left us for the Isle of Man, Raven won the Two year old class at the breed show – it seems to be a family tradition with full brother Druid and half brother Quest having done the same!

Another down was when our young colt “Tom” was injured in the field, putting an end to his stallion days, he has now been gelded and is in a new home where he is doing well under saddle. Luckily we were able to borrow “Greenholme Bobby Dazzler” from the Greenholme stud and we are expecting his foals from the beginning of June onwards. Bobby will be returning to us this season, he is a lovely colt, by Linnel Renyard out of Greenholme Sasha, both have produced many top class ponies, as well as being champions in their own right. Bobby is a lovely pony with a great temperament, so we have high hopes for our foals.

Once again our ponies have been working for the National Trust on the “Fix The Fells” project, for more information on that visit www.fixthefells.co.uk/index/news/htm.

We will also be in action at the Cumbria Bridleways “Packs and Tracks” event on 16th May at Dalemain. We will also be attending“Fell Gather” at the Lakeland Livestock centre, nr Cockermouth on 12th June, so if you get a chance come along and meet us.

We also hope to get to the usual shows and events through out Cumbria, as long as the weather holds!

Thanks to those of you who have been in touch over the year about your ponies, we have heard from the owners of Kerbeck Regal Fire in Wiltshire, thanks for the lovely book!

Kerbeck Night Spirit is now just a few miles away from us, and her sister Mystique has a lovely new home in the North of the county, best wishes to their owners too.

Please keep the news coming in, we will update shortly and hopefully have more photographs. We welcome news of any other Kerbeck ponies out there - we know the whereabouts of several and have regular contact with their owners. We have lost contact with others and would be very pleased to hear from them. Please click here to go to a list of information that we have gathered about our ponies.

We are also very happy to see visitors but would appreciate a 'phone call before the visit to ensure we are not away at a show or event with some of the ponies - click here for contact details.

To visit the Cumbria Bridleways Society website, please click here.

If you would like to know more about the Fell Pony Breed, please click here to visit the Fell Pony Society web site or click here to visit Fell Pony Museum web site.

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