Caer
Wydr Welsh & continuations
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Lithgow Gay Grenadier (1963-1984)
(*Kirby Cane Jay x
*Vanity)
at 19, Samantha Murray
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Neither Grenadier nor his influence can be covered in a
short blurb and will take a separate page. As Wayne Norton said,
"what an honor to have known a person like him." Not just
talented over fences and in Dressage, he was the best ever for riding
out & babysitting weanlings & kids (2 & 4 legged). He
introduced my daughter to the joys of solo riding out, taking care of
her in the process.
First noted for his size (14 1/4 hh) and
as a
sire of large performance ponies for Nan Schmidt's Timbercreek prefix,
Grenadier's most enduring mark may be as a broodmare sire, with his
daughters and grandaughter in herds across the continent,
carrying his line on under many prefixes
(some not even on speaking terms with one another).
Grenadier's friend Sam, craving her very
own Grenadier, later owned, loved, evented, and ponyclubbed Grenadier's
daughter, Timbercreek Wildwood, a full sister to Timbercreek
Blackberry & Timbercreek Bramble,
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*Hartmoor Rhymer (deceased)
(Gredington Ffafryn x
*Criban Sonnet)
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Much admired but never
shown, *Hartmoor Rhymer was an outstanding broodmare
sire.
his
influence continues:
- Tylwyth Pony Farm
- Ponies sired at the Texas
Stud and Bull Run Plantation (Avalon prefix)
- get & descendents
of Texas
Explorer throughout Pacific & Gulf Coast regions
- Bristol As & Bs
(through daughters Texas Flair & Avalon Bonnie
Tlws)
- Avalon
Bulldog, a tightly linebred grandson with 3 crosses (2x3x4), for Caer
Wydr & Madoc,
- Sarah Martins'
Seabreeze Welsh, through Caer
Wydr Sonnet (Avalon Bulldog x Avalon Bonnie
Rhymer), and Avalon
Ara Tlws, full
sister to Bulldog's sire, Avalon Rhymer
Image.
- Caer Wydr ponies
of both sections, including, Caer Wydr Wayne (Sec B g-grandson at
Oakmede Farms).
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My personal
breeding goal,
clearly set the very first day I saw the Avalon herd, was to
breed a B sized hartmoor - one I could ride.
We put Hartmoor behind
our Bs by breeding his daughters & grandaughters to Lithgow Gay Grenadier to and retaininng a
Grenadier son out of Ghosty, our Hartmoor daughter (full sister to
Tylwyth's Avalon Bonnie Tlws). the combination made for
exceptionally sane & solid ponies - each & every one a great
ride & lovable plus.
It is equally
gratifying to see other programs using Hartmoor, no matter the
source, to breed Sections A,B and
sometimes C.
Ghosty was out of *Clan
Dana daughter (Texas Bonnie, out of another *Clan Dana daughter,
*Ankerwycke Clan Snowdon) and the other Hartmoor stock I used had
similar breeding. Consequently, *Marsh
Silver Cities, the son of *Clan Dana's full sister, *Daffodil, a proven producer in her
own right, was an excellent addition.
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*Marsh
Silver Cities
(Criban
Silver Hackles x *Daffodil)
Sadly, I have no
pictures of Marsh other than those carried in memory and traces I
wistfully see
in his descendants. Sarah Martin's 2004 colt (Seabreeze
prefix) out of his grandaughter, Starstruck, is one.
This is the place to record his strenghs but not to pretend Marsh
was something he was not. He could & did throw good
heads from mares with impressive hood ornaments, such as Gaenor, Flirt,
and maiden, but was himself a tad cigar headed, belying that dash of
Hackney pony in his sire's line and not uncommon in old
lines .
Amply outweighing that, Marsh had tremendous bone, the loveliest of
eyes, breathtaking reach, free shoulder movement, length of neck and
hip, a short back, good topline, correct hind quarters, brilliant
movement, and the kindest disposition possible. He also appears in the
pedigrees of many Pickwick, Muscle Shoals, Open Gates, and Counce
ponies, some still in active breeding herds but many not. Several Section A mares at Production Acres are granddaughters. Marsh
is less well known than his maternal half-sibs, *Texas Daisy (dam of
Bristol Sun God, Open Gates Daisy, and Open Gates Violet), Texas
Mohican (sire of HW Gwyndy Glo and CC Dawn), or Dakotah Gomadh's Pledge
(sire of Meadowlawn Squire).
Best rescue from a trip to the auction barn I ever made. Sadder than having
no pictures, I had but one foal crop from him.
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Caer Wydr
Xanadu
(*Marsh Silver Cities x Homestead Flirt)
shown
with Pilar, who claimed him at birth - "MY
pony"!
...perhaps even then imprinting him for Mary
Beth Tarver's grandson Hunter decades
later.
The bond was fitting - Marsh was the one to restore her
confidence after a pony under something too low for rider mishap had
made her wary.
Seeing Xanadu with Hunter, I saw Marsh again.
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granddaughters
Smoke Tree
Tamarin
(x *Marsh Gaenor, a
Pickwick import & owned by Smoke
Tree.
Daughter Tamarin, by Severn West Wind, is probably her best known
offspring. )
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and
Seabreeze
Starstruck
(RosMel's
Dark Star x Caer Wydr Rapunzel by Silver Cities)
2004 colt by Tylwyth Dillon
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Caer Wydr
Continuations
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Welsh/Arab cross mare,
ex Caer Wydr Lilith
(by Lithgow Gay Grenadier x Avalon Evening
Star,
a *Hartmoor Rhymer granddaughter)
Bred by Becky Francis,
now at Tylwyth
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Pecan
Creek's Choir of Angels
(Caer Wydr Brian x
Pecan Creek's Serenade)
Cartwheel Pony Farm
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Paddy & Pop (Caer Wydr Xanadu)
Divide's Little Rascal (Caer Wydr
Xanadu)
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and more to
come...
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