Showjumping Shetland

Well-known and successful Shetland Pony breeder and exhibitor, Jan Young from Rocksberg in Queensland, is another importer to have her latest addition “trapped” in quarantine at Eastern Creek. Jan explains:

“I went over to the famous Wells Shetland Pony Stud in Scotland and bought a four-year-old stallion, Wells High Class. Since George Vyner’s Wells Remarkable died a month or so ago, this pony will be the only Wells stallion in Australia. I bought him out of the paddock and he is a lovely big pony.

“He arrived in quarantine here on the 4th August and was kept in a little longer due to the arrival of the Japanese stallions, which they say brought the virus in. Anyway he was due out on the 23rd August and they rang me on the 22nd to tell me they were all locked down. He has been there until yesterday (27th September) at our own expense and I am told that is up to $100 a day!

“He is going to Helen and Chris Chugg at Glossodia in the Purple Zone. He could not have gone to a better place and I am very grateful that they took him. They are going to do some work with him and break him in to saddle, and a bit of jumping would do him good. He is there for the duration and we haven’t got a clue how long, maybe six months”.
You can just see it now, Australian Sporthorse Breeders will offer the stallions, Vivian, Conquistador, Quindoctro and Wells High Class. At Diamond B they are sure to see if he can jump, just a bit!