Hollybrooke Stud - News 202

Show and Performance New Forest Ponies

John and Wendy Adams
Forest Farm, Crow Hill,
Ringwood, Hants BH24 3DE. Telephone: 01425 476020
Mobile: 07754587853

info@hollybrookestud.co.uk

10th April

We have had another very sad day at Hollybrooke when we lost our wonderful foundation mare Coffee Crunch. We bought her as a foal and she had been with us for twenty nine years. She bred fourteen foals and I could write a book about the achievements of her children and grandchildren. They include the champion mare (4 times), champion colt (twice with two different ponies) champion young gelding (twice with two different ponies) overall gelding champion, champion stallion and the Supreme championship at the Breed show. Most of all she was a really lovely, kind and gentle person and Hollybrooke is a poorer place without her. I could have chosen many photos of her and her hugely successful progeny but the photo on the left is Crunch aged 24 with her last foal and the photo on the right two of her daughters looking after our grand children while giving them an immense amount of fun.

As a very fitting tribute in the week that she died two of her grandsons Hollybrooke Barraquito (out of her daughter Hollybrooke Melitta) and Millyford Masterpiece (by her son Hollybrooke Tinker) both passed their colt inspections with flying colours.

1st March

A sad start to 2026 for Hollybrooke when we said goodbye to our stallion Skywalker. He

would have been twenty five this year and his age had just started to catch up with him. The last thing we wanted was to watch him going down hill so we made the most difficult decision for any animal owner.
He was an absolute pleasure to own and has left behind some lovely progeny both here and also in the Brock and Trenley herds, who also used him during his time at Hollybrooke. I have had many messages from people, who have Skywalker progeny they adore. Many were not conceived here, but during the twelve seasons he was a Forest run stallion. Our supreme champion mare Hollybrooke Melitta is in foal to him, having produced two really super foals by him before, so we are really looking forward to that.

On a more cheerful note the Breed Society has just published the results of their annual performance pony of the year competition. The winner of the section for part-breds in 2025 was Trenley Tomorrow. A New Forest TB cross sired by Hollybrooke Tinker. He also won the trophy for the most versitile part-bred.
We have just two mares in foal this year Hollybrooke Melitta and Hollybrooke Crystal who is expecting a full brother or sister to last year's breed show champion gelding by Hollybrooke Tinker.

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