'NIKKI-JAY' SHETLAND AND WELSH PONY STUD

UPDATED 22nd JUNE 2009 - 

 WELSH MARES/FILLIES & SHETLAND MARES/FILLIES & PHOTO ALBUM

 

WELCOME TO 'NIKKI-JAY'

1985:  'NIKKI-JAY' SHETLANDS WAS FIRST ESTABLISHED AT YARWUN, 30MINS FROM GLADSTONE, QLD, WITH THE PURCHASE OF 2 SHETLAND PONIES, BOTH YEARLINGS, 1 COLT, 'MULWAREE DUKE',(PHOTO LEFT), SIRE: FENWICK SEATON, DAM: MULWAREE LINDA, & 1 FILLY, LEONA D LUCINDA SIRE: RIVERLEA LESLIE, DAM: LAGUNA LYRIC.   BOTH PONIES WERE SHOWN AS YOUNGSTERS WITH MUCH SUCCESS AROUND CENTRAL QUEENSLAND.  OTHER BROODMARES WERE PURCHASED & SO 'NIKKI-JAY' STUD GREW. 

 

1986:  LEONA D TATUM  JOINED THE STUD AS A SHOW PONY.  SHE STARTED HER SHOW CAREER AS A WEANLING.  TATUM WAS PURCHASED AS A YEARLING & HER SHOW CAREER WAS MOST REWARDING, RARELY BEING BEATEN IN HER LED CLASSES.

 

 

1987:  LATE IN THE YEAR DUKE & LUCINDA WERE EXCHANGED FOR  LEONA D TROJUN,(PHOTO LEFT), SIRE: LAGUNA TUNDRA, DAM: CLIFTON THISTLE.  TROJUN WAS SHOWN FROM 1987-1991 WITH THE MOST REMARKABLE RESULTS.  HE TOO WAS RARELY BEATEN IN-HAND, HE WAS ALSO BROKEN TO SADDLE & HAD COMPETED IN ONLY TWO RIDDEN CLASSES WINNING BOTH.  THE MOST MEMORABLE EVENT SHOWING TROJUN WAS AT THE BRISBANE EKKA IN 1988 WHERE HE PLACED 2ND OUT OF 6 STALLIONS.  THE STUD CONSISTED OF MAINLY GREYS IN THESE YEARS.

1992:  PERSONAL PROBLEMS AROSE & ALL PONIES WERE SOLD.

1996:  THE PONIES COMPANIONSHIP WAS GREATLY MISSED, & SO TROJUN WAS TRACKED DOWN & WAS HOME ONCE AGAIN.  I RE-MARRIED IN OCTOBER, & WAS THEN TIME FOR AN EMPLOYMENT CHANGE, SO HEADED FOR DINGO.  THERE WE MANAGED A GRAIN PROPERTY FOR 8YRS.  HAVING PLENTY OF ROOM ON THE PROPERTY, MORE PONIES FILLED THE PADDOCKS.  ALL SIZES & COLOURS.

2001:  GAR-WON MILES WAS PURCHASED FOR USE AS A SHOW STALLION.  HIS SIRE WAS SORREL GLEN DUDLEY & HIS DAM LANARK MONKEY.  MILES WAS A GOOD TYPE OF STALLION & WAS ADORNED WITH THE BROAD RIBBONS AS WELL. 

2002:  ANOTHER STALLION WAS PURCHASED TO INTRODUCE COLOUR TO THE STUD.  BELLWOOD ZINGALOO,(PICTURED LEFT), AN AGED PIEBALD STALLION STANDING 9.1HH. WE ALL KNOW THAT CHILDREN LOVE COLOUR.  SO WITH COLOUR THE IN THING A PALOMINO STALLION WAS PURCHASED.  GRACELAND KINGSTON,  DUAL REGISTERED, STANDING 8.2HH.

SO BY THIS TIME WE HAD 21 MARES/FILLIES & 5 STALLIONS.  IT WAS TIME TO THIN PONIES OUT, SO TROJUN & ZINGALOO WERE SOLD DUE TO THEIR AGE, TROJUN 19YRS & ZINGALOO 18YRS. 

2004:  IN  JULY  WE RELOCATED TO A PROPERTY 10KMS OUT OF DINGO, NEW JOBS WERE TAKEN ON.   

 

 

 

MILLBRAE GLENGARRY (PHOTO LEFT) WAS PURCHASED FROM VICTORIA, HE IS A PIEBALD STALLION STANDING AT 10.1HH. 

MILES WAS SOLD TO THE JACKAFELLA STUD, NSW.  MANY MARES WERE SOLD TO NEW HOMES. 

 

2005:  AT  THIS PRESENT TIME WE HAVE RUNNING AT 'NIKKI-JAY' 1 STALLION & 10 MARES PLUS PROGENY.

                                                       LOOKING BACK NOW ON THE STARTING OF THE STUD BRINGS BACK MANY MEMORIES. I STARTED THIS STUD WHEN I WAS ONLY 16YRS OLD.  I HOPE I HAVE MANY MORE MEMORABLE YEARS TO COME IN BREEDING THE PERFECT TYPE OF COLOURED SHETLAND PONY!!

 

 

2006:  JANUARY.  WE RELOCATED TO A 125 acre, EX DAIRY FARM IN THE BRACEWELL DISTRICT, WHICH IS JUST UNDER AN HOUR FROM GLADSTONE.  

APRIL.   KINGSWOOD CAMEO & CHERRYTREE CUPCAKE, INFOAL, WERE PURCHASED TO START THE WELSHIE SIDE OF THE STUD . 

MAY:  BORDERSHOW COOKIES & CREAM, A RISING 2YO,  WAS PURCHASED AS A FUTURE SIRE FOR 'NIKKI-JAY'.

JUNE:  GLYNYARRA PARK DUET, A BLACK WELSH A MARE WAS PURCHASED FOR SHOWING PURPOSES.

AUGUST:  LOCH SLOY MERCEDES, INFOAL, WAS PURCHASED FROM JANET ROSE, NSW.

                   NATTAI TOMOS JONES WAS ALSO AQUIRED FROM JANET.  HE IS TRULY A MAGNIFICANT STALLION.

OCTOBER:  THE AQUISITION OF 4 LEASE MARES FROM BORDERSHOW STUD.  SNOWDON VALE CHARM, INFOAL, TARRAGON PARK PRICILLA, BAMBOROUGH PARASOL, & FLOWERDALE SEQUINE WITH COLT FOAL AT FOOT.

 

2007:   FEBRUARY.  TENNESSEE TRADITION, CLANLINE HEIDI, SCOTCHALOT CHAMPAGNE & SCOTCHALOT FREEDOM WERE TAKEN UP ON LEASE FROM ROBYN & CHRIS ROWE, SCOTCHALOT STUD, MOUNT LARCOM.

SEPTEMBER.  PACKING UP FOR THE BIG MOVE TO DALBY.  11th, QLD STILL ON TOTAL BAN ON HORSE MOVEMENT DUE TO THE EI VIRUS.

HOPING THE BAN WILL BE LIFTED BY THE TIME WE NEED TO MOVE THE PONIES!!

SEPTEMBER 24th -   A VET WAS BOUGHT IN TO ACCESS THE SITUATION OF PONIES BEING LEFT IN MOUNT LARCOM ON THEIR OWN WITH NO SUPERVISION.  IT WAS CLASSED AS A WELFARE SITUATION.  A VET CERTIFICATE WAS OBTAINED & WE WERE THEN SUPPLIED WITH A SPECIAL MOVEMENT PERMIT THROUGH DPI.   ALL PONIES TRUCKED DOWN IN 1 LOAD TO OUR DALBY PROPERTY.  PONIES HAVE SETTLED IN WELL AND ENJOYING THE FLAT COUNTRY.

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2008:

MAY -  THE OPPORTUNITY OF LEASING 5 SHETLAND PONY MARES FROM A VERY GOOD FRIEND WAS OFFERED.  3 MARES ARE IN FOAL, 2 EMPTY. 

JULY-  A VERY HARD DECISION TO MAKE WAS TO REDUCE THE SHETLAND PONY NUMBERS & RETURN THE ABOVE 5 LEASE MARES- LURLINE, SUMMER, DAISEY, CHELSEA & POLLY.  TRADITION, HEIDI, CHAMPAGNE & ERIN JOAN WILL ALSO RETURN TO ROBYN & CHRIS, 'SCOTCHALOT' STUD OF MOUNT LARCOM.