Proven Success Sale! Breed a Champion!

Wilona WF
2015 Ladies Side Saddle Champion

Our stallions have produced many successful horses in the many years that the farm has been a functional entity - which is a reason for a celebration!!

 So with the goal of producing Champions, please take a moment and peruse our list of available discounts from our proven list of sires. The Proven Success Sale won't last long! Take advantage and stock up while we have semen in stock!***

As You Wish WF rocking the Hunt Teams
Video 

Wilona WF by Waldaire
Jennifer MacNeil Photography ©

Again and Again - in a nutshell, he produced many successful FEI dressage horses, A show hunters, event horses from limited foal crops and was himself a very successful Grand Prix horse. Other full siblings were Jackie Blue (Showjumper in LA Olympics for Canada), Rushton (success Working Hunter) and

$400 per dose 

Adamant - a successful Small Tour horse with the steady Eddy temperament that consistently passed along to his offspring. Sire of multiple event horses, Colt 45 (Champion on the line at DHS), FEI dressage and event horses, field hunters and a massive list of horses started, trained and competed by their AA owners/breeders. 

$400 per dose

Waldaire - consistent competitor through the levels up to and including Grand Prix post colic surgery. Sire of Wilona WF who has just claimed the Side Saddle Championship in a tough hack-off in her first outing at The Devon Horse Show. Other offspring are competing for their AA owners in the hunters, dressage and eventing with very good results. 

$350 per dose

Showtime WF - was himself the quintessential A Hunter with charm, class and the "it" factor. A classic refined hunter with great form and scope.
Inventory clearance price - $150 per dose (does not reflect his quality - we are not breeding specifically for hunters)

Avebury WF - 1* event horse with the classic Dekor (Ramses) look and way of going. Very good jumper who has produced talented and athletic offspring.
$250 per dose

Dressage Royal - what can we say? He is a proven producer of world class Grand Prix horses (Desperado OLD, Damsey, UNO Don Diego to name a few) but with their charm, good looks and athleticism and the right mare - he could produce hunters too!
$800 per dose

Wizard WF - a talented and handsome stallion with a high level of trainability. He has produced 2 very gifted and talented daughter for the hunters. In an effort to have more offspring in the competition arena, his fee is reduced until August 1, 2015.
$350 per dose

TLF Wicked by Wizard WF

Wendolyn WF by Wizard WF

***No additional discounts will be applied to these sale prices. The Proven Success Sale ends June 30, 2015. Paypal is accepted. Please complete the contract and send payment ASAP to reserve your doses. Quantities are limited and will be sold on a first come, first served basis. Any questions? email Ellie@watermark-farm.net

Woot! Woot! Congratulations Sara & As You Wish WF!

Big CONGRATULATIONS are in order for Sara G. and her As You Wish WF (aka Kitty)!!! They were on the USEF Network last night in The Devon Horse Show Hunt Team Class! They placed 3rd out of 16 teams and were the leader for their team! Way to go Sara & Kitty!!!! You guys rocked the Dixon Oval!!! Well done!!!

Here's what Sara had to say about the day - "What a night, what a night, what a night! Kitty started out a bit excited with all the atmosphere but walked into the Dixon Oval like she owned it. My hunt teammates and I had a great round and wound up 3rd out of 16!! Thanks to Lauren and Nina for having me on their team and to Sue for helping us put it all together! Also, thanks to everyone at home and ringside who cheered us on! " 

I'm checking USEF Network to see if the On-Demand videos is updated with the class - I'll update when/if it is added! 

Featured Sales Horse - ***Westerleigh WF***

Show hunter peeps this mare is for you!! Shrug off the bias against chestnut mares - she is fancy, talented and a superlative hunter prospect for the discerning trainer!

Around the barn, Westerleigh is best known as Joy and that is what she is!! Pure joy to work with! But alas, we are a dressage barn! What do we do with a horse that is clearly more suited for a different discipline??? We need to find Joy a new person! So the search is on!!! 

Here is a super opportunity for a gifted hunter rider to have a fantastic horse to bring along! She is sweet, very intelligent and in need of a new career director.

Joy is currently priced at $15,000. Please contact Anne@watermark-farm.net to discuss your purchasing options. 

Yeah, it's pretty awesome!

Wylie waiting to go compete

As it's a tad chilly out there this morning, I'm taking a minute for some self indulgent "Atta boy Wally!" praise! His daughters were simply rockstars this weekend...

They were fine with being caught in the pitch dark at 4 AM, being brought in the barn, cleaned up, loaded like they've done it every day all year and shipped like champs to Bel Air. Then they calmly unloaded, got tacked up, whinnied a few times, and then hung out until it was their turn to show. No fuss. No great prep routine with hours of lunging or tons of schooling. Briana had come up a few days before and jumped over 1 X, a vertical and a small oxer several times...other than that, they've been working on their dressage training! So the show was a Holiday from that!

Wylie hanging out waiting her turn

Wilona catching a nap

Wilona watching Wylie head to the ring

Now we have carefully picked the mares we bred to Waldaire - several generations into this whole breeding adventure, there are some do's and don'ts that we've figured out...but he really does make "rider friendly" horses. They learn their job (do whatever the humans tell them to do) and go do it. What more can a rider ask for?

'Nuff said.

It's SHOWTIME!

So we packed up two of the mares that enjoy their bit of jumping and met one of our working students from the summer of 2011 - Briana for a day of fun! We went to what our Dressage friends would know as Heavenly Waters...but in the land of hunters - it was the Hartford Hunter Show Series Benefit Show! :)

Wilona and Wylie had a BLAST! They've only hopped over jumps a handful of times here at the farm this year but (obviously) do not need much prep work to go compete! Their intense dressage lifestyle worked just fine...

Wylie competed in the Schooling Hunter Division which had a fairly large group of competitors, from amateurs to professional coaches and trainers.

She jumped very nicely but was not quite "the type" that they are looking for in Hunterland that day. But her changes were clean, her form is tidy and she enjoyed herself, so we consider the day a resounding success!

Wilona rocked the Baby Green Division. Plain and simple. She went in right after Wylie's hack, jumped a beautiful round to capture the blue ribbon, had a small rider error in the 2nd round, a good hack for a 2nd place and returned home with a Championship to her credit! So it's safe to say she enjoys life as a show hunter! :)

So many thanks go out to our crew here at home! Thank you to Monika for videoing the rides! Thanks to Briana for riding with her fantastic style! Thanks to the organizers of the show for running such a friendly show - even my DQ self felt comfortable in the strange environment! :) 

Links and embedded videos will be posted later! Happy Riding!