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Founded in 1991 the 'Runshaw Stud'  of Welsh Mountain Ponies celebrated its first decade within the breed as the mother society 'The Welsh Pony and Cob Society' celebrated its Centenary year.

 Firmly based on the successful and consistent bloodlines of the famous Coed Coch stud of Abergele ,North Wales. We hope in time to emulate some of the best bloodlines and hopefully breed some of the traditional Welsh Ponies, the likes of yesteryears champions that made Coed Coch so influential even to this day, 29 years after its dispersal!

  We have a heavy influence here at Runshaw through the famous ponies Coed Coch Salsbri and Coed Coch Siwan whose offspring have become legendary through Coed Coch Bari, Saled, Swyn and Siwrnai.

Most importantly the influence of our own stallion Coed Coch Barnwr and that also of Coed Coch Superstar. Both these stallions have made a huge impression of what we aim to breed here, Having 3 daughters ,including the multi medal winning mare Pinina Roulette (no longer breeding) of Barnwr and their siblings and 2 daughters, 1 son of Superstar and relevant siblings, we feel we have the foundations to breed some very lovely stock. Not forgetting of course the influence of that of our stallion Penwisg Sior who carries these lines in ,a more concentrated than most anticipate, fashion.

The last and possibly most exciting stallion we bought is the multiple medal and Royal Welsh Show winning stallion Churtoncroft Aries again a grandson of the legendary Coed Coch Bari and everything we hope to breed and achieve here at Runshaw.  The arrival on lease of Coed Coch Atebiad (Coed Coch Salsbri x Coed Coch Ateb) from the Churtoncroft Stud in 2003 and who has crossed immensely with the Coed Coch Superstar offspring has given us some lovely young homebred mares for Aries and Sior in the future and 2 prospective young stallions for Aries and Sior's fillies. Hopefully these combination of carefully selected bloodlines may just be the winning formula that when crossed within the breeding program will breed the ponies of the calibre that Coed Coch did all those years ago. Heres hoping but it looks promising to date as we are very pleased with the youngstock as they are maturing!!!!

We also feel we are greatly indebted to our dear friends Pat & Cyril Pinnington of Churtoncroft Stud at Malpas, Cheshire whose stud is based entirely on Pure Coed Coch bloodlines and who have been a huge help in the founding of our bloodlines and have steered me in the right direction numerous times. Hopefully between us we can go someway to retaining the old, tried and tested bloodlines of the stud that brought our friendship together well into the new millennium hence our adopted slogan which you will see throughout our website and advertising-

"Tradition does not mean preserving the ashes but keeping a flame alight"

Jean Janses 1910

We hope you enjoy looking at our ponies on the website as much as we do looking at them here in the fields. They give immense pleasure and a hobby that is becoming a way of life with such beautiful outcomes.

Pictured below is Coed Coch Barnwr at 32 years old with his 20 year old daughter Pinina Roulette, August 2003.

Visitors always welcome but please forewarn us so we can give you plenty of time, pony viewing and food ;-)