MARES


"Tradition does not mean preserving the ashes but keeping a flame alight"
Jean Janses 1910

Below are the details of our group of broodmares, all of which are of Coed Coch breeding and/or stamp. Some you may recognise and others that have never seen the inside of a show ring for various reasons but generally not their own. Here at Runshaw our pleasure comes from watching the mares content with their foals in the summer sunshine like the picture above although all are correct and true to type with big movement and capable to show at any level. None of our mares or fillies are ever pushed and will only see the stallion when its felt they are mentally and physically mature and developing into a good enough standard to become part of the breeding herd hence why you may see some mares having their first foals later than some other studs. Our aim is to have quality ponies with good bone, feet, action and superb temperaments which they can pass on to their offspring .
Please click on the photograph below for more details included extended pedigree of the selected pony
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Lacy Ruth
Grey mare foaled Chestnut in 1989. A maternal sister to our up and coming stallion Churtoncroft Rhodri, as they are both out of the lovely mare Coed Coch Ruby. Ruth is by the fabulous Gredington Simwnt son Saltersford Justin who left some of the best show/breeding stock at the Lacy stud. Although we don't feel she'll go back in the show ring she was placed 8th in the Senior broodmare class at The Royal Welsh 2002 and also 3rd at the Royal of England Show too!! We are very excited at having Ruth here with her fabulous breeding and action , which can be seen on the pictures on her pedigree page which can be found by clicking on her picture alongside. .
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Runshaw Rowena
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Standwell Heidie
Chestnut mare blaze and 4 whites foaled in 1990, leased in 1998 and bought in 2000.She has had many homes and travelled many miles since the death of her breeder in 1995/1996 but has certainly found a permanent home now. Heidie was shown as a Barren mare in 2000 and stood 10th at the Royal Welsh, she was also Reserve Champion Section A at Derbyshire and has stood 3rd and 4th at the Royal Lancashire Agricultural Society Show.
Her stock up to now here at 'Runshaw' include 'Runshaw Heloise' by Penwisg Sior and both 'Runshaw Hafog' and 'Runshaw Hyfryd' by Coed Coch Atebiad , she also produced a beautiful filly in 2004 Runshaw Heddwen by Fosterhouses Supersam, then followed the exceptional WPCS medal winning filly Runshaw Heulwen by Churtoncroft Aries in 2006, and then her full siblings Runshaw Hynod and Runshaw Hyderus .
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Standwell Black Fashion
Black mare with stripe and 2 hind whites foaled in 1988. Beautiful mare with superb action and type. Hopefully going to produce more of her like and is now another beautiful mare added to our herd by the kind permission of Alan Ashley Roberts of the Coed Bach stud. She is almost identically bred to our superb up and coming colt Runshaw Hafog as their Dams are full sisters and their sires are 7/8th brothers!! Her daughter Runshaw Ffantasi by Coed Coch Atebiad retained, her son Runshaw Barwyn now sold to the Danath stud on the Wirral Peninsula by Churtoncroft Aries and Runshaw Brenin by Fosterhouses Supersam and currently retained.
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Thistledown Walnut
Grey mare blaze and 4 whites foaled in 1996 , leased from October 1999 and purchased in October 2000. After being so greatly impressed with her sire Coed Coch Barnwr we set about trying to find a son of his, which at the time we couldn't (and have only recently found the full brother to Walnut in Sunderland) We then looked for a daughter of his instead and having almost gone to Fayre Oaks for Walnut, traced her to Worcestershire. We finally persuaded Mr. and Mrs. Northall of the 'Astwoodcourt Stud' to finally part with her and she is now part of our band of broodmares, thanks Mark and Sheila! Her foals for us here , they are 'Runshaw Wennol' a Section C now in Kent and 'Runshaw Welsh Honey' retained, by Coed Coch Atebiad, and Runshaw Welsh Poppy another beautiful dun filly by Churtoncroft Aries retained as a ftuire show/brrodmare then full siblings to Poppy being Runshaw Wynn Ap Aries (sold to the Danath Stud but sadly died in a freak accident) and Runshaw William Ap Aries also sold to Danath stud but bought back by us autumn 2008.
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Churtoncroft Hyfryd
Grey mare, foaled Chestnut with a blaze and 1 small white.
Beautiful grey mare by Coed Coch Llesol and out of the lovely Bay mare Churtoncroft Hetty . She is beautifully bred and has a direct female line to the fabulous moving mare Coed Coch Sensigl! Hopefully to be covered by our stallion Churtoncroft Aries to combine the action of his and Churtoncroft Hetty's sire , Galchog Amlyn (son of Coed Coch Bari) along with the blood of Coed Coch Sensigl to hopefully breed an outstanding moving foal. As you can see she has a fabulous pedigree (which as usual can be seen by clicking her picture) and is hoped will produce some lovely foals for us in time . She is a fabulous mover as her breeding would suggest and which she has just shown us now she has joined the other mares.
Produced Runshaw Henadur by Churtoncroft Aries in 2006
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Runshaw Heloise
Red Roan filly with star foaled in 1999. A beautiful filly by our own Stallion Penwisg Sior and out of the gorgeous Standwell Heidie. She has scope, action, bone and substance, we are delighted with her and she is retained as a future brood and show mare.
In 2007 she has produced a beautiful big chestnut roan colt who we have named Runshaw Helfydd by Churtoncroft Aries.
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Runshaw Lili-Lon
Grey Roan (born bay) filly blaze and 2 whites, foaled in 1999.Again by Penwisg Sior and out of Chetwynd Lily, she is a lovely filly with tons of quality, action, bone and substance. She is the one the visitors always admire and is retained as future broodmare. Hopefully making her show ring debut sometime soon.
Filly by Fosterhouses Supersam -Runshaw Ladi Lilith and now sold to the Marik Stud, Denmark
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Runshaw Welsh Honey
Dun filly with a star foaled in 2001. Again by Coed Coch Atebiad and out of Coed Coch Barnwr's daughter Thistledown Walnut. She is a lovely put together filly and has a gorgeous temperament as well as tremendous action making her an exciting future show mare.
Here she is in October 2007 showing the adage of the
"Head of a duchess and backside of a Cook"!!
Has produced a beautiful Dun filly, her first foal by Churtoncroft Aries named Runshaw Welsh Doll!
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Runshaw Pelydrog
Palomino filly (turning grey) foaled in 2001. By our stallion Penwisg Sior and out of our mare Penwisg Helen , this filly combines colour, 100% Coed Coch breeding (and of course P'Line) and action to die for, all this combined with the most pleasant temperament possible in a pony. This is certainly one that is stopping as a future broodmare and possible future show mare too if she carries on blossoming into a beautiful swan!!
Produced a beautiful grey colt in 2007 by Fosterhouses Supersam named Runshaw Pendragon, sold to Critchfield Farm, Florida, USA!
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Runshaw Hyfryd
Dun
filly foaled 26th April 2003, 2 whites and Star. By Coed Coch Atebiad and out of
Standwell Heidie. A lovely young mare with quality and beautiful breeding. To be
retained as future show/broodmare. When she can be bothered she ,like her
brothers and sister, is a very big moving young mare although she doesn't believe in using too much energy
unless necessary.
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Runshaw Ffantasi
Black filly foaled 23rd April 2003, 3 whites and blaze. By Coed Coch Atebiad and out of Standwell Black Fashion . Superb moving filly using lots of knee and hock but covering a tremendous amount of ground and all in such a quality and appealing package! She is looking to a very exciting future broodmare! This filly oozes quality and type.
Picture taken as a 4 year old, June 2008
Produced a lovely grey colt in 2009 by Penwisg Sior who is retained as a future potential stallion.
Produced an outstanding chestnut filly in 2010 who is retained
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Runshaw Welsh Poppy
Dun/Buckskin filly foaled 24th March 2004, 4 long white stockings and a blaze, by the Royal Welsh winning Churtoncroft Aries and out of one of our Coed Coch Barnwr daughters Thistledown Walnut, click on her picture for her stunning pedigree and more pictures of her!
This is a tremendous filly whom i think will go on to do VERY big things. She combines some fabulous bloodlines with beautiful clear colour topped off with white stockings and blaze and drips quality and type from every pore! Massive effortless mover and an absolute sweetheart too, she'd follow you around all day aslong as she gets a scratch every now and again!
Stood
2nd at West Yorkshire WPCS show in a huge class! Only time shown
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Runshaw Bendith Mai
Chestnut filly foaled 12th May 2004, 3 white stockings and a narrow blaze, by the Royal Welsh winning Churtoncroft Aries and out of my most favourite and very special mare Crossways Betty. She is an absolute beauty and well worth the 7 year wait we've had for her!!! She combines the best attributes of both her sire and dam these being her dams beautiful head and superb backend and her sires fabulous front and action and we feel will make a wonderful mare for the future
Picture taken May 2009
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Runshaw Heulwen
Born at 4.20am on the 6th April 2006 by Churtoncroft Aries and out of Standwell Heidie and just what i had ordered aswell ;-)
This beautiful mare is everything i could have wished for and more.
The fabulous flambouyant attitude of her sire and a superb resemblance of her beautiful dam. She has taken the best attributes of both of her parents and is a wonderful character in her own right aswell.
2009 Lampeter Champion!
Bronze and Silver WPCS Medal winner!!
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Runshaw Anwyled

FOR SALE!
Chestnut filly foaled 2006 out of Cuhelyn Anna and by Churtoncroft Hywel.
Lovely big scopey filly with a fabulous front and beautiful head.
Sure to do extremely well in the show ring and later a valuable broodmare.
Dam is WPCS bronze Medal winner and sire although un shown is siring Medal winners.
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Churtoncroft Seren Del
Palomino mare foaled 1st May 2005,
Full bodied show quality filly with superb bone , type and substance .
By Churtoncroft Aquarius and out of Churtoncroft Seren Ebrill (Coed Coch Reg x Coed Coch Serena )
Looking to be a fabulous show/ broodmare of the future and very much taking after her grandmothers lines as she is very like Coed Coch Serena in looks , type and attitude.
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Churtoncroft Menna
Chestnut roan mare blaze and 3 small whites.
Beautiful Triple Coed Coch Bari grand-daughter. Out of Nantdywyll Modlon and by our stallion Churtoncroft Aries, she has a fabulous pedigree and is hoped will produce some lovely foals for us.
She is a scopey young mare and a fabulous mover as her breeding would suggest.
Has produced a stunning red roan filly to Penwisg Sior 2007 named Runshaw Meirwen and retained!
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Chetwynd Lily
Black/Brown mare foaled in 1992, purchased in 1997 because we fell in love at first sight with her! She is a bit of a madam at times but it is all welsh fire and no nastiness at all! She is a fantastic moving mare and although she has been shown she hates it! Sometimes difficult to catch without a helicopter and dart gun (when away from home!) she gets away with it due to her outstanding beauty!! Her foals here at Runshaw are, 'Runshaw Lili-Lon' by Penwisg Sior and 'Runshaw Ladi-Gwyneth' by Coed Coch Barnwr both retained as future broodmares. Runshaw Lucifer sired by Churtoncroft Aries is now in Scotland , his full brother Runshaw Llewelyn sold to the Abertyleri Stud.
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Brynrodyn Camellia
Dark Chestnut mare foaled in 1995 , proven broodmare and always foals easily and does her foals extremely well. Both foals have been sold as potential show animals and we feel sure they will do very well indeed for their new owners. Friars Swanky Boy was the full brother to the legendary producers Friars Freelance and Golden Boy, and although Swanky Boy was not extensively used he produced the likes of this mare ! She has produced for us, Runshaw Cariadog now in Devon as a ridden pony and Runshaw Calonnog with the Colliers also as a future ridden pony to Churtoncroft Aries she produced a flashy chestnut colt names Runshaw Cadno and in 2009 she produced another lovely Chestnut colt called Runshaw Cadan by Friars Sheer Spirit who is now in Scotland with Runshaw Lucifer.
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"Tradition does not mean preserving the ashes but keeping a flame alight"
Jean Janses 1910
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